I say the same thing. I was saying to my son the other day that it is hard living in a world filled with idiots. Yes a lot of people are nice people, good people and I like them, but get frustrated with the way they think. Its not easy being green :)
Correct. Unabomber was a genius but brainwashed at age 19.
My friend has two PhDs and is extremely intelligent yet he believes not one bit I tell him how the media is controlled. Then again he has many connections to these people who’ll soon be in GITMO. He will only believe me I take it once they show public executions.
Yep^ this. I just finished my degree in biology and I’ll be damned, the year I finished I realized media/scientific literature/facts are created by the highest bidder. Now I’ve been going down some bat-shit nutty religious rabbit holes and I’m feeling pretty certain I’m finally on the right path. At this point, everything I believe is truly “stranger than fiction”
Mmpi II shows that the mentally ill and higher educated have more defense mechanisms in play. Of course, this was before the mentally ill were recruited to teach in academia.
Healthy use of defense mechanisms to function in your environment is good. Unhealthy use of defense mechanisms to support your rightness is bad.
How do you manipulate someone? Give them what they want. Validation for those who need to be right, hope for those who need to be calmed.
The best anecdote to manipulation is an unwavering commitment to TRUTH.
I did have to learn that next to being intellectually smart, it's also very important to be street smart.
Luckily for me I've always hated authority and was quite rebellious, so I ended up with friends that weren't intellectual but more street smart. We did a lot of partying, drinking, smoking weed and just hanging on the street. This is what prevented me from becoming like my classmates, who were more concerned about conforming to what was expected of you.
People with "book smarts" are not always wise when it comes to life. One of the saddest men I ever worked with had 12 years of college. He excelled there. But he couldn't make a good decision in the real world to save his life. He came from a long line of well known doctors. The type of men who have cancer centers named after them in the East. Very wealthy but with a huge ego. I'd rather hang out with the Proud Boys than him, to tell you the truth. He was a humongous pain in the ass.
I was always the highest IQ of the school where ever I went. That said, I find it is my humility that has been my defining character. Looking back, I have always been the most humble person I know...way more humble than most of you faggots!
Not just large brains. How many here had the biggest balls in school? LOL! I include our ladies in with that remark, because I'd rather they had my back in a bad situation than any of the pussyhat wearing nincompoops I've ever met. Former Cali native here.
Oh didn't see this! Yea, I stood up for others when they were bullied. Mouthy when ppl crossed lines with others.
I was bullied because I wouldn't conform & had no protector. It was that kind of neighborhood. Maybe they knew I was really smart, I didn't think about it till I changed schools in the 7th grade. Ok. Kinda smart?
I didn't know i was logical (smart) until I took a final in my college logic class. I did get the highest grade. I was an hour late. I was still drunk. (Yes, it was a difficult time) ?.
I was tested at a university and it was 146 or 148 I cant remember. I was a super slacker in high school, college and university. Still got good marks. In college a prof thought I had dropped out at one point cause I took so much time off lol.
A psychologist friend gave me the MENSA exam years ago for the first IQ test I took. Don't know if that is now available online. But he was practicing to be able to offer it to his students, as to join MENSA at the time, a licensed psychologist had to administer the test. He asked if I wanted to join and I told him hell no! Even 40 years ago I didn't want the government having my private information.
Always remember this statistical fact: half the population is below average intelligence.
(Yeah yeah mean median mode, but it's easier to say it this way than talk about percentiles to the dumb public).
I have known this for a very long time. I’m not a genius, but I think I’m smarter than the average bear. And I am quite humble. I never typically speak of my accomplishments or anything that I have been able to achieve, which is more than any of my friends. I know I’m here for some reason, although I’m not 100% sure exactly what that is. I won’t read a most novels, but give me anything on wide variety of other subjects and I’ll rip them
True, but one has to wonder if the "average" is rising, staying the same or falling. (If the events and people's actions of this past year are any indication, it would seem the average must be rapidly falling.)
True, but one has to wonder if the "average" is rising, staying the same or falling. (If the events and people's actions of this past year are any indication, it would seem the average must be rapidly falling.)
Literally slept through HS and still graduated top 10%. Went to TU in Tulsa for a bachelors in mechanical engineering. Got married, had two kids, worked part time, went to school full time and still finished my degree in 4 years.
Unfortunately, I fell for the lie that smart females need to get a degree in STEM, because, well that’s what smart women do. While going to school and even in my short-lived career as an engineer, most women I ran into were hateful, cold, and sluts. They would display all the characteristics deemed to be toxic masculinity to the other sex. I realized that no matter my test scores, education or career advancement, I was happier being home with my husband and kids.
Thank you! I just hope more women realize that being a successful businesswoman will not make you feel complete. Only Jesus will and He has made the ideal family structure pretty straightforward lol
Similar situation here. When I was younger I just wanted a family and kids. My Mom said that successful men want wives who are also intelligent, so I went to college and on to a master's degree. Math degree was easy, but I couldn't be happier than I am as a stay at home Mom now.
GOOD FOR YOU! Similar boat here. Very irritating to be told you're "wasting" your intelligence raising the next generation to not be brainwashed robots! History will prove us right.
Fuck yeah, OP. I graduated from West Point with a degree in systems engineering. Following that I was an Army Infantry Officer. Currently I am the systems engineering manager for Customs and Trade Compliance for one of the top ten largest importers into the US. I constantly have to play down my intelligence unless I have to flex on some retard liberals.
You are so worthy of this thread merely by your presence. I have a theory that there is a certain minimum IQ and/or ability to logic which is needed to break away from the trillion dollar propaganda and brainwashing we are subject to daily. That minimum threshold is so much higher than the average person in our society.
When I was in 7th grade, the school didn’t have anyone to send to an Algebra 2 test/regional competition. Despite never having taken the course, I won this part of the state and beat about 30 other older kids that had taken it.
A few months ago it seemed like almost everyone on here was pretty sharp. This site has become more mainstream in the past month or so.
When I was a kid working side by side with a hoity toity engineer on racecars, I'd make him mad all the time finding his answers before he did. Dude dubbed me "the empirical wizard" as while he did math, I stood there and waved my arms around. Was 16. Dude was making force vector diagrams and doing calculus for the simplest of things.
Don't mean nothing, but always makes me chuckle to remember.
I am literally a member of Mensa, although I never mention that fact to anyone in real life unless they ask. Scored in the 99th percentile on most standardized tests (SAT, GRE, etc.) for as long as I can remember. I also have both a bachelors and masters degree in electrical engineering, and am fluent in four languages and semi-competent in a fifth.
Funny thing is, I am actually a woman and I am not offended by that. ? It probably helps that I am not a humorless, deranged leftist who somehow manages to find something to be outraged about every waking hour of their lives.
When I was a kid, I thought everyone else was crazy for thinking the water level on Zelda was difficult. That shit was my favorite because it actually had some challenge to it, and it actually turns out to be pretty simple.
Sounds dumb but I have friends who still talk about literally never making it past that level.
I agree, Majora's Mask was better and way underrated. Resetting time felt like the replay value, but with more purpose each time. I liked the mood of it too. Playing as a Goron and Zora too. It felt like there was much more hidden stuff to find.
I have learned that there is always more to learn and because I resisted the indoctrination of the 50s and early 60s, I allowed my intuition to work at solutions that my intellect went 'duh' over... It DID find some neat short cuts, one of which is finding GA.win which has been triggering tons of intuition!!
I remember having a conversation with my mom around my early 30s. I commented that the older I got, the less I seemed to know. She laughed and said 'now you get it!'
Here's the problem with your question: A smart person will conclude, they are not immensely smart. Smart compared to whom, I can't build a cell phone, but I can build a home and garden. Does that make me dumb or smart? I propose, neither.
I am 65 years old and consider myself an information junkie. I read and research for hours and hours. I have saved information from 15 years ago that is just now coming back around. I agree, we digital soldiers are above average in intelligence.
Exactly! I found the key is to remain neutral on the really bizarre and file it in my head for future reference. Lol. I woke up in earnest on 9/11. I called demolition as I watched with the rest of the world.
Funnily enough, that was my "ticket" to the red pill. I saw 9/11 as a kid in a normie environment so I wouldn't've known that it was anything other than an actual terrorist attack and that Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were the baddies. But my
sponge-like memory filed away images and knowledge of a third tower, and when Ron Paul and the R3VOLution came rolling around I saw the WTC7 videos and realised I was had.
140 IQ. Enough to usually be the smartest guy in the room. Mensa card to prove it. Smart enough to realize that my four degrees don't mean a damn thing.
Intj here too, also 4 degrees.
BS, MS, MBA, and PhD
Never left school really, now I’m a prof, so really I HAVE NEVER LEFT SCHOOL!
And I’m just realizing this now that I’m typing it out.
Also 140 IQ. Took the sample MENSA test years back just for kicks and was told I'd pass the real test. Never went further with it because more often than not MENSA members I would come across would be condescending, elitist, pedantic pricks and it turned me off to the whole idea of MENSA.
This is not throwing shade at you in any way btw, just giving my anecdotal experience.
I agree, they're generally that way. I enjoyed the conversation, but I let it lapse because the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.
I joined because I was insecure at the time. Oddly, joining helped me be less arrogant, because I didn't have anything to prove to myself. So Mensa did that, at least.
I think 140 is about the sweet spot; I can do whatever I choose to apply myself to, and much higher it becomes a lot harder to deal with society.
My friend is in his 60’s and does IQ tests I think he said on a monthly basis. I would consider him a genius but he says he’s so arrogant thu proving your point. If I told him face to face climate change is a hoax he’d never stop trying to convince me otherwise. I have to constantly downplay my true beliefs.
I'm just a fucked up dumbass that has taken too much drugs in his youth and drank too much later on. Then I married, got children and everything changed. Then the put out this plandemic, and here I am. Theres som brain left, but not the potential I was at when I was young.
Please do, I started off trying to comment something about how every big problem in our world boils down to elites ignoring the basic principles first learned by every child. We knew everything we needed to know by kindergarten and spend the rest of our lives breaking those childish values.
Not sure about my iQ....but always was the oddball because i questioned everything. Used to think that was a negative thing...but realizing now it's not.
I wouldn’t say I’m so smart, but people in my classes (pure science only, math, physics, and now mech engineering) that are supposed to have relatively smart people tend to be really dumb, at least to me. Even the no life nerds who did nothing but study couldn’t get the grades I would get without trying as hard or understand things as easily. Always seemed odd to me. I don’t think I’m too particularly smart either. I think the average person is just much dumber than we realize.
I notice they claim Trump supporters are all dumb white racists, then they say “I know these smart people who I thought were geniuses, but then I learn they support Trump (and sometimes “Qanon”, gasp!)”
If you don't learn to think rationally, an IQ serves only to take you faster in the wrong direction. Look how many famous people need to be very smart to get where they are, but are utter fools when it comes to politics and morality. A person with an average IQ who understands the meaning of the axiom A=A is more intelligent than any leftist!
I remember those. I did pretty well and remember not giving it much credit because it didn’t ask those factual questions. The one thing I’ve learned in the last 5 years is that there really are some dumb humans in the world. I no longer have instant respect for someone because they have an important job or hold a degree.
The one thing I’ve learned in the last 5 years is that there really are some dumb humans in the world. I no longer have instant respect for someone because they have an important job or hold a degree.
I feel this. I call it an ego play, and I'm training myself to move away from that. I've got a strong technical background and am pretty close to finishing some engineering degrees, so it's easy to flex that on people. Pure ego. Good information will stand on its own and doesn't need to be said by a doctor/lawyer/engineer to be true.
Smarter than the average bear here.
I read a factoid that stated individuals with higher IQ's thought of themselves as not as smart as others, while individuals with lower IQ's thought of themselves as smarter than others.
I've had hundreds of employees over the years and I'm here to tell you it is TRUE. The most uninformed, uneducated, illogical sorts are always willing to tell you how smart they are while simultaneously showing you just how stupid they are.
I just like to think outside the box at every possible option. My brain was intrigued by quests at a young age. Goonies got me hooked on puzzle/adventures. However, I lack the motivation/determination to push my self to the extreme. I might not be the brightest crayon in the box, but I am always sharp!!!
Ok, fuck it, I'll bite. I never brag but might as well. I was raised in Mexico, my mom is a US citizen. Below average student im my formative years by choice. I hated school. My last year of elementary before highschool I said fuck all these chumps so I graduated 1st in my class among the nerds. Then highschool was a breeze, I skipped classes 98% of the time and would move on to 2nd opportunity and 3rd opportunity to pass the class. Finished like that and moved on. Got my US Citizenship before turning 18 and moved to the states, joined the military, got out, went to college and graduated 1st in my generation for Mechanical Engineering 3.75 GPA. Challenging but worth it. Work as a consultant for oil and gas industry. Good money, easy life. Only time I was tested by I professional psychologist was when I was 14 years old. She ranked me at Very Superior Intelligence at 145. I think that what stomped her was that when she asked me "what is time to you", my answer to her was that it was meaningles because it could not be measured accurately once the observer started to move through space at speeds that approached the speed of light, time was just relative to me. I just finished watching a documentary that day. Kek.
Hate the federal government, think of most of them as parasites. I blame our generation for allowing these leeches to remain in positions that affect policy. Love my country and would serve again in a heartbeat in any capacity.
Yeah I did pretty good, but that's not ONLY what separates us from others. Totally understand now why I rebelled against authority back then. Because even back then I recognized bullshit when I saw it. Even before digging.
I've been ridiculed since grade 1 for always being eager to learn. Kids would call me a 'keener'. I've always questioned everything which pleased some teachers and made others agitated. Never had many friends because people saw me as 'different' and labeled me as 'weird' because I wouldn't conform. I wouldn't go along to get along. I use to be somewhat bothered by the label and being an out-sider but not enough to comply. Now I simply embrace it. And yes, I did well as far as grades. I got awards for highest marks in math, English and science(when.there was real science) I scored top marks in my SATs and graduated University with an A average. Neither of my parents graduated high school(my dad was pulled out at 11 years old to work in the woods) BUT they were both VERY intelligent people who who were constantly learning.
I't's funny, I've never been the big brain in school. but at the same time, not the one licking the window on the short bus. but I always was an out cast. always on the outside looking in. which ironically created the outside of the box thinking style I have. which I not only find helpful but an excellent escape from group think. while admittedly not the smartest. but here are 2 things I live by. #1 a lil common sense goes a long way. #2 work smarter, not harder.
Near the top of the class, honorary master's degree in engineering, never got anything below a B equivalent (Europe), all while being a lazy procrastinator.
I loved hearing a friend who failed a year in middle school, gets closer to morbidly obese every year and never accomplished anything in his life tell me to go fuck myself because papa Biden is Christ reincarnate and Q is a LARP only morons believe. If anything, Q has given me clarity on the kinds of people some of my closest associates really were before I cut them off.
Was a straight A student through junior year of high school, got depressed asf because the school system is shitty and pointless so I dropped out. Now I run a tax practice, make six figures working 3 months a year.
Took the GED last year just for shits and I got the highest score possible on 3 of the 4 subjects. The public school system is a joke.
No, really. My primary school (ages 7-10) had a school bank, and whoever scored highest in maths from each of the two year classes got to be the bank managers in their last year, whilst the runners up got to be tellers.
I say the same thing. I was saying to my son the other day that it is hard living in a world filled with idiots. Yes a lot of people are nice people, good people and I like them, but get frustrated with the way they think. Its not easy being green :)
Education is a euphemism for brainwashed in this context.
Correct. Unabomber was a genius but brainwashed at age 19.
My friend has two PhDs and is extremely intelligent yet he believes not one bit I tell him how the media is controlled. Then again he has many connections to these people who’ll soon be in GITMO. He will only believe me I take it once they show public executions.
Yep^ this. I just finished my degree in biology and I’ll be damned, the year I finished I realized media/scientific literature/facts are created by the highest bidder. Now I’ve been going down some bat-shit nutty religious rabbit holes and I’m feeling pretty certain I’m finally on the right path. At this point, everything I believe is truly “stranger than fiction”
Some seek WISDOM, or how to use knowledge.
We seek understanding and wisdom, not knowledge. I can look that up on the internet, you 'tard. :)
This!
Mmpi II shows that the mentally ill and higher educated have more defense mechanisms in play. Of course, this was before the mentally ill were recruited to teach in academia.
Healthy use of defense mechanisms to function in your environment is good. Unhealthy use of defense mechanisms to support your rightness is bad.
How do you manipulate someone? Give them what they want. Validation for those who need to be right, hope for those who need to be calmed.
The best anecdote to manipulation is an unwavering commitment to TRUTH.
The best anecdote to FEAR is the serenity prayer.
I did have to learn that next to being intellectually smart, it's also very important to be street smart.
Luckily for me I've always hated authority and was quite rebellious, so I ended up with friends that weren't intellectual but more street smart. We did a lot of partying, drinking, smoking weed and just hanging on the street. This is what prevented me from becoming like my classmates, who were more concerned about conforming to what was expected of you.
This, 2000xs this!
People with "book smarts" are not always wise when it comes to life. One of the saddest men I ever worked with had 12 years of college. He excelled there. But he couldn't make a good decision in the real world to save his life. He came from a long line of well known doctors. The type of men who have cancer centers named after them in the East. Very wealthy but with a huge ego. I'd rather hang out with the Proud Boys than him, to tell you the truth. He was a humongous pain in the ass.
Why do you assume they are smarter? By definition they don't seem to be.
Don't confuse actual intelligence with mere signals of intelligence; the latter is incredible easy to emulate – incredibly easy.
I was homeschooled after Kindergarten. Even Christian schools hate geniuses.
omg true fact right there. same. we know how to keep our mouths shut. top 5th percentile here all the time too. agree with all of you, hahaha.
LOL wonder how many didn't catch the irony
"It's Hard To Be Humble" by Mac Davis in 1980:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYKWch_MNY0
He's the humblest guy in the room.
I should get back to work, bwahaahaha
Not just large brains. How many here had the biggest balls in school? LOL! I include our ladies in with that remark, because I'd rather they had my back in a bad situation than any of the pussyhat wearing nincompoops I've ever met. Former Cali native here.
Oh didn't see this! Yea, I stood up for others when they were bullied. Mouthy when ppl crossed lines with others.
I was bullied because I wouldn't conform & had no protector. It was that kind of neighborhood. Maybe they knew I was really smart, I didn't think about it till I changed schools in the 7th grade. Ok. Kinda smart?
I didn't know i was logical (smart) until I took a final in my college logic class. I did get the highest grade. I was an hour late. I was still drunk. (Yes, it was a difficult time) ?.
Hence the irony in my remark ;)
I dont usually tell ppl my IQ. I can say it here because hey its just a message board.
I don't know what my IQ is. I'm always curious to know if it's slightly inaccurate. My best guess is 150-160.
I was tested at a university and it was 146 or 148 I cant remember. I was a super slacker in high school, college and university. Still got good marks. In college a prof thought I had dropped out at one point cause I took so much time off lol.
A psychologist friend gave me the MENSA exam years ago for the first IQ test I took. Don't know if that is now available online. But he was practicing to be able to offer it to his students, as to join MENSA at the time, a licensed psychologist had to administer the test. He asked if I wanted to join and I told him hell no! Even 40 years ago I didn't want the government having my private information.
"Think you're really righteous? Think you're pure at heart? 'Cause I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!"
I'm the pious guy the little Amlettes wanna be like
The Amish are offended by this
"There's no time for sin and vice, living in an Amish paradise"
According to Weird Al, they probably wouldn't have time to be offended either.
Btw, has anyone checked on the Amish? Do they know about COVID without their daily programming?
KEK!
I deliberately misspelled words... I hated spelling bees. But, I am proud of you for winning!
Obama always said he was the smartest man in the room.
Always remember this statistical fact: half the population is below average intelligence. (Yeah yeah mean median mode, but it's easier to say it this way than talk about percentiles to the dumb public).
Intelligence is a symmetrical bell curve as far as I know so mean equals median anyway.
I have known this for a very long time. I’m not a genius, but I think I’m smarter than the average bear. And I am quite humble. I never typically speak of my accomplishments or anything that I have been able to achieve, which is more than any of my friends. I know I’m here for some reason, although I’m not 100% sure exactly what that is. I won’t read a most novels, but give me anything on wide variety of other subjects and I’ll rip them
True, but one has to wonder if the "average" is rising, staying the same or falling. (If the events and people's actions of this past year are any indication, it would seem the average must be rapidly falling.)
True, but one has to wonder if the "average" is rising, staying the same or falling. (If the events and people's actions of this past year are any indication, it would seem the average must be rapidly falling.)
Idiocracy. Little did I know how quickly that movie would be a reality.
I judge people by whether they think it's a stupid movie or not.
Literally slept through HS and still graduated top 10%. Went to TU in Tulsa for a bachelors in mechanical engineering. Got married, had two kids, worked part time, went to school full time and still finished my degree in 4 years.
Unfortunately, I fell for the lie that smart females need to get a degree in STEM, because, well that’s what smart women do. While going to school and even in my short-lived career as an engineer, most women I ran into were hateful, cold, and sluts. They would display all the characteristics deemed to be toxic masculinity to the other sex. I realized that no matter my test scores, education or career advancement, I was happier being home with my husband and kids.
YOU ARE WINNING HUGELY
Thank you! I just hope more women realize that being a successful businesswoman will not make you feel complete. Only Jesus will and He has made the ideal family structure pretty straightforward lol
Right on, sister! I'm a female Dr./ business owner and you nailed it in the head!
killed that point dead lol
Similar situation here. When I was younger I just wanted a family and kids. My Mom said that successful men want wives who are also intelligent, so I went to college and on to a master's degree. Math degree was easy, but I couldn't be happier than I am as a stay at home Mom now.
GOOD FOR YOU! Similar boat here. Very irritating to be told you're "wasting" your intelligence raising the next generation to not be brainwashed robots! History will prove us right.
You defined your values well. Never apologize.
Fuck yeah, OP. I graduated from West Point with a degree in systems engineering. Following that I was an Army Infantry Officer. Currently I am the systems engineering manager for Customs and Trade Compliance for one of the top ten largest importers into the US. I constantly have to play down my intelligence unless I have to flex on some retard liberals.
You are so worthy of this thread merely by your presence. I have a theory that there is a certain minimum IQ and/or ability to logic which is needed to break away from the trillion dollar propaganda and brainwashing we are subject to daily. That minimum threshold is so much higher than the average person in our society.
Touché. I agree. Well stated pede
Keep on flexin’ juicemoney!!!!!
Dude you’re fucking filled with BIG DICK ENERGY
When I was in 7th grade, the school didn’t have anyone to send to an Algebra 2 test/regional competition. Despite never having taken the course, I won this part of the state and beat about 30 other older kids that had taken it.
A few months ago it seemed like almost everyone on here was pretty sharp. This site has become more mainstream in the past month or so.
When I was a kid working side by side with a hoity toity engineer on racecars, I'd make him mad all the time finding his answers before he did. Dude dubbed me "the empirical wizard" as while he did math, I stood there and waved my arms around. Was 16. Dude was making force vector diagrams and doing calculus for the simplest of things. Don't mean nothing, but always makes me chuckle to remember.
Professionals.....meh. It's been a theme.
I am literally a member of Mensa, although I never mention that fact to anyone in real life unless they ask. Scored in the 99th percentile on most standardized tests (SAT, GRE, etc.) for as long as I can remember. I also have both a bachelors and masters degree in electrical engineering, and am fluent in four languages and semi-competent in a fifth.
I'd insert a WOMensa joke here, but that would piss off all the WOmenstruating people in it.
Funny thing is, I am actually a woman and I am not offended by that. ? It probably helps that I am not a humorless, deranged leftist who somehow manages to find something to be outraged about every waking hour of their lives.
Funnier thing is, I am also a woman. Kek!
When I was a kid, I thought everyone else was crazy for thinking the water level on Zelda was difficult. That shit was my favorite because it actually had some challenge to it, and it actually turns out to be pretty simple.
Sounds dumb but I have friends who still talk about literally never making it past that level.
I agree, Majora's Mask was better and way underrated. Resetting time felt like the replay value, but with more purpose each time. I liked the mood of it too. Playing as a Goron and Zora too. It felt like there was much more hidden stuff to find.
I'm a fucking retard.
Who writes all your insightful comments then?
blushes
This whole thread is hilariously wholesome.
Someone wise knows there are much more to learn, a fool think it knows all. We're wise retards.
I have learned that there is always more to learn and because I resisted the indoctrination of the 50s and early 60s, I allowed my intuition to work at solutions that my intellect went 'duh' over... It DID find some neat short cuts, one of which is finding GA.win which has been triggering tons of intuition!!
I remember having a conversation with my mom around my early 30s. I commented that the older I got, the less I seemed to know. She laughed and said 'now you get it!'
And that is it! Well said!
metoo
I bought GME, I’m super retarded and I eat crayons
Here's the problem with your question: A smart person will conclude, they are not immensely smart. Smart compared to whom, I can't build a cell phone, but I can build a home and garden. Does that make me dumb or smart? I propose, neither.
I've not read Ayn Rand but I've devoured everything by Solzhenitsyn.
Does a 69 Camaro count ? Cuz that me and much more
Omg I love Anthem
Education makes your educated...Skills make you skilled.... Smart comes from birth.
There is also common sense, which isn't common anymore. Also, I find there is something to the emotional intelligent thing.
I am 65 years old and consider myself an information junkie. I read and research for hours and hours. I have saved information from 15 years ago that is just now coming back around. I agree, we digital soldiers are above average in intelligence.
Some of that info you couldn’t fully utilize till recently. It funny how things change over time. All your efforts aren’t in vain for sure.
Exactly! I found the key is to remain neutral on the really bizarre and file it in my head for future reference. Lol. I woke up in earnest on 9/11. I called demolition as I watched with the rest of the world.
Funnily enough, that was my "ticket" to the red pill. I saw 9/11 as a kid in a normie environment so I wouldn't've known that it was anything other than an actual terrorist attack and that Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were the baddies. But my sponge-like memory filed away images and knowledge of a third tower, and when Ron Paul and the R3VOLution came rolling around I saw the WTC7 videos and realised I was had.
Good job. You used critical thinking. So many missed that 3rd building.
Another thing I have followed for many years is "weather manipulation". Been laughed at by a few on that one too. Lol
140 IQ. Enough to usually be the smartest guy in the room. Mensa card to prove it. Smart enough to realize that my four degrees don't mean a damn thing.
I'm too smart to join Mensa.
(The meta-level of this joke appears if you know the membership requirements.)
I did the initial test, came back top one percentile.
Was never tempted to join.
You didn't miss much.
I'm an INTJ. Classes are fun.
Intj here too, also 4 degrees. BS, MS, MBA, and PhD Never left school really, now I’m a prof, so really I HAVE NEVER LEFT SCHOOL! And I’m just realizing this now that I’m typing it out.
I would bet there are more intuitive than sensors here. I was just wondering that when I saw your post!
INFP here
I'm an INFP too!
Also 140 IQ. Took the sample MENSA test years back just for kicks and was told I'd pass the real test. Never went further with it because more often than not MENSA members I would come across would be condescending, elitist, pedantic pricks and it turned me off to the whole idea of MENSA.
This is not throwing shade at you in any way btw, just giving my anecdotal experience.
I agree, they're generally that way. I enjoyed the conversation, but I let it lapse because the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.
I joined because I was insecure at the time. Oddly, joining helped me be less arrogant, because I didn't have anything to prove to myself. So Mensa did that, at least.
I think 140 is about the sweet spot; I can do whatever I choose to apply myself to, and much higher it becomes a lot harder to deal with society.
My friend is in his 60’s and does IQ tests I think he said on a monthly basis. I would consider him a genius but he says he’s so arrogant thu proving your point. If I told him face to face climate change is a hoax he’d never stop trying to convince me otherwise. I have to constantly downplay my true beliefs.
MIT and Berkeley. Terrible leftist incubators. At least you survived.
I’m no autist, just a critical thinker.
Critical thinking is what’s important.
Agree. And logic
Or really, just common sense.
Exactly. It's this. We wondered off the farm and went back to let more out.
https://maga.host/g/KRFYhBB
I'm just a fucked up dumbass that has taken too much drugs in his youth and drank too much later on. Then I married, got children and everything changed. Then the put out this plandemic, and here I am. Theres som brain left, but not the potential I was at when I was young.
Have you ever seen GET OFF MY LAWN?
On Censored.TV???
Sure. I was one of the kids. But nobody kicked my ass, I had to do it for myself.
Good for you for what you’ve overcome.
Some people always question and some never question, the wise person knows when to question.
Please do, I started off trying to comment something about how every big problem in our world boils down to elites ignoring the basic principles first learned by every child. We knew everything we needed to know by kindergarten and spend the rest of our lives breaking those childish values.
Not sure about my iQ....but always was the oddball because i questioned everything. Used to think that was a negative thing...but realizing now it's not.
I wouldn’t say I’m so smart, but people in my classes (pure science only, math, physics, and now mech engineering) that are supposed to have relatively smart people tend to be really dumb, at least to me. Even the no life nerds who did nothing but study couldn’t get the grades I would get without trying as hard or understand things as easily. Always seemed odd to me. I don’t think I’m too particularly smart either. I think the average person is just much dumber than we realize.
another mech engineer here, PE of course
I notice they claim Trump supporters are all dumb white racists, then they say “I know these smart people who I thought were geniuses, but then I learn they support Trump (and sometimes “Qanon”, gasp!)”
Talking about how smart you are is comparable to talking about how big your dick is. It's always better when other talk about it.
I can divide by zero.
And I know that imaginary numbers are real?
quantum mechanics - theology of the body. i am just a old southern dumbass.
My iQ = 162
Americans, with their Fahrenheit scales.
If you don't learn to think rationally, an IQ serves only to take you faster in the wrong direction. Look how many famous people need to be very smart to get where they are, but are utter fools when it comes to politics and morality. A person with an average IQ who understands the meaning of the axiom A=A is more intelligent than any leftist!
What’s a good IQ test? Any online one will do or is there a real life pen and paper?
Look for instagram puzzles that say only geniuses can solve it.
I remember those. I did pretty well and remember not giving it much credit because it didn’t ask those factual questions. The one thing I’ve learned in the last 5 years is that there really are some dumb humans in the world. I no longer have instant respect for someone because they have an important job or hold a degree.
I feel this. I call it an ego play, and I'm training myself to move away from that. I've got a strong technical background and am pretty close to finishing some engineering degrees, so it's easy to flex that on people. Pure ego. Good information will stand on its own and doesn't need to be said by a doctor/lawyer/engineer to be true.
You could try www.iqtest.com. I used it literally 19 years ago, the site is still active, I just checked.
Not sure if online tests are valid - mine was done by a school district psychologist aeons ago.
Not at all, but I was the quietest. Instead of socializing, I observe.
Smarter than the average bear here. I read a factoid that stated individuals with higher IQ's thought of themselves as not as smart as others, while individuals with lower IQ's thought of themselves as smarter than others. I've had hundreds of employees over the years and I'm here to tell you it is TRUE. The most uninformed, uneducated, illogical sorts are always willing to tell you how smart they are while simultaneously showing you just how stupid they are.
True and that made laugh. Ty
I really don’t like to brag...
I just like to think outside the box at every possible option. My brain was intrigued by quests at a young age. Goonies got me hooked on puzzle/adventures. However, I lack the motivation/determination to push my self to the extreme. I might not be the brightest crayon in the box, but I am always sharp!!!
Ok, fuck it, I'll bite. I never brag but might as well. I was raised in Mexico, my mom is a US citizen. Below average student im my formative years by choice. I hated school. My last year of elementary before highschool I said fuck all these chumps so I graduated 1st in my class among the nerds. Then highschool was a breeze, I skipped classes 98% of the time and would move on to 2nd opportunity and 3rd opportunity to pass the class. Finished like that and moved on. Got my US Citizenship before turning 18 and moved to the states, joined the military, got out, went to college and graduated 1st in my generation for Mechanical Engineering 3.75 GPA. Challenging but worth it. Work as a consultant for oil and gas industry. Good money, easy life. Only time I was tested by I professional psychologist was when I was 14 years old. She ranked me at Very Superior Intelligence at 145. I think that what stomped her was that when she asked me "what is time to you", my answer to her was that it was meaningles because it could not be measured accurately once the observer started to move through space at speeds that approached the speed of light, time was just relative to me. I just finished watching a documentary that day. Kek.
Hate the federal government, think of most of them as parasites. I blame our generation for allowing these leeches to remain in positions that affect policy. Love my country and would serve again in a heartbeat in any capacity.
Yeah I did pretty good, but that's not ONLY what separates us from others. Totally understand now why I rebelled against authority back then. Because even back then I recognized bullshit when I saw it. Even before digging.
It's this.
https://maga.host/g/KRFYhBB
I've been ridiculed since grade 1 for always being eager to learn. Kids would call me a 'keener'. I've always questioned everything which pleased some teachers and made others agitated. Never had many friends because people saw me as 'different' and labeled me as 'weird' because I wouldn't conform. I wouldn't go along to get along. I use to be somewhat bothered by the label and being an out-sider but not enough to comply. Now I simply embrace it. And yes, I did well as far as grades. I got awards for highest marks in math, English and science(when.there was real science) I scored top marks in my SATs and graduated University with an A average. Neither of my parents graduated high school(my dad was pulled out at 11 years old to work in the woods) BUT they were both VERY intelligent people who who were constantly learning.
Smart enough not to drive slow in the fast lane.
I't's funny, I've never been the big brain in school. but at the same time, not the one licking the window on the short bus. but I always was an out cast. always on the outside looking in. which ironically created the outside of the box thinking style I have. which I not only find helpful but an excellent escape from group think. while admittedly not the smartest. but here are 2 things I live by. #1 a lil common sense goes a long way. #2 work smarter, not harder.
Near the top of the class, honorary master's degree in engineering, never got anything below a B equivalent (Europe), all while being a lazy procrastinator.
I loved hearing a friend who failed a year in middle school, gets closer to morbidly obese every year and never accomplished anything in his life tell me to go fuck myself because papa Biden is Christ reincarnate and Q is a LARP only morons believe. If anything, Q has given me clarity on the kinds of people some of my closest associates really were before I cut them off.
139 IQ here. Always good with the books, patterns, math.. small shit escapes me tho. Can't ever find shit. Totally incapable of organization. Oh well.
Was a straight A student through junior year of high school, got depressed asf because the school system is shitty and pointless so I dropped out. Now I run a tax practice, make six figures working 3 months a year.
Took the GED last year just for shits and I got the highest score possible on 3 of the 4 subjects. The public school system is a joke.
I was a bank manager at 10 years old :)
No, really. My primary school (ages 7-10) had a school bank, and whoever scored highest in maths from each of the two year classes got to be the bank managers in their last year, whilst the runners up got to be tellers.