Thank you for explaining :)
Posted By: nm on 2007-02-11
In Reply to: They want to make sure that the baby they test for paternity is - nm
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thanks for explaining that
I didn't know it was a family build - I really thought it was for the boys to design/draw/paint.
I guess I was wrong in ranting about it! :) It just seemed so crazy to me these little boys competing against grown men and the men getting so excited over beating them.
Thanks for explaining that moderator
as I was wondering why it was brought up after the "discussion" was last week although I did not get to read the post.
Explaining AIDS
AIDS is a disease that is spread by blood contact. The particular act that male homosexuals frequently engage in makes them very susceptible to exchanging blood fluids with each other. The promiscuity issue increases the rate of spread exponentially.
There are plenty of other sexually and blood products transmitted diseases out there besides AIDS, and AIDS also is spread in the heterosexual communities too, along with all the other STDs.
That all being said, people with AIDS are still, 25 years after the discovery of AIDS primarily in the gay community, far more likely to be gay males than straight anything.
As far as I know, non-IV-drug-using lesbians still are in one of the lowest risk categories for AIDS. Kinda blows part of that theory while still proving the other part of the theory, doesn't it?
Explaining a couple of things sm
I studied IQ as part of my Master's degree. Another poster mentioned that the higher one's IQ is the less likely they are to be happy. From my own research, this is quite true. It is also true that the higher one's IQ, the less likely they are to succeed in education, in a job, in relationships and in life. No one will "get" you because your sense of humor is probably well off the beaten track. You probably lack social skills from an early age. Your peers would play childhood games while you preferred to try to improve upon the toys they played with. In school, you didn't have to work very hard in most areas. It all came very easily. You didn't learn how to learn, which is a very valuable skill. You probably have a low frustration level and when something doesn't come very easily, you are prone to giving up. Because you see the world in completely different terms than people of more average intelligence, those same average people call you crazy or mentally ill and tell you that you should be locked up. You don't fit in and despite the higher intelligence, you are remiss to know how to accomplish the feat of being more ordinary.
I alluded to this in my previous post. I have the unusual combination of being very artistic, creatively gifted AND being rather intellectually gifted. Yes, I did fall at the 99.6% percentile on the Wechsler. I know what it means and I have a firm understanding that indeed, that score suggests that I possess more intelligence than 99.6% of the people who have taken that test, and only 0.4% are "smarter" than I am. It has been a life-long struggle to fit in. I am too cerebral for artistic people, and too artistic for intellectuals. I literally have no one I fit in with. I have learned to tone myself down to make it work. I didn't say dumb down, I said tone down. That means I don't intentionally talk over the heads of others and I won't cram what I know down anyone's throat.
I have had those people in my life who have been jealous of me. I learn quickly if it is artistic, musical, creative, the written word, history and philosophy. I struggle with math. I took piano lessons 10 years ago. I had 40 of them and had never played the piano before. In 40, 1-hour lessons I could play the Moonlight Sonata in piano solo (not a dumbed down easy version). Most people cannot do that. There many other things I have done in a similar fashion, but this is an example for you.
You ask why I am an MT if I am so smart. I make very good money as an MT and I enjoy the challenge. My photographic memory comes in very handy too. I often stop and read up on a disease process I am transcribing about, so that I know what it means. Show me a word once and I'll know it forever. It makes my job easier for me to accomplish.
This all sounds like I am blowing my own horn, but I am merely trying to explain. Being highly intelligent won't pay the bills because there is no automatic grant for people who test very high. Being highly intelligent doesn't mean you won't have to do the laundry, cook supper, wipe your own backside, make your own bed and take out your own stinky trash. It frankly doesn't mean that much on a day to day basis. Certainly, I have confidence in my ability to learn new things and that is a comfort to me as an MT. I can rely on myself in that way. Being highly intelligent didn't prevent me from having 3 autoimmune disorders. It has not helped with my household organizational skills, which are basically nil, and I find I am so distracted that being "really smart" is not only not helpful, I think it is the root of the housecleaning issues in my life.
In short, it is just great to have a good ol' high number and in the end it makes absolutely difference...if you don't count the fact that people with IQs over 150 are 3 times more likely to be depressed and commit suicide than the average population. People who are 125 to 140 are the most fortunate. They succeed in greater numbers in school, in a job, in life. They are very bright, and likely have learned how to learn. They are more likely to persevere in the face of frustration and challenge.
It really isn't all you think it is.
Thank you again for explaining, interesting and inspiring..nm
nm
Thanks for explaining this. Do you kinow if this holds also true for Muslims? nm
nm
In MHO when they start asking its time to start explaining.
My daughter and I started discussing the basics in like second or third grade.
Good luck it was much harder for me with my son.
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