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    Major Spoilers Question Of The Day: “Cake Or Death?” Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 9 Comments1 Min Read

    The process of creating our daily query is a complex and diverse one, with some questions leaping from my head like Athena, while others require hours of massaging and tortured think-amajigs to achieve even a semblance of coherence.  (This one might had needed another seventeen minutes or so, now that I think of it.)  Once in a while, though, we have to consider one of the great posers that face us a species, one of the truly BIG questions that vex generations of our greatest scholars…

    But, since we’ve already done “Ginger vs. Mary Ann”, we’ll go another direction.

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) sometimes ponders the imponderable, while contemplating the nature of conceptual reality and eating Chunky Monkey, asking: Given no other options, would you rather be a miserable genius or a happy idiot?

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    9 Comments

    2. Goofball814 on

      I’ve always though of myself as a genius, but since I’m also happy in life, maybe I’m idiot and just don’t know it!

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    3. TJM on

      As much as i would like to be a genius, if choosing idiocy would lead to true happiness i’d take it.

      That’s a rather selfish decision isn’t it? A genius would certainly contribute much more to the world. But at the cost of my personal joy? Pfeh.

      Heck, i bet all the great philanthrophists throughout history took some pleasure in selflessly serving others.

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    5. zebgotbetter on

      So my choice is “or death?” You guys should have assessed the cake demand a bit more thoroughly…Seriously, having been, at times, a quite happy idiot, I’d like to give the miserable genius thing a try. I’d hope to learn to cope long enough to produce something of greatness before the inevitable Hemmingway, or help to define that elusive middle ground between the two extremes.

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    6. Hannah Jones on

      I’d rather be a miserable genius than an happy idiot any day. I think maybe it’s just my sense of vanity though.

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