I VOTE YES ON CALEXIT!

[Kinser79]

(03-23-2017, 01:25 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(03-16-2017, 07:51 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-15-2017, 10:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I had a very high IQ in grade and junior high school, upwards of 150. I was often the smartest kid in the class, or close to it. After my "enlightenment" though, as the sixties got going, my IQ may have dropped a bit. Probably has by now. I wasn't as interested after that in highly technical and mathematical stuff, as some people are. More into art, music, philosophy, even sometimes meditation, contemplation, politics, astrology, history, etc. My world view and way of thinking shifted 180 degrees. I did get an A in my philosophy symbolic logic class, so I could still do it when I applied myself. But I didn't do too much in the way of drugs. So kinser and galen are wrong about me there, as they usually are. I would say, they make up their own picture of me, and could care less about knowing me as I am. Perhaps they have the same attitude to Rags. Who knows; blessed be. People are free to think what they want about us, after all. I might not always like it too much, but that's my problem too.

And I would admit to having a much lower SQ than my IQ.

Kinser other thread Wrote:I generally find that those who go on about how smart they are really aren't all that smart at all.  Usually its related to some self-esteem thingumabob.  Those who are confident in their own intelligence don't feel the need to tell others about it.  They merely demonstrate it and move on.

Kinser yet an other thread Wrote:On a long enough timeline the chances of Eric contradicting himself is one.

Let us just suppose you're not lying Eric, cause I honestly don't believe you have Mensa levels of IQ--the evidence is sorely lacking and you'd have to understand up to at least algebra just on accident.  This being the case, it actually makes it worse for you than if you had an IQ of 85-90 [low normal], never mind actually being retarded (in before Odin says something about the language I'm using--they are retarded get over it).

Why is it worse?  Because you had potential to do something better and squandered it.  But then again you are a Boomer and perhaps I shouldn't expect a Boomer to not squander everything that was ever handed to them.

Kinser you are a strange case. I know it's no use. I did have what I said I have. I don't lie. What I squandered depends on your point of view. Free marketeers would want me to be a businessman. Actually, I was. Maybe not the usual kind. Science and math fans think I squandered myself by not continuing along that line. But from where I could see, in society as it was in the late sixties, science and tech and math did not seem like what the world needed, or what would interest me. Maybe a lot of Boomers felt that way, and so you'd say they squandered everything, because they didn't follow your interests. Spoken by the guy who says it's all really mathematics. Just a different time, different generation I guess.

Honestly Eric, I wouldn't have cared if you were a businessman or an artist or whatever.  I will give you this, you must be at least moderately successful with your astrology congame.  I couldn't maintain that line of work, no matter how profitable, my morals were getting in the way.  I didn't view it as an honorable way to make a living, and having Master Morality as Nietzsche would call it honor was more important than cash.  That you accomplished this though tells me nothing about your intelligence, but it does tell me something about your morality (or perhaps lack of it).  See Nietzsche's work on morality.

For me and myself I've tested in the 120 range.  The Navy takes IQ tests among other tests.  I've seen my transcripts because I had to transport the whole folder myself to Groton, CT for Sub School.  I don't go on about my IQ test results because they don't matter.  IQ at most tests the capacity to learn stuff.  You may have a gallon, and I three quarts, but the true test is what one does with that capacity.

Since I left the USN I have been to culinary school, got a degree in general cuisine and a specialization in pastery.  I've gone from donut finisher to baker to manager of a donut store.  I have a kid, and a boyfriend who may as well be my husband (neither of us believes in "gay marriage" as being important).  I've studied philosophy and economics, politics and history on top of all that--and even manage to help my son with his Trig homework.  (My BF isn't good with math either.)

Do you have anything besides posting here and your astrology congame?

Quote:“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

― Robert A. Heinlein