PS: I know there are anomalies, this is a generalization. I feel that this is a pretty solid picture of what people are in general.

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If I were asked, "Does ignorance equal bliss?" I would agree, if that helps answer your question.

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With statement A, there are more things to worry about (because you know about them), and smaller things seem bigger because you know more about them.

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While they may be true on a large scale, I doubt they could be proven. I'm assuming we're talking all theoretically here, though.

There are many intelligent religious and intelligent non-religious people. Likewise, there are many unintelligent religious and unintelligent non-religious people. Same goes for happiness.

I really don't think you can link intelligence to "degree of religiousness." I know it's a commonly held belief that religious people are dumb, but seriously, come on. My beliefs about the nature of reality and the existence of a God have nothing to do with how intelligent I am.

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If I were asked, "Does ignorance equal bliss?" I would agree, if that helps answer your question.

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This statement assuredly backs up my statements. Obviously, in intelligence, I lumped in knowledge in general. One who knows much is intelligent. One who knows little is stupid. If you reduced it all down to the basics, I suppose my question could be: is the world good or bad? Because as I see it, the more you know about the state of affairs in the world, the more likely you are to be disheartened by it. That is my BASIC preposition.

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While they may be true on a large scale, I doubt they could be proven. I'm assuming we're talking all theoretically here, though.

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We were talking generally. As in, populations as a whole tend to display the following trends, not any one person. Of course there will be happy geniuses, and unhappy religiods, and anywhere on the spectrum. I presume that if one were to plot each person's data it would form a line following those trends.

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Are you religious, because you spelled stupider wrong.

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Haha, where?

EDIT: I found it. Google spellcheck failed me on that one. I'd have used te normal one, but it doesn't cover the topic title. Thanks for that. Haha.

Post edited at 6:45 pm on Oct. 29, 2006 by Khadgar

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Intelligent people are not satisfied with simple pleasures. "Better to a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied" (J.S. Mill I believe)

EDIT: There is also a negative correlelation between religiousness and income (ie, high income, less religious).

Post edited at 6:47 pm on Oct. 29, 2006 by thrive in bliss

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Past that, looking purely at statics and correlations, not determinism, one is much more likely to be an ignorant (though not necessarily stupid) religious person than vice-versa; it's simply how demographics (largely based on economics) pan out. So I'd say that your correlations probably exist to a slight degree, but not necessarily because of the natures of intelligence or religion.

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I'm by no means stupid, but I know a lot of the time I spent being a kid and indulging myself in some fun, could have been spent learning. Either for school or for life. I was in no way prepared for the "evils" out there when I graduated. I know they're there now, but I'm not bothered by them anymore.

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Past that, looking purely at statics and correlations, not determinism, one is much more likely to be an ignorant (though not necessarily stupid) religious person than vice-versa; it's simply how demographics (largely based on economics) pan out. So I'd say that your correlations probably exist to a slight degree, but not necessarily because of the natures of intelligence or religion.

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Oh, and yes I did partially mean awareness in my definition of intelligence. One who, say, doesn't know nor care to know about a raging moose stampede in his backyard cannot really be intelligent... can he? Maybe I'm wrong, maybe he's the smarter one for trying to ignore all the worlds evils, in order to behcome happier, because happiness is truely a worth goal. Maybe not. I'm split on that.

Quote: from Larien at 9:45 pm on Oct. 29, 2006

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I disagree. I know many very religious people who are extremely intelligent.

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And go from there. Maybe. But I never said that one cannot be anywhere on these grids, as it is a fact that some of the smartest people I know are religious. It is also a fact that some of the stupidest people I know are religious. I only felt that this was a general trend, not a set of constraining rules.

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I disagree. I'm religious and think of myself as a some-what intelligent person. You must also describe 'stupid' as far as this topic goes. Do you mean that a highly religious person can't get a job as a doctor? Or do you mean a highly religious person can't figure out how to unfreeze a computer?

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