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To: Gargantua
As for my own intelligence, Mensa claims my I.Q. is 160-plus.

That certainly puts a blaze-orange highlighter on the fact that I.Q. is an entirely
separate measure of the mind than common sense or wisdom doesn't it? LOL

74 posted on 05/20/2011 1:22:46 AM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye
Hey, rump-munch, I corrected his having used the word "your" in the sentence "...I guess that’s why your so enthralled..."

As in "I guess that's why 'you are' so enthralled..."

Please, check post 70, then go hang your head like a good douchebag. Good God, but you people are as thick as snot!

As to "I.Q.", it stands for "Intelligence Quotient," yet another pretty-much meaningless and self-serving attempt on the part of mankind to pigeonhole and categorize that of which he has no real understanding; a self-stroking gesture intended to provide temporal if manufactured succor to his fragile, insecure and easily-bruised ego. It refers to a "potential for" intelligence, but renders no opinion as to whether that "potential" is active or inert: hence but a throwaway term lacking all substance used to fool his more simply-gulled contemporaries.

Worse-still, given the unassailable logic of the prior, to want to know what your "I.Q." is is to basically ask what someone else (who can't possibly know the answer) what your intelligence level may or may not be—quite obviously, an urge borne of a blatant insecurity level demonstrably counterproductive in any environment or application.

That said, Mensa's tests are exhaustive, and clearly represent the state-of-the-art of man's penchant for superimposing his lack of knowledge in a futile attempt to define wisdom down to a human level which ignores the inevitable primacy of the one true Wisdom, which is that of God alone.

"To fear the Lord your God is the beginning of Wisdom."

Sine qua non. Douchebag.

8^\

79 posted on 05/20/2011 3:42:54 AM PDT by Gargantua (Palin 2012 ~ "Going Oval")
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