People Who Think They're Intellectuals

Anti-snob snob.

Elitist snobby snob.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

I find that something you may want to try with JUSTLEE is TIDR: Too Ignored, Didn't Read. JUSTLEE makes baby baba look like Albert Einstein IMO.

Intellectuals with booby avatars.

The world needs more of these.

Dear Jesus, I have never read a better explanation of the conservative mode of thought. All is simple. All is black and white. Education is poo-poo except when you belong to the ruling elite. Go work and consume and don't use your brain (because you could discover what a merry bunch of lying bastards we really are).

Bah. I'm an intellectual and a snob...and I'm proud of it.

Wow. The decision probably wasn't even all that simple. And if it was really just a "simple" matter of "Let's beat Russia to it!" there still had to be complicated budgeting, complicated design, complicated test-runs, complicated experiments that took complicated planning, complicated everything!

Or maybe not so much complicated as complex.

Still, going to the moon was no simple thing. The decision itself may have been simple, but getting there was a lot of complex hard work that required a lot of thinking from a lot of people.

Ecclesiastes 7:6.

Is that what it takes to get you to read it?

"I'm looking for a smart woman in a real short skirt."
---Jimmy Buffett

And what shall we call people who denigrate others based on their IQ?

I don't know. My IQ's not that high.

IQ is bullshit.
Someone with a 120 IQ who reads and thinks the way a bodybuilder pumps will be smarter than someone with a 160 IQ who just farts around in a cloud of their own ego.

I don't see that as denigrating people based on their IQ, but rather based upon their vast overestimation of their own IQ. People who are just smart but are told all their life that they're brilliant and believe it turn into George Will, and that's a very bad thing.

So....just because my momma said I'm smart......doesn't make it true?

Damn you momma - why did you lie to meeeeee?!?!??!??!

Funny, I see that example as corollary to what I just said, yet I DO see it as denigrating people by IQ.

You're possibly the wisest mind in this dump.

Boy... the responses in this thread would fill a twenty page paper on psychology should a psychologist decide to study the responses.

Considering who made that post, I couldn't help hearing "...and of course mine is *far* superior..." in the pauses.

I don't know any other poster who feels compelled to remind us ever so frequently of what a brilliant scholar he is, right down to the hoity-toity username and the use of Greek in his avatar.

Talk about Wordforge's Official Pseudo Intellectual...where's Diacanu's Mincing Fop when we need him?

Hey, that's only the half truth.

Not just clear...crystal clear.

I think you overestimate the similarities the rest of the human race has with your sexual tendencies....



...but then again...

Uh...even life isn't THAT simple.

You cant defame intellectuals on the basis that they're smarter than you, and thus must have a terrible life. Just because a person enjoys the sounds of certain words better than others, and so chooses to use them, doesnt make them a social outcast.

Set themselves apart from who? You think the rest of humanity sits around drinking, sleeping, having sex, and harboring ill-will towards those that applaud creativity and complex works? I personally it incredibly interesting to watch a clockwork unfold, be it in any field of expertise.

Being an intellectual doesnt mean you neglect your friends and loved ones.

It also doesnt mean you're an eavesdropping, nosy gossip. Nor does it follow that your friends and loved ones are idiots compared to you as an intellectual. It's very likely that your parents are the ones that taught you the importance of education.

No respectful intellectual is going to purposefully alienate less educated friends and loved ones by blatantly using a plethera of "big words" to seperate themselves from the rest of the world.

One of those lessons being that the ants, more willing to create a method of stockpiling, thrived, and the grasshopper, living as simple as life can be, died off because he wanted to sit back and watch the smarter creatures do honest work, and criticize them.

I doubt many medical complications arise from extensive vocabulary study.

Though that does create a funny picture in my head of a doctor rushing a defibrillator into an etymology classroom. Poor bastard overdosed on Latin derivatives.

You wouldnt make much of a poet.

Oh, but then came the mastermind behind marination. And the catfish becomes more delicious.

And the curious intellectual that decided to document all the erogenous zones to share with every man to help please their women. Or the kama sutra.

Some intellectual had to come up with the right ingredients.

Im pretty sure Einstein could've enjoyed a cold Pepsi, and Im pretty sure Steven Hawking has a hankering for some sex from time to time.

However, long jokes that make you wonder until the punchline can and seem to be, and generally are even more hilarious.

a. The construct that makes your life enjoyable is complex.
b. Those decisions were NOT simple. There's a financial point a country has to meet, and a bit of physics involved in shooting a space ship off the face of the planet, and landing it on the face of a moon.

Who invented the camera?

Life is as simple as you can make it, but you have to recognize the necessity of intellectuals. They are the forefront individuals for making life even simpler. I mean, if I ever met the man that invented the hammock, I'd have to grovel at his feet.

You cant just sit around smelling flowers all day, you have to be educated to survive in this world, and education is a wonderful thing. Being an intellectual is not a horrible thing. It can be used for good, and it can be used for bad.

It doesn't make you an outcast, it doesnt make you incapable of caring for your loved ones, or them to you.

You're overestimating the negative activities of the general population of intellectuals.

Well, I certainly could be projecting a criticism of my own pet peeves into his post. Pseudointellectuals who think they're a lot smarter than they really are, who think they understand things they really don't, and who spout off on allegedly intellectual theory they don't understand while denigrating empirical reality--you know: libertarians and communists, not a one of whom could pass a rigorous econ 101 class--really annoy me.

[Ironic Spock] I will never understand the human propensity for expressing in ten words that which can as easily be expresed in five. [/Ironic Spock]

We used to have a woman at work who fancied herself an intellectual. Picture a mental cross between Diane Chambers from Cheers and Dick Cavitt. While she was undoubtedly intelligent, she was annoying about it. She'd never let you forget how smart she thought she was.

Examples -
Me: "I read that landfills are twice as full now as ten years ago."
Her: "By weight or by volume?"
Me:

While discussing the Kennedy assassination -
Her: "Oh, I don't know why anyone was so surprised about that, even I saw that that coming!"
Me: "How old were you at the time!?"
Her: "Seven"
me:

While discussing an interesting device I saw on the news that compressed local dirt into bricks for building no-cost houses in poor African villages:
Her: "You don't need to haul that big thing around, they can just build Air Sructures!" (Air structures are inflated tents, like the Army uses for temporary barracks in Iraq. Her husband manufactured them, and it was all we heard about for a while). Needless to say, they're NOT as sturdy or permament as brick houses!

But, ya know, she was a Mensa member, and we were poor plebes, so she HAD to be right all the time!

If you think about it, that's not actually as stupid as it sounds. Obviously you were referring to the increased volume, but it's possible that she was thinking ahead to the possible consequences -- the time it would take to decompose, etc. -- which relate to the actual quantity of garbage as determined by its weight.

I see what you mean, though. And the Diane Chambers description was quite effective.