KimberlyAnn wrote:Lucky for you you're not a cupcake with big boobs. No matter how intelligent you may be, if you're a woman with big boobs very little of what you say is ever taken seriously by some people.
I wholeheartedly disagree. If you're a woman with large breasts, then I will hang on every word you say with rapt attention.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
KimberlyAnn wrote:Lucky for you you're not a cupcake with big boobs. No matter how intelligent you may be, if you're a woman with big boobs very little of what you say is ever taken seriously by some people.
I wholeheartedly disagree. If you're a woman with large breasts, then I will hang on every word you say with rapt attention.
Blixa wrote:That's silly, Mercury. While I think that habit and social expectation can encourage complacency as we age, that doesn't absolutely preclude the possibilty of intellectual growth.
I don't think I had a completely functioning intellect til I was about 35 even though I'd been a model student throughout my life and was near the end of a PhD program. I had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time, though: mostly by accident I had ended up in a program with one or two astonishing teachers and intellectuals that made it possible for myself and my departmental "generation" of grad students to learn and think in ways that were wholly unexpected.
Your miles may vary, but this taught me to realize that every student/person has possibilities for intellectual work beyond how these are usually conceived. One of the worst things I encounter as a teacher are "colleagues" who have already decided that, for various reasons, its impossible to teach their students anything.
While it often appears to me that much prior "education" has rendered my students nearly incapable of thought, that certainly doesn't forclose all potential and I see a good deal of my job as trying to create a space in which that could happen (often in direct oppostion to the institution itself which throws up all manner of obstacles from class size to disciplinary compartmentalization).
I get where your coming from. My point was that biologically speaking brain development peaks @ 25. personally speaking it was at this age that alot of undesirable behaviors were clarified and extinguished for me. Your mileage may vary.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
Personally, I don't care where his house is or how big it is. I realize that I'm one of the few women on earth who does not want a big house. A big house to me just means more work. You may read into my words whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you can read my intent.
Oh yes, I see. I do know how you feel about housework.
Yah, that's womens work, huh coggy?
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
Mercury wrote:I get where your coming from. My point was that biologically speaking brain development peaks @ 25. personally speaking it was at this age that alot of undesirable behaviors were clarified and extinguished for me. Your mileage may vary.
What do you mean by that statement, Mercury? Brain development peaks at 25? Are you thinking specifically of synaptogenesis?
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb