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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

My chapter of Mensa accepts people at 125. Or did, I'm not current on what they do with that. Mostly I find these people more clueless than the rest and pretentious windbags at that, generally speaking. I interact with them as little as possible.

The exact mental science demonstrates how intelligence really isn't grounded in the "intellect" per se and how even people of modest intellect are able to surpass great genius by applying the correct forces to the psyche. Wasn't it Mozart who said, "You look for genius in the intellect, but my view is that genius is borne out of love."

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Nice. I guess it's close like horseshoes. I have no interest in meeting Mensa folks for similar impressions though I've not ever met one I'm aware of.

I'd like to pretend that I'm a genius but I don't want to prove myself wrong with a test. In grade 9 we took a test. I got 129, 1 short of "genius". All the way through the multiple choice A B C or D test I kept leaving blanks on the tricky ones to go back later and randomly fill them in at the last minute - but when I finished test I forgot to go back and fill them in! I guess the test prove I wasn't a genius.

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Yeah tests are worth whatever. Back when my intellect was in full force, I got 174. Nowadays I'd be surprised if I even reached 120, but then again I find the intellect to be a cumbersome, lumbering and inherently stupid beast. Reducing the mind to data processing capacity is misguided at best. The mind has so much more to offer than computing.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Agreed. The tests are as biased as anything.

I haven't seen tests for street smarts, fashion sense, manners, compassion, pragmatism, character, efficiency, religiosity, well-being, fulfillment. But I haven't looked either, because if I found some I know they'd be biased - and I don't need a test to define who I already know I am.

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But, if you will humor me in a separate thread where we could discuss this other topic, and I don't know where the proper Sub would be, I contend that one cannot ever know oneself.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I can't guarantee anything. I'm backed up with 200+ messages, can't stop looking at new content and joining in new discussions, my comments are rarely sparse, and I have ambitious projects I want to do. But I'm game.

I made this last year but I abandoned my multisubs categorizations of SaidIt subs project:

https://saidit.net/user/JasonCarswell/m/saidit_minds

On the right you'll see all the subs that relate to "minds".