Just few weeks ago it was the feast of our temple here in Dobrich the holy triniy. For this event a lot of priests either from Dobrich and the district as well as the Metropolit Kiril of Varna. Father Veliko has insisted to ordain me with a church rank. The church rank I received grants me oportunity to enter the holy altar and help in the church services (the holy liturgies). My sister has captured a couple of snapshots both video and pictures the pictures I’ve upload and can be seen
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The Celebration of the feast of the temple Holy Trinity
Thursday, June 25th, 2009IQ world rank by country and which are the smartest nations
Friday, March 14th, 2014
In a home conversation with my wife who is Belarusian and comparison between Bulgarian and Belarusian nation, the interesting question arised – Which nation is Smarter Bulgarian or Belarusian?
This little conversation pushed me to intriguing question What is the IQ World rank if compared by country? Since a moment of my life I'm trying to constantly prove to myself I'm smart enough. For years my motivation was to increase my IQ. I had periods when studied hard history, philosophy and literature then I had periods to put all my efforts in music and mysticism then there was my fascination about IT and informatics and hacking, I had periods with profound interest in Biology and neourosciences, then of course psychology and social sciences and since last 10 years as I belived in God, I'm deeply interested in world religions and more particularly in Christniaty. All this is connected with my previous IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and my desire to develop my IQ. I'm quite aware that IQ statistics can never be 100% reliable as there is deviation (standard error) and its a very general way to find out about a person psychology. But anyways it is among the few methods to compare people's intelligence… I've done an IQ test in distant 2008 and I scored about 118 out of 180 – meaning my IQ level is a little bit above average. The IQ conversation triggered my curiousity so I decided to check if my current IQ has changed over the last 6 years. Here is results from test I took March, 2013 on free-iqtest.net
IQtest just prooved, my IQ kept almost same, still a little bit above avarage.
Further on, I did investgation online to see if I can prove to my wife the thesis Bulgarians overall IQ is higher than Belarusian. I googled for IQ world rank by Country
Here is what I found ;
Nations Intelligence as sorted by Country
Rank | Country | % |
1 | Singapore | 108 |
2 | South Korea | 106 |
3 | Japan | 105 |
4 | Italy | 102 |
5 | Iceland | 101 |
5 | Mongolia | 101 |
6 | Switzerland | 101 |
7 | Austria | 100 |
7 | China | 100 |
7 | Luxembourg | 100 |
7 | Netherlands | 100 |
7 | Norway | 100 |
7 | United Kingdom | 100 |
8 | Belgium | 99 |
8 | Canada | 99 |
8 | Estonia | 99 |
8 | Finland | 99 |
8 | Germany | 99 |
8 | New Zealand | 99 |
8 | Poland | 99 |
8 | Sweden | 99 |
9 | Andorra | 98 |
9 | Australia | 98 |
9 | Czech Republic | 98 |
9 | Denmark | 98 |
9 | France | 98 |
9 | Hungary | 98 |
9 | Latvia | 98 |
9 | Spain | 98 |
9 | United States | 98 |
10 | Belarus | 97 |
10 | Malta | 97 |
10 | Russia | 97 |
10 | Ukraine | 97 |
11 | Moldova | 96 |
11 | Slovakia | 96 |
11 | Slovenia | 96 |
11 | Uruguay | 96 |
12 | Israel | 95 |
12 | Portugal | 95 |
13 | Armenia | 94 |
13 | Georgia | 94 |
13 | Kazakhstan | 94 |
13 | Romania | 94 |
13 | Vietnam | 94 |
14 | Argentina | 93 |
14 | Bulgaria | 93 |
15 | Greece | 92 |
15 | Ireland | 92 |
15 | Malaysia | 92 |
16 | Brunei | 91 |
16 | Cambodia | 91 |
16 | Cyprus | 91 |
16 | FYROM | 91 |
16 | Lithuania | 91 |
16 | Sierra Leone | 91 |
16 | Thailand | 91 |
17 | Albania | 90 |
17 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 90 |
17 | Chile | 90 |
17 | Croatia | 90 |
17 | Kyrgyzstan | 90 |
17 | Turkey | 90 |
18 | Cook Islands | 89 |
18 | Costa Rica | 89 |
18 | Laos | 89 |
18 | Mauritius | 89 |
18 | Serbia | 89 |
18 | Suriname | 89 |
19 | Ecuador | 88 |
19 | Mexico | 88 |
19 | Samoa | 88 |
20 | Azerbaijan | 87 |
20 | Bolivia | 87 |
20 | Brazil | 87 |
20 | Guyana | 87 |
20 | Indonesia | 87 |
20 | Iraq | 87 |
20 | Myanmar (Burma) | 87 |
20 | Tajikistan | 87 |
20 | Turkmenistan | 87 |
20 | Uzbekistan | 87 |
21 | Kuwait | 86 |
21 | Philippines | 86 |
21 | Seychelles | 86 |
21 | Tonga | 86 |
22 | Cuba | 85 |
22 | Eritrea | 85 |
22 | Fiji | 85 |
22 | Kiribati | 85 |
22 | Peru | 85 |
22 | Trinidad and Tobago | 85 |
22 | Yemen | 85 |
23 | Afghanistan | 84 |
23 | Bahamas, The | 84 |
23 | Belize | 84 |
23 | Colombia | 84 |
23 | Iran | 84 |
23 | Jordan | 84 |
23 | Marshall Islands | 84 |
23 | Micronesia, Federated States of | 84 |
23 | Morocco | 84 |
23 | Nigeria | 84 |
23 | Pakistan | 84 |
23 | Panama | 84 |
23 | Paraguay | 84 |
23 | Saudi Arabia | 84 |
23 | Solomon Islands | 84 |
23 | Uganda | 84 |
23 | United Arab Emirates | 84 |
23 | Vanuatu | 84 |
23 | Venezuela | 84 |
24 | Algeria | 83 |
24 | Bahrain | 83 |
24 | Libya | 83 |
24 | Oman | 83 |
24 | Papua New Guinea | 83 |
24 | Syria | 83 |
24 | Tunisia | 83 |
25 | Bangladesh | 82 |
25 | Dominican Republic | 82 |
25 | India | 82 |
25 | Lebanon | 82 |
25 | Madagascar | 82 |
25 | Zimbabwe | 82 |
26 | Egypt | 81 |
26 | Honduras | 81 |
26 | Maldives | 81 |
26 | Nicaragua | 81 |
27 | Barbados | 80 |
27 | Bhutan | 80 |
27 | El Salvador | 80 |
27 | Kenya | 80 |
28 | Guatemala | 79 |
28 | Sri Lanka | 79 |
28 | Zambia | 79 |
29 | Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 78 |
29 | Nepal | 78 |
29 | Qatar | 78 |
30 | Comoros | 77 |
30 | South Africa | 77 |
31 | Cape Verde | 76 |
31 | Congo, Republic of the | 76 |
31 | Mauritania | 76 |
31 | Senegal | 76 |
32 | Mali | 74 |
32 | Namibia | 74 |
33 | Ghana | 73 |
34 | Tanzania | 72 |
35 | Central African Republic | 71 |
35 | Grenada | 71 |
35 | Jamaica | 71 |
35 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 71 |
35 | Sudan | 71 |
36 | Antigua and Barbuda | 70 |
36 | Benin | 70 |
36 | Botswana | 70 |
36 | Rwanda | 70 |
36 | Togo | 70 |
37 | Burundi | 69 |
37 | Cote d'Ivoire | 69 |
37 | Ethiopia | 69 |
37 | Malawi | 69 |
37 | Niger | 69 |
38 | Angola | 68 |
38 | Burkina Faso | 68 |
38 | Chad | 68 |
38 | Djibouti | 68 |
38 | Somalia | 68 |
38 | Swaziland | 68 |
39 | Dominica | 67 |
39 | Guinea | 67 |
39 | Guinea-Bissau | 67 |
39 | Haiti | 67 |
39 | Lesotho | 67 |
39 | Liberia | 67 |
39 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 67 |
39 | Sao Tome and Principe | 67 |
40 | Gambia, The | 66 |
41 | Cameroon | 64 |
41 | Gabon | 64 |
41 | Mozambique | 64 |
42 | Saint Lucia | 62 |
43 | Equatorial Guinea | 59 |
North Korea | N/A |
– Countries are ranked highest to lowest national IQ score.
Above statistics are taken from a work carried out earlier this decade by Richard Lynn, a British psychologist, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish political scientist. To extract statistics they analized IQ studies from 113 countries.
For my surprise it appeared Belarusian (ranking 10th in the world) have generally higher IQ than Bulgarians (ordering 14th). Anyways being 14th in world IQ Ranking is not bad at all as we still rank in the top 20 smartest nations.
IQ is a relative way to measure intelligence, so I don't believe these statistics are revelant but they give some very general idea about world IQs.
I learned there are some claims that in more developed economies people have higher IQs than less developed. If we take in consideration above statistics its obvious such claims are dubious as you can see there are countries in top 5 countries with highest IQ, and surely Mongolia is not to be ordered in countries with high economic development.
There are plenty of other interesting researches like "Does IQ relates to people Income?", Does Religious people score higher than atheists? According to research done in U.S. Atheists score 6 IQ points higher than Religious people. However most "religous" people IQ tested were from protestant origin so results are relative (I'm sure Orthodox Christian would score higher 🙂 ). The IQ nation world ranks fail in a way that, a social, economic and historical factors are not counted. According to Gallups research, the world poorest people tend to be the most religious, a fact supporting well the saying of all saints who say that for saintly life people who preferred deliberately to live as poor people.
Feast of Saint Stephen’s martyrdom in Bulgarian Orthodox Church / Saint Stephen the first Christian Saint
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011It is 27th of December, the 3rd day of Christmas and in those day in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church we co-memorate saint Stephen's Martyrdom.
Its a well known fact that by his martyrdom Saint Stephen become the first Christian martyr
Stephen's name etymology comes from Greek (Stephanos) and translated means "Crown".
What we know from Orthodox Church's tradition is that Stephen was a very young in his age of Martyrdom probably in his 20s.
Stephen's glorious martyrdom has inspired and strengthened significantly the early seveerly hunted Church and has give a lot of courage and faith to many of our early Saint Martyrs. These early Church saints now incesently pray to God to have mercy on our earthly Church.
Its not much known fact St. Stephen held a rank in the early Church clergy, he was a HieroDeacon.
Hierodeaconism in our church is considered the maximum rank of deaconship one can have just before he is ordained for a Priest.
St. Stephen was burning for love in Christ and had a strong faith in God, turning many Jewish to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He has shown the truth way to many by teaching them, how to properly interpret the Old Testament (Ancient Jewish) writtings.
He explained to many jewish, how all the old scriptures testify about the coming of the Messiah (Christ), which will save all who believe in his name from sins hell damnation.
As Jewish looked for ways to shutter any kind of preaching of the Gospel and kill Christianity, they saw Stephen as a big enemy just like all Christians in those early days. Therefore they looked for ways to accuse him and execute them and end up the large numbers of jewish people converting from Jewism to Christianity
The whole story of stoning (execution) of st. Stephen is described in the Holy Scriptures in the book called Acts of the Apostles
As he was about to die, Stephen looked up to heaven and said;
"Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God."
Then, as he was being stoned, he cried out, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.".Our Beloved saints last words were, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them." manifesting his saintship and deep Christ love even during his last moments of earthly living.
St. Stephen is celebrated in almost all West Roman Catholic Church and in Anglicans.
Churches who co-mmemorate the great saint are located in all around the world.
St. Stephen is also considered a patron saint of Republika Sprska (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Stephen's name later probably become the origin name for western's so popular Steven name).
Saint Stephen's Byzantine Icon from the 11th Century
Let by the Holy Prayers of St. Stephen God have mercy on the Church and increase our faith and mercies to us sinners.