Is there a stigma attached to mental health?

[RageBeoulve]

@RageBeoulve:
I like to think before I speak and also learn if possible. I often appeal to intelligence and insult based on it, but I don't praise myself with it.

On a board for spazzes. On the internet. Yeah you're totally not putting forth a "persona".

[神]

I am too stupid for MENSA, too lazy to cheat the test and I don't know where else to go. Generally the more intelligent the people are, the less biased the discussions will be if tackling politically sensitive or otherwise somewhat sensitive subjects. Topics such as the race/gender IQ gap or pedophilia. But there is only a correlation to that as far as I can see. People of high IQs are still like normal NT people, they just understand everything more and better by default without being emotional about it. They are not born dedicated to just try that. I don't like normal people and I can't understand that which makes them normal either way.

Also, this forum is uncensored and seeks to develop new ideas. I find that most important.

[RageBeoulve]

I am too stupid for MENSA, too lazy to cheat the test and I don't know where else to go. Generally the more intelligent the people are, the less biased the discussions will be if tackling politically sensitive or otherwise somewhat sensitive subjects. Topics such as the race/gender IQ gap or pedophilia. But there is only a correlation to that as far as I can see. People of high IQs are still like normal NT people, they just understand everything more and better by default without being emotional about it. They are not born dedicated to just try that. I don't like normal people and I can't understand that which makes them normal either way.

Also, this forum is uncensored and seeks to develop new ideas. I find that most important.

When you come up with some new ideas, let me know.

[神]

I did last week. I will make a thread.

[odeon]

I never understood why anyone would want to join MENSA.

[Gopher Gary]

I never understood why anyone would want to join MENSA.

I've only ever known one MENSA member. She was too smart for me to understand either. 

[odeon]

I never understood why anyone would want to join MENSA.

I've only ever known one MENSA member. She was too smart for me to understand either. 

A friend of mine is a member. I've asked him about it but never gotten a satisfactory answer.

I can understand joining a chess club or a golf club. You actually do something, there is an interest you share with like-minded people. Stamps, sure. Ship models, yes. Writer's workshops, why not? But MENSA? You take a test and happen to hit the top 2%.

To me it seems to be about showing off to the people who can't join.

Anyone here a member? If so, why did you join? What do you get out of it?

["couldbecousin"]

  I don't think I am smart enough to join.  Do they have good snacks at the meetings? 

[Gopher Gary]

I never understood why anyone would want to join MENSA.

I've only ever known one MENSA member. She was too smart for me to understand either. 

A friend of mine is a member. I've asked him about it but never gotten a satisfactory answer.

I can understand joining a chess club or a golf club. You actually do something, there is an interest you share with like-minded people. Stamps, sure. Ship models, yes. Writer's workshops, why not? But MENSA? You take a test and happen to hit the top 2%.

To me it seems to be about showing off to the people who can't join.

Anyone here a member? If so, why did you join? What do you get out of it?

I don't know how it works, but I'm pretty sure she met regularly with a small group of other smarty pants. It was a really long time ago. I never thought to ask if it was just an ego thing. She never came across as the snooty ego type. 

[Pyraxis]

To me it seems to be about showing off to the people who can't join.

Anyone here a member? If so, why did you join? What do you get out of it?

I could join but I haven't. I think they send you free puzzlebooks and stuff.

[odeon]

To me it seems to be about showing off to the people who can't join.

Anyone here a member? If so, why did you join? What do you get out of it?

I could join but I haven't. I think they send you free puzzlebooks and stuff.

An elite bookclub, then?

I could join, too, but I don't see the point. I don't bond with people, especially not over a number I got in a test.

[Pyraxis]

Something like that. And the bragging rights. 

[Gopher Gary]

Something like that. And the bragging rights. 

That's a good point. The person I knew wasn't a bragger, but she was competitive with her sister.

[Icequeen]

It's written proof you have a brain so that when you're sitting around in a home drooling and talking to the plants people will know.

[odeon]

It's written proof you have a brain so that when you're sitting around in a home drooling and talking to the plants people will know.

That's actually a good point.