When your cognitive capacities were selected for their skill at defending an absurd bronze-age superstition ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @hbdchick
... it's easy to over-estimate the defensibility of preposterous narratives through sheer rhetorical adeptness.
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The very worst application of Jewish intelligence is to topics of the Talmudic type. ...
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... Genius rationalizations of idiotic dogmas.
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the irony of that statement is that that stupid obsession may have driven the selection of high IQ
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Replying to @Laserpig_Utopia @hbdchick
... Talmudic bullshit is g-loaded, but it's not identical with abstract general intelligence.
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Replying to @Outsideness @hbdchick
I'd be surprised if those didn't select on g loaded alleles
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Replying to @Laserpig_Utopia @hbdchick
They manifestly do. Chinese (Mandarins) probably fortunate selection applied to admin. competence.
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... Confucian bullshit more skewed to empirical practicalities than Talmudic bullshit. ...
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being able to select strongly on intelligence
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At some point in the dawning Chinese Century, there'll be a serious defense of ancestor worship ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @hbdchick
... which I suspect will be surprisingly (to Westerners) impressive.
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