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Piehole ([info]piehole) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2003-07-03 13:24:00
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I really have high hopes here.

At [info]vintage_sex [info]myrkuria posts an open invitation to join her new intellectual elite lj community. Their interests?

This community is for those of us who feel unable to relate to the commoners. It is for those of us who feel frustrated and surrounded by ignorance and idiocy. We also hope to seperate those who are truly intellectually elite, and those who are simply self-delusional.

We welcome posting of ideas, essays, relevant links, dialogue, etc.

"It may require a degree of stupidity or mental deficiency to willfully conduct oneself in accord with the demands of a sickly society, culture, or civilization." -Eyenot

"There can be no gods, for if there were, how could I bear not to be one?" -Nietzsche

Healthy flaming welcomed, put the rabble in their place!

Maintained by myrkuria and solitethos.

Cause you know... quoting Nietzsche always means you're smart n' shit.

They're being mocked. Please, won't you join us mock the wanky little smartypoos? Besides, f_w is already here for those who feel frustrated and surrounded by ignorance. Hee!

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[info]virago
2003-07-03 08:50 pm UTC (link)
Wow. I almost have to admire their frankness in admitting they're arrogant as all hell.

Too bad they seem so stuffy and joyless about it. Arrogance is always much more fun with a little sneery posturing; without it it's just highfalutin blahblahblah.

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[info]electricchick
2003-07-03 09:00 pm UTC (link)
You know... I do feel surrounded by ignorance and idiocy, but I'm too arrogant about it to join such a pathetic little group. [Sneers and postures] Arrogance is fun, dammit. :p

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[info]virago
2003-07-03 09:37 pm UTC (link)
That's the spirit!

I don't know whether he got it from elsewhere or made it up, but a friend of mine always responds to charges that he's arrogant with, "I can't be arrogant. That would mean that I have peers."

'Sides, ivory towers are no fun. You have to get down into the trenches and spread the gospel of your own self-aggrandizement if you want to bring the real entertainment.

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[info]valarltd
2003-07-04 03:34 am UTC (link)
::Sneers and postures::

In the words of the great Norse poet:
Ulfr ok Valr am bjarg.
Ulfr ok Valr am Muspell
Ulfr ok Valr am Valr.
Kusmik Illugi.
Ek Han resti runi.

(blatently stolen Concept borrowed from Mark Twain)

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[info]pipssister
2003-07-03 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Cause you know... quoting Nietzsche always means you're smart n' shit.

How about quoting Socrates?

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."

Or maybe Shakespeare?

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

Can I be a psuedointellectual elitist snootynose now? :-D

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[info]littleshebear
2003-07-03 11:44 pm UTC (link)
How about quoting Socrates?

No, if you really want to establish your arrogant credentials, you have to correct people who say they're quoting Socrates:

'Don't you mean Plato?' :p

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[info]parlance
2003-07-04 09:07 am UTC (link)
Nah, I think it was Aristotle. "Aristotle" just rolls off the tongue snootier.

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[info]parlance
2003-07-04 09:05 am UTC (link)
Cause you know... quoting Nietzsche always means you're smart n' shit.

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Tolstoy

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[info]penelope
2003-07-03 09:26 pm UTC (link)
Not only are they an arrogant snotty bunch, they are not even pseudo-intellectual enough. To be truly pseudo-intellwhatever you have to talk about obscure 18th century poetry and Medieval philosophers that nobody has heard of. That's how you show your intellectual superiority and difference from the dirty stinkin' masses, by showing off arguing on the delicate differences between various extremely rare and needless esoteric trivia, not talking about Camus that is standard high-school reading material, that even the commoners they seem to despise so much are aware of.

Amateurs!

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[info]ingrid
2003-07-03 11:13 pm UTC (link)
... not talking about Camus that is standard high-school reading material

I even know how it's pronounced and shit. KAY - Mooooooo.

Hell, they're not even TRYING.

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[info]vanilla_tiger
2003-07-04 10:33 pm UTC (link)
Well, personally I don't believe you can understand Camus properly unless you read it in the original French. It loses a certain je ne sais quoi if read in translation.

/pretension

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[info]resmiranda
2003-07-04 01:37 am UTC (link)
WANKER! You are SO looking to get this wanked.

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[info]resmiranda
2003-07-04 04:56 am UTC (link)
BEE YOTCH, NOW YOU ARE A WANKER CUBED FOR BEING A WANKER LOOKING TO GET WANKED BY POSTING WANKY SHIT IN FANDOM_WANK.

I... I think I love you. *SNOGS*

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[info]parlance
2003-07-04 09:11 am UTC (link)
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." (That's Camus, from Notebooks 1935-42)

And an intelliwanker is someone whose wank metas itself. Or somesuch.

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[info]ruaki
2003-07-04 07:32 am UTC (link)
o.o; Indeedy. I thought, that out of the two, Sartre was the more existentialist, while Camus eventually gravitated away from the existentialist school of thought. I never read Camus' novels myself (Sartre was my favorite of the two ^^;), so I can't say much more than that generic tidbit up there.

... d00d, I suddenly want Camus x Sartre slash. har har har

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[info]ruaki
2003-07-05 08:47 pm UTC (link)
Hm, I thought he was into it at first during his early years, and then gravitated away cause he found he didn't appreciate murder of any sort (including intellectual o.o).

::noses around for info::

Ah, I think I'm mistaken. Camus had these two schools of thought--I took his 'period of revolt' to be purely anti-Existentialist in thought, while the 'absurdist' period to be somewhat Existentialist in meaning, but it actually wasn't.

... at least, that's from what I can understand. Camus seems wishy-washy to me. ::laugh::

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[info]nita
2003-07-03 10:31 pm UTC (link)
I have two words to describe this new group: mental masturbation.

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[info]mauralabingi
2003-07-03 10:45 pm UTC (link)
"We also hope to seperate those who are truly intellectually elite"

Weeding out those who don't know how to spell "separate" would make a good start.

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dawnjosephine
2003-07-03 11:37 pm UTC (link)
*sporfle!*
That was so good, I think the guy in your icon spit coffee onto my screen too.

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[info]parlance
2003-07-04 09:13 am UTC (link)
I'm sending Lance over to make love to your icon.

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[info]jumboclone
2003-07-05 03:42 am UTC (link)

I too would like to rape your icon until it screams "DADDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

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[info]jfpbookworm
2003-07-05 09:48 am UTC (link)
(Daniel K.... he's like Nietzsche, in a way.)

We also hope to seperate those who are truly intellectually elite, and those who are simply self-delusional.

And they succeeded admirably. Just not the way they thought.

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[info]dawnswalker
2003-07-03 11:02 pm UTC (link)
Too, too pretentious.

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[info]guildenstern
2003-07-03 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius
--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I hope they realize that in trying to distance themselves from the 'commoners' they're making more of a statement of their own snotty attitudes than of the stupidity of everyone else. If you're tired of being around idiots...tough. You'll be around idiots all your life (and more than usual, if you hang out with all the people on their little clique).
I assume those hefty bulges in their little intellectual pants are their quotes dictionaries. Not to mention their slightly-less-than insubstantial egos. Jesus H. Christ, but some people are pretentious.

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[info]sorchar
2003-07-04 01:32 am UTC (link)
Man, the posturing pseudointellectual snots are just crawling out of the woodwork lately, aren't they? Between this, the anti-plebes, and the Silmwank, I'm beginning to wonder if there's something in the water.

Oh, sorry... in l'eau.

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[info]cmikhailovic
2003-07-04 02:36 am UTC (link)
Ouch.

Dude, I'm a fucking academic, and most of us aren't that bad, believe it or not. But then, I'm a plebey folklorist and children's lit person because I'm not smart enough to read real books, so what do I know?

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[info]valarltd
2003-07-04 03:31 am UTC (link)
Oo, can I play too? BTW, did you see that Robert McClosky died? 8(

I'm rewriting Pygmaliom into slash. I like using fairytales and legends for my stories.

I write papers about slash fic. (Hence the "I speakm academic slash" icon)

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[info]laurar
2003-07-04 03:20 am UTC (link)
Y'know, the thing that boggles me is that they're posting this in a *vintage erotica* community.

I mean, what - if you appreciate antique porn, you're somehow an elite?

(er, to be honest, I should admit I'm a member of the community too, but my reasons are more along the lines of "Ooooh, pretty!", i.e. women with real bodies.)

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[info]sorchar
2003-07-04 08:09 am UTC (link)
*nod* I'm a member too, because, ooh, teh_pretty!

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[info]ruaki
2003-07-04 07:34 am UTC (link)
I'm probably blind, as I can't see the mocking in this thread (deleted?), but the community itself stabs me in the face with the Evil Stick of Pretentiousness.

Huzzah!

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[info]sorchar
2003-07-04 08:11 am UTC (link)
She edited the post.

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[info]ruaki
2003-07-04 08:19 am UTC (link)
... bastarges!

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[info]soy_latte
2003-07-04 10:37 am UTC (link)
people are no fun that way. it's like farting in an elevator and then covering it up with air freshener. the air may smell fine but we still know you did it.

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[info]sorchar
2003-07-04 11:07 am UTC (link)
Dunno about the smelling fine...to me, it just smells like flowery fart.

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[info]soy_latte
2003-07-04 11:28 am UTC (link)
I must have seen too many commercials for that air freshener that claims to get rid of the odor instead of just covering it up.

I guess it still works that way though...

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[info]sorchar
2003-07-05 12:21 pm UTC (link)
Ah, that stuff! Well, then, yes, it would smell okay.

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[info]chimara
2003-07-04 09:22 pm UTC (link)
Am deeply, deeply amused by the scattering of :)'s and LOLs in that community. Though I suppose it could be that I'm too common to notice a sophisticatedly ironic postmodern commentary on 'net society when I see it...

Nah.

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[info]maruchina
2003-07-05 02:40 am UTC (link)
Oooh, FUN! I can't wait for the pretentious French quotes to roll in. W00t!

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[info]ivyblossom
2003-07-05 08:25 pm UTC (link)
Please, please go post in Dutch. And then be all shocked and appalled that they can't understand. "Don't any of you even speak GERMAN?!"

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[info]pepperpot
2003-07-06 02:08 am UTC (link)
This wanker, who insists upon using random German phrases to prove his l33t-ness, is bugging the ever-living FUCK out of me because he CAN'T SPELL THEM. "Shoen"? "Fruend"? Jesus.

*bangs head against wall*

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ThereWrong, wrong, and more wrong. And then there's you.
(Anonymous)
2003-09-02 11:58 am UTC (link)
I assure you that I am neither '18th century' nor 'Medieval', 'French' nor 'German', philosopher nor intellectual. I am somewhat obscure, though -- kudos.



-- eyenot

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There's wrong, wrong, and more wrong -- and then there's you all, at the ass-end.
(Anonymous)
2003-09-02 11:58 am UTC (link)
I assure you that I am neither '18th century' nor 'Medieval', 'French' nor 'German', philosopher nor intellectual. I am somewhat obscure, though -- kudos.



-- eyenot

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