you probably have much more wisdom than me (or then me, if I were smart I would know which then or than)

I'll trade you 10 beauty points for 10 of your wisdom points. deal?

Short of being healthy, I don't put much stock in being extraordinary. I was just pointing out that one could be a means to an end of the other. Physical beauty is temporary. Stupidity is forever.

ima just gonna keep things how they are. Im quite happy to be smart and sexy

If I preferred looks I wouldn't be single.

If I where not single I wouldn't trade my looks but id let me wife gladly trade my looks for me to have more smarts lol.

citizen joe- "Short of being healthy, I don't put much stock in being extraordinary. I was just pointing out that one could be a means to an end of the other. Physical beauty is temporary. Stupidity is forever. "

cit joe -"stupidity is forever"

me-That's not true because people can learn. I am in college so I wont be stupid when my looks fade.

cit joe--"physical beauty is temporary"

me-Unless you marry the right person. A person who looks at you like youre at your best beauty no matter how old you get.

I would trade every point of looks for brains, get rich, and buy stupid girls while hiring smart people to stimulate my mind. In the end it would be a win/win situation. Smart and rich with anybody shallow enough to hang around the money. Luckily though, I don't think I'll need to trade anything unless someone shoots me with a stupid ray..

cool. just keep enough looks so you dont scare small children.

(same joke twice in one thread i know but its my thread and i make the rules)

If it got that bad, I could just wear a funny mask I suppose..

What makes you think learning stops when you graduate? I happen to be a high school dropout with applicable skills in many disciplines, including machining, electronics, programming, drafting, electronic/mechanical design, and the medical field of podiatry. Looks can only carry a person so far, sometimes resulting in half of a smart person's possessions. Wow, guess he wasn't so smart after all.



I explicitly stated physical simply because the body gets old, not that a person would be any less attracted to the inner beauty.

Most need to trade Brains for something not sure what though

It's a motivational issue. If I felt like everyone else around me was smarter than me, then I'd race to study so I could catch up. If I felt like the general population was behind me, then my will to learn wanes because fewer and fewer people are around me to learn from. I can pretty much do anything I put my mind to, it is a matter of do I want to invest the energy into something I'm already satisfied with? I will continue to learn naturally, but I'm not making it my full time job. There is always something to learn, there will always be too much information for one person to learn, and not enough time to learn it in. You have to be selective.

Studying makes you acquire knowledge it does not make you more intelligent, Intelligence is not measured by what you know but how you use what you know.

Beauty is also not measure by how perfect your features are, you could have a perfect body and still be an ugly person. An image of beauty is what you see a beautiful person is what you feel when in their presence.

lets say I'm a 50/50 at this moment, I would give a 20 to be able to use the intelligence I have more efficiently.

I’ve never been the kind of woman who is attracted to "traditionally handsome" men anyway. I have a very individualistic criteria for a man's physical appearance.

To some degree you can't help what you are attracted to.

As far as intellect is concerned, I do require that a man at the very least be capable of discussing various issues and topics without giving me blank stares or becoming intimidated. That does not mean that he MUST be my intellectual equal but I can’t stay focused on a relationship with a dullard either.

I feel that’s fair enough.

Well, that's another element to the whole thing, and I agree with you.

The people I'm attracted to are never the "classic beauties," the Playboy centerfolds, etc. -- just never saw anything in that type; there's a pervasive artificiality, a "plasticness," maybe more of a stereotype to that -- the idea that "This is the ideal, this is what you're supposed to want," but I don't, and, try as I might, I just can't see anything alluring there.

On balance, I have found, though, that it's much easier to find someone who attracts me in a physical sense than it is to find someone intellectually compatible.

The bad part is that there is almost never anybody I'm really attracted to physically anymore. That means the intellectual-compatibility ones are (almost?) extinct.