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To: Ilaine who wrote (4893)	6/13/2001 4:27:35 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

>>But I digress. << We all do (g). Maybe the best strategy would be to follow Jay's "just IS" approach. Why TH do you / we have to analyze, take apart, factorize, .... until there's either nothing left or we found another question to sink our teeth in...Damn Decartes. But I digress. I am curious - german expression neugierig, hungry for new, is even better -. I know however (this knowledge is per definition not to be found in books) that reading about XY is nothing but that (cf Aldous Huxley in Those barren leaves I think). Of course this is RATHER SAD - "how can I learn anything at all". Good question. Asked a lot of times the last few thousand years. To finish on a positive note I'm not agnostics, I'm just trying to be not even humble, just realistic. Damn, Im digressing again. All the best CB dj PS: it's a dark and stormy nighthere - thunder approaching man I love it. PPS: are we really nothing more than a life support system for our rationalizing, positivistic inference engine?

To: Ilaine who wrote (4893)	6/13/2001 4:27:37 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>But I digress. << We all do (g). Maybe the best strategy would be to follow Jay's "just IS" approach. Why TH do you / we have to analyze, take apart, factorize, .... until there's either nothing left or we found another question to sink our teeth in...Damn Decartes. But I digress. I am curious - german expression neugierig, hungry for new, is even better -. I know however (this knowledge is per definition not to be found in books) that reading about XY is nothing but that (cf Aldous Huxley in Those barren leaves I think). Of course this is RATHER SAD - "how can I learn anything at all". Good question. Asked a lot of times the last few thousand years. To finish on a positive note I'm not agnostics, I'm just trying to be not even humble, just realistic. Damn, Im digressing again. All the best CB dj PS: it's a dark and stormy night here - thunder approaching man I love it. PPS: are we really nothing more than a life support system for our rationalizing, positivistic inference engine?

To: Ilaine who wrote (4893)	6/15/2001 9:30:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<My understanding is that the Black Death actually led to a period of economic growth - wages went up due to scarcity of labor, social mobility enhanced the status of those formerly held down.> Did the plague kill mostly low intelligence poor people living in crowded, rat infested areas? Maybe, as with many challenges, the smart survived [a higher proportion of them anyway]. Maybe that's why Europe became the top place around the world; it became populated with a higher average intelligence than before the plague. High IQ Japanese seem to do okay too [see GNP per capita]. So do high IQ Jews. I think those are valid population generalisations about IQ. It's not considered polite to discuss less intelligent people, but I believe low intelligence correlates well with lower individual survival and therefore reproduction [though with modern eugenic programmes where governments fund baby production by certain community groups, that generalisation is not true]. Well, I think I will leave that contentious comment right there...or it will cause some people to foam at the mouth. Suffice to say that the big bump above our eyebrows didn't get there by accident. Well, it did, but you know what I mean. Mqurice