People Who Think They're Intellectuals

All they're doing is just making things more complicated than they need to be. After all, you don't realy need to use a thousands words to say crystal clear light blue water. It's just another way to help them think they're better than us, when they're not. When it comes right down to it they'e just as willing to rape puppies with the rest of the humans on this god forsaken planet. They should stop the pretense and just accept life instead of trying to make thing much more complicated than they need to be. Life is simple. You just kill those that don't agree with you and be done with it. Don't need them.

All you gotta do is just live your life. Living is a simple thing. You eat, drink, use the restroom, keep yourself clean. All thehinking does is make other people miserable and ets you apart. What's so bad about just living life? Is life that sad for you you've gotta complicate things? Why do you absolutely set yourself apart? Come join the human race man! It's waiting for you with its hands open.

Live for your friends and loved ones. Ater all, if it weren't for them you wouldn't be here. You wouldn't be the person you are today. They are the ones who count not your intellectulism. Use a thousand words just to say black ant. Come on man. Come on. Life is a simple thing.

People just need to learn to relax and have a little bit of fun. Stay out of people's business and let people live their own lives as they see fit. All this complicated stuff only makes things bewildering for you friends and loved ones. They may accept you, but they can't be on the same plane as you. Why can't you meet them on their plane?

It's so nice not to worry about impediments to any situations. Most of the time all it takes is to say a few words is just a few muscles. You don't need to use a hundred muscles to lift an object when fou or five will do. You don't need to use a hundred ropes when a single one will do. Just let things be simple.

I am reminded of the story of the grasshopper and the ant. The story goes the ants were busy gathering food but the grasshopper was just lazy and lived for the moment. When winter came the ants were saved for they had enough food to last throughout the winter while the grasshopper had none and eventually starved to death. There's more than one lesson to be learned there. Sure, there were a lot of ants there, but they all acted as one. There was power within the one. The power to make a single decision and how to act on that decision to gather the food so they may survive.

Does being complicated help you survve? No, not really. All it does is cause medical complications due to the stress of just trying to figure out how many hundreds of words to describe a single object. You don't really need two thousand words just t describe a red ball. But knowing you guys you'd want to come up with five words just to describe the shade or tint of the red or if it's mixed with another color such as white to make it pink or with brown or to say it's crimson.

You'd probably goon to say how the light is reflecting off, and causing the color in the first place which somehow affects the luster of the ball. Still more words would be used to describe it's shadow. Others would be used to describe where the angle of the light is coming from. And so on. It's just a small tiny six and three sixteenths of an inch in size red ball. That's all it is. Nothig more.

Complication, well, it is mystifying to those who just like things simple. A simple taste of cooked catfish. The sheer simple feel of physical pleasure of sex. The simple coolness of an ice cold Pepsi. These are the things that are on another plane than you. please, come down into this plane where you can be with those who care about you. Intellectualism only sets you apart.

A simple joke can make people laugh that's less than twenty words. For example, Why did the pervert cross the road? That's where the chicken went. Twelve words to make someone laugh. Not a hundred.

Intellectujalism is just for people who like to make things complicated. Life is more uncomplciated and straight-forward than you think. Decisions only have a few outcomes. The simplest of decisions have had the largest effects and affects on people. We decide to break the sound barrier. We decide to go to the moon. Such simple decisions with such a huge historical and technologicl impact. History is rife with such simnple decisions. History is rife with such simple acts of compassion and dignity.

Things don't need need to be inteelectual. Things don't need to be complicated. Just enjoy life. Sit and watch the clouds float by without useing fifty pages to describe what's happening. Watch the quail run across your yard. Snap a few picturees of a deer and say "look mom! No hands!".

Life is simple and unassuming, if you let it be.

In other words, don't put on airs, just be yourself.

-J.

A very amusing phrase for introducing an Asyncritus-length post!

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"All year long the grasshopper kept burying acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. And also, he got a racecar."

No clips on the Internet tonight at all.

What a load of fucking tripe. Without intellectuals you would not have the computer that essay was originally written on, you would not have an ice cold pepsi, let alone the bauxite refining process that made the can. Deride intellectuals all you want, but without us, the people who use so many words to describe going to the moon, or breaking the sound barrier... Those things, those monumentous achievements, would not have been possible. They would have been simple decisions. Simple decisions with no implementation.

I'll gladly do without all of those things if it means we get rid of pretentious assholes who think they are better than guys who sweat for a living.

You know, I have never met any scientist or engineer (OK, maybe an engineer) who thinks they are qualitatively better than anyone else.

I am curious as to where this idea comes from.

I usually use this excuse for the armed forces, but I look at myself and see what I am suited for. I think I can serve mannkind better being an intellectual than not.

Exactly. It is what I am good at. I readily admit that a construction worker is MUCH better than me at, say, building a house. All of the bioengineering in the world is useless without a farmer to plant the damn crops (or a factory worker who grows it in a bio-factory... but that is a future development...)

Ummmmm...okay.

Let's look at this again. The topic is, People who think they're intellectuals. It's the guy that uses 5 and 6 syllable words just to say something a short sentence would solve. We have a guy like that at work. He speaks slowly, because you can hear his brain squeaking as he tries to create large words to say instead of just saying it like it is. For example:

If I were to ask:

When will we know that our checks have been direct deposited in the bank?


He would ask:

Whenever the incident... or occurrence of...uh... the direct deposited checks enter the bank system... and have been automated ... in the processes of the fiduciary system...uh... ... how will we be alerted... to this... latest financial...uh...development?

He's an idiot. He has no idea what he's saying, and it takes him forever just to answer a simple question.

By the way, has anyone yet noticed the irony of sounding like an intellectual, yet the original post itself is filled with such examples?

-J.

Fair enough, and I did notice the irony. However it is worth noting that the author was so... convoluted himself that he was only talking about faux intellectuals and not slamming intellectualism itself was not clear.

Those people aren't intellectuals. They're pseudointellectuals. Their normal IQ range is between 105 and 120 -- just high enough to impress themselves, not high enough to impress those who really know a subject. That's why they spend their time spouting off.

The real question is: Did anyone not notice it?

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TLDR

People who call themselves intellectuals are NOT.

You are awake at this hour??

One of my little sisters used to date a guy like that. (This was 35 years ago or so, back when my sibs were dating age.) He was great. He knew everything.

Once I made a joke about instant ice-cubes: Just add water and freeze!

He didn't catch that it was a joke. He said, "Yeah, I've seen that on sale in the supermarket." When I told him it was a joke, he went on and on about it, insisting he had seen it and explaining how it works.

Maybe I should have tried selling him instant ice cubes...

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It's 7:30 a.m. where she is. What's strange about that?

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It's the weekend.

She should be sleeping till at least 10:00 AM!

I leave that to teenagers...

Goddamnit... my rep is supposed to say: "even if you don't care for dictionaries, there's no shame in using a spell-checker." But I haven't had my 1st coffee yet, so my fingers are still asleep.

Double post. The next one is the finished one.

Actually, I do use a spell checker and I often go over a post several times before I post, but oftens still don't catch a mistake. Still, it's not bad spelling but poor typing.

JUSTLEE...

You are.. Just.. Lee?

I AM Just LEE! For I am JUST! And I am LEE!

And one day I shall have my vengance upon thee!

I crown thy good with brotherhood
From Lee to shining LEE!
HA!

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I am not drubnk ethr.

Most of the engineers and scientists I know who come up with the things you mention would beat the shit out of you for insulting them by calling them intellectual.

Anyway, concerning the topic: the post condemns more than just people who think they're intellectuals. Anything 'complicated' is out, according to Justlee. And what is complicated? Anything Justlee is not interested in. To hell with 'crimson', red is red, nothing else. So fuck poetry, we don't need it. Photography is out, too, all that nonsense about light and shadows, what's the point? You know what, screw all art, it's too 'inteelectjual'. You eat, you drink, you shit, you have sex - that's all there should be to life. 'Just gimme my coke, my wench and my catfish and I'll be just fine'.

Of course, that coke would be brown water in a bucket and his 'wench' would be constantly pregnant and dressed in rags - who needs condoms and fashion, right? If he got ill, he'd die, because medicine is too complex, so nobody should be allowed to study it, and if you say otherwise, he'll kill you, because that's what you do if you disagree. Fuck negotiations, let's fight. And fight he would, out of boredom. No tv, no radio, all too complex. In fact, isn't it better to just catch that catfish with your bare hands? Justlee grunts. I can no longer determine if that's a yes or a no, but that doesn't matter. Language is too complex anyway.

But seriously - of course there are intellectuals who think they are better than others. You can find assholes anywhere. It's not fair to say they are pseudo-intellectuals with IQs below 120. First of all, IQ is no guarantee for anything. There are factory workers and truck drivers with IQs above the 98th percentile. That doesn't make them intellectuals. And I am sure there are intellectuals with IQs below that level. A high IQ doesn't mean you can't be a pretentious prick.

However, it is equally arrogant to say that anyone engaged in complex activities, using more complex language than you do, or in fact anyone who knows more than you do on a given subject, is someone who has no friends, no fun, no life, someone who isn't even part of the human race. Live and let live, Justlee. You're condemning people who are not like you - which is exactly what you accuse others of.

Life may be simple, when reduced to basics. But civilization is complex, and both you and I enjoy the benefits of it.

Snob.