More Than A Brain Teaser

To: EDNA.TEO@bbl.be
bcc: friends, family
Subject: MORE THAN A BRAIN TEASER

Hi dear,

The below 'test' wants you to believe that 'according to MENSA, if you get 23 of these, you are a 'genius''. As you will see once you complete it or get the answers to this thing, you are actually being judged on whether you are a 'genius' based on a set of knowledge for which South African christians have an advantage. Reasons :
- 3 of the items relate to the Bible
- 2 of them relate to South Africa
- some to do with the U.S. but none of them has anything to do with Asia or other religions

So you can see how a South Africa christian would have an advantage. Does not matter if you know the Koran and Asia very well.

Very typical of many things in the west. They set the rules and tests. Everyone else try like hell to live up to them not knowing what they actually mean. If you believe them, 'Freedom House' (nice name heh?) says that Israel has greater democracy than Singapore. A Morgan in-house editor (American of course) quoted that to me in an exchange. Of course, it just 'happens' that white Americans are closer to the Israelis than Singapore, and it does not matter what happens to the Palestinians in Israel. For Freedom House, Palestinians don't count (may be partly because their Bible says the Jews are special and the Palestinians did not get special mention).

Other than the above test, white South Africans have other examples to offer. One of them (an Andersen consultant) told me 15 years ago that they could not let the black South Africans run the country because they would kill each other (the Zulus will kill the others, and vice versa etc.). As you know, South Africa had been run by the blacks for most of the last 10 years without the killings the whites claimed would happen. Also if one is to believe the whites in South Afica and Zimbabwe (ex-white Rhodesia), statistics would 'prove' that whites produce more per acre of land than blacks. It therefore imply that the blacks are inferior to the whites. Of course what they hope we all forget is that the whites had all the money (generated in large measure through slavery and white controlled natural resources) and best arable land (forcibly taken from the blacks over the last few hundred years). Out of desperation some blacks in Zimbabwe recently tried to re-occupy the better lands owned by whites. But the whites in South Africa and Zimbabwe now insist everyone should live by the law. Of course, it also means that they get to keep their ill-gotten wealth and best land, and the blacks will have to catch up the 'proper' way. After robbing the towns for centuries, the robber's children now want the law to come to town.

As is in many things in life, be careful with such tests.

Rgds
CCK

p.s. I got this 'test' about a month ago. One of the reasons I first suspected (and later confirmed after working out 28 of them) that the test was by South African christians, was the e-mail address that came with the test instructions I got - it had an e-mail address with a South African internet extension (".za"). The people who sent me the thing, of course, got my response to the above effect. That e-mail address (at the top of the spreadsheet) has been removed from the version you sent. May be someone took that out by accident...... In the meantime, let the world be tested for their smartness the South African Christian way. They'll be no smarter for it.