Fw: 2m has gone to the dogs....... 765

JNugent

.....continue, with the relevent part, the reference to the person I know who is a fruitcake and a PhD.

No. Don't attribute that to me, it's your interpretation, I never said any group was more or less intelligent than any other, my point is often those who aspire to be the intelligencia and decry 'lesser' mortals quite often are amoungst the most stupid.

There is lorry driving and lorry driving, the guy with 45 drops every day around the west end of London needs his wits about him, the trunk driver who goes from A to B same time, same load, every shift requires very little capacity for reasoning, in fact it's benificial that he has very little or he would rapidly become bored and seek alternative employment. There is a niche for all of us where our abilities can be utilised in a way we find fulfilling, just because you happen to function best as an accountant gives you no right to belittle a road sweeper. (both examples only. no disrespect implied).

Well I know two, not philosophy though, Sally who I have mentioned, was history (or something to do with history) The other guy left for USA, last heard of working for NASA. When I was a young hippy and stoned on weed we used to sit and make up the bullpoo he submitted, he wrote a thesis that was pure supposition and extrapolation from others research, I know I helped him with it, I was appaled at the time and asked him if he felt it was wrong but he buttured me no one ever runs any checks as long as you get the bullpoo right. You could take the view he was very clever playing the system like that, then I heard about 'Challanger' and it made me think a bit.

Contriving made-up definitions of "intelligent" in order to

I agree, that's why no one has tried.

NM