Diogenes the Cynic, Fount of Perfect Knowledge

[duffer]

@elucidator

Heavy demands on my self-restraint. Is there a cookie?

I don’t know, do you have them disabled?

[SisterCoyote]

@Shodan

Oh fuck, I’m older than Tamerlane.
Move over.

Regards,
Shodan

I, um, realize I shouldn’t laugh at someone else’s pain. That doing so makes me a bad person.

That said, Shodan, I’m sorry.

I laughed.

[John_Mace]

@Tamerlane

So while the law doesn’t exactly demand a year in life sciences, I expect what has happened is given the wording above, some individual districts have mandated one year of biological sciences/biology as a local standard. That may have been the case at my school and may explain the difference between my experience ( if I’m remembering it correctly ) and SisterCoyote’s.

Yes, while I was trying to find that info originally, I looked at a few web sites from some school districts in the SF area and they did require one of the courses to be in the “life sciences”, which I assume would mean Biology.

[Shodan]

@SisterCoyote

I, um, realize I shouldn’t laugh at someone else’s pain. That doing so makes me a bad person.

That said, Shodan, I’m sorry.

I laughed.

Oh yeah?

Well, um - er -

What were we talking about again?

Looks around -
Hey! You kids get off my lawn!
Regards,
Shodan

[Zoe]

I don’t think that I would call DtC self-righteous.

He’s just insistent that he’s right.

And we all think we’re right.

DtC’s forte is that he knows a hell of a lot of things. Very well educated. So he is often factually right.

But he sometimes misunderstands what that means. He doesn’t recognize his limits – or at least he doesn’t own up to them (which is much more likely the case).

[John_Carter_of_Mars]

@Zoe

I don’t think that I would call DtC self-righteous.<snip>

But he sometimes misunderstands what that means. He doesn’t recognize his limits(bolding by JCoM) – or at least he doesn’t own up to them (which is much more likely the case).

Clint Eastwood:“A man’s got to know his limitations”. My own corollary would be that a man must be capable of maintaining rational thought. DtC fails these tests more often than not. If anyone needs a cite, read his posts in this thread.

[begbert2]

@Zoe

I don’t think that I would call DtC self-righteous.

He’s just insistent that he’s right.

And we all think we’re right.

DtC’s forte is that he knows a hell of a lot of things. Very well educated. So he is often factually right.

But he sometimes misunderstands what that means. He doesn’t recognize his limits – or at least he doesn’t own up to them (which is much more likely the case).

I’m pretty sure his factual assertions aren’t most of the problem. Not that I’m an alert or cognizant enough person to speak regarding DtC’s overall behaviors (I don’t actually stalk him. Should I?) but I think that the primarly problem is that DtC apparently on occasion declares that his opinions are absolute truth or unassailably best. To me this sounds like he just gets overenthusiastic, but apparently there are those who dislike the implication that their (conflicting) opinions are being unfairly dismissed or rejected without trial, and apparently they find this effect to be irritating. This thread, seemingly, is the reaction.