Talk about more music here!| who would you like to meet most in the world today? | | Who would you like to meet most in the world and is there a reason?
I would love to meet Richard Branson. No one ever says bad about him and I would love to know how he works.
Perhaps even let him take me up in his air balloon! | |
| | Do great minds fight or do great things when they meet? | | Do great minds fight or do do great things together? Eidon, Voltaire, Shakesphere, Galeio are were great minds. Were they enhanced by great associations with other like minded individuals who further enhanced intelllectual prowess.One of the most famous geniouses Albert Einstein befriended W.E.B Dubois, and kept a dialogue and association with paul robeson who was a genious in his own right but was ostrasized unpopular beliefs.Friends can feed off one another, challenge one another and in the end support one another when it seems everyone else is against them.The story of John Nash is about detachment, and delusion but also about love.John Nash was provided a Social environment that allowed him to work out and around his own emotions and indosyrinties. What allowed to live long enough to find his place where an Edgar Poe or a Van Gogh fell short? The associations are what made successful people who they became. | |
| | Is Genius Genetic, or Environmental? | | Do grat minds think alike? People with very high IQ's are unique and usually in a class by themselves. The highest IQ's recorded Goethe and Swedenborg both with IQ's over 210. Geniuses are also for the most part a product of their times. Most have to have an environment with which to grow and flourish. They cant always be under stress or have an extra burden.With that in mind, a genius list must be taken in context. For instance some one who born a slave or into severe oppression probably never got an opportunity to expand their horizons and grow intellectually. While thinkers like Ben Franklin and Shakesphere who relatively well to do at young ages with conformative social settings which would have been very conducive to research and learning.The African slave community would have had a hard time producing geniuses. Slaves were under constant oppression and degradation and had to use almost all their wits to just survive. It would have been very hard to produce genius under those circumstances.However there have some descendents of slaves who rose up and showed their intellectual capacity. One the most famous thinkers of the 20 century was W.E. B Dubois, who wrote... | |
| | New Jersey--A bit of info. | | If you've ever lived in Jersey...you'll appreciate this!!!
New Jersey is a peninsula.
Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.
New Jersey has the densest system of highways and railroads in the U.S.
New Jersey has the highest cost of living.
New Jersey has the highest cost of auto insurance.
New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation.
New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the "Diner Capital of the World."
New Jersey is home to the original Mystery Pork Parts Club
(no, not Spam): Taylor Ham or Pork Roll.
Home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and Italian sausage w/peppers and onions.
North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 spuare mile radius.
The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland.
New Jersey has 50+ resort... | |
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