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Hmm. I don't know what the point of this video is, unless it's for he Mensa-curious. (Or Mensa-jealous. 😏)
Incidentally: *you can stay in indefinitely without re-testing: AS LONG AS you continue to pay your membership fee! * If you drop out for a while, you must be re-tested to rejoin. 😏
I was a member many years ago: but let my membership lapse eventually after I'd moved to a more remote part of the UK, couldn't yet drive or afford a car, and there weren't that many meetings in my area anyway. This was before proper Internet and World Wide Web, never mind before social media. So there wasn't really any point for me any more, on a limited budget. Being a smart doesn't make you rich. It certainly didn't prior to the internet. 😏
I enjoyed their meetings when I lived in London, though. 🙂
I think you are making a lot of this up/making a meal of it, Todd. 😏
You are overcomplicating the Mensa test process. 😏
I passed my test first time, at the age of 19, and landed a score in the top 1%. I did not "prepare" for it in any way, as there weren't yet millions of books and sites as to how to improve your test score. And the ones there were,I couldn't find or afford.
The test itself did NOT cost lots! It was probably cheaper than a driving test.
As I recall, in the late 80s, the test in the UK consisted of two main parts: one testing verbal, mathematical and logical reasoning, which I believe I aced because of my good work at school. 🙂 The second part was completely different, and I believe the literature said it had been introduced more recently, to allow for "visual" thinkers and to try to eliminate cultural differences. It actually was all these horrible ugly little abstract graphics (that did not resemble mathematical solids or geometry - goodness knows who invents shit like that) that we were supposed to perceive "patterns" in. 😏🤢 I think THAT part of the test brought my score down a bit! 😏
There are NOT a million alternative tests: either you are lying, or US Mensa is just weird! (They probably do have another test for minors though.)
Incidentally: I found your analogy with the "tell people how intelligent you are only when you see them messing with electricity" to be, frankly, ridiculous! 😁
It would most likely be a kid or a teen doing that; so you would be far better advised, to use your authority as an adult, to tell them to STOP doing that. "Why?" They whine. "Because it's DANGEROUS and I say so!"
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With regard to the "organic chemist" authority. That might work if for some reason, you have to live in some impoverished area; and some idiot for some reason boasts to you they know how to make crack or crystal meth. 😏
Him: "You take this, and put it in that, and do a shake and bake.."
You: You're more likely to create an explosion and burn your face off!"
Him: "How d'YOU know?"
You: "I have a degree in chemistry. But better yet , why don't you research stories like that on the Internet? Plenty of cautionary tales there!"
Him: Either goes away for a Google, or decides to ignore you. Stupids gonna stupid!!🤷
As to "never telling people you have a high IQ, or are a Mensa member" - what's that all about? 🤔
You would often make it known, if you have a membership of a professional organisation, if you have a professional qualification like a degree, or if you ever got into any kind of "hall of fame"!
So why not if you're a Mensan? 🙂 There are always going to be jealous people. Ignore them! 🙂👍 They DESERVE to be ignored. They would certainly be laughed at for being jealous of a professional or even a gifted amateur sportsperson! Or of resenting a rock star.
I think it's time to shame the jealous dummies, if anything!🙂 We don't need more dummies in society. We need more confident smart people! 🙂👍
You shouldn't be trying to "shame" us high IQs!! No, no: I think it's time for us Mensa-level IQs to be out and proud! After all, in a way, we're as "different from the majority , as are trans people; or those on some kind of "spectrum" such as Asperger's. And it can be a disability: a sort of a social disability, when you're a child, and you get teased by other children, for having a much bigger vocabulary than they do. Or just them not understanding where you are coming from, because they are *thick*. 😏
I cite that I passed the Mensa test quite frequently on Twitter, even though I am no longer a member. There are a lot of bullshitters on Twitter , and also bullies who frequently ask one for one's qualifications. I find that standing by my IQ score and sticking to my guns, generally drives them off!
But I'm not surprised you say that lots of people will be jealous if you tell them. After all, you live in a country that elected both Bush and Trump! You are therefore intimidated because of living in Dummy Central!
Lol. 😁
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This case was not a hoax. (Your joke, btw, is inappropriate and verges on the racist: it implies that a black man is so stupid that he would mistake a hand grenade for a pineapple. Shame on you Todd Grande!! 👎👎👎👎👎👎)
The case was not a hoax, whatever Todd Grande may think, because:
1) No motive. In fact, given that they were a mixed race couple during the 1960s, there was a NEGATIVE anti-motive: they might have drawn unwanted attention to themselves and their relationship.
2) The psychiatrist who examined them, after they had been constantly troubled by strange dreams, Dr Simon, said that they were not fabricating. (And he was a lot better qualified than this "Dr" Grande fool, I am sure. 😏 Nor did he have to put up disclaimers saying that he was "not diagnosing" someone, as in this case Dr Simon was indeed in a position to diagnose them!)
Dr Simon, as I recall, did I think make some tentative suggestions that the couple might be experiencing a shared delusion. But the important thing was, he said that they indubitably believed in the truth of their experience .
Dr Simon was a very conventional psychiatrist, though I recall he did have to use hypnosis to release the details of the Hill's experiences from their subconscious minds. But as a conventional doctor, he couldn't really go out on a limb by vouching that their experience was real. I'm sure he came to his own conclusions though.. And that they were the diametric opposite of Todd Grande's. 🙂
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Hmmm. Storm in a teacup. The US is full of conspiracy-lovers. And as you say, Dr Grande: there is no way in which Andrew can be an alien lizard humanoid: they would be FAR more Machiavellian!! 😁
The title here is a bit click-baity: Prince Andrew has NOT been stripped of all his titles. He is still a Prince, a Duke and an Admiral. He just lost the HRH (join the royal club) and a few honorary military titles.
I am GLAD you did say he has a right to defend himself: and not to give in to just any hysterical gold-digger! 😁 But that surely also means, he can't gush empathy over the rest of these - victims. 😏
I don't like Victoria Guiffre one little bit. I don't even like the way she looks, and I am a woman. I believe her case is almost certainly weak. How could she have been a "victim" - of Andrew or of Epstein - if she had sex with Andrew (or Epstein!) In 3 different Western countries ?? She either needn't have travelled there, or she could have claimed asylum/gone to her embassy once she got there. She's not a terrified non-English-speaker who had her passport confiscated. Bah. Go away, Virginia! Stupid girl! 🙄 (Oh, and a 17-yr-old is NOT a child, btw. 😏)
The problem with these Me Too type cases is, that once a man becomes associated with one, he is then judged (by the public) guilty by association . The human love of and need for gossip is so great, that many (lesser-minded, in my Mensan view!) people cannot resist doing this. I think it is THAT aspect of things, people's willingness to believe trashy gossip, that you should REALLY be doing a video on, Dr Grande. 😏
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Incidentally: the word "hoax" implies a trick or a fraud. Dr Simon said he did not believe that the couple were fabricating. "Fantasy" is not the same as "fabrication". Get your definitions right, Grande! 😏
As for "physical evidence", I seem to recall off the top of my head, that the hood of their car was found to be covered with lots of circles of burned-off paint, which, when a compass was brought near to it, made the needle spin
.. This was witnessed by a neighbour. This was one of the things that made them research the experience further.
As for Betty Hill's later experiences,I understand from the literature that she did indeed have further UFO encounters, but they were of a much more minor nature. As she was not a professional photographer, I'm not surprised she didn't manage any good photos of the UFOs she subsequently saw. (I also think she may have been a bit psychic, in common with so many people who have these experiences. UFOs are probably not all down to extraterrestrial beings: there are other (non-conventional) explanations.)
You STILL haven't come up with a credible motive for the "theory" that they were LYING. 😏
AS for the aliens' "genital obsession", this is a detail that has been independently corroborated by 1000s of people worldwide since, most of whom have never heard of Betty and Barney. So it's a real pattern.
Your video is a lot of shallow, complacent crap anyway!! 👎
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Why don't you read the case, indeed, of Betty and Barney Hill, who, as you claim, started it all? (And were both examined, due to disturbing dreams and flashbacks, by a psychiatrist probably a lot more qualified than are you. 😏)
How are polygraphs and hypnosis "pseudoscience"?? They are used by the FBI!! 🙄 You're just not allowed to use them as your evidence in court. You can use them to support your investigation. I'm British, and i know that about US courts, when you obviously don't!🙄
Sleep paralysis had nothing to do with the Betty and Barney Hill case. They both first observed the UFO while driving through a fairly remote area. They were not abducted till they left the car of their own accord, to investigate.
They did indeed experience missing time: and the day after they got back,they noticed that there were small paint-bare circles all over the hood. A neighbour brought a compass and helped them check it out by passing it over the car. It spun wildly, denoting that the car had been exposed to a strong magnetic field. They had no Geiger counter, so couldn't check for radiation.
But they probably wouldn't have pursued it with the psychiatrist, were it not for the outbreak of dreams, the like of which they'd never had before. They were examined/hypnotised separately. Their stories under hypnosis tallied.
WHAT deception or "narcissism"?? These people were a black postal worker and a white schoolmistress ! You are a closed-minded fool, Dr Grande!! I'm more likely to believe that YOU are the narcissist!! 😏
They were examined by a doctor, as I have already mentioned. It's all a matter of record.
How STUPID are you to believe, that people get SLEEP PARALYSIS IN A CAR??! They would have crashed the car!! 🙄
And DID you know that NASA/The Pentagon, have recently ADMITTED,that their pilots have been seeing UFOs?! 😏
There was no online, in the 1960s!!
You're stupid. I'm out of here!!! 😏😏😏👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
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My two cents: I don't think that it bodes very well for your profession, Dr Grande, or for all the "years of training and licensure", if you can admit that you and your colleagues "aren't very good at diagnosis, even when the subject is sitting in front of us." 😏
That may be an honest diagnosis to make - but honestly, which MD who had a physical health specialisation, would say the same thing?
Makes me wonder what the years of training and license are actually for? 😏
Again, it is probably honest of you to admit, that basically, diagnosis of mental conditions is for treatment purposes only.
As for that 25th Amendment, I reckon that a sitting president would have to do a Madness Of King George, before that got invoked! 😏
But, as people have said here, narcissistic people rarely present themselves to psychiatrists - and why should they? They LIKE being narcissistic! 😏
And personally, I believe that the amount of "top" people with some kind of personality disorder, must be LEGION! In Hollywood, and in the arts and entertainments industries, as well! I remember reading quite a bit of stuff in a book about (in several of its chapters) the wife of the conductor Andre Previn, who treated her assistants like a sort of lesbian mistress... Completely inappropriately and unwantedly! And then, reading up online about Woody Allen's ex wife, and how she "coached" her kids, in all sorts of bizarre "sexual molestation" fantasies! These people are all nuts, completely neurotic ! Even a lay person can literally see that, from a distance, as well..😏
Why we are supposed to have all this faith , in our "betters", is what beats me!
The amount of politicians and CEOs, even in Western democratic countries, who must surely have some sort of personality disorder and certainly act like it, must be massive, as well. After all, that's what that "professional" book, Snakes In Suits, was written about, no? And that was about psychopaths in the workplace! At least 4-5% of CEOs, it said. The number of narcissists in these top jobs must be multiples of that! Otherwise, why would the world be in such a state? 🙂
(Although I think that even books of that sort recognise that there is also a positive side to narcissistic and "grandiose" qualities - because who , without bags of self-confidence and a fair bit of ego, would ever try to lead or start a major company, or lead a political party, after all?)
As a closing statement: I think that some of the most grandiose (and frankly, grand) statements I have ever read, have been in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
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@bipolarbear9917 Why do you think the Ilkley Moor case is a hoax?? YOU have no evidence of this: unless you mean what you read in a discredited skeptics magazine, the organisation behind which can't even get their experiments straight! (Look up "sTARbaby scandal". 😏)
It was looked into at the time by a couple of very respected paranormal researchers. The photographic negative was sent away to be analysed by experts, and was cleared. Guy's compass was even sent away to be analysed, because it had been magnetised to show the wrong reading!
Nobody apart from the UFO researchers knows the name of the abductee to this day. He certainly wasn't doing it for publicity. 😏
For the record: As a very young woman, I didn't really "believe" the Ilkley case. Especially seeing as the photo was so blurry and underexposed. (But no Photoshop then, remember? So, whatever it was, it wasn't that. Some people at the time said "he took a dummy up onto the moor". Yeah, right. You couldn't buy blow-up aliens or similar pop culture figures back then. And this wasn't a Grey. Not that I even knew what a Grey was, back in 1989!)
I was just intrigued by it! It was only LATER, in the 1990s, when I started watching documentaries and reading the lore, and especially when I had read all about that Belgian UFO flap occuring at around the same time, which had mysteriously been kept out of the British press (wonder why?? 😏) That I really started to "believe". Enough evidence and good arguments, are enough to make me ignore skeptoids and their magazines, which always remind me of German goalkeepers with extra large gloves, DESPERATE to keep the footballs out of the net! 😏
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@tthomas184 You mean, this mysterious unnamed person that you cite, provided what to him was a POSSIBLE explanation for the UFO. Just because he could show (IF he could) that something in the area could RESEMBLE.a strange light, does not prove that it WAS that light source.
Now, if the Hills had managed to take a picture, not of a structured craft, but of a "strange light", which they initially saw, and originally mistook for the moon, if memory serves me - but it was in the wrong position! 😏
AND your mystery man had matched the light in the (nonexistent) photo to the tower, and proved it was in the same direction at the same elevation - THEN you might have something! But you don't. 👎 But photo analysis CAN be a great way to debunk things!
Anyway - what's a blinding light doing on a tower, in the middle of the mountains? You Americans so crazy, as to have inland lighthouses? 😁
Or WAS it a prison, with a searchlight?? 😁
Betty and Barney Hill were plagued with disturbing dreams, because of PTSD! The ufonauts wiped their memories (which is of course what beings with the technology to do so, would do.) But the human subconscious cannot be completely wiped . The memories surfaced again through strange dreams, which were so disturbing, that they sought professional help, which they presumably had to pay for.
You wouldn't get that off lights on towers, misidentified moon or Venus, or sleep deprivation on a holiday trip! 😏
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@bipolarbear9917 "Reading your comments, it's quite obvious you have a disposition to want to believe in this stuff. But believing doesn't make it true. Humans have been attracted to magical thinking for at least 50,000 years. My guess is you also believe in Bigfoot, the Lochness Monster and that the Earth is flat too."
No. Basically. (As regards a flat earth, read what people above you on this thread have said about that. Ptolemy didn't believe in a flat earth. He believed the sun orbited the earth. But he didn't believe in a flat earth.)
As for Bigfoot and Nessie - that's because there is evidence for those! 🙂 Especially the former. 🙂 Patterson-Gimlin footage? DNA, even.
As for myself, I started to question the "modern Western consensus", back in the 1990s, when I was in my 20s. I came to the conclusion (as have people like Rupert Sheldrake and Colin Wilson, who I shall mention later) that Western thought/science has basically been labouring under a closed-minded DELUSION since the Enlightenment. (Though as a practising pagan I also tend to believe that "Christian exceptionalism" played its part. 🙂)
After all, Western arrogance used to be so great (bringing my left-wing political leanings into play here) that white Western middle-class men used to think that they were the pinnacle of creation ! Or evolution. And that all other races, and genders, and cultures were necessarily inferior. 😏
And the same goes for the closed Western "scientific" mind."Oh, that can't exist, because we say so, and it doesn't fit into our system, so there must be a 'rational explanation'. Explain away, explain away, blah blah blah..."
Arrogant, narcissistic madness. 👎
As for the writer Colin Wilson, who was certainly a white man, but by no means a stupid one... Actually he was an existentialist philosopher, who laboured under the handicap, of working in a country, England, where existentialism was never fashionable nor respected as a philosophy.. Anyway, he earned his living by writing lots and lots of books, many of them commercial, many on arcane subjects.
Well, as he said after he'd written his seminal bestselling overview on the matter, The Occult, in the early 1970s... Once you really look into the matter... And he did; he was very thorough and erudite, and went back through all sorts of original sources, going back to the ancient world and the Middle Ages, as well as more modern times... And the 19th century, covering all sorts of semi-obscure, semi-famous historical figures, such as Franz Anton Mesmer, and the scientist Baron von Reichenbach.
Well you tend to find, that there's quite a lot "in it". As it were! 🙂
Now why don't you educate yourself, and go off and read The Occult, for starters??
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@bipolarbear9917 Bollocks! It's probably run by the CIA, for starters. Probably that's why YouTube use it. 😏
&I know for a fact, that university tutors do NOT allow you to cite Wikipedia as an academic source. Because it does not use named, traceable experts and editors, unlike, for example, the Encyclopedia Britannica. Anyone can edit it. I've found all KINDS of trolly things on there - which, as a Lokean, I haven't attempted to remove, because (by the God of Mischief!) I found them FUNNY! 😂 AND wondered how many people would be fooled; or how long it would take Wackypedia to notice and remove the insults, etc! Hmmm. Yes. Very amusing! 😂
It's fine for pop culture. I look at summaries of comic book plots on there all the time! (&once found a passage in an entry on The Penguin, that he, and I quote, "went out with fat prostitutes he found on Jdate". An obvious anti-Semitic slur.😏)
Yes. It's mostly fine for stuff like that, instant updates on who has died, and general blanket summaries of this'n'that. (Scientific articles, however, such as those on astronomy or chemistry, for exact, do seem to be much more carefully edited. But then I'm not a chemist or an astronomer. Still might be full of mistakes!)
And WHEN it comes to "fringe science", alternative medicine, paranormal etc, I have found that it is FAR from unbiased or even-handed, and goes so far as to use pejorative language . As I have already said, in a race or a gender context, this would nowadays be forbidden! But some minorities are less favoured by the (post) modern "consensus" than others... It's no wonder there's an independent Witchipedia, is all I can say. We witches need to have our own space, away from the US patriarchy: the wing of it that calls itself "liberal". 🙄
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"Characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder" - "entitledness" - You've just described most ruling classes, and elites, throughout HISTORY! 🙄 WHY do most psychologists, including yourself, never mention CLASS, or bring CLASS ISSUES into it?? 😏
The fact that all this "narcissism" and 'entitledness" is encouraged in the rulers and their children, and discouraged in the ruled?
Even Ian Brady knew that! And he was a British serial killer! 😏 Who was bright, and bitter enough, to know that if he had been born into a significantly higher class, he would probably have found a (class) acceptable outlet for his negative impulses, his narcissism and his grandiosity, that might not have ended up in his being a serial killer of (British) children, and him ending up spending most of his life in British prisons and in Broadmoor! 😏
He however had no illusions as to the moral probity of the ruling classes, particularly vis-a-vis indigenous peoples, and so on.
Looks like America was started by a bunch of psychopaths and narcissists, then! 😏
Riddle me that, Dr Grande!
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