[quote]rainjack wrote:
How about…gimmee a sec here… How about extolling the superiorities of the Euro-centric socio-political belief system. That’s gotta be worth a page or two, no?
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Why would I spend two pages talking AGAIN about why I believe in what I believe (which I’ve done already multiple times)?
Priorities my friend, priorities.
If you want to start an interesting discussion with me – one that we haven’t done before – answer this question (same I asked my MBA students today):
“Is Competition Zero-Sum?”
If the question really interests you, I can start a new thread on that one if you want.
[quote]hspder wrote:
Why would I spend two pages talking AGAIN about why I believe in what I believe (which I’ve done already multiple times)? [/quote]
Isn’t that what liberals do? At least for the last 40-odd years?
[quote]“Is Competition Zero-Sum?”
If the question really interests you, I can start a new thread on that one if you want. [/quote]
I don’t know about anyone else, but yeah, that sounds like a classic liberal v. conservative topic.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
hspder wrote:
Why would I spend two pages talking AGAIN about why I believe in what I believe (which I’ve done already multiple times)?
Isn’t that what liberals do? At least for the last 40-odd years?
“Is Competition Zero-Sum?”
If the question really interests you, I can start a new thread on that one if you want.
I don’t know about anyone else, but yeah, that sounds like a classic liberal v. conservative topic.[/quote]
[quote]rainjack wrote:
I don’t know about anyone else, but yeah, that sounds like a classic liberal v. conservative topic.[/quote]
Nevermind… If you make that association right from the beginning, well, I’ll just be wasting my time. It’d just cover ground that has already been covered, rather than start something new.
You’re welcome to start it yourself, if you want, of course.
[quote]hspder wrote:
Nevermind… If you make that association right from the beginning, well, I’ll just be wasting my time. It’d just cover ground that has already been covered, rather than start something new.
You’re welcome to start it yourself, if you want, of course.
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C’mon - I’m just hackin’ on you, hspder. I’ll play nice.
I swear on my stack of Limbaugh Letters that I will take an open-minded approach to what ever topic you propose.
[quote]Joe Weider wrote:
of course its not zero sum.[/quote]
[quote]rainjack wrote:
C’mon - I’m just hackin’ on you, hspder. I’ll play nice.
I swear on my stack of Limbaugh Letters that I will take an open-minded approach to what ever topic you propose.[/quote]
OK, I see that after all there is some hope of interesting discussion.
I need to go now, but I’ll start a new thread on it tomorrow. I’m going to post it in this same section (not on the Politics section) to make sure people understand that it is not exclusively connected to Politics… There’s competition everywhere there’s life…
it’s not the right time to be sober
now the idiots have taken over
spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
MENSA membership exceeding
tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
Watson it’s really elementary
the industrial revolution
has flipped the bitch on evolution
the benevolent and wise are being quieted, ostracized, what a bummer
the world keeps getting dumber
insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
Darwin’s rollin over in his coffin
the fittest are surviving much less often
now everything seems to be reversing, and it’s worsening
someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
now angry mob mentality’s no longer the exception, it’s the rule
and im startin to feel a lot like charlton heston
stranded on a primate planet
apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
with generals and the armies that obeyed them
followers following fables
philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
Majority rule, don’t work in mental institutions
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
what are we left with?
A Nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
who feel it’s their duty to populate the homeland
pass on traditions
“how-to-get-ahead” religions
and prosperity the asymbolic culture
Have you ever been to a MENSA R.G.? Holy shit man, no wonder they don’t reproduce in mass.There is not enough beer in a brewery to get some of those folks laid. The chicks are god awfull ugly, and everybody may be having fun with calculus and word games, but you aren’t going to find a good joke if your life depends on it. I was going to join, but geez-oh-man, after that I said screw it.
Have you ever been to a MENSA R.G.? Holy shit man, no wonder they don’t reproduce in mass.There is not enough beer in a brewery to get some of those folks laid. The chicks are god awfull ugly, and everybody may be having fun with calculus and word games, but you aren’t going to find a good joke if your life depends on it. I was going to join, but geez-oh-man, after that I said screw it.[/quote]
Hey I was a Mensa chick… not god awfull ugly and no troubles in the sense of humor/getting laid areas either. In fact, I get hotter every year.
I also dropped it (parents joined me up as a kid. I hated hangin out with all those geeks). When they lowered the requirements from top 99% to top 98% I wasn’t about to hang around with such rifraff and joined an even more elite club, then I got over myself and quit that one.
Sometimes if I drink too much I start doing calculus. And take off my undergarments in public.
WoW, a one percenter! That is unusual. There are a couple of s.i.g.s that only allow one percenters, but realy, how fine do you want to split a hair?
What region were you from? My sister is in Western PA Mensa, and it was through her that I was introduced to the group.
The rip on the r.g.s was realy just a joke.The proctor(who was the only realy extrordinarily hot woman there) that was in charge of the testing had some problems submitting my test scores, and I lost my enthusiasm towards joining. I was sold on the idea that it would look great on a resume, but after asking a few people what they thought of Mensa membership and its value on the job market, the standard reply was “what the hell is Mensa?”. Also, I don’t feel isolated or unable to relate to people because of my intelligence, which seems to be one of their big selling points.
Were you the proctor? If so I’m the guy with the big arms and no hair that was going bonkers during the short story describing the Ditheram.
Mindeffer, I was in the Mahoning County (Youngstown) chapter. Liked it as a kid; loved the games. As I got older there were too many know it alls there. I looked into a chapter when I was in college, didn’t like it, then met some folks in the other club. it wasn’t national, just NE Ohio.
I got signed up at 6. I thought as well that it would look good for applying for college and jobs, but not really. Once I put it on a resume and the guy thought it was some kind of pms support group.
At my job, we work with many uneducated people and my coworkers have said that they think I relate to them better than they do. IMO many Mensa members isolate from real people and blame it on their huge intelligence instead of looking at their elitist attitude & poor social skills. I used to sometimes wish I weren’t so smart, and still sometimes I hate my memory. I can’t forget anything, and sometimes it’s real handy, sometimes makes me feel farther apart from others.
BTW in regards to orig question in this thread, intelligence and political preference have nothing to do with each other. Look at young Hitler, he had great ideas in art, industrial design, architecture, but that didn’t lead to him being an intelligent (or even sane)politician.
Yea, a good memory is strange. I used to go for blackouts, but that became a major impedance to just about everything, except more blackouts.
How to you do the thought transmission thing? I’ve been trying to comunicate through psychokinesis for years. People keep saying stuff like “What do you think I am, a mind reader or something?”. Especialy girlfriends.
On the political subject, I don’t think that has nearly as much to do with inteligence as it does with the dominant hemisphere. Right brain/left brain. The lunatic fringe of either party representing a complete lack of ballance.This also juxtaposes well with objective/subjective ethics. Sure it’s a stretch, but what the hell, I’ll bet someone else has an even more far-fetched explanation than that.
Well, enough chaffe for the cannons of bullshit, I gotta get to work.
I can’t really transmit my thoughts. It’s these people who steal them from my head!! I even tried buying alcoa’s most heavy duty foil…it still didn’t stop them! Kidding.
So mindeffer, you had any luck with psychokinesis? Maybe learning telepathy would please the girlfriends more.
I did have some instruction in remote healing and throwing energy, it’s hard to tell if I’m effective at it; I keep practicing.
