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[split] Critical Thinking Skills
#41
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
Universities are where they teach you that spending $200,000 on a fine arts degree makes you spiritual.

The university administrator is the best at spirituality. He looks a bunch of stuff made for rich people and thinks "How are we going to get people to pay $200k for this stuff" and then he says

"Aha! The beauty of the human spirit as it apprehends the artistic and humanistic aesthethics of the story of our inner self"

He looks at his spreadsheet and says, "heh, best marketing ever"
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#42
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
Universities are what you make of them. Fortunately they produce the medical doctors you desperately need.
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#43
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
I think they are places where they pump up bourgeois values and sell people a class identity. That is where people learn that it is wrong to say things that are platitudes, the right way to talk is to make everything "lively" and "entertaining".

Everyone knows that a good bourgeois college educated boy needs to be entertained as much as possible. That is what life is about, after all.
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#44
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
(March 24, 2013 at 11:16 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Universities are where they teach you that spending $200,000 on a fine arts degree makes you spiritual.
What?
(March 24, 2013 at 11:16 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The university administrator is the best at spirituality. He looks a bunch of stuff made for rich people and thinks "How are we going to get people to pay $200k for this stuff" and then he says

"Aha! The beauty of the human spirit as it apprehends the artistic and humanistic aesthethics of the story of our inner self"

He looks at his spreadsheet and says, "heh, best marketing ever"
The university sells stuff other than an education? Wait, so which is it? Are college students a bunch of punk rocker atheist druggies, or stuffy people who pay $1,000 for a painting of a dot that has tons of "meaning"?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
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#45
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
I almost feel like I should be giving jstrodle kudos for his posts in here. I suppose if you're going to say this shit it may as well be in this thread.
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#46
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
Both, often the same group, the middle class / upper middle class punk rocker's become middle class / upper middle class hipsters and art people. They complain about income inequality and collect vinyl and use their free time to pursue personal interests. They complain about how society isn't cool enough. They make fun of people with lower IQ's than them and use their intelligence to analyze the interaction between post modern philosophy and art. They are truly models of what all people should be like.

"platitudes"
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#47
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
(March 24, 2013 at 11:28 pm)jstrodel Wrote: and use their free time to pursue personal interests.

Isn't the proper use of free time to pursue personal interests?

As for the rest of your babble you clearly live in a world of stereotypes.
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#48
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
No, the proper use of free time is service to others. Especially from people as arrogant as liberals.

The liberal thinks that to make something entertaining is a form of humility and to have good taste in music is virtue.
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#49
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
(March 24, 2013 at 11:31 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The liberal thinks that to make something entertaining is a form of humility and to have good taste in music is virtue.

What? Who tells you these things?
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#50
RE: AF Hall of Shame (Post Edition)
My dad is a university administrator and my grandfather was a professor. I grew up with liberal bullshit.


A liberal is someone who will insist that they don't know much, and look you in the eye, smile at you and try as hard as they can to persuade you that you should place all your trust in them and try and feign a sort of meek, feminine attitude at the same time.
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