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Undertoad · 06-28-2008, 06:27 AM

Now on three other forums

I too would consider myself to be a self-actualized self-learner, but you have now made me skeptical about using the prefix self in everything. It's nice you are interested in things - "the unexamined life not worth living" and all that.

But we do notice that you are fully concerned with self and not so concerned with other. For example, in the above post you wrote an essay about what you are concerned about, but failed to actually answer Bruce's question. Those posters whom I have seen doing this sort of thing seem to be smart but not wise.

You go to all sorts of forums with no interest in the people there, only looking to poot your essay around. That's fine, and if it's written well we like it, but you're missing the perspective of hundreds of people, available free for the asking, who have seen so much of the world that you haven't. Wouldn't you like to see how rugged individualists can use an ancient tractor and saw to cut up a load of wood in the back country? Wouldn't that be a nice addition to your understanding of the world?

06-28-2008, 06:27 AM	#9
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Now on three other forums I too would consider myself to be a self-actualized self-learner, but you have now made me skeptical about using the prefix self in everything. It's nice you are interested in things - "the unexamined life not worth living" and all that. But we do notice that you are fully concerned with self and not so concerned with other. For example, in the above post you wrote an essay about what you are concerned about, but failed to actually answer Bruce's question. Those posters whom I have seen doing this sort of thing seem to be smart but not wise. You go to all sorts of forums with no interest in the people there, only looking to poot your essay around. That's fine, and if it's written well we like it, but you're missing the perspective of hundreds of people, available free for the asking, who have seen so much of the world that you haven't. Wouldn't you like to see how rugged individualists can use an ancient tractor and saw to cut up a load of wood in the back country? Wouldn't that be a nice addition to your understanding of the world?