Posted: 4/19/2005 5:58:06 PM EDT
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| My roommate is a Mensan. He's a real smart guy....he's acquired about 30 college credit hours in 6 years, unemployed, and get's totally smashed every other night. As long as he pays his share of the rent, the way he lives his life is no concern of mine. I just don't believe that this organization can't be that "elite." |
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Wow! What an instant reply. I'm not trying to start a "Who is Smarter" thread. Having read AR15 for the last 6 mos., I've seen a lot of very smart threads as well as the opposite. I joined Mensa a couple of years ago only as a challenge to my self. Thinking that someday I'll be on my death bed, I didn't want to have the question of whether I had deceived myself all these years that I was smart enough to pass the test or not. Sorry, this is the thinking of an older man... what could I have achieved if I had tried type of thing. Anyway... Members? |
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One of my favorite Dilbert cartoons shows a Mensan trying to recruit Dilbert at the office. Dilbert asks him, "If you're so smart, why do you work here?" The answer: "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think." I've always remembered that. |
Now wait a minute: "older" is subjective. I'll bet you're not even the oldest guy on ARfcom. Unless you're 110 or something. You shouldn't be so self-deprecating. Should've called yourself "Experienced_Fart" or some such.  |
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I don't know. Some of the most intelligent (at least I thought so) people I've ever personally known have done some of the dumbest shit imaginable. Seriously. I don't think having a high I.Q. necessarily means you're going to be more successful, popular, etc., than other people, at least not always. I mean, it's not all that uncommon to find prisoners and convicts of all types with "high" I.Q.s, for example. |
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This guy is an alleged member www.muckstickey.com and of course McUzi (Edited to correct link) |
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Met a guy who was really proud of the fact he was a member of mensa. His wife was also a member. This guy was the example of all book smarts and no common sense so he quickly sold his "place in the country" since he kept trying to either burn the hillside down while trying to clean it up or did other things that showed he just did not think things through very completely. I am not a member and don't worry about it, but I could not believe that someone who made it a point to say they were a member just about burned the hillside because he figured the fire would burn itself out. |
+1 Mensa isn't that hard to enter, the real brains are the people in those other orgs. Besides, common sense is worth ALOT more than raw intelligence. |
