Mensa: what do you think?

[Phillycat]

[sniffa]

1. other

you're just jeaLous we wouLdn't Let you in! :P

[Phillycat]

2. Wrong! I'm in--I voted "I like the word games".

You get an awful lot of mail from them though, don't you?

[sniffa]

4. see, you're Lying

the "reaL members" don't get those pesky things. we're abLe to feeL any messages that need to reach us.

[Phillycat]

5. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait...really? :freak:

[amazona]

3. it is a scam

They claimed that my mom, sister, and I all qualified with IQs in the 170s. Um, very flattering, but I don't think so. Do they realize how few people actually have IQs in the 170s? It is just a way to relieve people who need to be flattered of some cash.

[InvisibleBallots]

18. shut up!

spoiler!

[ProfessorGAC]

21. I Didn't Pay Anything At All

I never paid anything to join. I loathed it and stopped any affiliation with it, but it didn't cost me a dime.
The Professor

[short bus president]

6. Other.

People who aren't quite smart enough to just STFU about it. ;-)

[jpgray]

7. It's one of those Dao things

If there existed a group of extraordinary intelligences, I don't think they'd form or join such a club.

:D

[Touchdown]

8. If I could think, I'd be in Mensa. n/t

[sam sarrha]

9. i should join, IQ165, i am an Autistic Savant,and functionally illiterate

that would really piss them off... i read at a 6th grade level.

[Phillycat]

10. That'd be awesome--you totally should.

[TlalocW]

11. I qualify, and I went to a couple of Mensa meetings with a friend

And I'm a big nerd/geek, but the people in the club just came across as too socially inept for even me to want to get to know. One guy couldn't stop talking about his stereo which he put together from various components and how he had found the perfect spots to put the speaker and the perfect place to sit so that the sound quality was the best, etc. High IQ does not automatically equal interesting person or even intelligent person. It just means that you're able to do better on a certain type of test than most people.

TlalocW

[Phillycat]

13. They have meetings?

Ooh boy...I don't think I'd ever go to a meeting. My Mensa membership has consisted of getting a newsletter, appeals for money, and fun word games in the mail. I am addicted to the games, so I keep my membership.

[StopTheMorans]

12. other: sexist. should be called "personsa"

[no name no slogan]

15. "perSONsa" also sexist. Should be "perCHILDsa" (n/t)

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Touching On Inifinity Paradox Here

Ultimate verbal infinity is to avoid using the word "Man" and only the use the word "Woman". You can't.

Man, goes to Woman, But "woman" has a "man" at the end. So, that goes to WoWoman. But, that has the "m,a,n" at the end. So, one must go to WoWoWoman. And so on. The word because an infinite paradox.
The Professor

[1monster]

37. Dumb... just say one of the woMEN. Thus, no m.a.n. at then end of the

word. One of women would be singular, thus woman, but not stated.

[txaslftist]

39. the answer is wowo.

humble wowo, in his/her infinite folly...

And therefore god-being created wowo in his/her own image.

hey, what up wowo.

don't try to wowoipulate me!

[ProfessorGAC]

45. Misses The Entire Point

That's dumb? You completely missed the paradox. I am the dumb one? Go figure.
The Professor

[miss_kitty]

49. "perCHILDsa"-ageist nt

[trotsky]

14. Other: BOOOOORING.

I qualified with my SAT scores in high school and thought I would join for kicks. The people I encountered at the meetings were one or more of the following:

1) Boring
2) Insane
3) Scary
4) All of the above

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Was A Member. Never Went. Stopped Reading The Lit

Boring, self-congratulatory nonsense. Waste of my time to go to any of the meetings. Went twice. That's enough. I thought **I** was a snob. Sheesh! These people made me look like Albert Schweizer.
The Professor

[txaslftist]

17. my stepmom was mensa...

and believed crystals could cure cancer...
horoscopes were both accurate and reliable...
and was working on becoming a practicing witch...note I did not say wiccan, I said witch.

This ain't envy talking, I was a merit scholar and all that.
High IQ didn't immunize me from acting stupid and it sure didn't help her.

Do they really teach telepathy??? I could dig that.

[Phillycat]

19. I'm so happy "Bunnies are cute!" got a vote!

I was starting to feel sorry for the bunnies.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

22. Self-Congratulatory Windbags.

The whole idea of a "let's have a smart club and not allow others to join" is just ridiculous. I thought I'd give it a try, and it turns out they do nothing but talk about how great they are and how horrible everyone else is. Also, truly intelligent people don't need to be part of any group to know their own intelligence. It just reeks of insecurity.

[THUNDER HANDS]

23. why are so many smart people weird?

and for that matter, why am I weird, I'm not smart?

:)

[MemphisTiger]

24. Other, anyone who is too insecure about their intelligence

that they have to pay money to an organization to tell them they are smart are too stupid too breed. Lock em' up I say

[asthmaticeog]

25. *sigh*

OK, I always hate admitting this, but I used to be in Mensa. The magazine you got was all right, and at the age I was, I must confess I got a bit of a kick out of having the membership card in my wallet, but the actual gatherings were fucking intolerable. Buncha smart people tripping all over themselves to show off how smart they were. It was like "OK, you're here to begin with, so we KNOW you're friggin' smart, can we talk about some other shit, please?" Oh. and people from any given field would scoff at people from any other given field, which wrecked the whole "roundtable" idea of getting smarties together. I stopped paying dues after three years.

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. When you get your first mensa, it means you are becoming a woman.

[Phillycat]

28. *aspirates on Oreo cookies*

[Endangered Specie]

27. I remember watching a mensa member getting his ass handed to him

on jeopardy, and some other quiz show...


Thats all I needed to see.

[frictionlessO]

29. went with bunnies, cause they are soo cute!!

besides I have an IQ of like 55...so I am dumb, but oh so compassionate!

[Debi]

30. Bunnies ARE cute

and smart people are WIRED! :silly:

[Phillycat]

33. Wired? :)

[Debi]

34. Duh...

Obviously I'm not in MENSA!!!! Smart people can be SO dumb :eyes:

[Boswells_Johnson]

31. IQ is an outmoded concept.

I have far more respect for creativity and insight (wisdom) than I do for the recall and application of facts/data...but it's like anything else--people like numbers and categories.

[Phillycat]

32. Supposedly...

IQ measures the ABILITY to learn, not any particular facts and figures.

[Boswells_Johnson]

35. Yeah, but I assume it's the ability to learn and memorize facts

Of course, that's important, but I've known people with very high IQs who couldn't come up with an original thought it they tried.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. I qualify on the basis of my SAT scores, but I asked around and

heard that the meetings consist of geeks with no social skills pontificating at one another, so I never applied to join.

[SarahB]

38. My dad went there for awhile.

He, though, was too antisocial and geeky even for them. Poor guy.

[name not needed]

40. I have a IQ of 142

And I'd much rather hang out with a bunch of idiots. And yes, bunnies are cute.

[Acryliccalico]

41. I think it all

depends on who makes up the tests. Who determines what is smart and what is dumb. You can design a test so that it will give you any answer that you want or exclude any one you don't want. I qualify but what does that exactly mean. I can't spell worth a s**t, and my short term memory is not what it used to be, so what exactly does this mesure? That is why I would never join.

[Orsino]

42. I refuse to pay...

...but am not sure I'd qualify. Not sure it's elitist, either, but there's one thing I'm certain of: bunnies ARE cute.

[Phillycat]

You got that right, bucko! *PICS*

[FuzzySlippers]

43. Why would I pay to hang out with a bunch of geeks

when I can do it for free here?

[mcscajun]

46. Best answer I've read yet!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[48pan]

44. I joined and went to 1 meeting in 1972

I was hoping they would play Monopoly or something. They sat around and ate health food and talked about stellar theory. BORING. I never went back.

[Acryliccalico]

47. I should have voted Bunnies

They are so cute. Thanks janesez for posting the pics. :)

[GRLMGC]

48. You know what's funny (well, funny to me)

is that in Spanish mensa/menso is what you call a stupid person. Did they name MENSA that to be ironic?