Well dear, I'm thinking that you are beyond help, you and el richo.

Yes I dooooooooooooooooooo

Go and wee wee


You just aren't getting it.

How dare you presume to lecture me on the central problem of my life? Your own husband's inability to appreciate you "talking poetry and such" is, once again, a commentary on your own situation rather than anyone else's.

As I said in an earlier post, "I shall remember that next time I'm in the opera house, symphony hall, theatre, gallery, museum....." - or singing in a choral concert, or playing in an orchestra, or reading literature or poetry, or any other of the pursuits I'm obviously not equipped to enjoy.

As to your comment to Fledermaus - if your understanding of a university education is that you rely on the rich knowledge of your professors rather than reading around the subject for yourself, then - with appropriate apologies to Novocastrian - you're missing the better part of the educational experience. The difference between being a school pupil and a university student appears to have passed you by. If you don't take in any more than your professors teach you, how do you challenge their perspectives? How do you engage in serious intellectual debate? QED, I suspect.

Why?

Because i have clearly shown you contradicting your own beliefs and that i questioned why you have gone from a debate on a generic university education to a defined university education?

How very dare you!

I understand that you're out of your depth here, and that's perfectly ok. It's ok to be incorrect and to be mediocre.

I know he doesn't understand finer points otherwise he would understand what I'm saying.


Well I'm taking a break for tea....and another stab at the multi quote mystery.

Sorry pedants, if someone could spell it out it might help.

I can't say I blame him. But that's probably because I'm a Pisces.

(apologies to mods for doing a butch - but it was quite hard to resist)

You are all way too serious for my liking.

I think I should post somewhere else I don't fit in, I'll never fit in!


I'm not intelligent enough apparently


Tea time.....and a kleenex

I know i'm not taking this seriously and i have a sneaky feeling that you're one of the minority who are

That said, it's nice to see you accepting your mediocrity

As for the kleenex, do you not highlight this as a pre-requisite over the shipping report?


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An increasingly odd Tom Cruise

In Kate's defense, I don't think anyone is suggesting you can't be a good person without formal education, it just means you're a bit thick. My Nan was a wonderful lady, never stole anything, never swore, made a wonderful roast dinner, but her understanding of Wittgenstein's private language argument was rudimentary at best.

Ah, so you're a classicist, then? You'll no doubt be familiar with the inscription over the entrance to Plato's Academy, whence derives much of Western philosophy and thus the intellectual capacity to appreciate the high arts.

Ἀγεωμέτρητο� �‚ μηδεὶς εἰσίτω
Roughly: Let nobody who doesn't understand geometry enter this place.

See - they understood even in ancient Greece that a rounded education includes both the liberal arts and the natural sciences - so much so that it wasn't until after the Enlightenment that a distinction between the two branches of knowledge was made.

Oh good heavens, no! My dear, if we were taking this, or you, seriously we'd have put you on "ignore" pages and pages ago.

El Richo's advice holds true: if you stop trying to be something you're not we shall probably get along famously, but where would be the fun in that?

But wasn't it fundamental to Plato's epistemology that ordinary people simply watched shadows on the wall and only philosophers/educated people could see the light and thus understand the truth?

Shhh! You'll undermine my point if you start posting truthiness like that

You're right, of course. But Plato was a proto-communist, and was thus discredited after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Can I put the goalposts over there now?