On May 3, 4:18?pm, "CDB" <bellema... at (no spam) sympatico.ca> wrote:
Rushtown wrote:

[life below the line]

This post isn't just to say how stupid some people are.
It is to illustrate what it must be like going through life with
even a slightly below average IQ. ?You don't know why things are
done---but you do know they are done in a certain way on certain
occasions so you feel you should insist that they be done that way
again. ?Exactly how the world works is a mystery to you---so such
a person must feel they are in a sort of magical existence where
just saying certain words and doing certain rituals causes
results. ?Like the Cargo Cults in New Guinea.
People who talk about seeing the "Black Helicopters" or how the
Government invented AIDS have this sort of existence.

Ah, topicality. ?White shepherd, black sheep. ?Pastor and buffoon
in one package, wiggling its wagplace behind it.

Whatever it is you said here, I guess you really got me, your the
wise sophisticate and I am the foolish poster.

What is it like to go through life with an 85 IQ? . . .
The client said he wanted "two documents" because that is what he got
before. I explained literally ten times why only one was needed this
time. Despite that he complained to the State Bar, he complained to
various people working in my office. More attempts to explain---to no
avail. He had to have two documents which we eventually gave to him.

I couldn't understand calculus if I spend 1000 hours studying it.

On May 4, 5:38?am, "CDB" <bellema... at (no spam) sympatico.ca> wrote:
Rushtown wrote:
On May 3, 4:18?pm, "CDB" <bellema... at (no spam) sympatico.ca> wrote:
Rushtown wrote:

Read that post again re verbal IQ---it is in the third person. I
was not necessarily talking about myself.

I am actually a humble person who knows my limitations.
[limitations]

[what 68 more VIQ points doesn't get you out of being sneared at
for]

Having made that confession I have to say that there are some
intellectual feats where I can outperform 99% of the population,
IMNSHO.

Many math geniuses have lived in South India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan.
Ramanujan is not the only one. One book about him told about numerous
others from his district who had extremely high math ability.
Considering that "zero" was invented in India and India is now a
center for IT I would be interested in knowing what it is about Indian
culture that apparently fosters an intense interest in math among
students.

On Sat, 3 May 2008 16:00:25 -0700 (PDT),Rushtown<Rusht... at (no spam) aol.com
wrote:

What is it like to go through life with an 85 IQ? �Based on some
examples I think it is not perplexing or frustrating---but that
instead the world looks like
a magical kingdom. �Examples:

Snipped, but I skimmed them.
Consider, instead, what a schizophrenic is and what difficulties she
must encounter in life.
So-called normal people like ourselves have no sure way of knowing
whether our respective realities are similar (Is my blue the same as
your blue, and so forth), but we do know that the ways a schizophrenic
sees the world around her is unlike how any of us see them. She may
hear voices that aren't there or see images that no one else can see
or have an odd obsession with God, or any combination of these
disorders.
Is he or she necessarily unhappy with this existence, even if they are
aware, or partially aware, of their mental illness?
--

Regards,

Chuck Riggs
Near Dublin, Ireland

On Sat, 3 May 2008 19:48:52 -0700, "Skitt" <skitt99 at (no spam) comcast.net
wrote:

tony cooper wrote:
Arcadian Rises wrote:
Rushtown axed a direct question:

What is it like to go through life with an 85 IQ? ?

I don't know about the other readers of this group, but for me it
ain't easy. Good think that once in a while a genious like yerself
takes his mision to enlinghten and educate seriously.

Rushtown has been bouncing around Usenet for years demonstrating
that his mission is to prove that you don't have to be smarter than
a street bum to pass the bar in - I think it is - (the state of)
Washington.

Naah, Andrew is in L.A.

Could be. I thought that, at one time, he was either a public
defender or in the prosecutor's office in Washington. That goes back
several years to another newsgroup, though. He hasn't gotten any
smarter over the years.

On May 3, 9:09?pm, tony cooper <tony_cooper... at (no spam) earthlink.net> wrote:
On Sat, 3 May 2008 20:47:50 -0700 (PDT), Rushtown <Rusht... at (no spam) aol.com
wrote:
[...]

Maybe I should retitle this post "What it's like going through life
being a knee jerk martinette who can't stop feeding this troll."
?But thanks, outraged or pained responses are what we live on.

When you do, spell "martinet" correctly. ?Unless, of course, you are
referring to a wooden figure of Jean Martinet attached by strings to
a control bar operated by a puppeteer who makes the knees jerk.
-

My spelling is more like a Continental Sophisticate; you sound like a
simple American cowboy.
My goodness, I thought it was just the new fish who couldn't help
biting. But some of the old supposedly wiser carps can't resist
either.

What is it like to go through life with an 85 IQ?

On Sat, 3 May 2008 16:00:25 -0700 (PDT),Rushtown<Rusht... at (no spam) aol.com
wrote:

What is it like to go through life with an 85 IQ? �

You tell me, Andrew, you tell me.
--
Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary

Rushtownwrote:

[....]

Higher IQ people know the real trick is to be good at lying and
breaking the rules; �and especially to know they are most likely to
get away with it.

You have it all wrong.

Higher IQ people know how to use the rules in ways that
maximize the benefit to themselves. They don't need to
break the rules to achieve what they want.

Perhaps that need to be redefined to some IQ higher
than yours?

Higher IQ people know the real trick is to be good at lying and
breaking the rules; and especially to know they are most likely to
get away with it.

On May 5, 11:56ï¿=3Fam, Amethyst Deceiver <s... at (no spam) lindsayendell.org.uk
wrote:
On Sat, 3 May 2008 16:00:25 -0700 (PDT),Rushtown<Rusht... at (no spam) aol.com
wrote:

What is it like to go through life with an 85 IQ? ï¿=3F

You tell me, Andrew, you tell me.
--
Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary

I'm trying to think back to the 4th grade (9 years old) when my IQ was
equivalent to that of an adult with an 85 IQ.

In article <173814e9-156d-41f8-9e77-18e1fc8328e8
at (no spam) x19g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Rusht... at (no spam) aol.com says...

On May 5, 11:56�=3Fam, Amethyst Deceiver <s... at (no spam) lindsayendell.org.uk
wrote:
On Sat, 3 May 2008 16:00:25 -0700 (PDT),Rushtown<Rusht... at (no spam) aol.com
wrote:

What is it like to go through life with an 85 IQ? �=3F

You tell me, Andrew, you tell me.
--
Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary

I'm trying to think back to the 4th grade (9 years old) when my IQ was
equivalent to that of an adult with an 85 IQ.

And did you expect it to change when you grew up?

Please trim the sigs, Andrew. Someone with your towering intellect �
should be able to manage that.
--
Linz
Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford
My accent may vary

On May 5, 8:56�pm, foolsrushout <6... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:

Rushtownwrote:

[....]


Higher IQ people know the real trick is to be good at lying and
breaking the rules; �and especially to know they are most likely to
get away with it.

You have it all wrong.

Higher IQ people know how to use the rules in ways that
maximize the benefit to themselves. They don't need to
break the rules to achieve what they want.

Perhaps that need to be redefined to some IQ higher
than yours?


One of the signs that a child does not have autism is that he learns
to lie.

You are probably familar with the current explanation why man has
evolved an intelligence far higher than is needed for dealing with the
enviornment. And that explanation is that high intelligence evolved
to fool our fellow man (or more precisely to decieve the opposite
sex.).

Both sexes must built alliances, which has to involve some deception.
The way men and women must fool each other to each get what they want
(which is somewhat different in each case) is well known.

True, often following the rules and playing skillfully by the rules is
the best strategy. But knowing when the rewards outweigh the risks in
breaking the rules is also very important.