XPost: sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics, sci.med.vision   
   XPost: rec.org.mensa   
   From: passaglia@live.com   
      
   On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:52:27 -0400, George Hammond wrote:   
      
   >>   
   >>>  It has been   
   >>> known and a PROVEN FACT that both IQ and Personality are signficantly   
   >>> caused by BOTH Nature and Nurture.   
   >>   
   > Sick fuck.   
      
   You are finally correct in something. Sickness is firmly etched   
   in my genes and I wear it proudly.   
      
   Did you ever hear of Sigmund Freud?  He was also a real sicko.   
   Sexuality in children!!??? God save the queen!   
      
   But at least I do not go around chasing ghosts.   
      
   What is intelligence?  It is a ghost.  The closer one gets   
   to the concept of intelligence, the more quickly it vanishes.   
   Intelligence can't be grasped, measured, or palpated because   
   it doesn't exist -- not in the way that many would like it   
   to exist.   
      
   Yet certain people still hopefully brandish the idea of intelligence   
   and then utilize the equally frivolous notion of nurture to support it.   
   Ghosts are in support of ghosts.  This is stupidity and delusion in the   
   highest degree.   
      
   The same can be said of the idea of "personality," which also   
   completely lacks substance.  (What these folks really mean is   
   the idea of "persona" but they are too beguiled to understand   
   the distinction.)   
      
   The scientific literature exhibits a strong trend toward   
   genetic determination.  As techniques improve, this trend   
   will become even stronger.  The superficial psychologies   
   of the past will be totally abandoned, much like Ptolemaic   
   astronomy or the medicine of Galen.   
      
   It is a brave new world, much too brave for stuffy Victorians.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)