Dude, lay off the acid for a while...
>> ^chingalera:

...vague nonsensical ramblings...

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>> ^Velocity5:

@SDGundamX
The connection between your comment and my response is: People in her position would indeed be happier with what I'm suggesting. Excel at useful skills, contribute to society, and reap more satisfying career outcomes.
Don't glorify wastes of time.
You're making accusations of trolling and non sequiturs as a reaction to being exposed to intellectualism different from your own.


Do one thing for me.


Define your use of the word "useful" and let me know if everyone in the world agrees with that definition.

To this girl, doing what she did very well may be considered by and by many as "useful". It's a relative term.

You are failing to see the intangible strengths she is displaying by pursuing and accomplishing this goal of hers. Strengths that are easily transferable and applicable to "useful" careers.

>> ^Velocity5:

@SDGundamX
The connection between your comment and my response is: People in her position would indeed be happier with what I'm suggesting. Excel at useful skills, contribute to society, and reap more satisfying career outcomes.
Don't glorify wastes of time.
You're making accusations of trolling and non sequiturs as a reaction to being exposed to intellectualism different from your own.


I'm making an accusation of non sequitur because that's exactly what your response was. My original comment was sarcastic for brevity's sake and basically said she should be more like you, a person who surfs the Internet and judges people based on YouTube clips. Your response was nonsensical--it basically said yes, she'd be much happier with that career. In fact, my initial reply to your comment was going to be something along the lines of: "Your career is to surf the Internet and judge the worth of people's lives? How much does that pay?"

Since you've clearly missed the illocutionary force of my sarcasm, let me break down the original comment for you a bit more bluntly.

You don't know jack shit about this girl aside from what you've seen of her in a 3 minute local news clip. You don't her goals and aspirations, her grades, whether or not she volunteers, has a part-time job already etc. and yet somehow you feel qualified to judge her life as a waste of time. You protest that she should be doing something for humanity without seeing the irony of the fact that by surfing the Net and commenting on videos you yourself are doing absolutely less for humanity than she is (at least she entertained thousands of people... can't say the same about your comments, sadly).

I didn't think anyone was ignorant or self-absorbed enough to NOT see the irony in your comments and thus concluded you were a troll. My sincerest apologies if I was wrong about that.

I still think you're trolling. In fact, I hope you are. Because the alternative is pretty sad.

>> ^Velocity5:

@SDGundamX
The connection between your comment and my response is: People in her position would indeed be happier with what I'm suggesting. Excel at useful skills, contribute to society, and reap more satisfying career outcomes.
Don't glorify wastes of time.
You're making accusations of trolling and non sequiturs as a reaction to being exposed to intellectualism different from your own.


"Socially, “intellectualism” negatively connotes: single-mindedness of purpose (“too much attention to thinking”) and emotional coldness (“the absence of affection and feeling”)"

Describes you perfectly really. Who says wiki's aren't useful...

And I don't think I'm far wrong by guessing we have a philosophy major on our hands here folks. The telltales being overwhelming arrogance, pomposity and condescension masquerading as a genuine care for the greater good... Most likely from a person who has never actually accomplished anything more significant than perfecting a haughty sneer.

I suspect you're trolling, so I'm going to let that complete non sequitur of a reply to my comment that you made stand for itself.

>> ^Velocity5:

@SDGundamX, Yes, she would of course be happier in a great career.
The tools to do that shouldn't be restricted to a small minority. We should want her to become an intellectual and grow over time in a challenging career.

>> ^SDGundamX:

Right.
Clearly she should be more like you--surfing the Internet and making judgmental pronouncements about people's lives based on what you've seen of them in a three-minute news clip. That'll be immensely "useful to humankind."

@SDGundamX, Yes, she would of course be happier in a great career.

The tools to do that shouldn't be restricted to a small minority. We should want her to become an intellectual and grow over time in a challenging career.
>> ^SDGundamX:

Right.
Clearly she should be more like you--surfing the Internet and making judgmental pronouncements about people's lives based on what you've seen of them in a three-minute news clip. That'll be immensely "useful to humankind."
>> ^Velocity5:
@Trancecoach @Asmo @Gallowflak
"Not every pursuit needs to have some great utility."
We're really just talking about Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants, based on Aesop's ancient parable.
She doesn't realize that in merely 10 years at her highschool reunion, as their youthful charm will have started to fade, the people who strove to build awesome, challenging careers will be the ones who have grown the most personally and intellectually.
Encouraging people to do "whatever they want" lays waste to what could have been great lives. Encourage them instead to build lives that are useful to humankind, in which they grow more and more every year.

>> ^Velocity5:

@Trancecoach @Asmo @Gallowflak
"Not every pursuit needs to have some great utility."

We're really just talking about Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants, based on Aesop's ancient parable.
She doesn't realize that in merely 10 years at her highschool reunion, as their youthful charm will have started to fade, the people who strove to build awesome, challenging careers will be the ones who have grown the most personally and intellectually.
Encouraging people to do "whatever they want" lays waste to what could have been great lives. Encourage them instead to build lives that are useful to humankind, in which they grow more and more every year.


I think what we're dealing with here is hand spring envy...

Right.

Clearly she should be more like you--surfing the Internet and making judgmental pronouncements about people's lives based on what you've seen of them in a three-minute news clip. That'll be immensely "useful to humankind."

>> ^Velocity5:

@Trancecoach @Asmo @Gallowflak
"Not every pursuit needs to have some great utility."

We're really just talking about Disney's The Grasshopper and the Ants, based on Aesop's ancient parable.
She doesn't realize that in merely 10 years at her highschool reunion, as their youthful charm will have started to fade, the people who strove to build awesome, challenging careers will be the ones who have grown the most personally and intellectually.
Encouraging people to do "whatever they want" lays waste to what could have been great lives. Encourage them instead to build lives that are useful to humankind, in which they grow more and more every year.

>> ^Velocity5:

"This kid is amazing."
No, she's pouring her time down the toilet instead of contributing to humankind.
Excel at skills that are useful to global society and will increase your career outcomes and quality of life.


For a person so concerned with global society and quality of life, you seem entirely bereft of human spirit... Yes, this girl may not cure cancer, but then again neither will the waitress pouring you coffee. Everyone has to make their own way in the world and if people were a little less concerned with being judgemental and more concerned with doing things in their own life, we might just be living in a better world one day...

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>> ^bobknight33:

You never read about the framers of our county.
The were deeply devout.
You are deeply miss informed.>> ^fuzzyundies:
quantummushroom, stop defending bigots in the name of freedom. Your position represents neither the word or spirit of the framers of the Constitution (which doesn't even mention a god) or the signers of the Declaration of Independence (which barely mentions a creator).



For people who believe that our founding fathers always intended the United States to be a christian nation, I have to ask, why didn't they just come out and say that? Why bother with nonsense about in the Constitution about 'making no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof'.

>> ^bobknight33:

You never read about the framers of our county.
The were deeply devout.
You are deeply miss informed.>> ^fuzzyundies:
quantummushroom, stop defending bigots in the name of freedom. Your position represents neither the word or spirit of the framers of the Constitution (which doesn't even mention a god) or the signers of the Declaration of Independence (which barely mentions a creator).



You can keep repeating lies, but it won't make them truth.