Posted on 07/22/2010 6:59:54 AM PDT by MestaMachine
Every here and there, I start out to answer a post on a specific thread with a sort of dry and often tongue-in-cheek response to the topic. This started out being such a response to a thread on the Journolist contributor who said she would "laugh like a maniac" while watching Rush Limbaugh die.
Originally, it was going to be short and sweet comparing those on Journolist to a MENSA elite called Zero's Zombies. I made up a mental illness.
The more I typed, the more I changed it and it started taking on a life of its own.
Suddenly, I realized it really wasn't funny anymore. The more I edited it, the more plausible it became.
The more you realize that children are today, right now, being taught that nothing they think or do is ever REALLY wrong or bad or sinful, the more this makes me shudder. Our kids are being prevented from thinking independently. They are being "protected" from our morals and values and being told that what WE think, say, or value is wrong. "Me" counts and ONLY ME counts in this world.
They are being taught lies are facts and lies become their truths. They think they are creating a society of conformists wherein everyone is "equal" and that they are ALL little geniuses in their own right. But is that what the real result of this will be?
I don't think so. If no one ever believes they are wrong, how will anyone know what is right? If everyone is the "same," how will those who think differently finally express their differences when they see them? Worse, how will those differences manifest themselves and how will those who are different be treated?
We are tipping into chaos. I don't know how to stop it.
Anyway, this is what my "short" post ended up as.
Open to comments and ideas...and thanks for reading.
Mesta
MENSA Syndrome
Extreme degenerative brain disease
Profound Neural dysfunction
Cause
Erroneous belief that one is somehow more superior to all others because they were mistakenly programmed by those who equate POTENTIAL VS ACTUAL knowledge and wisdom to IQ scores to believe they are absolute in their superiority.
This causes repeated instances of *Massive Extreme Neural Synapses Abuse* by those seeking to act on this unprovable, even dangerous, doctrine. Those who become infected create disonnance in their thinking patterns by becoming so overconfidant in their own abilities that they rationalize virtually everything they THINK to conform with what they BELIEVE and they can never once accept they might be wrong about anything, ever. Even the mere suggestion of fallibility to an infected person often results in outbursts of uncontrolled verbal rage and quite possibly, violence.
Prolonged exposure of the mind to this bombardment of illogical thought processes results in brain's inability to distinguish rational from irrational, reality from fantasy, truth from lies.
Ultimate Danger of MENSA Syndrome
Crosses all racial, ethnic, and religious lines.
Because onset is slow to recognize, a multitude of symptoms related to other neurological and pathological diseases might present themselves. These people are often diagnosed as sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists, and various subcatagories or a combination of all of them...often by those who are also infected.
The exponential spread of MENSA Syndrome is now a pandemic.
Disease is unrecognized by, or unrecognizable to, those who are infected.
They believe they are "normal" and seek out others with the same traits.
Carriers of the illness will stop at nothing to inflict themselves on others.
Infected individuals are fraught with delusions of grandeur, see themselves as infallible geniuses, and will attempt to impose their view of reality on anyone they consider inferior.
Highly contagious and spread in various ways.
Incubation period
Varies with Age
Children are most highly susceptible
Probabilities
Might alter DNA
Parents with MENSA Syndrome might produce a child at high risk for the syndrome, however rescue might be impossible since the illness is unrecognized by those who have it.
Diagnosis
Braindeath/Entropy
Long term prognosis
Devolution
Result of unrestrained contagion
World War Z
Armageddon
I consider obama to be in this catagory. He THINKS he is a genius because everyone keeps SAYING he is. He believes it right down to the bottoms of his grungy feet. AND he is a danger to the rntire world.
“He labels as the ‘fatal conceit’ the idea that ‘man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes.’”
Yes, an element. Now imagine millions or even billions of people with this same attitude and you have the paradox inherant in this belief. And that is what we are seeing evolve.
Have you ever read the new testament? Which particular part of Christ's teaching do you best think applies to the discussion at hand.
Known in some environs as Cranial Rolfing.
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Sin is death; Christ is life.
They are being taught lies are facts and lies become their truths. They think they are creating a society of conformists wherein everyone is "equal" and that they are ALL little geniuses in their own right. But is that what the real result of this will be?
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Christ said: I am the way, the truth and the life, he who believes in me will never die.
I don't think so. If no one ever believes they are wrong, how will anyone know what is right? If everyone is the "same," how will those who think differently finally express their differences when they see them? Worse, how will those differences manifest themselves and how will those who are different be treated?
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2 Corinthian's 6
Paul's Hardships
3We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. 4Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; 6in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; 7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; 8through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; 9known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; 10sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.
One of the liabilites of raw mental power is the likelihood of its effective use in the process of self-deception.
And when a clever, bright, well-spoken, charismatic person with sufficiently poor opinion of self and of humanity has succeeded in fooling himself, he’s well on the way to fooling millions; with the customary dire result for mankind.
Wow. Well said. I think the same but don’t think I’ve articulated it as effectively.
I am Jewish so perhaps my perception is a tad off, but it seems to me that Jesus wanted the children to be protected at all costs. YOU seem to be saying to “leave them alone and they’ll come home wagging their tails behind them.”
Am I wrong?
The children protected “at all costs” is wrong; God is always at the forefront, even when it comes to the things you hold dearest such as your own life, wealth, family and the like. Does a soldier stay home, safe with his family when he is called to war? Would he be right to do so? Your second sentence with wagging tails and all that is interesting; I don’t know where you get the idea that Christ calls us to inaction. It is the opposite.
Here’s one verse from scripture we share:
Prov. 22:6 “Train up a child in The Way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from It.”
“In my own experience, really smart people have no need whatsoever to prove to anyone else how smart they are. The world either recognizes that fact or not, and they don’t particularly care one way or the other. If they happen to meet another very smart person, then they may have found a new friend. Everyone else falls into one of two categories: teachable and non-teachable. Teachable people are deserving of their attention; non-teachable ones are not. “
That is the general view that I take when meeting new people. I will add that I try to learn as much as possible from others whom I find to possess wisdom.
Intelligence is an overrated characteristic — mainly because it has a ready metric that can be applied to it since the IQ and the standardized tests were developed. There is no ready metric for energy level, emotional stability, empathy, and like matters that will have equal or greater impacts on most outcomes in life.
And your last sentence above, mentioning “wisdom” is the ultimate “unmeasurable.” Does this person apply the important things in their life? Do they understand what is important? Do they have the self-discipline to do what they know is right?
In the group of people that I made my first career in, he'd be referred to as having been "pumped full of footballs."
I have also found that others who pursue wisdom (and myself) have sort of a “sixth sense” and can sniff it out in others without too much contact...but, it is difficult to discern via text-based mediums - like internet forums.
"the suspicion the Universe is a conspiracy on your behalf.
You only think you think differently.
null and void is sure.
Parallels my experience.
With less crazy...
Too true. Most of them are, in the words of a philosopher whose name I do not recall, people who have read so much about thinking that they think they have thoughts. I have sometimes pondered how one would measure things like common sense, virtue, and compassion, but, in the final analysis, these qualities are known by objective behavior, not subjective thought.
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