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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,rec.org.mensa
- Subject: Re: Mensa (was Re: Kinesiology - how I heard about it)
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- Date: 17 Aug 92 15:11:44 GMT
- References: <BszE8J.LM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <14AUG199221251122@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> <1992Aug17.002420.5887@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
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- In article <1992Aug17.002420.5887@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
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- >The elitism of Mensa is a big farce, anyway. They don't have the intelligence
- >to work out that the concept of IQ is completely flawed and meaningless.
- >
- >Mensa is the most useless, aimless, tacky, idiotic organisation in the world.
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- Yes, but they sure have some neat parties sometimes!
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- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
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- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
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- "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
- broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
- where it will end."
- - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
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