Posted on 07/22/2010 6:59:54 AM PDT by MestaMachine
The other day a freeper pointed out that if we were to abolish federal involvement in education, and let it be handled on a more local level, the quality of education would improve dramatically and from that generation on, we would begin to regain our strength.
Any kid with common sense and an iota of curiosity will look at stats re: academic success vs. “real world” success. A stubborn kid will persevere under any circumstances. A curious kid will learn that the “C” students are the ones who have been historically successful in business. A kid w/o hardwiring problems will try to follow a path that will leave the world a better place. An observant kid will notice that the people who profess to know it all are surrounded with chaos and leave a trail of disaster wherever they go.
Don’t underestimate the kids.
This condition is easily treatable with:
Dontnoital (psychonutbgon HCl)
Aspergers is so prevalent on the campuses that it's redundant to even talk about it.
Have you ever visited an Aspergers forum? Real eye opener...they literally think that they do not belong with the rest of earthlings and earth would be better off without "normal" people.
I too believe that following the teachings of Jesus would vastly improve any endeavor, but I find your answer moronic. I don't think you read the question.
Make me some sweet potato pie and tell me when it’s coming out of the oven. Oh, wow. Now my mouth is watering....
See what you made me do? I am drooling on my keyboard.
Hugs to you, MHG. Missed ya.
Nailed it. One loser seriously contended the world needed to put MENSA in charge and then get out of the way. He absolutely refused to understand that he and I, both MENSA members, were utterly opposed, not just on tactics, but even more on the goals. He didn't think this made a difference!
Intelligence, in the sense of raw IQ, is greatly over-rated.
LOL. Good one.
Christ is the answer to the problem of sin. Christ is the only full and complete answer. Every other “solution” is fiddling at the margins with no personal solution and no solution for those around you that you affect.
Actually, I think I have four or five, in varying sizes, already! I’ll get to work on the drafting board to design an angle of application technique ...
Got to read my definition to inderstand the topic.
M E N S A
*Massive Extreme Neural Synapses Abuse*
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.
CS Lewis addressed this quite effectively in his discussions of Moral Law in Mere Christianity (and in numerous other writings). People for the most part have an inherent code of right and wrong based on universal moral absolutes. Some people spend time contemplating these and trying to abide by them, and others are immersed in systems that try to downplay, ridicule and ignore those that believe in such things...but in spite of their efforts, they simply don't go away.
Human fashions and trends are very fickle things, and even though right now, it is in vogue to defy and spit in the face of people who believe in moral absolutes, those principles will by far, outlive this passing phase and its adherents.
Atheist will typically tell you they feel uncomfortable when they lie, and nobody admires or esteems cowardice over valor. They may try to represent cowardice as valor, but they are not contesting the value of courage itself. Now, those not studied in, or at least having given some thought to such things generally can't explain why they feel some things are naturally right or wrong, only that they "feel" or "know" that they are. Some things are immutable and inalienable regardless of human efforts to downplay them or represent them otherwise.
Having said all of that, I'm not trying to minimize the damage these people might do, and the indoctrination they are trying to impose on society at large...the road to rediscovering and re-embracing Natural law could be a very difficult and painful one, indeed.
You mean they consider themselves to be not merely superior, but rather more superior to everyone else?
Regards,
Last two custards were pumpkin. Now I'll have to find some sweet poatatoes and get to work!
Apple pies are my letely summer fair around here, but a sweet potatoe cobbler would hit the spot ... served with a pot of nice English tea on the porch in the late evening ... yes, I'm getting the picture now ... off to shop. [Men can bake too, ya know!] BBL
A lot of people remain in Mensa, thankful that insufferable snobs like Mr. Jeeves have left. On a side note, I wish you had named your syndrome Degenerative Extreme Neural Synapses Abuse (DENSA) to avoid unintentionally maligning a group of pretty decent folks who belong to Mensa.
Even to each other. That is the ultimate result of this kind of thinking. i.e. “My genius is bigger than your genius.”
To put it another way, nobody is wrong if everybody is right...an unsolvable paradox that ultimately leads to war and mass insanity on a level we can’t even begin to comprehend. Insanity in the purist form.
It's off the charts!
You are right, of course. No foul intended. As I stated earlier, this started out as a joke. There are a lot of extremely smart people who are not in this catagory, but there ARE far too many people who, rightly or wrongly, fall prey to the mythology that IQ is the measure of a man. These people often splatter the stage with the blood of those deemed inferior, (by themselves,) with little or no knowledge OR wisdom to back it up. These people often lack conscience as well.
Well, that answers my question about whether any actual smart people are in MENSA. The only MENSAs I ever met made a really, really, really big deal about how they were in MENSA, and yet they didn't seem all that smart to me. It struck me that it was very important to these people that they were in MENSA because it "proved" to the world (and themselves) how smart they were, and it seemed to me that these people were actually somewhat pathetic. Thus, I wondered if MENSA was actually made up entirely of pathetic people who were not actually very bright.
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.
Since I always wondered why any really smart person would need to join an organization to prove they were smart, I've also always wondered if any actual smart people were in MENSA. Now I know. Thanks for the insiders point of view, namely that MENSA is in fact a good discriminator for intelligence: any intelligent person who joins MESA thinking it is an organization of intelligent people quickly discovers otherwise and quits, leaving only not-so-intelligent people as members. In fact, MENSA perfectly selects for those who remain members: not-so-bright and unaccomplished people who desperately wish the world would see them otherwise.
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