kain_kusanagi said:
mysticwolf said:
I guess I'll never know what this thread was about, other than the odd mentions of penises and homosexuals and traffic lights. |
Yeah I came in late too. That's why decided to comment on "intellectuals" and how they treat others:
"In my opinion people who consider themselves to be intellectual often are no more well educated than your average college graduate. Unlike the average grad they do tend to hold onto "facts" as though they were precious heirlooms. Like an old collector they like to show off their heirlooms as often as possible to prove their value. And just like that old collect when they feel threatened they will throw those heirlooms at their "attacker' and try to beat them to death with them.
Now you may have noticed that a few lines back I but the word "facts" in quotes. Intellectuals love facts, but they only care about the ones that fit into their ideas. So they read up on data, no matter how unsupported, that agrees with their perceptions. For an "intellectual" the only thing more important than being right is making others agree with them. The only thing they find more offensive than differing opinions is valid counter data and facts.
Real intellectuals work at universities or other research sectors. Anyone who considers them self an intellectual, but doesn't get paid for their abundant intellect is probably just an egomaniacal megalomaniac with a subconscious inferiority complex.
You might be saying, hey those a pretty big words, maybe you think you are an intellectual. Nope, I'm just an average guy who double checked the word "megalomaniac" on dictionary.com because I know I make mistakes sometimes. Intellectuals with argue an opinion as fact until the next ice age. The average person, like me and most of the people reading this, like to preface their opinions with "in my opinion" and will happily go on living life knowing that others don't share that opinion."
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An intellectual is all-knowing, we don't need facts or figures we have a wave of knowledge that transcends facts, data and statisitcs.
You've either got it, or you ain't.
If you didn't feel it as a child, you won't ever get it.
The best you could hope to be is a pseudo-intellectual. Real intellectuals can spot these a mile away and ridicule them like they are the scourge of the universe and an embarresment to the human race.
I'm actually being serious here. I look down on nearly everyone, I am more intelligent than 90% of people - I know this - I haven't been to university, don't have any great achievments to my name but I have metal, grit and dexterity. It all goes hand in hand with the intellect. You are clearly not one but your assessment of the practical reality of being one are pretty much spot on.
Very true, in essence, but then we are all flawed to some degree.
Oh yeah, sorry the above is all IMO ;)
