Can you think of a worse board than Mensa?

Question

I recently joined the Mensa board, but got kicked out. They ask incredibly boring questions like, "Who are the greatest intellectuals alive today" or "Prove that free will exists" or "With which great mind would you like to spend one hour if you could?" I typically responded with my own brand of humor.

Here is how I met my "demise." I simply dared to argue that the Bill of Rights itself gives us no rights. Whether I am right or wrong, I somehow thought Mensans would at least analyze my argument. Instead, the best they could say is that it was "lengthy B.S." The next thing I knew, I was kicked off their site.

Now I understand that IQ really does count for so little. It must feel good to be as stupid as a Mensan. I was dumn enough to give them my money, but now I want my money back.

Oops, I guess I'm too dumb to spell "dumb" correctly.

Answer 1

You joined a Mensa board?? what does that mean?

Are you a Mensa member or not?

Answer 2

that board is probably their way of justifying your annual membership fee.

In reading some of the posts here, I noticed that there is some disdain towards high IQ groups, and while they can sometimes seem pompous and arrogant I would caution you to reflect on other social societies that are also pompous and arrogant, yet don't require IQ scores to get in. Unfortunately Mensa doesn't select members based on personalities so a Mensa member is just as likely to be just as big a douche bag as your neighbor down the street.

I think the bottom line with these groups is that they're seeking stimulation from a bombardment of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and What did OJ just do!? So they seek out like minded people who, among other things, can relate to them on social and intellectual levels and reflect on a world without Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and What did OJ just do?

Answer 3

That doesn' t really surprise me at all-- Mensa members caught up in an internet message board! Sort of ironic if you think about it.

My boyfriend has flat out refused to get his Mensa membership even though he is qualified to do so. He says that "all the Mensa members I know are ***holes, my dad included." I guess I can't really argue with the man. Regarding your particular experience, I agree that although your thoughts may have been voiced before on their board, they could have at least presented a logical argument. You'll just have to spend more time on Yahoo Answers :-)

Answer 4

I've found that high IQ doesn't always follow with common sense. Good at one and not at another. Rather than wasting your IQ and time on an online site, why don't you meet personally with a local group? But ask also why you need to meet with other intellectuals in either way if you find them to be boring. Your question wasn't any more or less boring or silly as the others you mentioned. Maybe you just need to use your super intellect for what it was intended instead of wasting time with frivilous unanswerable questions.

Answer 5

I find that groups like MENSA are in it for their own reasons. I would never trust a group who wants to say that they are the smartest people in the world just by asking a few arbitrary questions. I wouldn't worry about MENSA I don't even go to their web site.

MENSA is not worth your worry.

Answer 6

i can not speak to the mensa group you met,

I run across them all the time and they are the most closed minded people I've met.

the world is constantly being discovered, new and wonderful things found. Yet they don't believe any of it,

someone wrote they need their intellect stroked, I found this to be true, but I have yet to see it in most of them

Answer 7

MENSA is for people that need to be told that they are intelligent. I don't need to be told - I know I am, and I don't care. Intelligence is meaningless without accomplishment. It isn't how smart you are, its what you do with what you've got.

Answer 8

Maybe they are a bunch of liberals.

Answer 9

it wasn't really mensa, sorry.