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To: Dan Day
May you someday come to know even a tenth of the amount of knowledge that Asimov knew well enough to teach to millions of others. . .Your sort of transparently false cheap shot reflects far more on yourself than it does on Asimov. . .you. . .cram him into a narrow, stereotypical mental pigeonhole of your choosing. . .You remind me of the parable of the blind men attempting to describe the elephant...

QED. The signature of humanistic elitists is they always attract groupies who see intelligence as a good in itself and who become emotionally upset and engage in vicious personal attacks when someone points out that their idol is average at best.

102 posted on 03/13/2002 5:16:35 AM PST by LarryLied
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To: LarryLied
QED. The signature of humanistic elitists is they always attract groupies who see intelligence as a good in itself and who become emotionally upset and engage in vicious personal attacks when someone points out that their idol is average at best.

Oh, for pete's sake -- you must be a troll, because only trolls can be so self-contradictory (in an attempt to get people aggravated by their illogic).

You started the personal attacks, son. Rather than discuss Asimov's life or works in a reflective manner, you chose to personally demean him, insult his fans, and show a lot of emotion in the way you expressed your anger and disgust.

Then you made patently ridiculous claims like "never learned a thing in his entire life." This is ludicrous. Maybe you're miffed because he didn't dedicate his life towards the sort of things *you* seem to feel are more important, but that's a different thing entirely from your laughable accusation that he "never learned a thing in his entire life." On the contrary, Asimov was amazingly knowledgeable on *dozens* of fields of study, and only a petulant child would try to deny that out of some strange anti-intellectual bigotry.

Your small-minded pettiness does you no credit. Don't try to write that off as *my* problem.

If you can't keep some shred of perspective in your rants, if you can't remain civil, and if you can't keep your own emotion out of it, then spare me your self-righteous arrogance.

In short, grow up.

I think your real problem is when folks consider anyone else (like Asimov) to be as smart as you believe yourself to be. Your posts here drip with an overtone of, "how dare that imposter get accolades when my own brilliance is so unappreciated."

143 posted on 03/13/2002 11:55:02 PM PST by Dan Day
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