also, does it really have to have a minimum word number for replies?

Anyway, from now on I shall refer to this as the arrogance forum.

Furthermore spelling and grammer are irrelevant so long as comprehension is acheived.

f[/b]uckers.

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Lob sei Gott dem Vater g'tan,
Lob sei Gott sein'm ein'gen Sohn,
Lob sei Gott dem Heil'gen Geist
Immer und in Ewigkeit.

(Aparenly this is not long enough. I will theefore thank David for creating a fourm of high intellectual and moral wit, discuasion and verbose proce of which the like has little ben seen before on internt forums.)

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Massive, epic adventure, multi-coloured, multi-layered.
Sort of two/three dimensional Wizard of Oz for the future.

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Dictionary.com provided half my general knowledge answers. But the grammar parts of the test were fun. You could borrow some questions from the tickle IQ test

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Dont say that, now we will have all the kiddies coming here.

Do the questions get changed or is there only a fixed set of questions? If the latter is true, then perhaps the kiddies will come even faster. The minimum post is a great idea, even if it bars a few genius 119 character spiel (sic). Perhaps they should impose a minimum character of 25 for all posts.

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Jesus living for yourself

I feel so unintelligent...

If there'sa minimum to a post, should there also be a maximum? I don't necessarily agree, juuust a thought.

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Massive, epic adventure, multi-coloured, multi-layered.
Sort of two/three dimensional Wizard of Oz for the future.

hmm..i feel left out.

i dont think this post is long enough.
maybe now?

nope, but surely now (this post minimum has never kicked in for me before..how bout now?)

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Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money
come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and
without cost.-Isaiah 55:1
www.wateringmalawi.com

The question remains: Is the test hard enough?

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La durée de nos passions ne dépend pas plus de nous que la durée de notre vie.
- La Rochefoucauld

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As of right now 16.8% of people who take the test pass it. There are currently 92 intellectuals out of 545 members who have taken the test.

The question remains: Is the test hard enough?

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i dont know. it seems to me the test is the wrong kind of hard?

it is the kind of hard people could cheat on, which means that the spammers can get in, but other intelligent people might night make it.

i dont necessarily know what can be dont to fix it, maybe making it more like the mod test? with written answers?

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Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money
come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and
without cost.-Isaiah 55:1
www.wateringmalawi.com

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As of right now 16.8% of people who take the test pass it. There are currently 92 intellectuals out of 545 members who have taken the test.

The question remains: Is the test hard enough?

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Heres a suggestion.

Why dont you put a time limit on it or at least have negative marking depending on the time it takes to complete. That way it will cut down extensive google and dictionary searches.

Having said that, it does take some intelligence for people to research questions.

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Jesus living for yourself

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Why dont you put a time limit on it or at least have negative marking depending on the time it takes to complete. That way it will cut down extensive google and dictionary searches.  

Having said that, it does take some intelligence for people to research questions.

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I probably passed by that one answer, though.

The post length thing is sort of getting on my nerves. It causes me to be rambly and redundant, as what I could've clearly said in three concise sentences must be spread sketchily throughout six.

Remember William Strunk?

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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

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Not to say we're all writing novellas here, but surely you get the point.

(Edited by marvelous at 1:59 pm on Oct. 22, 2005)

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i'm a rainbow too.

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By the way Laurence the way you type is over-the-top trying to sound clever.

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Come on. Lighten up. A few more SAT words never killed anyone especially when some people on this forum seem so intent on calling everyone a moron. Well if some of us consider intellectuals to be so "above" everyone else, we ought to enjoy speaking like stuffed up 50-year old Englishmen sipping brandy and smoking cigars.  

(Edited by Laurence at 9:51 pm on Oct. 22, 2005)

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.   - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Support your peers!

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I agree with the proposal; the test is sufficiently difficult but could be easily bypassed.  A time limit would be good.

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