Posted On: August 1, 2006, 10:48 am CDT

Posted By: MUD

You are dead wrong! These so called IQ tests have shown many evil people, such as Hitler, Stalin, Chao are at a genious level IQ. Our lawyer friend said quite clearly being able to create plans falsely accusing innocent people until someone gives in is a sign of intelligence. I agree wholeheartedly. Intelligence is not wisdom. Read my 9:54 am post. I agree with your definition of intelligence that all people are created equal, by God, with an ability to learn and to respond to new and challenging situations. But our compuslory government schooling removes true learning. BUT if you leave wisdom from God out of your definition only evil will follow.

EXAMPLE: Stalin learned that when he took over Russia the easiest way to maintain power was to remove(kill) millions of free people from the face of the earth. He had intelligence based on Websters and your definition, but no morality-God's Law. This will happen every time because people are born with a sinful nature. If the search for truth(real education) is followed evil will disappear except for the occasional evil acts. Look at Amish communities that live this out in the real world-surrounded by greed and evil- yet they live in peace with very little crime.

No it has nothing to do with going to church early in the morning. You can quote dictionaries all you want, just look at the comparison between intelligence and wisdom.
Wisdom is free it's only cost is in the time to acquire it.
Intelligence takes years of dumming down, the average cost for 1 student K-12 is over $200,000(including slight interest). 13 years learning how to read. 13 years learning how to be an order taker for some big corporation and one day hoping to climb the stupid ladder and become some stupid systems manager, 13 years to go get a job at McDonalds or at some factory. 13 years of wasted time.