It should be noted that I've upvoted every single person who's disagreed with me here, as far as I know. That said. Last week, I took an online IQ test without preparing for it at all. It showed me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is a Philosopher who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 49, I understand religion better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding free will. He's not particularly successful as a philosopher, but I've met lots of other philosophers who aren't as good as me at physics. I'm also pretty good at Middle Eastern geopolitics. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of Islam than any actual theologian, but I have lots of ingenuity for making broad generalisations. I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me.

I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is. Religion, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of foreign policy which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Noam Chomsky’s theories. I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody in r/samharris who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code. I believe firmly that Islam deserves no future. If I were the president after 9/11, I would be for a nuclear response. In fact, I'd even support the concept of nuking the Muslim world. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are, if you have ideas that are dangerous, it would be ethical to punish them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if you are a muslim. I believe in profiling of people based on their race and religion.

I consider myself an intellectual. I don't believe in peer review; they may happen naturally, but it should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the r/samharris community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. And, uh, I'm a pretty good scholar. All that, and I think your behavior in this subreddit was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?