04-04-2010, 09:18 AM
[quote name='Bharatvarsh2' date='04 April 2010 - 08:30 AM' timestamp='1270349567' post='105631']
Well IQ tests only show North East Asians (i.e Japanese, Chinese, Koreans) as having high IQ's.
I would be interested to know the case of Vietnam and Cambodia (Pol Pot killed off many of the smartest).
While celibacy is bad for the smartest it doesn't seem to have impacted Catholic Europe too much. Italy, France, Spain, Ireland are all developed and as I remember Lynn's data (take it with a pinch of salt) showed Italy as scoring 102.
Italy while lagging behind the Protestant Europeans in recent times played a big role in the Renaissance.
One must be thankful though that celibacy was confined to only the renunciates among Hindus instead of the general Brahmin priesthood.
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IMHO, that was the main reason for collapse of buddhism in India, the buddhist priesthood got more enstupidated each generation
and same happened in Sri Lanka where the sinhalese buddhists got enstupidated
Well IQ tests only show North East Asians (i.e Japanese, Chinese, Koreans) as having high IQ's.
I would be interested to know the case of Vietnam and Cambodia (Pol Pot killed off many of the smartest).
While celibacy is bad for the smartest it doesn't seem to have impacted Catholic Europe too much. Italy, France, Spain, Ireland are all developed and as I remember Lynn's data (take it with a pinch of salt) showed Italy as scoring 102.
Italy while lagging behind the Protestant Europeans in recent times played a big role in the Renaissance.
One must be thankful though that celibacy was confined to only the renunciates among Hindus instead of the general Brahmin priesthood.
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IMHO, that was the main reason for collapse of buddhism in India, the buddhist priesthood got more enstupidated each generation
and same happened in Sri Lanka where the sinhalese buddhists got enstupidated