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  1. #31
    Quote Originally Posted by FindLiberty View Post
    How can I best protect myself from this curse problem, or do some people posess a natrual immunity to the condition?

    Are there any specific steps I should take now (or some sort of prescription medication available) to prevent this from ever happening to me?
    Keep reading Collins' posts. They'll dumb you right down.
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  3. #32
    Quote Originally Posted by FindLiberty View Post
    How can I best protect myself from this curse problem, or do some people posess a natrual immunity to the condition?

    Are there any specific steps I should take now (or some sort of prescription medication available) to prevent this from ever happening to me?



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  5. #33
    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    Naw,, just evil.
    Both... it's a dangerous mixture.
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  6. #34
    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    If they were really smart they would know they can't.
    I've never observed a correlation between high intelligence and correctness. Some of the smartest people on the planet are delusional. Delusions of grandeur can be a sign of intelligence. Aside from that, desire also plays a big part. If they have the desire to run the world, the knowledge that they can't will probably be brushed aside.
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  8. #36
    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin Truth View Post
    The world is run by C students, and it really shows.

    Why? Because there's so damned many of them.
    Honestly, I don't think that's how it works. Smart people could be outnumbered a trillion to one and they would still probably rule the C students. Of course, this is taking "C students" in the sense of intelligence, not actual grades. If we look at actual grades, there are probably a lot of highly intelligent people making C's.
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  9. #37
    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post

    Of course some of us want to acquire power in order to diffuse it.

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    I've definitely noticed this in my dating life. I've had a lot of decent-looking women who I just couldn't stand because of their stupidity and some others who weren't as good-looking. It never seems to last because I've yet to find anyone who lives up to my standards.
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  11. #39
    that article gave me cancer
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  14. #41
    Quote Originally Posted by Working Poor View Post
    That list says atheists are more intelligent because of their "preference for logic and proof." What utter bull$#@!. You know, I'll even grant that that they may be smarter, on average, than religious people, but it's not because they dismiss superstitions. When you really get down to it, the empiricist/humanist worldview is just as unfounded as a religious one. It's accepted on faith. That said, people who are skeptical and intelligent may tend more toward a scientific worldview because of its empiricism, but then fail to realize that there is more to the universe than that. In other words, they are smart enough to do science, but not smart enough to think outside the science box. It's the truly smart ones who accept religious ideas based on reason rather than blind faith, which happens to be most people because there are just more stupid people than there are smart ones. Given that the stupid people outnumber the smart ones, it stands to reason that they would bring the average down and make atheists appear to be the cream of the crop when, in reality, they are just amateur thinkers.

    Of course, this is mostly conjecture, but you've got a solid case when you add to it the anti-religious propaganda that's being spread in the more well-off countries of Europe, Asia, and the US. These countries have higher IQs in part because of their high standards of living, but combine that with the fact that they're all engaging in anti-religious propaganda and it's no wonder the countries with more atheists tend to be the smarter ones.
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  15. #42
    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    Yes, there is a lot of truth to that.

    Of course some of us want to acquire power in order to diffuse it.
    "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord Acton

  16. #43
    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin Truth View Post
    "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord Acton
    One does not need absolute power to win back our liberty.
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  17. #44
    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    One does not need absolute power to win back our liberty.
    How did we get out liberty? And, how many votes will it take for us to get it back?

  18. #45
    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    One does not need absolute power to win back our liberty.
    That's right. Just a little taste. That's all we need, just a little taste and we swear we'll go off the stuff forever. Won't we, fellas?
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  19. #46
    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Collins View Post
    One does not need absolute power to win back our liberty.
    Actually, that's precisely what we need.

    Well, I shouldn't say "we," as that's rather nonsensical isn't it?

    ...we having absolute power (absolute power is by definition undivided).

    Someone (matters not who: anyone of modest intelligence and not insane will do) needs to have absolute power.

    Proprietors tend to maintain their property: contra the tragedy of the commons.

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