<p>That is my belief, mattistotle. I respect your belief of valuing sexual pleasure over other things in the world - but I don't necessarily agree with that belief.</p>
<p>Filmxoxo17: I'm kind of confused as to what you meant in your post, but I'm guessing you mean that people with beauty may be too naaive and not aware of the beauty of other things in life. This only strengthens my point because you, their spouse or girlfriend, will not be as satisfied as others. Okay, you'll have a great-looking husband or wife, but that's where it ends. And their ignorance to the other greater things in life would be very depressing, in my opinion. But, then again, I've seen this through the examples of relationships between my own parents and two uncles. They married beautiful wives, but aren't happy because beauty doesn't = intelligence always, and when intelligence is lacking, there's going to be some fundamental logic problems with the person.</p>
<p>futuremd, ignorance is bliss.... you paragraph does nothing to refute that... stupid people dont get depressed over being stupid,maybe over bad grades, but if your attractive, you dont care about school that much, and go out and party and have fun.</p>
<p>well I feel my ideas are perfected so im going to bed lol</p>
<p>Out of the three presented: beauty, brains, or bling, I'd have to go with brains, too. To begin with, beauty and intelligence have been repeatedly described in these posts as tools, means to an end. Money, however, is more of a goal than an implement. If you already had money, everything else would be too easy-- it'd be like playing Resident Evil with the unlimited ammo cheat on! As far as beauty, it is good for several things (among them confidence and popularity, as already mentioned), but mostly just for sex. Sure, as a hormonal 17er it seems like the sure way to go, but for some reason I enjoy doing puzzles and math problems and playing video games online and the such more. wait... did i just say i liked video games more than sex? awww crap...</p>
<p>definetly smart....i cant stand talking to people that are just sooo dumb...but i guess if i was one of the dumb people, i'd choose rich since associating with dumb people wouldnt be a problem</p>
<p>i would say smart but its probably the least pracitcal one of all three. you can use your looks to get you to places being smart and ugly can't or use money to buy your way through. Being smart might seem most fulfilling but without luck being smart doesn't help you.</p>
<p>If you can't truly appreciate what it means to be alive, you might as well be dead. Intelligence certainly doesn't promote happiness, but why, after a single moment of clarity, would you want a dull, vacuous bliss? There are better things to aspire to than inebriation. I'd greatly prefer a capable mind to good facial geometry or wealth. In two hundred years, who will be better known (assuming the world will last that long): Stephen Hawking or Britney Spears? Intelligence doesn't make life easy for the individual, but it carries great potential to benefit the common good.</p>
<p>"but why, after a single moment of clarity, would you want a dull, vacuous bliss?" </p>
<p>^
That's particularly why I wouldn't choose brains. If I was intelligent there would be no "joy" in the confusion/struggle when trying to decide whether that damn series absolutely converges or not. The rest of the world would never be as smart as you, and you would only be left feeling dull.</p>
<p>So I guess I'd choose wealth and hope that it didn't go to my head. I don't have beauty, brains, or wealth, and life isn't at all bad without those three. But with wealth you could do the things you wanted. For example, you could study whatever you wanted without worry about job prospects. And being rich doesn't necessarily mean you have to live in luxury. You could always live in a modest 2 story house and just invest the money. Then no one would have to know about it, therefore weeding out any moochers.</p>
<p>how superlative are these choices? Have an IQ of 1072 (...not that you could test it) and James Joyce is worse than the worst bestseller trash and Finnish is pig latin. Have the craziest good looks and nobody can carry on a conversation with you at all, gender and taste lose their meanings, necrophiliacs send you anthrax daily. Money is necessarily limited, standing as it does for real resources, and you really can't spend a googol on anything unless you want the world economy to completely crash, not to mention what do you buy anyway?</p>
<p>Given a choice between a 200 IQ, beauty, and ten billion dollars I would choose the brains but that is just me.</p>
<p>Rich... money is necessary in life(I know some will argue, but that's how I feel) and to have the ability to not worry at all about a job would allow you to do other, more meaningful things. After money, I'd say beauty... beauty normally means confidence which is arguably more important then intelligence.</p>
<p>well the question asks if YOU would rather be good looking or smart.</p>
<p>if i had to choose between my brains and my handsomness i'd probably let my brains go. ignorance and stupidity is bliss.</p>
<p>What do brains get you? Well, most likely $.</p>
<p>What do looks get you? If you're ridiculously good looking, you just find a very rich mate and you have achieved what brains get you. Plus, having to weigh out moral decisions and tribulations does suck. Add to that the fact that you can be incredibly intelligent and still not make money, beauty is the obvious choice.</p>
<p>But I guess that all of this doesn't really matter because after filmy and I get married and she makes a bunch of money modeling, I'll just divorce her and get some sweet ass modeling checks while I've run away with her supermodel girlfriends.</p>
<p>...Money can buy you what you want but not necessarily what you need. Intelligence is overrated, because you can be extremely smart and still not succeed simply because life is unpredictable. You'll be smart, and all it will do is allow you to realize what a talent you have as it goes to waste. I'd rather be good looking. Good looking gets you noticed by advertizing companies, who can always use models. And yes, good looking people get laid by other good looking people.</p>
<p>I'm surprized at the number of guys saying they'd choose beauty because that's what women want, pfft.
I'm not here to talk about what women want, looks are great, but there's a lot of other things. I'd bet that most of you guys consider yourselves "ugly" and don't get any chicks, so you assume that it MUST be due to the way you look. That's the problem with smart people, they try to put a conclusion on everything.</p>
<p>I've put my picture on hotornot.com and got a 5.7 rating, does it bother me? No, I look like jar head out of boot camp with my shaved head. I'm athletically muscular (something a WEBCAM wouldn't detect so people would see on hotornot.com, not to mention that it's something that isn't genetic - I've worked my a$$ off to get in this shape - it's something that money has bought). I've got attitude. I've got charisma. I've got ambition. I've got accomplishments to be proud of. My body language intimidates the lions.
And that's why women want me. Men tend to be more shallow. A woman's market value is 95% based on how she looks.</p>
<p>So out of those 3, I'd choose money, because:</p>
<p>1- Money can buy happiness if you know what you want.
2- Money buys education (yes, you can enroll in the best institutions and classes if you have $$$)
3- You can develop your brain and become smart, and if you had A LOT of money, you wouldn't need a job, therefore you'd have time to actually develop your mind the way you want to (as opposed to the way your "employer" or your "degree" wants to).
4- Books are cheap
5- Screw college education, we all go to college to graduate and get a job, if you had a high cash flow ($200,000 or more) coming to you every year, you wouldn't be worried.
6- With money, you can always eat healthy, do check-ups, etc, so health wouldn't be a problem, unless for the unexpectable, but that's unstoppable, anyway.</p>
<p>Briefly, this is what I'm trying to say from these 6 points:
INTELLECT > INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLECT can seek (and buy) INTELLIGENCE, not vica versa</p>