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Dregg13 -> RE: Vampires (bunked or debunked) (2/27/2008 2:29:49 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou
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SlaveBoyForYou:
You seem to care a lot about education credentials, and think they somehow relate to intelligence. Okay. I published an assembly language computer program nationally when I was thirteen years old. My first "real" job was as a Latin teacher at a private school. I was hired into that position at the age of sixteen. I have studied at "premier" academic institutions, and in my current position, I think up things no one else has ever thought of before. I do that for a living.
Two of the best posters on CM believe they are psychological vampires. I'll probably meet one of them within the next few months. Am I going to ask for a demonstration? Hell, yes. What makes a "best poster" to me? Someone who actually demonstrates basic life-understanding, and whose goal in posting is to help others, not to belittle them.
From your tone of writing, I have to ask myself if you have accomplished anything beyond getting a degree from an institution you consider reputable. I've learned a lot of shit in my life. Maybe 5% I learned in school. One thing I've learned though: vampires may not exist, but pompous, arrogant assholes walk among us for sure.
Spend some time and effort to fix yourself, pal.
I'm not your pal. Read the rest of the posts for an indication of why I responded the way I did. I took the position that vampires do not exist in reality. I was bored, so I posted in the thread. I brought up my education after being called a cousin marrying, ignoramus because I live in Arkansas. You may find nothing wrong with using bigoted, ignorant, regional stereotypes; but I find it to be a sure sign of a person's weakness in both character and intelligence. Mocking someone because of where they live is the same as mocking someone for their racial and ethnic background. It shows ignorance about different people and the world at large. After that remark, I was told that I had a third grade education by the same poster. Like I said, read the entirety of what was said.
As to your remarks, I have accomplished a lot. I don't tell people what I do for a living unless I know them. I like my privacy, and it would be simple to locate me if someone knew what I did for a living. It's no one's business anyway. Congratulations on your accomplishments; thank you for sharing. Unlike you, I don't come here to "help" people. I come here to be entertained occasionally when I am not working. I don't feel the need to brag about my accomplishments; it wasn't my intent. I didn't say reputable school. I said accredited, which is not my opinion. That being said, I don't look down on people because of their education or their careers. I was merely responding to someone's regional bigotry and ignorance about people that live in the southern United States; specifically Arkansas. Being from Iowa, you may want to think about how you would respond to similar remarks directed at you because of where you live before you cast stones in my direction.
I consider myself a skeptic, and I am sorry if that pisses people off that want to believe the fantastic. You may consider it pompous and arrogant. I consider it realistic. You can ask for proof all day long from "psychological vampires," but you won't get any. I live in the real world, and I don't take someone's word for it when they make fantastic claims. Yes pompous, arrogant assholes do exist. So do pretentious twits with delusions of grandeur. Take that however you want.
But who started the initial "attack"? Who was it who started it just because if my spelling of Vampyre? Who started the the whole thing about captalizing a noun? What was it you said about my use of British spelling? And with you not knowing anything aabout where I was born and raised, what was it you said about me for using that British way of spelling certain words? Wasnt it you who turned a vampyre debate into something more? Also if you would look back Im not quite sure where I ever took a stance one way or the other. Perhaps you were just making an assumption, or an ass out of yourself.
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