1000 ELO. Am I now an intermediate?

Proficiency in a foreign language means being able to communicate well enough to survive. I am marginally proficient in Spanish. Some would say I'm marginally proficient in English.

Beginner is someone who just started playing.

A low rated person who has been playing for a while...maybe a year...that person should simply be classified as a terrible chess player.

How come the bots ranked 1000-1500 are labeled as intermediate?

am I terrible if I am 1000 rapid after about 4 months??

4 months, may not be long enough.  Perhaps a sliding scale.  What is the beginner rating here?  Below what?

After 5 years, your rating would definitely be considered terrible with not sliding.  Assuming a start rating of 300 and 1200 cut off, that means 900 points divided by 60 months .  That would be 15 points per month at 4 months anything above 360 would not be terrible.

I would be terrible.

I know one player with 15000 games and rapid rating of 500

You're not terrible with a beginner rating when you have been at it a short time. Keep working on elementary tactics and you'll soon be an advanced beginner.

I have been playing for years.  I could play better if I thought instead of making moves by reflex, but I do not want to think.

There is such a thing as bad practice.

Not really, intermediate is 1200+

Your 5 is upside down.

lol

This is technically subjective thus the discussion so there is no "truth"\

I just called Ziryab a hater for acting sanctimoniously but now I realize he is actually really helpful and has my best interest at heart.

Yikes. That's a catastrophic failure to learn.