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Who was the most flawed genius of all time?

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  • #102
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    beano345 wrote: »
    the unabomber

    + 1 for Ted Kaczynski


  • #103
    Naomi00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Naomi00


    Kurt Cobain

    Salvador Dalí


  • #104
    opinion guy
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    bnt wrote: »
    Another vote for Isaac Newton here. On top of the Alchemy stuff, he lost a lot of money when the South Sea Bubble burst, and got in to very nasty wars of words with Leibnitz over Calculus, abusing his position in the Royal Society to that end.

    He remained an unorthodox religious nutter who wrote more on the Bible and the Occult than he did on Science - though that wasn't all that unusual for the time. He was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and that meant he was obligated to become an ordained priest in the Church of England. (He managed to put that off and eventually got an exemption from the King.) He tried to "rationalise" religion, but only up to the point where it ran in to his fundamental irrational beliefs.

    The revisionist history around Newton always amuses me. The apple falling on the head an all that. The revisionists always try to paint him as a great man of logic. But as you say......to a point. A crazy, crazy, crazy point.

    He also claimed to have gotten his inspiration for Principa Mathematica from the bible (either inspiration or directly to have decoded it - I forget which)

    Still - definitely a genius.


  • #105
    Wereghost
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭Wereghost


    marcsignal wrote: »
    God
    The human behind and its produce don't exactly scream "genius" to me.

    Seriously, infinite resources and that was the best that he could come up with?


  • #106
    pavb2
    Registered Users Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭pavb2


    Sheldon Cooper -I'm a physicist. I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains


    Amy's Mom: It's nice to meet you too Sheldon, I honestly didn't believe Amy when she told me she had a boyfriend.
    Sheldon: I assure you, I am quite real and I'm having regular intercourse with your daughter.
    Amy's Mom: What?
    Sheldon: Oh yes, We're like wild animals in heat. It's a wonder neither of us has been hurt!
    Amy's Mum: Amy? What is he saying?
    Amy: You wanted me to have a boyfriend, mother, well here he is! Have to sign off now. My hunger for Sheldon is stirring in my loin.
    Sheldon: Oh yes. It's time for me to make love to your daughter's vagina.


  • #107
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Homer.....Simpson not the Greek Poet.


  • #108
    previous user
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    WatchWolf wrote: »
    Perhaps not a genius, but Charles Manson was actually a very talented musician and poet. It's difficult to listen to his songs without feeling weird though becuase, you know, he was a homicidal rapist psychopath.

    I totally agree, his poetry readings are sublime.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREnvJRkif0&feature=related


  • #109
    Ledger
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    Padraig Pearse. Deeply intellectual man, teacher and barrister. He was described my many as fanatical; one of the reasons he was unfortunately used by the Provo IRA as a figurehead.


  • #110
    dermiek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭dermiek


    Bobby Fischer


  • #111
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Ledger wrote: »
    Padraig Pearse. Deeply intellectual man, teacher and barrister. He was described my many as fanatical; one of the reasons he was unfortunately used by the Provo IRA as a figurehead.
    Blood Sacrifice


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  • #112
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,200 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Mel Gibson


  • #113
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Ledger wrote: »
    Padraig Pearse.

    pedantic mode


    He would never ever mix Irish and English.

    Patrick Pearse or Pádraig Mac Piarais or P H Pearse



    Ultimately it doesn't matter.
    Just remembered a row on the radio over this one day


  • #114
    Killer Wench
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Is the title of this thread "flawed genius" and not paragon? Hitler was a political genius as was Abraham Lincoln.


    Hitler may not have been a military genius but he was able to convince a nation to support him and his radical ideas. He was able to demonize several ethnic and social groups, and was able to plant small ideas in a populace that allowed them to materialize into savages. That takes genius.


    Lincoln was also a political genius. His legacy as one of the greatest POTUS that ever held the office (him and George Washington are considered the best ever) is due to people assigning modern traits to him, but he was a product of the thinking of his time, and held many racist and racialized beliefs. Yet, he is considered the Great Emancipator and the savior of our country because of his fight to keep a fractured country together.


  • #115
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    flanno_7hi wrote: »
    Russell "Stringer" Bell.

    Zinedine Zidane and the nerd in me would say A.C. Clarke and Tesla.

    The Wire Spoiler
    He wasnt that much of a genius when he got got by Omar :D


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