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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: iq<->religion: connection?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.003844.15644@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
- Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
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- References: <1992Dec30.000629.19403@prime.mdata.fi>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:38:44 GMT
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- Iikka Paavolainen (iikkap@mits.mdata.fi) wrote:
- : In article <11030@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine
- ) writes:
- : >In article <1992Dec29.140219.11488@prime.mdata.fi> iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iik
- ka Paavolainen) writes:
- : >>
- : >>If you don't like the whole idea of the discussion, why not say so? Are you
- : >>a Christian who is offended? Do you think I would get angry or lose my temp
- er
- : >>because of this discussion? What would it benefit me if I went about flamin
- g
- : >>people? I don't think you'll get anywhere by flaming me, either, as it won'
- t
- : >>change the topic.
- : >>
- : >
- : > I rather like the discussion, actually. It doesn't matter a r.r.a
- : > to me whether atheists, christians, or astigmatic bisexual pygmies
- : > score better on IQ tests than I do. What I'm offended by is
- : > someone who blazes into our newsgroup making a rash of potentially
- : > true statements, but then shows less regard for the scientific
- : > method than does a high school sophomore dissecting his first
- : > frog.
- :
- : Yes, they are potentially true statements, that's they were to be discussed.
- : What do you mean by "showing less regard..."?? Show me where I say so.
- :
- : >
- : > Not to mention that you're the second self proclaimed holder of a
- : > high IQ who offended posters at a record pace, while generating
- : > endless replies and degrading the SNR to near unity. I wonder: Is
- : > high IQ correlated with poor socialization skills?
- :
- : More jokes: offended posters at a record pace? I was talking to Doe and
- : nobody else, and his flames were plentiful.
-
- You opened the discussion, Doe, myself and a couple others immediately
- responded. You obviously believe that only one person responded and he was the
- person with whom you were having the discussion.
-
- Yes I'm offended. You raise an absurd hypothesis based on a limited and biased
- sample, you claim to have a study that you never produce, you insult people and
- belittle their intelligences, and you claim emotional and intellectual
- superiority without ever demonstrating same.
- Yes I'm offended that I've wasted my time.
-
- :
- : Yes, wonder. And come back when you have statistics with 1e20 people in the
- : sample.
- :
- : >
- : > Please don't change the topic on my account. I'll be killing it
- : > soon anyway unless you can, as repeatedly requested by Steve, back
- : > up some of your claims with impartial empiricism.
- :
- : Sorry, I came here to get info, not to spread it.
- :
- : >
- : >/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
- : >
- : >Bob Beauchaine bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM
- : >
- : >"Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was
- : >dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I
- : >doing something wrong?"
- : > James Nicoll
- : >
- : >Q. How many Heisenbergs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- : >A. If you know the number, you don't know where the light bulb is!
- : >
- :
- :
- : --
- : __/|_ , ,--------------------------------------------------------------,
- : /o \/:--| Iikka Paavolainen / iikkap@mits.mdata.fi, in Espoo, Finland |
- : \__~__/\:--| "I won't have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent." |
- : ` ` `--------------------------------------------------------------'
- --
- Mike McAngus | As if I needed Another time consuming hobby.
- (mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org) |
- The Truth is still the Truth | This Post exploits illiterates.
- Even if you choose to ignore it. |
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