Keeping a journal (solitary times)

[Maverick]

Age does not guarantee wisdom. That comment of yours screams ignorance.

No but it brings experience! Ignorance? Far from it, you are arguing with the ones that’s been their telling what is, ignorance appears to come from you, we are here telling regardless what book or the internet may till you real life dictates otherwise.

 

[Skeeter]

No but it brings experience! Ignorance? Far from it, you are arguing with the ones that’s been their telling what is, ignorance appears to come from you, we are here telling regardless what book or the internet may till you real life dictates otherwise.

I can't even argue with that incoherent ****.

 

[Maverick]

*sigh

 

[lonewolf]

definitely an arse.

 

[Gazrok]

I think his argument was that yes, some (maybe even most) people would go nuts if all alone...but he was arguing that not ALL people would. Some of us could function just fine, even alone. I wouldn't prefer it, but I seriously doubt I'd lose it. I enjoy both solitude and people....but I'm sure I'd get along. I'd find a project worthwhile and focus on that.

 

[lonewolf]

i'd prefer to be alone, i'm not one for people.

 

[Tonto_]

Some youngsters think they are experts on everything. In reality they know almost nothing about people or real life.

And some old people think they are experts on everything. In reality they're uneducated dimwits who think their opinion is gold just because it's backed by age.

 

[Mountain trapper]

And some old people think they are experts on everything. In reality they're uneducated dimwits who think their opinion is gold just because it's backed by age.

And with age comes wisdom and experience, lil man. With luck you will live long enough to learn that fact. Life's experience is a far more valuable education than sitting in front of a computer or a classroom.

 

[Tonto_]

And with age comes wisdom and experience, lil man. With luck you will live long enough to learn that fact. Life's experience is a far more valuable education than sitting in front of a computer or a classroom.

Wisdom is something every single dummy out there gets. The lowest IQ person on the planet can have wisdom simply by growing old. It's nothing to hang your hat on. The greatest men of our history have been educated greatly through the classroom, not through simply "life experience". You're just trying to downplay the importance of higher education due to the fact that you're a high school diploma level of intelligence.

 

[Gazrok]

Odd that you criticize others' education with no knowledge of their actual education. What are you? A PhD? do YOU even have a high school diploma? Or a college degree? (I've got 3 of 'em)... (Associates, Bachelors, Masters) - Doesn't make me any better or worse than someone else.

While I do believe I learned a bit in college, I think life and years on this Earth have taught me far more.

Great men in history who didn't have a college degree....

Thomas Edison
The Wright Brothers
Bill Gates (went, but no degree)
Steve Jobs (I think he had like a few months in college)
Mark Zuckerberg (went, no degree)

You mean great men like these guys?

 

[Gazrok]

I'm just glad I learned accounting, balance sheets, P&L statements, etc. in the real world before I went back to college.

The way they teach it in school is just AWFUL. Our professor was even the CFO of a small company, but the e-books for the class....just made it way more obtuse than it needed to be. I actually taught it to my group, and then we had other, outside students come to those meetings.

If you've never had accounting, the whole debits and credits between AP and AR, etc. and how that hits the GL and your balance sheet and P&L statement, can be a bit confusing to learn, without any real world application to base it on. And look, I hate accounting and statistics. My wife is the number nerd. But, I do understand it, and how to help others with it. I just don't like it.

Was a great opportunity. My employment law professor was a sitting Circuit Court Judge. An elective, can't remember the exact name, but it was a class on local politics, was taught by another, sitting Circuit Court Judge (an actual elected official). I did love my time in college (even though it sucks still paying for it...lol).

 

[Tonto_]

Odd that you criticize others' education with no knowledge of their actual education. What are you? A PhD? do YOU even have a high school diploma? Or a college degree? (I've got 3 of 'em)... (Associates, Bachelors, Masters) - Doesn't make me any better or worse than someone else.

While I do believe I learned a bit in college, I think life and years on this Earth have taught me far more.

Great men in history who didn't have a college degree....

Thomas Edison
The Wright Brothers
Bill Gates (went, but no degree)
Steve Jobs (I think he had like a few months in college)
Mark Zuckerberg (went, no degree)

You mean great men like these guys?

Listing 5 people who didn't go to college is not an argument. It's just anecdotal garbage. It's the equivalent of saying the wisest financial decision is playing the lottery then listing 10 lottery winners as your proof. I already told you in the other thread that I have a masters degree. And yes, having a masters degree certainly does make you/me better than someone else in a lot of regards.

 

[Proud Prepper]

There are tens of thousands of people with college degree's that are educated idiot's! If most of what you learned is wrong, then is what you learned really a benefit?

 

[Mountain trapper]

There are tens of thousands of people with college degree's that are educated idiot's! If most of what you learned is wrong, then is what you learned really a benefit?

Now days most college degrees are a dime a dozen. It's the skilled trades that are more in demand than "educated" office skills are. The vast majority of my skilled tradesmen made far more money than any of my office people. Many of my welders, pipe fitters, mechanics and equipment operators made six figure incomes. Depending on the job location they also got 6 months vacation per year. There are more "uneducated" millionaires in the oil fields than anywhere else that I know of.

 

[Tonto_]

There are tens of thousands of people with college degree's that are educated idiot's! If most of what you learned is wrong, then is what you learned really a benefit?

And hundreds of millions of people with no college degrees that are full blown idiots.

 

[Tonto_]

Now days most college degrees are a dime a dozen. It's the skilled trades that are more in demand than "educated" office skills are. The vast majority of my skilled tradesmen made far more money than any of my office people. Many of my welders, pipe fitters, mechanics and equipment operators made six figure incomes. Depending on the job location they also got 6 months vacation per year. There are more "uneducated" millionaires in the oil fields than anywhere else that I know of.

Being in-demand for employment is not related to intelligence, sorry.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Being in-demand for employment is not related to intelligence, sorry.

Another ignorant statement. You've obviously never done any skilled work before.

 

[Maverick]

Another ignorant statement. You've obviously never done any skilled work before.

Yep, I received more education from the old timers in the field than 6 years of collage.

 

[Tonto_]

Another ignorant statement. You've obviously never done any skilled work before.

lol. Yea, plumbers are usually the smartest of the smart. So many elite minds in this country are plumbers, welders, and pipe fitters!

 

[jontte]

have to admit that this "tonton" was a real f@@@-face

 

[Maverick]

lol. Yea, plumbers are usually the smartest of the smart. So many elite minds in this country are plumbers, welders, and pipe fitters!

There wouldn’t be an economy to even House the very smart folks without plumbers welders and pipe fitters in fact there wouldn't be collages without tradesman to teach the really smart people in reality it’s the tradesman that built civilizations, so pull your head out your ass you POS

 

[DrHenley]

have to admit that this "tonton" was a real f@@@-face

LOL, I had to go unblock him to see what all the fuss was about.

Regarding plumbers and elite minds...

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

- Albert Einstein

 

[Debbie Maddox]

most people aren't worth talking to,,,,give me the dog anytime

I feel this way about my cats