Sat Feb 28 9:03:38 1998
m. weiss
mswhrw@mexicomo.net
went bear hunting. came to fork in road. sign said,"bear left" . went home.

Sat Feb 28 9:05:31 1998
m. weiss
mswhrw@mexicomo.net
went bear hunting. came to fork in road. sign said,"bear left" . went home. henny youngman,thanks again.

Sat Mar 7 10:23:51 1998
Ramon
rmm@unicall.be
The 'quick and dirty' version of my very high 'IQ-test':


1.91864 _ 1.82056 _ 1.78260 _ 1.74110 _ 1.58489 _ ?


Notes:

This series is properly constructed but an 'easy' version.


You have 20 minutes to find the next number.


You can either email me your solution (with 5 digit precision) and the time you needed
or you can tell me why you gave up. I'm interested in *both*.


You should -but need not neccessarily- be a Prometheus member. It should, however, be noted
that this test is made for *very* intelligent people.


Every reasonable response will be considered and answered.

Enjoy it !
Ramon

Sun Mar 8 12:12:07 1998
Ramon
rmm@unicall.be
Concerning my very high 'IQ-test':

I'm terribly sorry but I forgot to mention something very important: There is, in fact,
a deadline. All responses must be sent until

march 31 / midnight.

As to ensure fairness I will give some first result immediately after receiving some response
but the solution will be available only after the deadline.

In case you are interested I will inform your editor about some stats (% correct,...)

Sorry and thank you.

Enjoy it !
Ramon

Sun Mar 8 13:02:45 1998
john
john@net.yu
i just remembered this little puzzle. it' very nice.it goes like this: a man walks into the store and he buys an obejct, an item. he goes to the register, pays for it and walks back home. just as he entered his house he realized that he won't be needing that item for the next two days. the great mistery is: what did the man buy?
again you can, if you think you know the answer, send answers to me to find out if you got the right one.
YOU GOTTA TRY THIS!

Sun Mar 8 22:45:10 1998
test
test@test.com
This is a test. Notice that as of this date we are on our new web site at http://prometheus.vaughan.cc/ although hits on the old site will be relayed for a while.

Tue Mar 10 13:01:25 1998
Gavdurn@aol.com
Hello Fred,

I just thought I would tell you of my new webpage, "Gavdurn's Home Page." Also, that I have a link to the Prometheus Society there. Here's hoping all is well in Prometheus.

Joel Willis
Gavdurn@aol.com

Thu Mar 12 4:57:54 1998
Hilary Knudson
hknudson@advmfg.com
In the introductory synopsis, should the last sentnce not read "fewer than one hundred members"?

Thu Mar 12 4:58:31 1998
Hilary Knudson
hknudson@advmfg.com
In the introductory synopsis, should the last sentence not read "fewer than one hundred members"?

Thu Mar 19 5:11:48 1998
Kira J. Fernández
Sorry, not available now.
Hallo, you geniuses out there!

You've got an excellent web page! I've been surfing through it and I've visited all your links!

Are there any Spanish members? If so, and they are Mensa and/or ISPE members too, they will surely know me. Yes, I am Kira J. Fernández, from Córdoba.

Regards!

Sat Mar 21 11:50:56 1998
john
john@net.yu
cop:" hey chief, you know that guy in the morgue?"
chief:" yea, what about him?"
cop:" he's dead!"

Sun Mar 22 15:01:32 1998
john
john@net.yu
me again!! i'm sorry but i just couldn't resist it!!!

Sun Mar 22 15:07:41 1998
john
john@net.yu
oh one more thing: the background image is really so...
it makes me wanna cry!!!

Fri Mar 27 7:42:04 1998
john
john@net.yu
congratulations!!! your web page is really somethng!!!
it has become the daily station in my Net-urf!!!
keep up!! the good work!!!!!!!

Sat Mar 28 16:08:55 1998
john
john@net.yu
Fred, sorry for those half of megs in my message (if it takes too long).Oh BTW, my friend Srdjan, the one i was telling you about, chickened out.he hasn't been taken seriously about that many things so when he heard I asked you about it just said:"No no no... I'm sorry"(when translated).

Mon Mar 30 15:29:50 1998
Robert
spiritual_night@hotmail.com
To John at : john@net.yu

Obviously, the difference between a chicken is: 5 letters.
Regarding the man who was driving in the middle of the
road and why: Simple-it beats walking in the middle of the
road.

To Ms. Burman: Faith, my dear.
More and more evidence is emerging daily that intelligence is not a set, but rather is
a flexible ability, and is teachable-atleast in some aspects of it. Attitude seems to have a great deal to do with unleashing ones intellectual potential, and good company helps too.
One of the most fascinating books I have ever read is on the subject of unleashing ones own personal brand of genius, and I highly recommend it as well as another which
follows: WISH -CRAFT How To Get What You Really Want In Life -by Barbara Sher . It has nothing to do
with the occult, but everything to do with really creating and living a life that satisfies you and allows you to develope and express your own particular spark of genius.

The other book I would highly recommend is THE EINSTEIN FACTOR by Win Wenger and Richard Poe.
I have been investigating the method explained in it
called Image-Streaming and consider it to be a bonafide
and safe means by which one can genuinely raise ones
intelligence, creativity, and level of wholesome living.

Of course the opinion I have expressed is subjective at this
point, because I have not had my intelligence formally tested lately. But I can honestly say that in practical every-
day activities I have been functioning more effectively-more intelligently if you will- of late. And I seem
to learning new things more easily and quicker than I was
before.

Mon Apr 6 21:12:37 1998
jkabala@public.lib.ci.clearwater.fl.us
Fascinating site.

Was very touched and gratified to read "The Outsiders."
I have a comment, a gift, and a plea.

As a young child, I was tested, then summarily labeled "gifted"--and my childhood, changed forever. I vividly remember being seen as a set of scores, or as a potential guinea pig for my teachers' pet theories of education, rather than as a little girl, with perhaps a few advantages, but all the same basic needs as other kids.

I can relate very closely to nearly all of the points made in the article. Struggle to focus, boredom, ability to do so many things well, that selecting a direction becomes nearly impossible, intolerance for the "bozo brigade", isolation..... most of all, the isolation.

I am no longer a child, but my mother still cringes to recall that I was perhaps 7 or 8 when I first copied Edgar Allen Poe's "Alone" and hung it on the wall in my bedroom. I can remember her asking me what I thought it was about, then her being visibly distressed because I told her that it was about being weird like ME.

I not only "got it" at an age when my contemporaries were reading Nancy Drew, it spoke eloquently to me about the "otherness" of a child, and, later, an adult, who sees and thinks- and, as a result, feels- differently than most others.

I could, very easily, have become a grade-A brat, but for a brilliant father who kept me grounded and sane. Perhaps because he had "been there," he knew far more than many parents of exceptional children what it was like to be different, both the good and the bad.

I guess our family has adopted what the article called the "committed strategy"...but never assume that we don't believe "that the exceptionally gifted can have serious adjustment problems." We may have learned coping techniques, but we haven't forgotten what it was like to feel "other".

Nineteen years ago, I gave birth to my own exceptional child. He will graduate from college this year, but he is a third generation "Outsider" who has had the benefit of folks who know, understand, and who love him enough to help him cope with the challenges.

For the sake of al the kids out there who may not have that kind of support system, I'd like to encourage any of you out there with the time to mentor a young exceptional person. They don't need your help with their homework, but they do need to know that they aren't aberrations. They need to feel a lot less alone.

And, for any of you who may never have come across it before (did any of you find an overabundance teachers who wanted to ignore the arts for math, science, and more quantitative/objective fields?) here's the Poe text that now hangs in my office....


From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were--I have not seen
As others saw--I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.

Thu Apr 9 6:54:28 1998
jonw@jonw.com
Thrilled to find Prometheus online. I am a former ISPE member.
Glad to see that you are making some info available to non-members.
The Web seems custom-made for High-IQ interchange.
Would it be possible for me to get onto one of your mailing lists
somehow, even though I am not a member?

Suggestion - if you could post more member biographies, I
would be interested - they are my favorite part of High-IQ publications.

Tue Apr 14 15:29:12 1998
Robert
spiritual_night@hotmail.com
Many people seem to be preoccupied with the problems that the gifted child has in growing up in a society that often does not seem to know how to adaquately meet his or her needs . These needs are legitamate and must be met in some manner if the child is to flower rather than wilt.
Over the years I have read many books on the ways that this problem can be dealt with- some worthwhile and many that were not particularly useful. There is one, however, that has made a lasting impression on me as a book that not only is very useful in stimulating the mental developement of the average child, but is also, in my opinion, an excellent book for the highly gifted child . This book is by the extraordinarily gifted teacher and education consultant PETER KLINE, author of THE EVERYDAY GENIUS. For anyone who truly wants to help solve the problems of children or adults, this is a fun and excellent way of doing so. I can think of no other book that I would recommend as highly as this one for unleashing the genius in everyone in the most wholesome, and satisfying way. It is truly a beautiful and magical book in its results.
READ IT, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD .

Fri Apr 17 9:04:00 1998


Dear JKabala,
That was a very moving letter.
Can't wait to read "The Outsiders."
Thank you.

Sat Apr 18 12:34:49 1998
john
john@.net.yu
Whazz up? If I just wrote this and Left it like that it wouldn't be OK? Right? Left? Which number completes the following series: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ? Nobody knows ...I see that there are more and more of those who have somethign to say about the way gifted children.I hope things will change!

Sat Apr 18 12:37:57 1998
john
john@net.yu
Whazz up people? Just passing by!

Sat Apr 18 12:40:07 1998
john
john@net.yu
Corr:... are being treated by society..

Tue Apr 21 14:46:08 1998
john
john@net.yu
I was standing in the street and waswiting for some friends of mine. After some 30 mins of waiting some guy comes up to me holding a cigaertte up to his mouth. And he goes:" Excuse me, do you have some fire maybe?" Being smart as I am I said:" Well actually I ... and so I don't smoke".
This was a real event, but it hapened two days ago so I forgot what I said. Maybe you can tell me.

Sat Apr 25 0:59:54 1998
Laura
warsha@email.msn.com
Ye finds irony. I read your constitution and took interest in the goals of Prometheus.

"The purposes of the Prometheus Society are:

a. To provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between members.

b. To promote understanding and friendship between members.

c. To foster intellectual freedom.

d. To assist in research relating to high intelligence and intelligence testing.

e. To encourage and assist the efforts of members to attain high levels of achievement in the arts, the sciences, and other fields of endeavor.

These all seem to be decent and worthy goals; however, I find irony in the fact that thoughout the site, you speak of the hardships of your intellectual isolation. This society does not seem to benefit anyone but themselves though. It seems that a society of the world's best and brightest might be a little more altruistic than is seen here.
Might I suggest that you are still isolated because you are adults who now choose a "superior" isolation? Might I also suggest that if the goals of Prometheus are truly important to the society, that they are important to the world as well? I would love to see intellectual societies such as yours reaching out beyond the limits of your exclusive "club". Gifted children have been mentioned time and again on this guestbook, and the suggestions I have seen boil down to, "get a book".
Someday each of us will be in a cold grave. If you take with you the intellect that God has given you, you will have robbed his gift that he gave to this world... not unlike if one were to rob Prometheus' gift of fire. The children of this world are the future, and they are where your gifts belong. I would suggest that instead of stagnating in your elitist society, you should use your intellect for what it was meant. Help others.
---Laura