On 13/10/2009 20:24, Saaa wrote:
Yigal Chripun wrote
ego has nothing to do with being smart.
you can be extremely smart without getting on people's nerves all the
time.
A smart person can choose when to get on somebody's nerves ;)
The bible says about Noah that he was the most just and moral person in
his generation.
There are two opposed interpretations for this:
positive: his generation was so morally corrupt that managing to be
moral in such a harsh environment is a virtue.
negative: Noah is moral relative to his generation which doesn't mean a
lot on an absolute scale since his generation was so corrupt.
not all men are born equal so we all choose from the above points of view.
you can either decrease the value of others to feel good about yourself
or you can strive to improve yourself and therefore increase your value
in the eyes of others. the latter is harder but it's the only beneficial
way for mankind. obviously, being egotistical belongs to the former.
consider this:
when a person asks a question on the NG (might be extremly stupid
question) the (smart) person to reply can either give a snide remark and
thereby decrease the size of this community by one or give constructive
information, relevant links, etc and gain one more D programmer. I'd say
that the latter is the smart choice.
we have a saying in Hebrew which translates roughly as:
a smart man knows how to avoid a pitfall which a knowledgeable person
can figure a way out of.
