Posted on 07/17/2006 6:09:55 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
You assume your life is screwed up and nobody likes you because your smarter then them.
Freaks.
FWIW, the most popular girl in my high school also got into harvard and had the 2nd (or 3rd) highest GPA.
The actual valedictorian, had high grades, but absolutly no social skills (he was a nice kid though, and no, people didn't pick on him, he just didn't know how to socialize).
If you act like your smarter then everyone else, or carry an attitude or act like an elitist, yea, people are not going to like you, they will think your a jerk and treat you like one.
Sometimes I wonder if alot of people who are liberal, do so, or act so, because they want to be misfits and stick out and be some kind of underdog so they can blame their lot in life on "society".
Kind of like a fall back, sort of if I act this way and do this, and no one likes me, its their fault, instead of my fault (note that libs rarely ever blame themselves).
My artwork was stolen at the school. Evidently someone liked my work a little too much... ;-)
Stow it all in a shotgun case. It should fit easily. No one will dare call you dopey-looking.
I could quote Shakespeare here, but I assume everyone here already made this leap.
I do have a question, though. Can you carry my lipstick?
Second reaction went immediately to George Trepal, neighbor killer and Mensa member. He was eventually trapped by a lowly law enforcement officer.
*snicker*
Basically, your both wrong, basically.
i went to lutheran schools my whole life- and there was no effort made to seek out nor accomodate "gifted" students- after all, god loves everyone equally, right...? had i been in public schools, i would most likely have been skipped ahead- instead i was pretty much told to "hold back" to be fair to the other kids.OK, Charles, enough to make you sell your Martin Luther Bobblehead yet?
[A DUmmie blames the Lutherans for being a misfit.]
I am now a classic underacheiver who has struggeled with depression and substance abuse issues for most of my adult life. I do ok - have a decent job, etc. but I deeply unsatisfied with my life. I feel like I think everything through too much and come up with the notion that most of what goes on in daily life is just pointless. I think part of that is depression, but I believe my thinking is what gets me depressed in the first place.
Fully sanctioned by Lutheran Minister Nephew-In-Law, who owns one.
I thought this was the most remarkable entry in this thread...and that is a competitive field. The poster (or do I mean poser?) who had "been reading at High (sic) school level or higher at age 4." He then tops that statement by saying he "put the book back on the shelf and vowed to have many life experiences so that everything in that philosophy book would ring true when I was older." Yes, those four year old vows are pretty impressive! I am imagining this child standing at the shelf with his Kant tome, declaring "this I vow." It is somewhat similar to Scarlett O'Hara's "I'll never go hungry again" moment. I really have to assume that this was satire. It is too over the top even for this thread... isn't it?
Can you do something with words 'lose' and 'loose'?
'The Philosopher's Drinking Song'
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out consume
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'bout the raisin' of the wrist.
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away,
'alf a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
and Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
-- Monty Python
Hey, is Old Lutheran your site? I visited there and ordered a T-Shirt. It has some fun stuff!!
What's really funny is that when I DUmpster-dive, I sometimes find posts that make it clear that the DUmmies think that FREEPERS couldn't spell "huge" or "serious", and they're making fun of us for something THEY did.
:-D
Darn that discipline and motivation! :-D
BTW, I *love* that old Far Side cartoon. It's perfect!
*smirk*
The DUFU just screams for this particular cartoon. SOMEONE NEEDS TO PHOTOSHOP THE DARN THING. You know - play with the sign, put a Kerry/Edwards logo somewhere etc
Paging FReeper dead. Your assignment, FReeper dead, should you choose to accept it, is the cartoon at post 193. Thanks!
Well I am not going to read the thread to see how many others have said this, but how typcial of Dims to claim their talents are a disability and they are victims.
Fun stuff, indeed! Alas, I will always be scarred by being born into a *looks over shouler, warily* Catholic, Slavic family. I married into the Lutheran lifestyle.
I did find this a Cafe Press and got it for FIL for Christmas one year. He loves it:
One down, one to go. Do you think MIL will be won over if I showed up in these? Nah, me neither....
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