Does your IQ really matter?
By: Chad Raybourne
Tags: Purpose, Intelligence, Smart, Brain, Climate Change

Most of us have tried one of those online IQ tests. It gives us tests of pattern recognition, seeing what funny figured boxes match the next one, or what series of numbers follow the set you are given. Do you really think that score gives an adequate representation of you though?

Intelligent people are said to have a lack of common sense. They do things like not sort their laundry, eat cereal out of dog bowls (guilty), and do everyday life things that are just plain weird to people. Different, yes, but we think on a different level.

Those insignificant things don’t matter to us. We could care less about what we eat out of. In the bigger scope of life, it’s minuscule. I say we merely because I fit that quirky, odd person who likes weird things and takes a knack for anything that turns his brain on.

Who really knows how intelligent we are? It is based on a system of what we consider correct in the life we live today. Who thought of that correct system? We did. It is what we have been conditioned for.

Mathematics even comes as an engrained universal truth because that’s what we made it. We made math work to be a truth. Whether we found it or it was meant to find us is all up for grabs in the world of “who knows?!?”

The design of truth is only as far as our evolution has brought us but who to say our evolution guided us in the right direction? Who is to say that we were even supposed to find all these “miraculous” discoveries that we see helping yet hurting our planet at the same time.

Who’s to even say what our purpose is here? Are we intelligence gatherers? Analyzers of our world so some higher beings can use our experiences of ups and downs to try and make a better world for the future. To try and upgrade the current version of humans to the next generation of intelligence gatherers and analyzers?

When you have what is considered a high IQ, it can be daunting also. People think it’s great to be smart. Not necessarily. The higher your IQ the more you think outside of the box, the more you pattern recognize. Your brain searches for things that might not even be there, just to check and see if they are.

Your brain searches all possibilities and that seems like a great problem-solving technique until you start questioning the aspect of things like life. You can dive off into a realm where you literally scare the crap out of yourself trying to figure out what we are and why we are here.

If anything, I think our intelligence is limited to what a source of some sort allows us to handle. The more we search, the more we will find, but who is to say if what we find is the truth in this world of the internet and Wikipedia. Anything is possible when our fact source is the internet.

We will never know more than we are allowed to find. We will never find less than we are supposed to find either. Every human being on this planet has a purpose, and that purpose isn’t necessarily to solve the world’s problems. Everyone is an actor as Shakespeare said. We all play our part in making this world work. It takes all kinds.

We are designed to evolve. With our brains and our physical bodies, we use energy. This energy is absorbed by an energy loving world. Something that if studied can be dangerous terrority if you get into it too much. There is a lot out there we just don’t know. Well, some do.

The best thing that we can do with our brains is to try to save the world. Yes, it sounds crazy, but our brains are capable of solving this world’s problems, and as I said in my last story, they are needed.

Our world will always save itself even if it eliminates us. But that doesn't mean we can’t get along and try to make it work. We have done a lot of damage. We owe it that.