Comments on Blue Bexley: IQ and the Progressive Mindset

Paul--nothing personal, but this is what you wrote...

2008-01-29T00:13:00.000-05:00

Paul--nothing personal, but this is what you wrote:

"A friend of mine comes from a wealthy New England family who, with other like minded wealthy New Englanders, formed groups and funded research that supports that Negroes are mentally inferior and that the US would be better off by sending them all back to Africa. Fortunately my friend does carry this forward."

Although I certainly believe you (despite my arrogance), it's more than quotation marks you were missing if you were intending to disavow your friend's attitudes in that post.

That was their word selection, not mine. I should ...

2008-01-27T19:06:00.000-05:00

That was their word selection, not mine. I should have quoted it to make that clear.

Check out www.nbpc.tv -- I'm honored to be a member of the Board of Directors.

I trust you are actually involved in making our world a better place, and not merely an arrogant critic.

PL

Negroes? What year is it, Paul, 1955?

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2008-01-27T15:42:00.000-05:00

Negroes? What year is it, Paul, 1955?

Read a book. A waste is a terrible thing to mind.

It's sad to read such things, on many levels.
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2008-01-20T09:55:00.000-05:00

It's sad to read such things, on many levels.

I think each of us make use of a constellation of beliefs and values that are unique. This constellation is shaped throughout life, first by experience, then by being told, and finally by independent consideration.

I see those constallations floating in space, and space is full of them. They collide with each other, and things happen.

If the makeup of the two constellations includes curiousity and flexibilily, there can be an exchange of ideas and some modification takes place in both constellations. But if just one of the constellations is set in ignorance, they bounce of each other and nothing happens.

I tend to think these constellations have controllable shields around them. You can go 'shields up' when encountering a constellation that you don't understand, or one that you've seen before and don't like. Trusting people are 'shields down' most of the time, suspicious people are 'shields up.'

After a while, the 'shields down' constellations (SD) group together because it's much more interesting than bouncing off ones with 'shields up' (SU) all the time.

But even the SDs start sorting themselves out into groups that 'look' alike. After a while, these smaller SD groups start saying things like "our group - the Purple constellations - is smart (because we say so), and because we tend to possess belief X in our constellations and the other SDs don't, they must be less smart." So the Purples begin to go SU except in the presence of other Purples.

Such arguments have been made throughout history. A friend of mine comes from a wealthy New England family who, with other like minded wealthy New Englanders, formed groups and funded research that supports that Negroes are mentally inferior and that the US would be better off by sending them all back to Africa. Fortunately my friend does carry this forward.

I don't know how exactly I would define intelligence. But I feel many confuse intelligence with wisdom. I think intelligence has something to do with processing power, while wisdom comes from a life of running 'shields down' and learning from one's encounters.

Comments on Blue Bexley: IQ and the Progressive Mindset

Paul--nothing personal, but this is what you wrote...

That was their word selection, not mine. I should ...

Negroes? What year is it, Paul, 1955? Re...

It's sad to read such things, on many levels.<...

Negroes? What year is it, Paul, 1955?

Re...

It's sad to read such things, on many levels.
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