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Old 07-07-2007, 05:22 AM   #185 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tiger777
Cynethiq that's a good point that you make there. Also let me clarify another aspect of my thoughts on what I was getting at earlier. for about the past year i've been studying psychology, philosophy, religion, dreams, just tons of things, baiscally trying to better myself and come closer to my ultimate goal that being a good person and living a happy life and bettering myself etc, all that good stuff. Previous to this past year, I wasn't really thinking in depth and analyzing things, my potential intelligence was the same then as it is now so to speak. However due to personal journeys and a dedication to my work, to mastering that which I due, i Feel my mind right now is several times better. My IQ has increased simply out of expanding my thoughts and just thinking on whole different levels and different ways, I am a more intelligent person now. let's say I had taken a different path in life, and was simply happy with not really delving into the meaning of things and dissecting and studying things as best as I could. I feel i would be a less intelligent person. So basically what i'm trying to say is, in general I feel people who are busy working jobs such as manual labor jobs for exmaple, have less time on their hands to explore their mind and really think about things. I believe their IQ or the capability in which they can think about things will not reach their maximum potential. Basically what i'm trying to say is, this is why I feel educational levels and financial predicaments do matter, from personal experience even.

Thanks for pointing out the correlation might not be related to the cause that I think it is, because that definately has to be taken into consideration. Yeah I could be wrong, I'll do some more thinking about this specific correlation i'm making, because the statistics could very well be, because of a different reason than the suspected reason I have, based on an example from the above paragraph.
Wonderful that you are trying to broaden your mind. I caution that you stay away from stereotypes and overgeneralizations.

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I feel people who are busy working jobs such as manual labor jobs for exmaple, have less time on their hands to explore their mind and really think about things. I believe their IQ or the capability in which they can think about things will not reach their maximum potential.
Priests, monks, brothers, and sisters, can be examples of how that is not the case. Gregor Johann Mendel is known as the father of modern day genetics, but he was a priest working in a garden.

Many Chinese Buddhists wrote of being one with nature and the universe by doing simple tasks in the fields.

Thomas Aquinas was quite a learned man, philosopher, and quite religious.

Quite honestly, God is where you decide you find it or don't find it.
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