Hello Jeff, my name is FearandLoathing and I'm a druggie...err, cannibal, gah no...erhm, I like bubbles...

One thing I have noticed about quite a few heavily educated people...in an effort to prove mental superiority...they lose perspective and speak in a fashion taylored specifically to thier education. More often than not alienating themselves from the status quo.

Yes, I believe in standing apart.....but, when you are so smart that you cannot relate to most of the population....then maybe you aint that smart. Self-isolated seems the accurate term....everyone with a thesaurus who thinks they are gonna impress the masses with
Obtuse/antiquaited and outmoded references only fool themselves........

This is specifically why I speak gutteral English....people relate. I can whip out vernacular from 5 languages.....but, what's the point when no one knows what the hell I am saying.

Physicists don't always make great descisions.

Same with Surgeons.

Same with everyone.

Even idiots have thier moments of brilliance.......

Education is nice but...if you have not learned the right thing then you have wasted your time on aesthetics.

I used to have a really nice pair of vernaculars. I left them under my seat at Yankees stadium.......

I am a little busy surfing monkey porn....if you could slap the schitt out of yourself I would apprecieate it...

Thanks bro!

even a broken clock is correct twice a day

:)

Pretty sure that no astronamer came up with that one....still...accurate.

Hey I don't like the Yankees either man. They were playing Cleveland?????...........

Dude...I am straight.....I dont do team sports with millionaires who shower together in billion dollar stadiums and no one seems to notice that it is still a bunch of dudes showering together

Well the subject was idiots. Have you ever taken the subway to the Bronx? ............

Too smart to hit NYC

The outskirts where enough for me.

I have never met anyone who has that many cats, but the people whom I have seen on Hoarders or heard about have not been highly educated. To use one example is not proof of anything!



As a person, no, but in that field, yes. I can't fix my car; the person who can has superior knowledge and ability to mine. By the same token, I very likely know more about writing and myth than most people.

There are nine types of intelligences. We need all nine.



I assume that you are being rhetorical or sarcastic when you say that you have been smarter than anyone else you have met.

It isn't about being "dumb" when relegating one's self to a field. I specialize in that which interests me the most, but that doesn't mean that I am not knowledgeable in other fields. Some people have a burning passion that eclipses even a modicum of knowledge in their fields. They have limited themselves because they WANT to do so.

I have a passing but negligible interest in quantum physics, but I am glad that for some, it is their passion and they devote their lives to study and theorizing.



I have NO desire to be status quo, but I exist in this world quite nicely--which you term "relating to the mass population."



I suppose you mean "guttural," but I don't know in which context you use the word. "Guttural" means speaking in a particular tone of voice--from the back of the throat. I don't know how that relates to how or why people can relate to your vernacular.



You mean that they wasted the time on the study of beauty or emotion? Again, I don't understand the context.

Who decides what is the "right thing"? Is the researcher who spent 5o years studying the works of an obscure Renaissance writer wasting his/her time if it has made him/her happy?

I can say that education gave me the ability to do what I love to do: teach on a college level. It broadened the horizons of this little Okie born to parents who barely finished 8th grade. The fact that my parents had 8th grade educations in NO way diminishes their worth as people, but had I chosen not to get three university diplomas, I would have missed out on so much that I don't even like to contemplate the loss.

Would I have known the difference if I had not gotten my degrees? Yes, I would--just like the people with whom I worked at Walmart.

Argue and split hairs all you like Doll...

Matters not.

Dissect anything you want from what I say.

In no way did I intend to offend you or make you feel as though I was presenting you with a personal affront.

If you want to delude yourself with the misconception that a formal education as the end all to this topic...go right ahead.

I was not being rhetorical or sarcastic (usually I am)

I will put myself against anyone .......no matter if it is dead romance languages...engineering...culinary...astro physics, paleontology, history (I ain't so good at mathematics though), chemestry, law, finance, physiology, socialogy, martial and/or fine arts or practical application of day to day skills.....

I bow to no one.

The difference is....

I can except those with lesser educations as equals.

I ain't condescending enough to relegate those with differing experience as less.....

They just know things I do not.

One truth I believe completely....the more I learn...the less I know...for each question answered breeds more unanswered questions.

At least stupid people don't lose sleep over things they don't grasp.....wish I could say the same.

Wait,,,,so I just have to ask.
IF, I was traveling at the speed of light, and I turned on my headlights,
Would I know it?

no

..next question

You "except" those who have lesser education at equals?

How do you "except" them? Do you give them waivers saying, "You are excepted"?

Will you "pit" yourself against using words in the correct context with an English teacher?

You also seem not to understand what I say. I don't know if you are deliberately misreading my posts or you do not comprehend. I never stated that I do not ACCEPT people with lesser education as equals.

Please, quote line and verse where I said that--in context.

Heck, my boyfriend "only" has a BA. (The "only" is sarcasm, in case you didn't get it.) He is one of the smartest men whom I know.

Darlin..I will stand up to any man woman or child on the planet....and I can hold my own......

Not to say that they are less than impressive in thier knowledges...

I could give a fk less if you are an English teacher....I speak English.....and I am good at it....I am better at it than alot of people....

even teachers.

I don't think of them as less because of thier limited skills.

Don't speak down to me with that "How do you "except" them? Do you give them waivers saying, "You are excepted"?

Teachers pull that lame crap

I can except the fact that there are amazingly smart people out there....even the ones who didn't take the same courses I have. Save your superiority complex for someone who will be impressed by it.....cause it won't be me.

Tell yourself that I deliberately misunderstand...

Tell yourself that I don't comprehend.

If that will help you sleep tonight..good for you......

Just proves my point.

I never said "you" teacher......

I was speaking in general context.

That too tells me something.

Go fk with the morons Baby.....cause you will only dig yourself into a deeper hole with me.



(even my colligiate instructors had to readjust thier curriculum to deal with my perspective.....cause they eventually figured out I simply had different perspectives...not inaccurate...simply not text book.

I don't have to argue with you ....that is your boyfriends burden.

..build a more aerodynamic craft...

My lovey pie, you might think that you speak English well, but you are not adept at writing it. Your posts are full of typos and just plain misspellings. You use words out of context which makes your intent impossible to understand. The fact that you use words such as "aesthetic" out of context makes me believe that you don't speak English nearly as well as you think you do.



I would never insult a person whose language skills are poor but who are not trying to impress me with their knowledge. You have touted your intelligence and your ability to excel in all areas EXCEPT math--I am merely pointing out that there is at least one other area in which you don't excel and in which you barely get by: expressing yourself in the written word.




Honey chile, let me explain the difference between the spoken and the written word, then perhaps you will understand. When you directly address someone in the written word (and in the spoken word, but then, you can cover your *** by immediately protesting otherwise), then what you say is directed at THAT person. When you wrote that "the difference" is that you can "except" people as equals, that was directed at me because you were responding to me. You did not qualify by mentioning the difference between you and most/other people.

Do you understand now? I often run into this problem with my first year college composition students, and they usually get it after I explain, so perhaps you will, too.

If you were nearly as smart as you think you are, you would realize that it is useless and pointless to try to prove your intelligence in a forum on a dating site.

Your are as defensive as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs (yes, a cliche, but they illustrate points well for those who have a reading comprehension problem). If you were truly secure in your intelligence, you wouldn't have to tell everyone how smart you are, eh?

And you would stop trying to drive the point home with me in particular. I am not impressed nor am I convinced--and I won't be.

Look, I can't count the times people go on the internet and suddenly they are experts in fields they have to training or experience in.

I can't count the times I seen a failure in the works and then when everyone ignores me I distance myself and then when things go wrong everyone wants to find answers to why when it was clear why was when everyone was ignoring the one guy warning them what would fail and why. And when it does no one remembers what they were told.

And then all the economic experts saying our economy is recovering when it clearly is not!

Everyone is experts while I am just some slug off of the street. I isolate myself enough to defend myself from the stupidity that surrounds me.

On top of that I resent being called a know it all becasue I clearly don't know everything. But the one thing I do know is I know enough to get by. Another thing I know is that what I see and hear may not be the truth. I also know when I see a disaster in the works I put as much distance between me and another person's **** up.

On top of that money does not fix everything nor will money make everything all right. I don't suck up or kiss up to customers. Polite is one thing but my nose is not brown from kissing azz. It is just all messed up out there. People are so stupid some times it makes me wonder if we are evolving to better things or evolving to sheeple!

Your on, thank you very much!!