Reply #13: Yeah - but not particularly active [View All]

[LibertyLover]

I took the test years ago during freshman year in college when I was feeling particularly down on myself. I got in and joined and went to a few local meetings. I have to say that some of the people were nice if a bit strange, while most were just strange and not particularly appealing in just about any way you want to imagine. So I stopped going to MENSA things, but kept the membership, mostly to remind myself that I was intelligent when I got stuck in dead-end jobs. When I moved to Maryland, I did get involved in a SIG - Special Interest Group - called the Full Moon SIG. It was an open Wiccan circle. I met a number of people with whom I am still friends and we still learn and worship together. Non-MENSANs were welcomed, but I only found out about it because I was in MENSA. The SIG died when its founder moved. The new location was just out of the way enough that nobody wanted to go there. Then her husband died and she moved to a trailer which could not have accomodated more than 3 or 4 people. It really ended about 9 months ago when she died, about 2 months after she moved to the mobile home. To be honest, I'm thinking of not renewing the next time my membership comes due. I don't particularly need it now. But, yeah, there are some major weirdos in MENSA.