Posted on 12/28/2019 7:56:45 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Good post. That speaks to the natural explanation.
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But nurture is also critical. Jews like Mormons, asians, tend to have two-parent, supportive families.
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That stability greatly makes their children feel more secure and confident.
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Studies of outcomes from successful families, no matter the culture, show the same kinds of high IQ and performance.
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Insular groups that partner within the group will naturally see offspring with enhanced features, such as IQ.
Respect for God, respect for family, respect for community, respect for the law, respect for work, respect for education ... people with those attributes don’t end up slinging shit. The blacks could learn a thing or two from the Jews, but prefer the older attitudes of envy and resentment.
It’s Ambition!
Most it seems
The entire court is Jewish or Catholic
Except Gorsuch
People who can’t recognize that Jews especially European based ones are smarter than average caucazoid have not been around many
That's because instead of playing high school sports, they chose the chess club instead.....
Also, Matrilineality has a great deal to with the success of the Jews. A closed system that can still add selective useful outcrosses.
Jews have long focused on their intellectual development because they have spent so much of their history being kicked from pillar to post and often all they were allowed to take with them was whatever was in their pockets and in their heads.
The very study of the Torah is an exercise in considering every question — no matter how sacrosanct — from every possible alternative perspective. The Torah is politely referred to as “the book of questions” but less reverentially as “the book of arguments.” One of the lessons of Torah study is that no one perspective is ever superior to the others unless and until you make a convincing and rational argument that it is.
Einstein was not that smart, as his father is often paraphrased first said:
Albert is no Einstein
I (a Swedish Lutheran) grew up in the most Jewish neighborhood in the city of Chicago. I loved it! We had zero crime in our neighborhood. The local public schools had the highest scores in the city. The Jewish people are people of books and words and education.
I agree.
I also think they are not prone to NATIONALISM like us Goyishe kops.
The reason being, if things go wrong, the Jews know who will get blamed. -Tom
Honestly, secular Jews embrace being ‘apart’ from the rest of society as much or more than many religious Jews, and this is not a universally good thing. There are no ‘chosen people’. There are just people, equal under God. This is what the Founder's thought, as stated in the Declaration of Independence (”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”).
In terms of literal interpretation of the Bible, or the Talmud, or the Torah, Bareishit/Genesis tells us of ‘the beginning’, and of Adam and Eve, and forms the basis of the concept that we are all descendants of Adam and Eve - thus all related by our ancestry.
This is a longer discussion than we can have on a thread, and I have a partial Jewish heritage, but in my view, what makes people what they are is a combination of many, many factors, and the nurturing of your family, and the values they instill, have enormous effects. It's not just the ‘seed’. It's the soil on which it falls.
Ashkenazi were European converts to Judaism.
It is mind renewal, by reading God’s words, a lot.
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“Insular groups that partner within the group will naturally see offspring with enhanced features, such as IQ.”
I’m not following this. You’re saying inbreeding raises IQ?
In my opinion, just partially true.
Throughout history, the Jews have excelled in some areas but didn’t start excelling in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) until the second half of the 19th century. It was the Christians, initially the Catholics, but primarily the Protestants and Anglicans that drove STEM from the 15th to 19th centuries. They established the universities, learned societies, publishing, and distribution networks that caused Western STEM to dominate the world.
The sense of being special while being a hated minority lies at the heart of the Jewish success story. The “I’ll show them” mindset that drives people to success regardless of odds.
I think the Jewish drive to succeed is in danger of weakening with the younger generations because they are expected to automatically succeed by society while having parents that give them everything. Without having opposition, what’s going to power their drive to succeed?
Bible says they are to be a blessing to all nations...
They value family and education.
Recall the joke where someone asks for “light reading”. They’re given a tiny one page book on famous Jewish athletes.
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