Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Dr. Todd Grande"
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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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