“The car is a process of Manufacturing. The driver determines the skill.”

I assume you refer to the car and production as the body/brain - parents/society and the driver as the mind/self. This metaphoric argument supports my belief that intelligence is not inherited. Logic dictates that to argue against me, one can not do so by providing arguments that support my theories.

“The illusion is based on the more expensive car as that is what makes the illusion real to outsiders.”

I’m referring to Real-Intelligence®, not artificial intelligence. By metaphorically bringing up more expensive education you again support my theory that intelligence and certified knowledge are two distinct things. Intelligence isn’t concerned with illusion unless illusion is being used as a tool or art. I don’t care who your family is or what school you were manufactured at.

“The guilt will eventually make you do something stupid – like join the military?”

I was going to join the military for money. Believe it or not, those of us without college educations are automatically disqualified from most decent paying jobs, regardless of how intelligent we are.

“Be careful. If you do not really recognize what is happening, you may end up where you do not want to be; for all the right reasons, but never being able to say what those reasons are”

In case you haven’t noticed, we’re rapidly headed for a supernatural/ideological based world war. I knew damn well why making bank in the military, popping radical Islamic tops, would benefit my self. I’m a peaceful person but despise supernatural prejudiced people; I could never bring myself to kill them unless they were shooting back. Iraq would have solved that problem for me.
As far as being a cop in New Orleans: I love this city, I respect rule of law, I’m ready for money and health insurance and I’m tired of painting peoples pets.

Pumping is a big time waste of gas in my new, trained opinion on “driving”.

Pump those pedals and eventually you will make your brake light turn on.

The car is a process of Manufacturing. The driver determines the skill.

Take a car made by an inferior manufacturer and place it against an inferior and see what you get?

You get an expensive “worthy” car or you get a lesser “not worthy” car, as it cost far less than the worthy one.

It does not matter that you have equal skill driving both. The illusion is based on the more expensive car as that is what makes the illusion real to outsiders.

Any metaphor, still results in pumping with regard to the parent and worthy conversation; it is what it is and if you do not want to see it; better for you. The guilt will eventually make you do something stupid – like join the military?

Be careful. If you do not really recognize what is happening, you may end up where you do not want to be; for all the right reasons, but never being able to say what those reasons are.

Take pumping lessons from one who knows all too well. - or not.

Most people think I’m obsessed with pleasing my parents because I talk about them frequently. That’s not the case. I talk about them because they are puzzling individuals and I’m more familiar with them than anyone else on the planet. I tried to explain that it’s there perplexity that stimulated me to study the human condition and thus intelligence, not their occupations or expectation of me. It infuriates me when people accuse me of “rebelling” from or because of them. I rebelled against no one; I am what I am.

There needs to be more justification for believing one is born with an Intelligence Quota to support the belief. The reason most people hold that belief is because intelligent parents usually produce intelligent kids. I’m sure that transfers over to adopted children, which is justification to believe it’s not genetic.

I really feel that family does make you more, not intelligent, but driven by them to succeed and to be more knowledgeable and educated. You were encouraged by professionals; a nurse and a military man to do something worthy. Worthy is not what they had in mind, even though those may have been the words. The mind set is money over any other pursuit, because ultimately that will set you secure, happy and “worthy”.

My parents did the same thing to me, but there is an enormous difference. My parents hated TV, constantly encouraged reading and even though my siblings were older fostered a competitive process that was brutal. We were their kids, but judged not as individuals, but as little race car drivers, seeing who could win the grand prix, Oscar or score the best money making job first.
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To this day I have to go in ready for verbal battle and be prepared for any subject when having the “Visit” with my family.

In conclusion, no your family does not determine IQ, but your family does help to make you who you are. You may have rebelled and acted outside your family’s norm. I don’t know, but I bet they still love you and are confused by you in the same way you may question who they are.

It takes many things to happen to earn the respect that we all crave from our parents. You may say you do not crave said respect, but then I would have to tell you: pumping lying to yourself.

It is normal and right to want “that’s my boy, I am proud of you” from parents.

I think you are well on your well to achieving this.

IQ is what you are born with; knowledge is gained through sensitivity, learned experience and the inner strength of being brave enough to see yourself inside and out.