6 billion idiots and still counting

Can someone, anyone, solve the mystery of just why 99% of the population have systematically undermined their own free thought by subscribing to insane notions (aliens, ghosts, lake monsters, etc) that hold no spritual or scientific merit on the grounds of wanting to believe in such things? Rather than focus energy on issues globally that can be addressed? Is this just an unconscious crutch we use daily to stimulate our problem solving predispositions? Or is it something far more nefarious? Even if these things indeed existed in whatever form...who cares? what difference would it make? Why are people (idiots) like David Icke even handled credibly? These people, in my opinion, are just up-to-date snake oil salesmen selling, thats right theres usually a book or seminar in there somewhere, you their own brand of drama?

Addressing the governments' 'conspiracy' of ufos......think for a moment practically, what would be the best way to disprove the existence of an OVER-inflated war budget during peacetime? Most likely, with the least amount of work, would be to do it as lucifer was said to.....convince the world he doesn't exist. In other words, knowing just how sadly gullible and basely un-intelligent 99% of the worlds pop. is, id say, construct a few headline grabbing stories worldwide, inundate the pop. with propaganda type misinformation creating a standard if you will of confusion, seperate schools of thought, and panic amongst communities to throw you off the real track of simple government projects that are being kept afloat with tax dollars no one in their right mind would support.

Anyone have anything to add aside from the same sci-fi drivel i'm tiring of? Anything remotely NOT pre-packaged? Anything that screams, "hey i've got my own opinion about what's up and none of them include little green men?"

666

Originally posted by blueyedevil666
Can someone, anyone, solve the mystery of just why 99% of the population have systematically undermined their own free thought by subscribing to insane notions (aliens, ghosts, lake monsters, etc)

Just curious about your math... have you asked 99% of the population what they bleieve in?

Yes, its actually an intelligent quotient percentage of the pop. taken 'statistically'...i honestly wish it wasn't so..... but hey i don't make the rules.

Only 2% of the world pop. is above the average in intelligence, using the global standard of the "IQ" testings.

So you telling me that your statistics are backed by a research that make the 2% of the population Globally above average intelligent, if we go by the global standard of the "IQ" testings.

Do you have prof to back this information you are supplying in this thread.



[edit on 14-5-2007 by marg6043]

Originally posted by blueyedevil666
Rather than focus energy on issues globally that can be addressed?

Would you please enlighten me on what issues would you consider being worth focusing our energy on ?

Originally posted by blueyedevil666
Can someone, anyone, solve the mystery of just why 99% of the population have systematically undermined their own free thought by subscribing to insane notions (aliens, ghosts, lake monsters, etc) that hold no spritual or scientific merit on the grounds of wanting to believe in such things? Rather than focus energy on issues globally that can be addressed? Is this just an unconscious crutch we use daily to stimulate our problem solving predispositions? Or is it something far more nefarious? Even if these things indeed existed in whatever form...who cares? what difference would it make? Why are people (idiots) like David Icke even handled credibly? These people, in my opinion, are just up-to-date snake oil salesmen selling, thats right theres usually a book or seminar in there somewhere, you their own brand of drama?

Addressing the governments' 'conspiracy' of ufos......think for a moment practically, what would be the best way to disprove the existence of an OVER-inflated war budget during peacetime? Most likely, with the least amount of work, would be to do it as lucifer was said to.....convince the world he doesn't exist. In other words, knowing just how sadly gullible and basely un-intelligent 99% of the worlds pop. is, id say, construct a few headline grabbing stories worldwide, inundate the pop. with propaganda type misinformation creating a standard if you will of confusion, seperate schools of thought, and panic amongst communities to throw you off the real track of simple government projects that are being kept afloat with tax dollars no one in their right mind would support.

Anyone have anything to add aside from the same sci-fi drivel i'm tiring of? Anything remotely NOT pre-packaged? Anything that screams, "hey i've got my own opinion about what's up and none of them include little green men?"

666

Where did you come up with the data for "99% of the population have systematically undermined their own free thought by subscribing to insane notions (aliens, ghosts, lake monsters, etc)..."? I am just curious as to where that was pulled from. Also, although many of the so called researchers appear a little weird, for the most part they have spent countless hours proving their cases. I for one do not blindly believe anything. I research and think about the subject to the best of my ability. Many things are not what they seem. It seems that you are suggesting that people should not follow their interests but rather act in a robotic way only working on your delusion of "issues globally that can be addressed". Icke may be an idiot in your opinion but at least he attempts to back up statements with what he believes is a fact (something I have not seen you do). If UFO's are real I'd be willing to bet you'd "care". Later Bro.

lol, oh man this all you guys have got?! wow we are in a state aren't we?

pedestrian neanderthals'...

to address the above comments (which aren't even the issue) look online for the average in IQ and you'll see that im damn close. Then if that doesnt work, take a walk in your local locale and get a good long hard look at how 'people' behave. Then if THAT doesn't work, turn on your TV's and get a good dose of fiction. Meanwhile, the governments of the world continue to use mirrors and smoke.

All they need is a mouse and piece of velvet and all you people would be thoroughly entertained.

Somebody who judges 99% of the population as if he knew them, and goes on to call them idiots. Well to me that sounds very idiotic.

How ironic.

BTW to answer the guy above...what the hell has actually been proven guy? lets start there.

Make that....6 billion and 1 idiots?

You believe in "lucifer"?

Nice try dude...nope simply using an example as to how it works, one many are familiar with...good try though.....now see how all these posts are simply bolstering my initial point?...see how we veer off target easily? this is what governmental agencies feed on.....beginning to see why i posted what i posted?

Well, theres 100 million stars in our galaxy, theres 100 billion galaxies. Looking at these numbers, theres at least a chance that 100 planets have been just right to support intelligent life. Deny its like saying that out of 1 trillion fireworks, only 1 will actually go pop, even though 1% are perfectly made.

I don't absorb the hearsay witness stuff, nor the pictures of a black dot or white bubble in the sky, i can safely say 95% of the jackasses who get on video saying they are in contact, we're abducted, met aliens or worked at area 51 are lying out their ass for profit or out of boredom.
- The 5%, i would say are credible, their body language says they are speaking the truth, so then you determine if what they claim could have been something else etc.

I will check these boards every week for something interesting, i don't believe a word someone reports in text to support a sighting - these are absolutely useless.

Two things i believe -
- Odd's are that alien life does exist, i'm not crazy, i just know the numbers and i know the mechanics behind life.
- IF these things we're in Govt contact as many people believe, then of course they wouldn't disclose it to stop people going crazy, dropping their faith, etc. If in contact, speculate, but you wont know until people are ready to accept it.

Playing the devils advocate if you will...kinda like a lunch break social/behaviorable litmus test to see if i wasn't too far off the mark in how people generally think and respond.

Since you refuted that point, I am with you. We believe fictions more easily than realities. We love to be lied to. We love anything that allows us to escape our humdrum existence and provide a bit of drama in our lives.

We are too ready to accept half-truths rather than face truths that would be uncomfortable.

Which is why it is sometimes fun to add fuel to the fire and watch it burn.

Well I did some researching on my own on the best sites for global statistics and I could not find anything about intelligence . . . perhaps is education what he means.

www.library.auckland.ac.nz...

www.aneki.com...

www.nationmaster.com...

www.geohive.com...

www.prb.org...

esa.un.org...

Originally posted by blueyedevil666
Yes, its actually an intelligent quotient percentage of the pop. taken 'statistically'...i honestly wish it wasn't so..... but hey i don't make the rules.

Only 2% of the world pop. is above the average in intelligence, using the global standard of the "IQ" testings.

I see you just got here. For such a smart fella you sure have your statistics botched up, not to mention your concept of "IQ testings." I would guess you think you are at that top 2%, yet your pronouncement here reflects a basic and fundamental misunderstanding of the statistical method. In fact, it is very unlikely you can place yourself in such an exalted category. In other words, you are displaying your ignorance. Ignorance is not equivalent to intelligence, of course; it's just that you are displaying much more of the former and little of the latter.

As long as we're talking "IQ Testings" here (without arguing the efficacy of the tests themselves; that's a separate issue.) The classic Stanford-Binet test defines the average (mean) IQ at 100. In this case 100 also represents the median score and the mode. Just for review: "mean" = arithmetic mean; add up the scores, divide by the number of scores, get 100. the "median" is the middle score; half the scores are lower than 100; half are higher. The "mode" is the score that occurs most often: 100. When all three of these averages are the same, that gives you a standard bell-shaped curve.

The "Standard Deviation" of this test is 16. By definition, 68% of all people have IQs that fall within 16 points either side of the mean, between 84 and 116, so over two-thirds of all people have IQs within this range. So a person with an IQ of 116 has an IQ that is exactly one standard deviation above the mean. In other words, a person with an IQ of 116 is "smarter than" 84% of the populaton. Of course, so is 16% of the population. Now go TWO standard deviations. Approximately (because I don't want to take the trouble to look it up) 97% of the population is within two standard deviations: 68-132. A person with an IQ of 68 has an IQ two standard deviations below the mean. But bear in mind we're talking about BOTH sides of the mean here. That means someone two standard deviations above or below the mean has 98.5% of the population at or the other side of the curve. You must "halve" the figures and add to one side to see where a given IQ lies. Now, three standard deviations from the mean gives you 54-148. This takes care of over 99% of the population. Two standard deviations above the mean is near genius. Three IS genius.

Therefore, for you to claim only 2% of the population is "above average" in intelligence is logically impossible and patently absurd. You are correct to say you don't make the rules; you haven't learned them either. From your other comments about the UFO phenomenon, it's obvious you haven't studied this issue any more than you have learned statistics. Stick around. You may learn something. But don't assume you already know it.

OK now shar is getting close to what id imagined responses would take the form of...well said, although i can counter:

Of all the billions upon billions of star systems out there, and of all the billions upon billions of planets within these systems....the recipe for life is soooo damn fragile that if our moon were even a matter of feet closer or further away..we wouldn't exist. If the chemical make-up of what we call our atmosphere were even missing one of the main components...ya you guessed it..zero habitability..... Ok, so where does this leave us? well in my opinion it makes me nervous, if people continue to resign themselves to the fact that "things" 'may' exist out there we deflect focus away from our own planet, our planet is sick and needs to get well, we tend to not worry ourselves with anything we can actually change or even see before us..so, we hope..and we pray..and we get nothing done..and we look elsewhere for the answers. How dare anyone even debase our own intelligence and adaptability by even suggesting aliens built the pyramids of egypt..humans are resoundingly adaptable and are excellent problem solvers..how dare those few sell us out like that. I've been 'searching' as you all are, for 40 years of my life and simply concluded that 'Occums Razor' is indeed a viable answer to just about anything out there. I wish as everyone does that these mythical things exist, but more and more, with a lack of any evidence......i tend to believe less.

Another closed mind pulling numbers and "facts" straight out of thier ass. Your fear is evident. If you have it all figured out, go write a book. Oh wait, you can't. That would mean you would have to prove your "facts". Seems like you also have anger issues as well. You should take care of that first.

Good Luck!
Pro.

schuyler by above i meant genius level. Thanx for the correction.

angry? angry? what are you talking about? seems presumptuous to me...i'm stating an alternative way of thinking is all, dude i'm not angry...and i don't need to prove anything in a book science hasn't already written, i'm not making any insane bazaar claims.