[Jewelry making - Article 01316] - Re: [Orchid] The Treasure's Trove

[Margaret Malm]

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Yes, David!

>     Just for your information, both my wife and I are Mensans, and it
>     ain't nothing special. 

    I am too, and I agree! 

>     Mensa is basically a social club for people who do very well on
>     I.Q. tests. 

    Right! It started out with grandiose ideas of research, but ---.
    I've decided that this was inevitable, in an organization where
    everyone is at least capable of being a "chief" -and many of them
    want to be!--, and no "indians!"  And without some other interests in
    common, as are found in most organizations. 

>     Doing well on I.Q. tests ONLY means that one has a talent for
>     doing well on I.Q. tests. <g> 

    <:-}}  Yes, I think the psychologists haven't figured out just what
    they are measuring, or want to measure! 

>     I enjoy going to Mensa functions because I can always find several
>     intelligent discussions going on, BUT, other than their I.Q.s, the
>     people are a mix of pretty normal and pretty weird (just like MOST
>     parties. 

    The parties I went to (this was in the early days of Mensa -- and
    also in the LA area) turned out to be mostly a few people trying to
    show how smart they were. A person (and often he was a guest who had
    tried to get in but flunked the test, and was trying to show what a
    mistake Mensa had made!) would pick some obscure subject he was
    really expert at, and that nobody else happened to specialize in, and
    bore everyone to tears with that. And I think that, generally, that's
    not what people (even smart people) really want. Anyhow, I dropped
    out pretty quickly. 

Margaret

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