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In reply to the discussion: Just back from a MENSA lunch, first time, one person there really ruined my appetite. [View all]Warpy
(111,237 posts)and was informed that they weren't admitting children and try again when I grew up a few years because I'd passed it.
By the time I grew up, I'd realized that passing an IQ test was no guarantee of anything except being good at passing IQ tests.
I'd rather choose friends for compatability of interests and temperaments. I don't care that they're not all over the place like I am and they don't seem to care that I'm all over the place.
That works a lot better than choosing them for one limited thing like IQ or being heathens or anything else.
Ronny's a git, but who among us hasn't wanted to go back and supply a few targeted women with birth control pills to prevent a few monsters from being born?
He just chose a poor monster. Muhammad represented a huge improvement over the tribal crap that limited most people's lives. The tribal crap crept back in centuries after his death and that's what we're seeing today.
Suggest Ronny read history books that weren't written by bible bangers.