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Old 04-3-2007, 10:36 AM   #1
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No....I am! I mean wait what? Oh....nm.

Btw, what part of this is critically thought?
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what part of this is critically thought?
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So far I haven't seen one shred of critical thinking. In fact, we could turn this into a discussion about how threads like this are idiotic ("no pun elocuted" ) but that would be really really boring and would end quickly.

In short, this is a useless thread.
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Yeah, it's useless, so it should probly be locked soon.
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Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs ("person lacking professional skill," "a private citizen," "individual"), from ἴδιος, idios ("private," "one's own").[1] In Latin the word idiota ("ordinary person, layman") preceded the Late Latin meaning "uneducated or ignorant person."[2] Its modern meaning and form dates back to Middle English around the year 1300, from the Old French idiote ("uneducated or ignorant person"). The related word idiocy dates to 1487 and may have been analogously modeled on the words prophet and prophecy.[3]The word has cognates in many other languages.

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1 History
2 Disability
3 United States law
4 In literature
5 Other uses
6 Quotes
7 See also
8 Sources and external links
9 References



History
"Idiot" was originally used in ancient Greek city-states to refer to people who were overly concerned with their own self-interest and ignored the needs of the community. Declining to take part in public life, such as (semi-)democratic government of the polis (city state), such as the Athenian democracy, was considered dishonorable. "Idiots" were seen as having bad judgment in public and political matters. Over time, the term "idiot" shifted away from its original connotation of selfishness and came to refer to individuals with overall bad judgment–individuals who are "stupid". In modern English usage, the terms "idiot" and "idiocy" describe an extreme folly or stupidity, its symptoms (foolish or stupid utterance or deed). In psychology, it is a historical term for the state or condition now called profound mental retardation.


Disability
In 19th and early 20th-century medicine and psychology, an "idiot" was a person with a very severe mental retardation or a very low IQ level, as a sufferer of cretinism, defining idiots as people whose IQ were below 20 (with a standard deviation of 16); Mongolian idiot (or Mongoloid idiot) was applied to people who had Down syndrome.[4]

In current medical classification, these people are now said to have profound mental retardation, and the word "idiot" is no longer used as a scientific term.


United States law
The California Penal Code Section 26 states that "Idiots" are one of six types of people who are not capable of committing crimes.[5]

In several states, idiots do not have the right to vote:

Arkansas Article III, Section 5[6]
Iowa Article II, section 5 [7]
Kentucky Section 145[8]
Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[9]
New Jersey (Article II, Section 1, Paragraph 6)[10] (amended Jan 2007 to remove the word idiot[11])
New Mexico Article VII, section 1[12]
Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[13]

In literature
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A few authors have used "idiot" characters in novels, plays and poetry. Often these characters are used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory). Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and William Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy. Idiot characters in literature are often confused with or subsumed within mad or lunatic characters. The most common imbrication between these two categories of mental impairment occurs in the polemic surrounding Edmund from William Shakespeare's King Lear. In Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot, the idiocy of the main character, Prince Lev Nikolaievich Myshkin, is attributed more to his honesty, trustfulness, kindness, and humility, than to a lack of intellectual ability.


Other uses
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is a classic in Russian literature, and the title of an album by Iggy Pop.
In June of 2005, New York State Assemblyman Will Stephens sent an e-mail to his constituents referring to them as 'pontificating idiots'.
"Idiot box" is a slang term for television, or for a dialog box on a computer.
"Walk Idiot Walk" is a song performed by the rock music group The Hives and released on the band's 2004 album, Tyrannosaurus Hives. They also made a song called "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" that was released on their 1997 debute album "Barely Legal".
"Idiot savant" was the original term for someone having what is now called savant syndrome. It was used to describe people who excel in one particular thing while being below-average in other mental or behavioral areas. Many of these people are also autistic savants.
In 2004, Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon affectionately referred to his team as "The Idiots" to describe its eclectic roster and devil-may-care attitude toward "the curse".
"Idiot lights" was a pejorative term used in the 1960s and 1970s referring to the low oil pressure and alternator fault lights on an automobile dashboard. The implication of the term was that knowledgeable drivers use real gauges and do not need warning lamps. The present and almost universal use of warning lamps in automobiles has caused the term to fall into disuse.
There also exists a series of guides and handbooks, each called The Complete Idiot's Guide to....
Idioterne ("idiots") is an 1998 movie by Lars von Trier.
One of Napoleon Dynamite's most popular catch-phrases in that movie was using the word "Idiot".
American Idiot, the album and single by Green Day is a reference to President George W. Bush and his supporters.
After shooting a double-bogey on the 18th hole of the 2006 PGA U.S. Open, Phil Mickelson referred to himself by saying "I'm such an idiot".
On The Ren and Stimpy Show, Ren often refers to Stimpy as a "fat bloated idiot." pronounced "eeediot".
IDiot is a pejorative for a proponent of Intelligent Design.

Quotes
"It is true of idiots, that the more absurd and foolish they are, and the more their opinions diverge from those universally held, the more likely are they to utter no word which they will wish to recall" - St. Augustine in Letter 143 to Marcellinus (A.D. 412)
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." (Mark Twain, c.1882) [1]
"Never argue with an idiot. He will lower you to his level and beat you with experience." (Bob Smith, c. 1962)

See also
Traditional terms for mental retardation

Sources and external links
Look up Idiot in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Dictionary.Reference.Com "Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote (modern French idiot), from Latin idiota, from Greek idiotès, private person, layman, from idios, own, private."
Etymonline "c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," literally "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own".
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. on cretinism
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.

References
^ Liddell-Scott-Jones A Greek-English Lexicon, entries for ἰδιώτης and ἴδιος.
^ Words, entry idiota.
^ Etymonline.com, entry idiot.
^ Highbeam.com
^ http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/di...000&file=25-29
^ http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/ar-const.../arcart3-5.htm
^ http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Constitution.html
^ http://www.lrc.ky.gov/Legresou/Constitu/intro.htm
^ http://www.sos.state.ms.us/pubs/cons...nstitution.asp
^ http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/lawscon...nstitution.asp
^ http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/SCR/134_I1.PDF
^ http://www.nmlaws.org/
^ http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/c...t=5&Section=06
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In short you are indeed an idiot.

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Works cited

"Idiot". Wilipedia. April 2 2007. Wikipedia Online. April 3 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot
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In short you are indeed an idiot.
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Except you're supposed to italicize if you're on the computer.
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