I agree, I'm sorry you're feeling down, but I think you've had all the responses and opinions you're going to get and you're starting to sound a bit desperate now. That too isn't very attractive.
Sorry I don't mean to hurt your feelings, just another woman's point of view.
Mine's fake, can't stand all the mess with the real ones.
But...and I haven't read all the posts so I hope I don't offend anbody...it has to be green and look authentic, not those awful silver or white trees, they're just tacky!
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our children to rationalise and think critically than some of the practical skills they are taught today which become outdated very quickly.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.
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect".
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in the meantime.
It's Karaoke night!
That's quite difficult to sing, but I like duets too, not so nerve-racking!