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The way we measure intelligence is biased towards American culture, and American definitions of intelligence. Beyond that you have to take education and culture into consideration.

And how on earth are you supposed to know which babys are gay?

For your amusement value:
I was talking to a student at my school who had taken a philosophy course last semester. He listed the people he studied as "Hegel, Kant, Heidiegger" ...and had never heard the word dialectics.

Sometimes I wonder.

you guys should really use tv-links. Every TV show ever made and a huge number of movies ... no commercials. Available free with your internet connection. With this new discovery, I'm almost never subjected to ads that I have to hear. If I am, it's in a social setting and we're usually talking over ...

Seriously? I've been coming to this board more frequently than the two of you for almost a year. Though I've mostly turned my attention elsewhere, I have been reading here every 2-3 days all semester. I'm not denying that a call to Dad could get me out of real trouble. I'm not talking about an emerg...

You're incorrect about the value of $30 to everyone who drives. After I pay my rent and other unavoidable bills I have $13 a week to buy gas and food with. Since Statesboro has no public transit system, driving is not optional. I assure you that an extra $30 a month would be a significant amount in ...

Dan Rowden wrote:Maybe someone can suggest a forum better suited to your current needs.

http://p068.ezboard.com/bsteelwoods

Re women's gossip:

In the women's gossip I've sometimes overheard there have been very few rules indeed. It's pretty much "anything goes", for endless hours.

That's only because you don't know the rules.
Most prosports look that way to me, because I don't know the rules.

Vegetarianism actually isn't too healthy. Red meat isn't good, but fish oil helps repair a lot of brain issues. Anemia can mess up mental function, as well. Eating healthy, however, including a balance of good food, is definitly good for brain function. As is exercise, sunlight, sleep, etc. Also, th...

I'm scared now, please tell me what's going on? ...Why the hell do I keep thinking you're all bots inside my computer! From this statement, it looks like you are having what used to be called a "nervous breakdown." Either that or joking around... Or a troll. A joke was my guess though.

We used it as well in a few of my classes - never exclusively though, but we're doing it on one of my classes this semester and I'm kind of nervous. I'm not really "one of the group" so to speak, so no telling how I'll come out of this. It seems to reward popularity more than ability.

Dan Rowden wrote:Well, it's arguably good that Google Earth will never provide that!

I think there is a point to immersion, really. Though on the computer seems a bit off.


And Denver does suck.
I always wince when I can't fly into/out of Colorado Springs and have to use their airport...

Gerald Gardner is the sole originator of the New Age movement? What evidence do you have that this is in any way factual? Wicca is only one of many influences from the East and West which are incorporated in one way or another under the umbrella, if you will, known as New Age. And certainly Alliste...

How and why can people be mesmerized through mere suggestions? If you want something badly enough, you may just pretend to get it. Most people are easily convinced of such things - look how many christians and muslims are in the world. The reality of the situation is that I have quite a bit more re...

Well, golly, Katy, that diatribe of personal opinion doesn't help. Which part is untrue? Are you suggesting that Gardner's grandmother's religion and Masonic rites were the same coincedentally, and that as an additional coincidence Gardner was kicked out of the masonic temple at around the same tim...

I'm pretty sure the newage (rhymes with sewage) stuff came out of wicca, which Gerald Gardner pulled out of his arse. He claims to have learned it from his grandmother, but the reality of the situation is he combined Masonic Rites, with Alstair Crowley, nakid women and BDSM. I'm not convinced that k...

Well, we run into a problem in that some countries (Russia recently) are worried about losing population and encouraging people to have babies (through a contest for those who manage to have the child born on exactly the right date...) but most of the developed world isn't experiencing out of contro...

Bakunin, one of the original Russian anarchists, attempted to raise his sister's consciousness by teaching her Hegel. Alas, Hegel's theory that the only moment of consciousness a woman will ever have is in selecting her husband nearly drove the woman mad, seeing as how she'd already chosen badly.

Carl G wrote:Oh, I see, pen15, your user name is a play on the word penis. How cleaver. I mean clever.

Hey Carl, I'm in the Pen club. Do you want to be too? I just write the word pen and then your number on your hand and you're a member! See, I'm Pen 14!

Stumbling the "spirituality" category is a scary yet interesting thing to do. One thing I didn't immediately realise, too, is that I can promote Genius Realms stuff using it. The only problem I've encountered - and it could just be the way I'm set up - is that it keeps telling me I've see...

It's the only addon I have, and I use it frequently... it's where most of the news things I post at FP come from. I once stumbledupon this place, as well. :)

I just can't imagine under what circumstances a person would dislike what was said to them, yet go onto preach it to others. I don't think it's wise to conclude that such strange behavior is possible without actually observing it. I can't recall seeing anything like that in my own experience. I don...

At least here, if you chose to go, you can chose to leave. If they force you to go they can force you to stay. If the options are between voluntary and involuntary, go. If the options are between yes and no, then only those closest to you can say.

I'm fighting the question myself.

Does anyone have an example of a non-human animal behaving illogically? And what does it mean to behave illogically? I always considered illogical behavior to be action based on believing in things that have never been actually perceived. Well, I did see something about logical behavior in elephant...

I love the way Bilby conveniently ignores every post I've made in favor of repeatedly asserting that no one has provided facts and examples that I have provided. I guess it's easier than reading. Or is it the thinking part you're missing? Both?

All and all, a responsible government should slowly remove alcohol from the market. My idea is that the Canadian government should take some of the stronger types of alcohol such Rum, vodka, and whiskey off the market, while leaving only beer and wine for sale. And eventually, over time, beer and w...