Mensa home test

Yesterday I made the Mensa home test on the internet and I am invited
to a session iq test with a psychologist.

Maybe an opportunity to make some internet friends through Mensa?

Are there any members here from Mensa? If so can you tell me more
about joining the group and what it can mean to improve your social
contacts, because I am very low in social contacts at the moment,
beside my wife and 2 friends and some family.

Joyride

I never tried out for Mensa, but I have known at least two members, that I
know of.

Give it a shot. It might be fun.

I think they sometimes accept past testing such as the SAT in the US.

I have passed the MENSA test.
MENSA meets in clubs and it might be the single largest group
(singles) in the USA.
At least visit MENSA.

AND don't tell them about "urine therapy" ????

Erach
On Jul 21, 8:17*am, "Quiet Neighbor" <priv...@spamless.net> wrote:
> *I never tried out forMensa, but I have known at least two members, that I
> know of.
>
> Give it a shot. *It might be fun.
>
> I think they sometimes accept past testing such as the SAT in the US.

I guess if just anyone could join a club, it wouldn't be as cool, eh?

You know I'm just jealous 'cause I'm dumb.

On 21 jul, 10:21, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> You know I'm just jealous 'cause I'm dumb.

I am gonna make a repost that is gonna make you feel
better Erik.

On 21 jul, 10:21, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> You know I'm just jealous 'cause I'm dumb.

In the beginning of the 20th century the IQ was the big thing.
We all know what IQ is about, analytical, rational intelligence to
solve logical or strategic problems.

In the 90's Daniel Coleman introduced EQ, emotional intelligence.
EQ, the ability to deal with the emotions of yourself and others.
It gives us empathy (the power or state of imagining oneself to be
another person, and so of sharing his ideals and feelings),
compassion (sorrow, pity, or sympathy for the sufferings and
misfortunes of others, causing desire to give help or show mercy)
it motivates us and gives us an adequate power to react to pain
or pleasure.


A good EQ is a fundamental condition for effective use of IQ.
Without a good co-operation between the EQ and the IQ there
will be no success in life. A well known example is the MENSA
club for people with a high IQ with its large numbers of people
that haven't been particularly successful in life.


The arrogance some of those people with a high IQ display
to others is a shining example of their low EQ and it demonstrates
their inability to acknowledge there is more to intelligence than
the ability to perform quick calculations and be good at scrabble
or chess. Presently computers aid us already with tricks and some
are already afraid that in the future they have to implant chips in
their
brain to increase their IQ to keep up with the power of the computer
that is destined to take over scientific research in the future.


Scientific studies show us that for a complete picture of
intelligence
another Q exists. Danah Zohar and Dr. Ian Marshall call this the
Spiritiual Intelligence (SP). It is the intelligence which we use to
give sense to life, deal with our set of values, to put our excistence
in
a context, to decide what meaningful path we must follow.
Computers have a high IQ. Animals have a high EQ. But computers
and animals don't asks why ! SQ gives us the intelligence to deal
with
moral questions, it makes us change situations, exceed boundaries,
creative, rather than continue a situation within a given set of
rules
or seeing that compassion or insight has its limits. It makes us
shift
boundaries.


SQ doesn't necessarily mean it is a result of a religion. Some people
find their way by following an official religion, to express their
SQ,
but being religious does not guarantee that you have a high SQ. It is
said that many active, fanatic religious people have a low SQ. Many
humanists and atheist have a high SQ though.


In 1997 the University of California did research for the "God spot"
in our brain. Scans showed an area that was active in the brain when
people talked about spiritual and religious themes. In itself this
doesn't
give us proof that God exists or something, but it shows us that our
brain has a special area for it. Rejection of any spiritual thinking
would
actually mean you are not using the full potential of your brain.


In our society secularism is highly on the increase and people don't
want to be part of an conventional religion which imposes rules and
convictions. As earlier stated atheists can have a higher SQ than
many
religious people, but I also discovered the arrogance of these people
towards the conventional religions. Another example of a low EQ.


Some examples of a high SQ are:


- power to be flexible
- high degree of self consiousness
- the power to see suffering and to give it a turn to the good
- the power to see pain and to grow beyond it
- to let ourselves be inspired by ideals and set of rules
- the will to not cause unnecessary pain
- seeing the connection between separate things (holistic thinking)
- the inclination to ask questions like "why", "what happens if .."
and to search for fundamental answers
- the power to oppose ruling conventions


Berty


Note: This post is based on info in the book SQ, Connecting with
spiritial intelligence form Danah Zohar and Dr. Ian
Marshall.

Quiet Neighbor wrote:
> I never tried out for Mensa, but I have known at least two members, that I
> know of.
>
> Give it a shot. It might be fun.
>
> I think they sometimes accept past testing such as the SAT in the US.

I think if you took the "old" SAT, you might qualify. I'm not sure how
old, but I think when I took it in the early 90's it was the one they
accepted.

"Adamski_Rasputin" <adamskiraspu..@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:32eedbf0-f245-450c-a549-e10564350dc4@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Yesterday I made the Mensa home test on the internet and I am invited
> to a session iq test with a psychologist.
>
> Maybe an opportunity to make some internet friends through Mensa?
>
> Are there any members here from Mensa? If so can you tell me more
> about joining the group and what it can mean to improve your social
> contacts, because I am very low in social contacts at the moment,
> beside my wife and 2 friends and some family.
>
> Joyride

Hi Berty

I took the Mensa Home test a number of years ago and was then invited to
London to sit the official test which I passed so I joined up for a year,
never went to any meetings my isolationist policy saw to that, but from what
I saw in the newsletters and journals they seemed like a decent set if
possibly a little boring, but they have plenty of meetings and outings.

They have groups called sigs covering just about every possible subject I
did toy with the idea of joining the depression one but as per usual my
lethargy got the better of me and I eventually let my membership slip.


rgds

zerosky

I think I have a high empathy score. I'm like an old woman.

On 22 jul, 06:02, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think I have a high empathy score. *I'm like an old woman.

I bet you have a high EQ Erik.

On 22 jul, 04:17, "zerosky" <zero...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> "Adamski_Rasputin" <adamskirasp...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> news:32eedbf0-f245-450c-a549-e10564350dc4@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Yesterday I made the Mensa home test on the internet and I am invited
> > to a session iq test with a psychologist.
>
> > Maybe an opportunity to make some internet friends through Mensa?
>
> > Are there any members here from Mensa? If so can you tell me more
> > about joining the group and what it can mean to improve your social
> > contacts, because I am very low in social contacts at the moment,
> > beside my wife and 2 friends and some family.
>
> > Joyride
>
> Hi Berty
>
> I took the Mensa Home test a number of years ago and was then invited to
> London to sit the official test which I passed so I joined up for a year,
> never went to any meetings my isolationist policy saw to that, but from what
> I saw in the newsletters and journals they seemed like a decent set if
> possibly a little boring, but they have plenty of meetings and outings.
>
> They have groups called sigs covering just about every possible subject I
> did toy with the idea of joining the depression one but as per usual my
> lethargy got the better of me and I eventually let my membership slip.
>
> rgds
>
> zerosky

Thanks for the info Zerosky this is really helpful

Berty

Probably, I cry at weddings.

On 22 jul, 19:14, Erik the Red <spock_smo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Probably, I cry at weddings. *

Then you probably have a very very high EQ