by MartmanPDX
18. June 2010 17:06
Playwrite George Bernard Shaw wrote
"Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man"
I love this axiom. Every time I'm an idiot.
Every time I don my "stupid cap", I stand on
the shoulders of Shaw's observation.
Its time to free stupid.
From the shackles of impropriety, and elevate it
to its rightful place of honor.
Now noone is going to honor the stupid, or are they?
Stupid, comes up with 118,000,000 google references.
Websters defines
–adjective
1.
lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
2.
characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question.
3.
tediously dull, esp. due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party.
4.
annoying or irritating; troublesome: Turn off that stupid radio.
5.
in a state of stupor; stupefied: stupid from fatigue.
6.
Slang . excellent; terrific.
–noun
7.
Informal . a stupid person.
Origin: 1535–45; < L stupidus = stup(ēre) to be numb or stunned + -idus -id4
I love number 6) excellent; or terrific. Is it that young kids have it right? Parents take note.
If you have time, watch this Diesel (clothes and parties) presentation on stupid http://www.diesel.com/be-stupid
I heard the Boston Celtics coach yesterday, in game 7 tell the players to be
antagonizers and instigators, in a sense be annoying to the opponent.
Be stupid? Well not by the first definition. We wouldn't want our basketball players lacking quickness
or keeness of mind.
So, stupid. Do you belive in Forrest Gump? "Stupid is as stupid does"? What do you think?
Is the idea stupid? or is the critic? I live by the "no stupid ideas, no stupid questions",
only stupid answers.
The whole discussion brings me back to reasonableness and conformity.
Nothing great coming from either.
Thomas Edison was famous for his following words, ‘Genius is one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration’.
He was partially deaf, from childhood on. I'm sure a mute man working long hours, over and over on the same
invention could have been, if not called unreasonable, could have been labeled stupid.
How stupid?
Edison made his own light bulbs in a glass-blowing shed for his experiments. He and his associates tried more than 3,000 different theories for creating a high-resistance element that would significantly lower the amount of electrical power required. In January 1879, he finally succeeded in creating a high-resistance filament, using platinum, but it only burned for a few hours.
Stupid enough? 3000 theories ... he then applied 6000 different plant and mineral combinations to come up
with a filament that could burn for an astounding 1500 hours. The light bulb was on.
Stupid.
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