Exceptionally smart people that ctb'd

[StateOfMind]

I can only come up with:

Aaron Swartz
Walter Benjamin

Who else is there?

 

[Nature_is_God]

Vincent Van Gogh if you consider being brilliant at art smart.

Edit: Found this on Quora lol "Vincent van Gogh was definitely superior in intelligence: he was widely read in three languages; wrote beautifully, with passion, poetry, and wit; could discuss abstract concepts cogently and persuasively."

 

[almost_dead]

Your mom

 

[Mm80]

Your mom

Not this again

I can only come up with:

Aaron Swartz
Walter Benjamin

Who else is there?

Robin williams ?

 

[StateOfMind]

Your mom

lol I don't get it?

 

[Cherrypea]

Me. TBA

 

[Mm80]

lol I don't get it?

He tries to say your mom as a reply whenever he posts. I find it quite funny but this one is a bit too personal for me.

 

[esse_est_percipi]

Kurt Godel (the logician, incompleteness theorems, he basically starved himself to death because of fear of poisoning)

Alan Turing (ate an apple laced with cyanide)

Lembit Oll (chess player).

Gerard de Nerval (19th c. french writer)

Arthur Koestler

Seneca (forced to cut his veins by Nero)

Philip Mainlander (19th c. german poet, philosopher, adherent of Schopenhauer's philosophy of pessimism)

Otto Weininger (austrian philosopher)

Ludwig Boltzmann (austrian physicist)

Simone Weil (french philosopher, starved herself to death)

Gilles Deleuze (french philosopher, threw himself out of a window)

 

[karaboudjan]

Yukio Mishima
Sylvia Plath
Hunter S. Thompson
Arthur Koestler
Virginia Woolf

For some reason only writers come to mind!

 

[StateOfMind]

He tries to say your mom as a reply whenever he posts. I find it quite funny but this one is a bit too personal for me.

lol did he loose a bet?

 

[Mm80]

lol did he loose a bet?

It seems that way lol.
I remember being like this when i was about 13, saying your mom to everything but i grew out of it thankfully.

 

[Xocoyotziin]

I wouldn't know because most of them probably died without achieving any kind of notoriety.

 

[Homecoming]

Your mom

YOU!!!

 

[almost_dead]

It seems that way lol.
I remember being like this when i was about 13, saying your mom to everything but i grew out of it thankfully.

well you are 39 , you are very old . you should grow out of it

 

[Mm80]

well you are 39 , you are very old . you should grow out of it
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I still use it occasionally lol.
39 isnt old!

 

[Sherri]

kurt Cobain
Jim Morrison
some people might think they weren't clever but they were genius.

 

[StateOfMind]

Vincent Van Gogh if you consider being brilliant at art smart.

Edit: Found this on Quora lol "Vincent van Gogh was definitely superior in intelligence: he was widely read in three languages; wrote beautifully, with passion, poetry, and wit; could discuss abstract concepts cogently and persuasively."

Didn't he also cut a chunk out of his ear?

Kurt Godel (the logician, incompleteness theorems, he basically starved himself to death because of fear of poisoning)

Alan Turing (ate an apple laced with cyanide)

Lembit Oll (chess player).

Gerard de Nerval (19th c. french writer)

Arthur Koestler

Seneca (forced to cut his veins by Nero)

Philip Mainlander (19th c. german poet, philosopher, adherent of Schopenhauer's philosophy of pessimism)

Otto Weininger (austrian philosopher)

Ludwig Boltzmann (austrian physicist)

Simone Weil (french philosopher, starved herself to death)

Gilles Deleuze (french philosopher, threw himself out of a window)

Can't believe I forgot about Turing.. very sure now that my brain is going to mush.
If I remember correctly Turing was posthumously pardoned by the queen after having been persecuted for being homosexual.
The others I will have to look into.

 

[Chupacabra 44]

Ernest Hemingway

 

[Amumu]

Ernest Hemingway

Hey you're back

 

[StateOfMind]

Ernest Hemingway

Fuuuck also forgot.. what is going on?? Aaaaah..
He blew his head off with a shotgun because the FBI were fucking up his shit (so called disruption programs). They were hardcore gas-lighting him.