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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
... I work my intellect hard at work around 60 hours most weeks with teaching, research work etc.
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Someone that's snooty and serious all the time--even in their hobbies, really isn't a person worth knowing IMO. Such people tend to be full of themselves, and be judgmental pricks that look down on others they feel have inferior tastes--and you seem to be teetering into that category based on your posts in that thread....
I'll throw you on my ignore list as I'd have no patience for elitist folks who go around judging others tastes you are doing here, with acting like some authority in labeling who is or isn't an intellectual. And I'll throw this thread on ignore as well, as all's been said that needs to be said on this topic and it's just becoming an aggravation.
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Hm, a little hypocritical, for someone who just one post earlier insulted the fictional toilet-scrubbing woman.
And such superior attitude is based on what? Because, as you keep repeating, you have a PHD?!
Frankly, anyone with enough perseverance, enough free time and available government loans, and maybe an IQ above 70, can get a PHD from a third-rate school. And then make blanket statements about those who clean his toilets.
And of course, just as you claim that literature does not play a role in building one's intellect (this presumably includes all those non-intellectual lit profs), others assert that social sciences are there, just so that the lazier and the not-so-bright can get in a few better grades....
With such attitude toward discourse and variety of opinion, I pity your students. I can only assume that you place some of the brighter ones on your "ignore" list as well.
Cheers, hope it's a good 12-pack!
