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ringo

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Message 11 of 88 (597731)
12-23-2010 5:31 PM

Reply to: Message 10 by frako
12-23-2010 5:01 PM

Re: Unsharpened, not dull

I always have trouble with the one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others questions. To me, they're all different and if it was an essay question, I could explain why. IQ tests require simple answers to what some might perceive as complex questions. They seem to depend more on quick pattern recognition than on actual thought.

I have a suspicion that religious people tend to like the easy answers and might do better than me on the tests.

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Message 70 of 88 (599417)
01-07-2011 11:32 AM

Reply to: Message 68 by slevesque
01-06-2011 9:49 PM

slevesque writes:

And from my experience, it is socially simply much harder for a person in an intellectual circle to be religious.

I spent five years at a secular public university and never met an atheist.

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Message 74 of 88 (599491)
01-07-2011 8:15 PM

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01-07-2011 6:07 PM

slevesque writes:

But how long ago was that ? Were you in a science related field ? Which state/country ?

The 1970s. Yes. Saskatchewan.

Not exactly an intellectual hotbed, maybe, but I don't think I've ever met anybody who was a professing atheist. I find it safest to assume that everybody is a Christian.

Edited by ringo, : Inserted, comma.

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Message 78 of 88 (599545)
01-08-2011 4:33 PM

Reply to: Message 77 by Buzsaw
01-08-2011 3:06 PM

Re: Fundamentalist Groups

Buzsaw writes:

I am regarded by many here on this board as a really stupid unintelligent dumb ass.

I don't think that's true. I think most of us probably regard you as fairly intelligent and incredibly arrogant.

One of the purposes of education is to show you how little you know. Unfortunately, fundamentalists believe that God knows everything and thus they also know everything by proxy.

It's easy to make yourself look like a fool, regardless of how intelligent you really are.

"I'm Rory Bellows, I tell you! And I got a lot of corroborating evidence... over here... by the throttle!"

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