You write as if I had challenged you in some way and you are having to refute me. Which is rather odd, since all I did was post something from the MSAE Web site about its recent achievements (2010-11 only). I think your son did brilliantly at golf. Who could deny it? Certainly not me.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@...> wrote: > > Feste, > > You forgot to list my son's winning of the Iowa State Golf championship, and > the golf team's championship win the next year. > > Don't think for a moment that MSAE's great results, and I admit, they're > great are from them being meditators. > > The mundane explanation is better: when we were told to come to FF to save > the world from nuclear war, who came? Only those who were already successful > enough in real life to have the money to take the risk of moving to FF. The > population in FF is heavily skewed thereby and of course the children of > those folks would be expected to be smarter, healthier, better home life, > etc. > > My son's golf success came from him practicing far more than any other person > in the state. For HOURS he'd stand in one spot and just do his moves in very > slow motion. He golfed in the snow, in the dark, in the rain. He put in the > time, he paid the dues, but the other kids from the other schools' golf teams > out there had their highly motivated kids also who gave my son a strong > challenge....and they didn't have any magic mantras helping their golf game. > > If you doubt this, go ahead and try to learn golf and break par in six months > flat like he did at the age of 14. Experiment and get back to us. See if > you too have to put in 10,000 hours to reach excellence, or if you can do > this in half the time by meditating more. I'll wait. > > Same deal with all the MSAE results -- heavily skewed by dint of starting > with a bunch of kids that had been pre-filtered. > > Edg > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Duveyoung wrote: > > > > > > > What was I thinking? I mean, right there in the first lecture, the > > > > guy giving it was obviously not a golden child striding the world > > > > and solving problems everywhere. He was a wimp, reading out of the > > > > Science of Being and the Art of Living, and an obvious lover of > > > > cucumber sandwiches. Yeah, whoa, what a glorious spiritual leader > > > > this guy was. Gunna take me to the promise land. > > > > > > > > I bought it. > > > > > > > > > Edg I thought of you when I watched David Wants to Fly for the first > > > time and they showed the kids at the Marshy School of the Age of > > > Enlightenment singing some sing-song SCI lullaby. I had to wonder > > > your reaction when you saw it - or was that something (this > > > brainwashing of the innocents) that you were already well aware of? > > > > > > > MSAE Achievements from 2010 - 2011 School Year > > > > 1 National Merit Scholar > > > > Eastern Iowa Science and Engineering Fair (EISEF) 40 Top Awards > > > > State Science and Technology Fair of Iowa, 14 Top awards: > > > > Overall Senior High Team Reserve Champions and Senior High > > Semi-Finalists > > 3 First Place Awards > > 4 Second Place awards > > 3 Third Place Awards > > Iowa Energy Center award > > Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award > > > > Top National and International Science Awards: > > > > Water Environment Federation: U.S. Stokholm Junior Prize > > 4th Place International Intel Science and Engineering Fair > > Gold and Bronze Medals at International Sustainable World Energy > > Engineering Environment Project Olympiad > > > > Iowa Poetry Association: Honorable Mention, published work in Lyric Iowa > > 2011 > > > > Iowa Destination ImagiNation Competition: Five First Place Awards > > > > Global Destination Imagination Competition, creative problem solving > > competition: Fourth and Fifth Place > > > > Southeast Iowa Super Conference Art Competition: Nine Top Awards, âBest > > of Show" > > > > Congressional Art Competition: Honorable Mention > > > > Tennis Class 1-A Runner-up State Champion > > >
