I am a stupid expert.

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Eeset

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According to Tambora in another thread I am intent on being stupid or something to that effect. I agree.

You see I marvel at the intellect, knowledge, sophistication and sheer brilliance of everyone I come into contact with. I am humbled by the insights, wisdom and analytic abilities of those who flock to TOL to educate me. I am truly unworthy of their graciousness.

I am but a simple sinner. Many times over. My path is not yours nor can it ever be. And yet not withstanding the different roads traveled our destinies are identical. And when I reach home the words on the mantle engraved in gold inlaid in alabaster will say "neither do I condemn thee". And below the hearth will be a small unassuming clutch embroidered with the words "everything a stupid expert needs to know". It will, of course, be empty.
 
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Hi Eeset,
I do not think you are stupid! (Though you may be more comfortable with conflict here than I think you should be.)

However, this reminded me of a story with a happy ending about a little girl that I think may have been a true account:

She got separated from her mom and after some hours of being lost and thinking they were at strip mall not far from her neighborhood - she decided to walk home.

Soon she was still lost but trying to find a street that looked familiar.

Thankfully a cop found her and picked her up and soon they were both trying and failing to find her home.

And then she remembered a church with a big cross on the side of it that was close to her house. So she told the policeman, " Please just get me to the cross and I will be able to find my way home."
 
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rainee said:
Hi Eeset,
I do not think you are stupid! (Though you may be more comfortable with conflict here than I think you should ."
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Nope. Eeset got a Masters at the school of Believe your own BS.


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Eeset said:
According to Tambora in another thread I am intent on being stupid or something to that effect. I agree.

You see I marvel at the intellect, knowledge, sophistication and sheer brilliance of everyone I come into contact with. I am humbled by the insights, wisdom and analytic abilities of those who flock to TOL to educate me. I am truly unworthy of their graciousness.

I am but a simple sinner. Many times over. My path is not yours nor can it ever be. And yet not withstanding the different roads traveled our destinies are identical. And when I reach home the words on the mantle engraved in gold inlaid in alabaster will say "neither do I condemn thee". And below the hearth will be a small unassuming clutch embroidered with the words "everything a stupid expert needs to know". It will, of course, be empty.
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Stupid ... nah. Conniving. Yep.
 
doloresistere

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My apologies for being overly harsh with you. You have purposeful obtuseness and are deliberately ambiguous in your conversation, but far from stupid.
 
noguru

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I prefer "educated idiot" to "stupid expert". I think an expert has to actually be able to appropriately and practically apply knowledge. So a stupid person cannot actually be an expert. Perhaps Tambora is referring to the saying "Those who cannot do, teach." But I do not think that is universally accurate.

A person may have theoretical knowledge, but be unable to apply that knowledge. Or a person may have memorized a lot of facts without making any wise connection between those fact. Either case might qualify as "educated idiot". I have not seen enough of your posts, or seen how you apply your knowledge enough to know if you qualify. Perhaps only you can answer that question. I can tell you one thing, I don't become overly concerned with just any person's opinion of me. I would have to see that they actually had a grasp on the exact aspect of their criticism of me before I would consider their opinion. Other than that I do not obsess over what others think of me.
 
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staind.raindrop said:
I'm not saying i know what's going on here, i just wanted to point out that one can be foolish without being stupid.
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I agree. That is usually from either a lack of focus (clarity of mind) and/or the inability to prioritize. No one is foolish all the time, and no one is wise all the time. Each individual circumstance may bring a different response in that regard. Though all those individual situations can be dealt with in the best possible way with clarity of mind and thorough prioritization.
 
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noguru said:
I agree. That is usually from either a lack of focus (clarity of mind) and/or the inability to prioritize. No one is foolish all the time, and no one is wise all the time. Each individual circumstance may bring a different response in that regard. Though all those individual situations can be dealt with in the best possible way with clarity of mind and thorough prioritization.
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Indeed. Folly is a choice. Stupidity isn't.
 
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