What is your educational attainment level?

I dated a classmate in college. There were a few substantial perspectives she shared with me that I found of value. One that I did not much care for was her philosophy about a couple of key aspects of life to me. She once stated that a big difference between her and me was that I believed in right and wrong whereas she did not; and that in one hundred years nothing would matter anyway.

What, I wonder would satisfy someone to feel they had made a worthwhile contribution to anything. I came to the conclusion once that I would be pleased to have been Josiah Willard Gibbs....

 

There are remarkable people who leave a strong mark on this world and are forever remembered for it. Most of us are leaving tracks in loose sand and they are disappearing almost as fast as we make them.

 

ADHD has always seemed to me be a diagnosis that lacks perspective on several key factors that actually contribute to developing such things as wider ranges of interests and even more importantly, abilities to carry on multiple conversations and switch to other topics almost instantaneously. I've occasionally wished that I had a bit more in common with ADHD types.

One of my best mates at Jacobs was a bit adhd. Marty, look, yellow bird! Oh wow, cool! Between me and Marty, I'm the guy that solved spreadsheets and programming stuff and was much more proficient at seeing potential issues with making stuff work and then making stuff work. Marty on the other hand could see people issues, navigate through much of it and far more effectively make people work.

I can get in the weeds and focus on super tedious minutiae. I remember as a little kid being fascinated in the tub a few times how when I sat cross-legged and the drain was opened, the flow would curl from behind me toward the drain. Much much later in life I learned that someone far more capable of analysis than I could ever hope to be identified part of what had interested me in this hydraulic flow phenomenon, his name was G-G de Coriolis. I had a high school classmate that was reputed to have maxed the ACT composite, with a 36. I had a classmate that maxed his GPA with a 4.0. A couple of of them actually. No idea what my high school mate ended up doing, but my two brilliant college mates ended up doing well less than I'd expected. One is an expert on waste-water sanitation stuff and the other unfortunately ran into a deer on his Kawasaki one night and never fully recovered.

With respect to this poll, not that you were necessarily asking, it's just a toss-off random sample of our membership's years of education. Sometimes it legitimately might come into play in a discussion. For example, I've noticed that quantum physics captivates the imagination of some folks here from time-to-time. Feynman pointed out that no-one understands the stuff, but that didn't prevent or even give pause to some member's claiming they knew what such esoteric subjects really meant.

William Blake, Ancient of Days

 

And good for you, but don't you feel it cheapens and trivializes your own praiseworthy efforts in this area that we seem to let just about anyone who can spell their name to have one too? I am told that this used to be the attitude of the NRA until the early 1950's

 

I have always felt that William Blake was definitely among the Greatest Artists that ever lived. OTOH I also think that he must have been an exceedingly strange individual.

I find quantum mechanics in physics to be much like King Arthur in history. Noone really definitively knows much about his era so you can pretty much say anything you want about it and as long as you don't have the Round Table staffed by Edo Samurai (yes, I saw that one too, it's not a bad story once you get past the swords) you're not going to have historical scholars coming out the woodwork in full 5th century fig.

 

well it is an understandable reaction to what the democrats are trying to do-pretending they want "gun safety" when their real goal is making the working conditions for violent felons much much safer and punishing those of us who started voted against democrats for pushing moronic gun grabbing schemes

 

Why should illiteracy disqualify someone from owning a firearm?

 

It sure doesn't stop them from voting (usually for Democrats)

 

And speaking of stories that use quantum mechanics I hope we've all been watching the latest tv adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. This is the way that Fantasy and "Young Adult" Stories should be written

 

I'm not talking about actual illiteracy as much as owning a gun with no real knowledge of how to use it safely.

 

Why would they want to do that?

 

Bigger goodie bags.

 

I have had it my whole life. It caused a lot of pain but at 66 it has become a strength and something I work with. Took a long time. Most of us with it have a restless energy we have to learn to honour and not fight.

Its like having an itch that never goes a way. Everyone has their own script of life challenges including you that in the end makes them a better person because of the lessons learned from the struggles.

Just when you think it was pointless something peeks through to give you a glimpse of the purpose of it.

 

Blake is super confusing. Lord Voldemort ate his painting you know.

 

1) because the groups most likely to create or support felons usually vote for democrats and when felons can and do vote, they strongly support the DNC according to Stanford Professor (a well known leftist and former NAACP general counsel) Pam Karlan
2) because gun owners called bullshit on the Democrats' schemes of pretending that Democrats were going to solve violent crime with laws that mostly restricted the rights of honest people. When we gun owners started voting against dems for that reason, they saw us as the Enemy and started pushing laws designed to harass us

 

20.5 years

 

Formal indoctrination more like.

 

Anonymous Poll - please participate if you have an account and post, let's 12+ times a year?

 

I have a PhD in LIFE. That's my educational attainment level. I earned it, too.

 

Everyday in life is an educational day, you never stop learning

 

This isn’t a poll about the difficulty of life and scaling it on an educational equivalency level

 

Not the purpose of this thread, but, having had to point this out yet again, I must say, that not every day do I learn something new. Nor do I have the good fortune to do so every other day, or even every other week. Perhaps I do if I count very small things, which are probably noteworthy and of substance that I am too conditioned to acknowledge to count for such. But generally, I suspect I am not alone in stating that I do not in fact learn something new everyday.

 

"Education" is such a vacuous thing. I went to a competitive high school where I had to gain admittance with a competitive test, and had to compete, again, to get into West Point. About 10,000 guys applied to West the year I did. About 1500 were accepted. We graduated 848.

In those days we all studied engineering. Its changed but remains in the top ten engineering schools in America. Its becoming more and more "woke" now and less and less and less a "School for Soldiers" as it once was.

Now you can get "educated" with a degree in "women's studies" and other such silliness.

So when one talks about "education"... one should be much more specific than in the past.

 

One can be highly educated and still be unintelligent.

A case in point...
People who are so highly educated but they don't have the common sense to figure out that you speak to people and not down to them, that is if you wish them to listen to your message.

Maybe they should teach you a basic degree in how to effectively communicate?

But of course the people who deem themselves so highly educated have too much ego to understand you have to have a little bit of humility in order to communicate your message to other people.

 

UHK= University of Hard Knocks