Originally Posted by TommyH
Originally Posted by Grinity
I think that this is very interesting idea. Actually I don't think that intellectual giftedness is what advances our civilization - i think love is what does it!
Love of learning, love of family, love of our neighbors, love of acheivement, love of being in history books, love of our destiny.

I was referring to people like Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, but as I read your reply I started to think differently. I think there's a candle in all of use. An unborn star. I feel, many people who have achieved great things, like the Founding Fathers, Ceasar, Stalin, JFK etc. had their candle lit. They illuminated our universe and our history was changed forever. Bad or good deeds, history teaches us what is right or wrong by the use of consequenses. I'm not saying that bad leaders who killed many peoples were good, but I'm saying that their actions are people shaping ones. It is like a burning soul.
To my mind, common, ordinary, unknown people are often the ones who make the difference - but it's harder to notice. One example is the neighbor who makes phone calls for a polital candidate. Another example is when we 'win the hearts and minds' through local friendships with parents who don't have gifted kids, and they vote to increase the school budget so that more gifted kids can be accomidated in school. Also, I like to suppose that if Hitler, as a boy, had had one more level-headed and caring mentor that he would have grown up to be a different man. Of course no one knows this - but who knows how many 'there but for the grace of god' kids are out there who are helped by a caring adult? Since we will never know these answers, I choose to believe the perspective that help me get up in the morning. ((shrug))
Grinity

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