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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Robert E. Lee, Virginia, and Same-sex Marriage... |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 5:32 pm
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do some men hate intelligent women? |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 5:25 pm
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| "Intellect" is not based on innate ability, because there's no such limiting thing. The human brain is constantly rebuilding itself, and when it does, it makes new connections, deletes some, adds neurons, deletes neurons. Be unhealthy, take mind-affecting drugs, alcohol, then your intelli... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do some men hate intelligent women? |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 5:22 pm
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Chichikov wrote: SilverProteus wrote: Kim Peek (Rain man) knows a lot of things, doesn't mean his IQ is high. Savant edge cases don't define what IQ is\means.
Elaborate, please. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do some men hate intelligent women? |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 12:38 pm
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| Kim Peek (Rain man) knows a lot of things, doesn't mean his IQ is high. A distinction must be made between 'fluid' and 'crystalised' intelligence. The former declines with age while the latter increases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelligence Fluid intelligence or fluid re... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Having to down play your Intelligence at a Job interview. |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 7:52 am
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MoatsArt wrote: A prerequisite of learning is humility.
Not necessarily. If someone punches you in the face for being an arrogant as*hole you will learn not be an arrogant as*hole in front of certain people. |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How to expect an apology |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 7:49 am
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| People are afraid of what they don't understand. Expect them to be afraid, but don't expect an apology for fearing. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do some men hate intelligent women? |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 7:35 am
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| There is studies showing that many men reject intelligent women. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-couch/201601/do-men-have-problem-dating-smart-women This bit caught my eye. I suspect it's not intelligence as such that turns people off, it's the (often damaged) loopy personalities that come... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do some men hate intelligent women? |
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Posted: 27 Aug 2017, 6:10 am
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techstepgenr8tion wrote: I think IQ is typically proportional to age, a bit like you'll test much better to get the same score at age 25 than at age 10. I say that because I know I had a lot more horsepower at 26 than at 8 or 9 but still got the same # or something really close to it.
Yes, it seems that way. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evolution is the biggest lie ever told ! |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2017, 7:20 pm
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LoveNotHate wrote: SilverProteus wrote: It hurts to be a victim of con-men scientists. Lower functioning people get hurt bad by these people.
It's a pity you feel that way. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why The Judaeo-Christian God Makes No Sense to Me |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2017, 6:47 pm
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'Intelligent design' is not so intelligent.
One example: |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Don't get along well with ppl that are different from me |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2017, 6:40 pm
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Well, whaddya know? You're your own best friend!  |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evolution is the biggest lie ever told ! |
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Posted: 26 Aug 2017, 6:21 pm
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| The guy in the video did not make the post, so I was not addressing the guy in the video. So if the video is not using an ad homenim then what's the problem here? What's wrong with "I have an argument but this guy already said it really well so I'll just put that here". From the looks of ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evolution is the biggest lie ever told ! |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2017, 10:36 pm
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| Why do you make this unnecessarily personal ? Is logic another thing you don't believe in? yes, another construct of humans Yet an Ad hominem is a logical fallacy. If you don't believe in logic, then why complain about Ad hominems? I didn't complain. It's common here. However, it doesn't advance th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Predicting events in my dreams |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2017, 9:55 pm
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| And what about all those times your dreams did not predict anything in reality? Good question. It is a well known fact that our minds will recall events that have meaning for us personally, but fail to recall a very large percentage of the "misses" that occur when it comes to matching wha... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evolution is the biggest lie ever told ! |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2017, 9:26 pm
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LoveNotHate wrote: Wolfram87 wrote: LoveNotHate wrote: Why do you make this unnecessarily personal ? Is logic another thing you don't believe in? yes, another construct of humans
Yet an Ad hominem is a logical fallacy. If you don't believe in logic, then why complain about Ad hominems? |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you think that ASPIES and ADHD are selfish? |
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Posted: 25 Aug 2017, 4:20 pm
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| I think Aspies may come off as more...egocentric...sometimes, but that's just because they have difficulty seeing another's wants and needs. I don't think that it's because they are being spoilt brats or malicious. |
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