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It is amazing to me how so many people believe they have superior intelligence to others and yet they will say things with absolutely no clue as to the impact their words have on others.

If you don’t know how they took what you said, if you don’t know what feelings and or emotions your stirred or walked on, how in the world can you know that what you said is what they heard ??!!

Wait, Wait … I’ll answer that for you … YOU CAN’T, won’t, and don’t know whether they heard what you said or not! It is impossible!

People believe that as long as they mutter some words that the intended message is what is received and it is the "more" intelligent people who commit this error more than anyone else!

Did you know that 30 IQ points difference can cause a language barrier that is the same as speaking Greek to a Hebrew? Or English to a Spaniard?

If you didn’t know that you can’t be nowhere near as superior as you thought you were.

If this IQ difference exists, who is responsible to span this IQ gap? The lesser intelligent person doesn’t know what the superior intelligent person knows if they did there would be no IQ or language barrier to overcome. To be facetious I will say that the more intelligent person should know the lesser or more child like words … so they are responsible! Accept this responsibility and stop insulting others along with demonstrating your ignorance or in reality lack of tolerance for the weaker persons.

If you say things to people that hurt them instead of help them whose fault is it? Well let’s examine that.

If you say something to someone you don’t know and it hurts them there is reasonable doubt that your results were un-intentional. BUT if you say something hurtful to someone you know intimately, or at least very well, then you are to blame not them.

Usual Response: "OH Yea?! It’s not my fault that you wear your feelings on your sleeve!"

WRONG! It is your fault! If you walk up and punch someone on the arm or in the face – YOU HURT THEM! It "is" your responsibility! Words strike the exterior as hard as physical contact but they penetrate much deeper than a punch does … so why can’t you realize that your words hurt much more than a punch?

Because you don’t care enough to make it a priority to learn how to communicate words with the least amount of hurt possible! THAT’s Why!

This is shameful and more succinctly put it is sinful!

In Summation:  I don' care how smart or intelligent a person may be, even if they have a genius I.Q. - If they can't see themselves as they really are ... then ... they are stupid!

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