My consistent "specialty field" has been nurses, PAs, and OTs. The vast majority of women I've messed around with were in those fields.
As for post-modernism, I hate it.
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My consistent "specialty field" has been nurses, PAs, and OTs. The vast majority of women I've messed around with were in those fields.
As for post-modernism, I hate it.
Okay. Since this comes up in almost every thread LiquidMidnight posts in, what is postmodernism?
I have tried looking it up on the net, but the concept has proven to be more evasive than libertarianism.*
*I say, boy, that's a joke. A joke, son.
I have tried looking it up on the net, but the concept has proven to be more evasive than libertarianism.*
*I say, boy, that's a joke. A joke, son.
Didn't know that I was associated with postmodernism on here. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. 
Huh, I didn't realize that I mentioned it that much. Well, I guess now I'll be all self-conscious about it. I suppose I should talk about modernism to counterbalance things.
I suppose I should talk about modernism to counterbalance things.
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Transhumanism is growing in popularity. It's a stepping stone towards post-humanism, arguably.
Didn't know that I was associated with postmodernism on here. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
I do associate you a bit with post-structuralism, which is as bad.
You're just making it worst
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one does not simply... read Foucault.
ok, enough
You're just making it worst
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one does not simply... read Foucault.
ok, enough
Where did you get these, I need more!
I agree. People who talk just for the sake of talking are just trying to impress others with their verbal "vomit" (excuse the imagery). Tons of words, but often little to say or little info to convey. Know-it-all's would certainly fall in this category, because IME most of what they say is not only wrong (or not wrong, but based on little or just their own opinion), but decorated with plenty of useless words and synonyms of what they just said.
People who only talk when needed or when there is something to add to a conversation/ debate often go straight to the point, but not before considering alternative points of view and scenarios in their head.
The latter sounds way smarter to me.
Nah. I tend to think they belong to the same herd, but they only show their actual lack of knowledge in opposite ways.
Neither one is healthy. Accepting you don't know everything is one step, the next one is to go out there and learn about what you don't know. We all know we won't know it all there is about life and existence in one or a hundred lifetimes, but we can all strive to know a bit more of something we need or want every day.
This all depends on the context of course. I get as irritated with babbling as anyone else, but there are situations where I don't mind sitting down with a group of people and listening to everyone think out loud--that's a messy process, but many intelligent people aren't always able to immediately articulate what they're getting at.
If there's a single answer to a problem, you want someone to get to the point and explain it. If you're in a group thats trying to tackle a new problem with no pre-set solution, it's often revealing and useful to listen to each (intelligent) person try to make sense of it in his own way. Of course that's still not a pass for people that want an excuse to be pedantic (or worse yet, to relate every single angle of a discussion to some tangential personal anecdote), or the folks who don't think at all before they speak.
Maybe it's just me, but when someone smarter than me cuts straight to a clean solution, I miss out a bit on seeing how they arrived at it and learning from them.
Yes, of course. Brainstorming is just as useful a process to finding a solution as figuring it out straight up (whenever possible). But I believe that even in it's chaotic madness, brainstorming still needs some structure to work and yield results. And it certainly doesn't help when someone is too pedantic or too eager to talk without at least thinking about the process for a few seconds.
And maybe, if someone smart cuts straight to a clean solution, he or she should probably tell the others in his/her team about how he/she came up with the solution in the first place. If he/she belongs to a team, this should be necessary for all others to understand where he/she is coming from.
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Funny that , it may seem easier than scissors but scissors will not force the support hand to grate against the newly formed sharp surface of those fort knox packages.
/household know-it-all off
/household know-it-all off
