Doing your own thing

Do you like being told what to do, or do you expect to be asked.
Or are you happy being self-directed, or rather, inspired.

I just dont like people telling me what to do. Im my own boss. Which is why I probably wont make a suitable wife for anybody, and I dont fancy being treated like husband by a man.

Im quite good at supervising and teaching children though, but I do think men just dont seem to like it when women know more than they do. Its not something anyone can help though, cos who wants to be dumb or pretend to be dumb for someone elses ego? I just cant operate that way. Ive got to use the brains God gave me. Although some men just treat women as if they are airheads, but I couldnt really live with someone who insulted my intelligence all the time.

What are your thoughts, does IQ matter? Can you be too smart? Or is it more a 'power' thing. Im happy to do my own thing not someone elses. Unless we are both doing the same thing TOGETHER.

I also think its good people study something as long as they are interested in it. am not someone who looks down on someone whos learning or wants further education. I dont expect anybody to know everything already, no matter what age they are.

reading Genesis, how the serpent got to Eve was he implied she was naive or stupid, and said if she ate this fruit she would be wise. So I think Eve had a slight inferiority complex because the serpent didnt go to Adam. Eve may have felt she lacked wisdom being younger than Adam perhaps. She didnt want to be seen as stupid, which maybe partly why she ate. that the serpent tricked her was his cunning and evil, but God couldnt fault Eve for simply desiring wisdom.

Do you like being told what to do, or do you expect to be asked.
Or are you happy being self-directed, or rather, inspired.

I just dont like people telling me what to do. Im my own boss. Which is why I probably wont make a suitable wife for anybody, and I dont fancy being treated like husband by a man.

Im quite good at supervising and teaching children though, but I do think men just dont seem to like it when women know more than they do. Its not something anyone can help though, cos who wants to be dumb or pretend to be dumb for someone elses ego? I just cant operate that way. Ive got to use the brains God gave me. Although some men just treat women as if they are airheads, but I couldnt really live with someone who insulted my intelligence all the time.

What are your thoughts, does IQ matter? Can you be too smart? Or is it more a 'power' thing. Im happy to do my own thing not someone elses. Unless we are both doing the same thing TOGETHER.

I also think its good people study something as long as they are interested in it. am not someone who looks down on someone whos learning or wants further education. I dont expect anybody to know everything already, no matter what age they are.

reading Genesis, how the serpent got to Eve was he implied she was naive or stupid, and said if she ate this fruit she would be wise. So I think Eve had a slight inferiority complex because the serpent didnt go to Adam. Eve may have felt she lacked wisdom being younger than Adam perhaps. She didnt want to be seen as stupid, which maybe partly why she ate. that the serpent tricked her was his cunning and evil, but God couldnt fault Eve for simply desiring wisdom.

This thread reminds me of a satire about introverts from the New Yorker.

"Now when people tell me, 'Hey, you’re kind of an a**hole,' I can just smile and respond, 'No, I’m an introvert, and that means I can do whatever I want.'"


https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/im-not-an-asshole-im-an-introvert?


Yes I am an overthinking introvert who wants to be left alone to do my own thing. And a lot of what you said describe introverts. I suspect introversion is a huge factor why most people remain single for a long time. The love solitude so much unlike extroverts who feel like they would die of boredom if they can't see people.

Wow! That OP post reeks with deluded arrogance. (You really shouldn't brag about your IQ and your intelligence if you are going to publish a post that is littered with so many grammatical errors.)

reading Genesis, how the serpent got to Eve was he implied she was naive or stupid, and said if she ate this fruit she would be wise. So I think Eve had a slight inferiority complex because the serpent didnt go to Adam. Eve may have felt she lacked wisdom being younger than Adam perhaps. She didnt want to be seen as stupid, which maybe partly why she ate. that the serpent tricked her was his cunning and evil, but God couldnt fault Eve for simply desiring wisdom.

lol I would rather be a bit overthinking than mindless and underthinking.

many people cannot handle it when someone else THINKS. its easier just to watch tv.
Problems are solved when someone has really sat down and thought about the solution. this does not necesarily mean endless analysis, but just being in the presence of God and allowing Him to speak to you.

Well I do remember making the comment to a friend that if I were going to be in a relationship I'd need a guy who was my "intellectual evil" (I meant to say equal, I really did). But if you put any stock in the personality type websites they tend to agree that my personality type is looking more for a mind mate than initial physical or emotional attraction so I probably am normal for my type of weird.

Relationally I think I would find it hard to be with a stereotypical working grunt but even there I think (well I won't say intelligence because that's just rather insulting) mental quickness and the enjoyment of mental puzzles and exercises would be more of an underlying than overt factor in the relationship. Kind of like the person who's most often willing to play games with me is my mother (no I'm not trying to date my mother this is just an example), but we like different games. I like ones where you can build up a strategy or an engine (in gamer talk) and have a bunch of different potential paths to victory. In other words I like the kind of game that I have to play through once to really understand how to play it well. Mom is just as happy with uno or farkle and when it gets too complex to understand the best strategies before you play through the game she stops having fun and is just frustrated and confused. Similarly I think a person who differs from me greatly in the enjoyment of using their mental faculties to figure things out and strategize, will have drastically enough different interests that I wouldn't end it because they are "less intelligent"; I'd end it because they don't like to do the things that I find fun and want to share with them. Actually that' s not the reason I'd end it; that's the reason it would never get started in the first place.




Seriously? Eve in the perfect pre-fall world fell because she was beset by our modern insecurities that most people would say are effects of the fall and came into being as a result of her decision to eat the fruit. And God very much faulted both Adam and Eve for their blatant disobedience (and desiring wisdom might not have been bad, but attempting to gain wisdom apart from the God they owed their lives to certainly was). Is your Bible missing Genesis 3?

Do you like being told what to do, or do you expect to be asked.
Or are you happy being self-directed, or rather, inspired.

I just dont like people telling me what to do. Im my own boss. Which is why I probably wont make a suitable wife for anybody, and I

Ive got to use the brains God gave me.