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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Laugh. You've got to be kidding me. You actually believe you are part of some intellectual ruling class? Aren't you a student? You must be, because only an undergrad would come up with, and claim membership in, anything as pretentious and silly as an "intellectual bourgeoisie".
Anyhow, what constitutes "success" to you? Lots of money? Political power?
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So a student can't be among the intellectual elite? Show me a free thinking 13 year old and I'll tell you he's one of us. Show me a free thinking 80 year old with an IQ of 89 and I'll tell you he's one of us as well. Those who believe what I believe are pretty much the inverse of the graph above, that is, the highest percentage of people who believe what I believe have the higher IQs, but that is not to say that there are not people with lower IQs who believe as well, just as I'm sure there are many people out there with astronomical IQs who are theists.
A successful person is a person who is good and just, not because he was told to be, or threatened to be, but because he is. This is totally independant of wealth, happiness, whatever. It just so happens that these "successful" people tend to be the most successful (common definition) people.
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Originally Posted by fotze
hehe, thinking back to the thinking of stopping school thread, evman you got ta get out of school, SOON.
Being open minded isn't just believing in gay rights or universal health care, it is having a belief and then challenging the **** out of that belief, daily, to either reinforce it or change it. And if you never change it, chances are you aren't open minded.
I am not religious but to simply dismiss it as a lack of intelligence, lacks intelligence.
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I am not dismissing it as lack of intelligence, just pointing out a correlation which exists. I'm not saying all theists are stupid. I have a professor this semester who is a renowned astrophysicist who just happens to be Muslim. His IQ is off the charts, and he believes. There are excpetions to every
rule, and there are most definitely a lot of exceptions to every correlation.
To tell you the truth, I question my own open-mindedness. Who even says open-mindedness is a virtue? I really don't know for sure. I'm still blazing my trail in life, these answers will come, maybe on my travels.
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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
Actually, studies have shown that more intelligent people tend to be less happy, so your statement is somewhat contradictory, even if you overlook the gross generalization.
Every man needs faith. You may replace faith in a god with faith in anything else, but there is always something that drives man forward.
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Found the quote:
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
- GB Shaw