Is NOBODY wrong in the post ? POST : My cousin has lived her entire life in the western world, and, like many westerners, she has become interested in eastern philosophy and begun to believe in a fetishized, idealistic version of it. The other day she was talking to me and discussed how she wanted to convert to Buddhism and accordingly adopt its practices, including meditation, and I was concerned and told her that meditation is usually only practicable by low IQ individuals as high IQ minds require constant enrichment and are always seeking new ways to apply themselves and therefore cannot be satisfied sitting idly for prolonged periods focusing on literally nothing, but warned that, like drug use, mediation can be appealing to high IQ people by causing momentary stress relief (usually) at the cost of their IQ, leaving practitioners permanently crippled intellectually without the ability to apply themselves in ways that even those with average IQs can. My cousin became very upset when I said this - apparently taking it as a personal insult because she is interested in mediation - and did not calm down when I explained that I was only concerned for her wellbeing.