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Good thread detente.

I agree intellectualism is important, much better to train our children to rationalise and think critically than some of the practical skills they are taught today which become outdated very quickly.

Anti-intellectualism is a dangerous thing, look back through history and you will see just how much persecution has been suffered under the various regimes who feared these people. Governments don't really want us to think, it can be subversive!

I don't believe intellectuals are necessarily cold people either, great poets for example must have a lot of passion and emotion to write the way do, but there is a skill, I believe, in putting across intellectual views which do not turn off the reader or listener.

Intellectuals are not an elite group of people, yet many fear them because they believe they are.

Sadly it's preferable to worship dopey 'celebrities' these days.

Great post Jan !!

Intellectuality neednt relate to education. The ability to reason , think and express without blindly following a bandwagon is sure the beginning but as you tread along the road a higher and broader understanding of the schema of things is " Intellectual " IMO.

Absolutely!

Many of the cleverest, wisest people i've ever met have been un-educated/self educated and without any formal educational qualifications, like myself.

They simply knew how to think clearly - without fuss and with very great clarity of insight and judgement.

This business of deifying the supposed 'intellectual elte' is fruitless and damaging.

Thankyou for the compliment ..

Riya just for clarity's sake

that post should have read-

Detente Posted:
"As for the fragrant Riya, alas, India is but a dream."




to which I responded;

It's better to shoot for the stars and hit a streetlamp than it is to die with your guns blazing into the ground.

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not that I wouldnt compliment you , errrrr be comlimentary to you...
but the words were detente's





<----one boobie playing with the other.

Sh*t stirrer.

Bump.

morning my boobage luvin compatriot...







*putting elton john cd in player...*



to all your bumps

Don't go listenin' to that filthy 'Don't Let The Son Go Down On Me' on...shocking imagery!

Greetings my artistically cerebral chum!

Riya just for clarity's sake

that post should have read-

Detente Posted:
"As for the fragrant Riya, alas, India is but a dream."




to which I responded;

It's better to shoot for the stars and hit a streetlamp than it is to die with your guns blazing into the ground.

---

not that I wouldnt compliment you , errrrr be comlimentary to you...
but the words were detente's





<----one boobie playing with the other.

imagery I could do without, planted no doubt by your evil need to dstract me from the real issue at hand...

replacing elton cd with- Jackyl: "She Loves My Cock"

Hmm.. so thankyou detente ?

or Thankyou both of you ?

Who is this chicken lovin' hussy? Never heard of the erstwhile Jackyl...Jacklyn...whatever.

Hmm.. so thankyou detente ?

or Thankyou both of you ?

BnaturAl's thoughts are like a vast fruit salad Riya: take what you want from them, but not too much or you'll have tummy ache and be visiting the toilets for the rest of the day.

Good thread detente.

I agree intellectualism is important, much better to train our children to rationalise and think critically than some of the practical skills they are taught today which become outdated very quickly.

Anti-intellectualism is a dangerous thing, look back through history and you will see just how much persecution has been suffered under the various regimes who feared these people. Governments don't really want us to think, it can be subversive!

I don't believe intellectuals are necessarily cold people either, great poets for example must have a lot of passion and emotion to write the way do, but there is a skill, I believe, in putting across intellectual views which do not turn off the reader or listener.

Intellectuals are not an elite group of people, yet many fear them because they believe they are.

Sadly it's preferable to worship dopey 'celebrities' these days.

BnaturAl's thoughts are like a vast fruit salad Riya: take what you want from them, but not too much or you'll have tummy ache and be visiting the toilets for the rest of the day.