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Communicating with the "Highly Educated"

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Submitted by casseia on Sun, 2008-02-17 04:15.

Over at the Trough, "Diane" seems to have put her foot in her mouth in the thread regarding the 9/11 Truth Movement entry at Wikipedia. She's backpedaling now, after a number of folks have taken exception to her assertion that most Truthers aren't able to communicate with "the highly educated" (not being highly educated themselves, by implication.) So now she's saying she wasn't talking about any of them, but rather, people who have recently left (sic).

I'm not sure she realizes that we ARE the highly educated. Harrumph.

Anyway, she's going to have to learn the hard way. Petros' excellent essay on why 'experts' are no more capable of seeing the Emperor's naked bod was pearls cast before Diane.
http://truthaction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12518#12518

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casseia's picture

A ha!

Submitted by casseia on Sun, 2008-02-17 04:16.

The irony was not lost on one of the LESS educated denizens of the Trough...

Of course, Harvard's got nuthin' on Reed. Did I mention I was Phi Beta Kappa?

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petros's picture

Speaking of Multisexual Polygendered Sororities

Submitted by petros (not verified) on Sun, 2008-02-17 07:44.

...did I ever mention that I'm life-long member of
Lamda Sigma Delta?

Here's a closely related link, published on the Day After September 11:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Entheogens/message/1832

Petros

http://petros-evdokas.cyprus-org.net/Another-sort-of-Introduction.html

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bruce1337's picture

Tau Eta Gamma's an irie crowd, too.

Submitted by bruce1337 on Sun, 2008-02-17 11:14.

;-)

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Big_D's picture

LOL. Education's a touchy subject over there.

Submitted by Big_D on Sun, 2008-02-17 11:42.

Danse's still smarting over the embarrassment of a Filipino scoring a higher IQ.

Though, despite one's formal education, or lack of, it's difficult to sound intelligent when you speak out of two sides of your head. I'm not a mathematician but I damn well know 2 + 2 ≠ 5.

In my opinion, I would much rather know something about everything than everything about one thing. (Sooo glad I didn't go for that history major what with the disparity between 'official history' and reality, can you imagine?)

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bruce1337's picture

to paraphrase:

Submitted by bruce1337 on Sun, 2008-02-17 18:18.

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing."

--Nicholas Murray Butler

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larry horse's picture

or this old standby

Submitted by larry horse on Sun, 2008-02-17 21:55.

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."

-Socrates

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