I was drunk.

Cloud,

Whatever. A vote for McCain is a vote for racism, uh huh. Real intelligent.

Yeah I'm not saying they didn't give the Europeans access to valuable information, but if that information reached the Europeans in the dark ages nothing would have happened to it. At best, you'd have a noble who understood some grammar. You wouldn't have a professor genuinely interested in classical learning, with a few exceptions in Ireland, Spain, and Britain.

I don't.

Europe just got wealthier from trade and farming techniques, which allowed an academic class to develop. Sure the academics got access to classical western information preserved and copied by the muslims, but to be honest the muslim intellectuals were just as lame as the scholastic intellectuals in the renaissance. They didn't even come close to measuring up to the Greeks.

The changing academic and intellectual atmosphere, in other words, was caused by the changing social organization and economic conditions of Europe. You don't have time for contemplating philosophy when you're either training for war or the clergy, or are a malnourished peasant.

> The Yell wrote:

> I took the test and I got 340

see how that works? 

Stop noodging about online IQ tests>>

Haha you liar!

I think cooperation with Iran is possible, but only because I think their leaders are big mouths that would cave in without support from Russia (trying to curtail US imperialism).

As for our military. Today armies have found the advantage in being highly equipped, trained, and backed with logistical support rather than a mass of conscripted men. This has lead to a trade off of large armies for combat effectiveness. Though our armies are more effective today in the field, they are also more expensive and smaller in numbers.

It's possible to be imperialistic today, but it requires a very different strategy than using ground forces to occupy. It's a really dumb idea actually. I have said this before, I think fear is a great strategy. The mongols were able to do it and control a massive empire, despite having relatively few numbers. They relied on being effective in combat with their speed and mobility, and they completely destroyed anyone who stood against them. It's an amoral strategy, but it's the one that works when your forces are small and you need to cover a lot of ground. Another thing you can do, which we have been doing, is support dictators who have the occupying force for you .

Of course these military actions are inappropriate in the current political situation with Iran. Now is the time to release tensions and aim to realign the global distribution of power back in to balance.

However, I think the exiled Habsburg monarchy has done a lot of good for Europe in modern times. But yeah, the other sitting monarchs have been pretty silly. Spain's monarch is also one of the few sane ones.

Errrr. If a value is objective, then it is valuable independent of what others consider it. If it's subjective, then it's only valuable because someone is giving it value. It's like the dollar. Objectively, there is no value for the dollar, only the value that people recognize it as having.

Edit: Cool we agree again .

Naw things can have value. They just can't have objective value, only subjective value. In other words, things have value only because people value them.

Well, you could have just listed my name in your post, because I think it's clear you already know!

The outcome.

Someone must be really dumb to fall for that, lol.

> avogadro wrote:

>i'm at the very least intellectually gifted if not genius. >

Lol you aren't genius, but I'll give it to you that you're gifted. Your IQ is probably somewhere around 115-120ish.  That puts you in at least the top 10% club. It's a good medium. The correlation of IQ and success stops and 120, and beyond it success starts to decline. Now all you need is to be evil like me .

Honestly, I think it's the Quebecians who are arrogant. I see this when I play online games very frequently. Not long ago I was actually playing a game of risk, and this Quebecian got really annoying with his boasting and French talk. It ended up where everyone else (who were Americans and British Canadians) ganged up and pwned him. As we were pwning him, he was talking about how he only lost because Americans were ganging up on him. Then two others guys told him they were Canadians too and told him to go die. Then he said "English people" were ganging up on him. lol. I rarely have trouble with the English Canadians, but boy can Quebecians be insolent buggers.