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Old 03-19-2005, 08:34 PM   #21
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Another "discussion" that sidetracked EVERYONE IN THE GROUP BUT MYSELF was "How do you think humanity will have progressed 5 billion years from now?" Aiieaiitngipdrnpdnbipdn. Five billion. People making honest-to-God predictions of HOW ADVANCED we would be. And then one of them related it to a totally different book from the one we were supposed to be discussing.
At least this is an attempt to look smart from these kids. They sound like an intelligent bunch of idiots, if you follow. At my school when the extremes are put into discussion groups (by extremes I mean focused and intelligent kids as compared to kids that act like they've been beaten into submission), the smart kids generally become wallflowers while the cavemen discuss the latest colour of their urine. There's not a trace of legitmately placed conversation in respect to the subject of the discussion at hand. If it's not about bodily functions its about their favourite star being a hermaphrodite, or the recent price increase of top line catheters. Consider yourself lucky.
And I am a LITTLE lucky in that regard--that it could have been worse, that's just the thing. The mere FACT that it could have been worse is very, very discouraging to me. I know they were ATTEMPTING to be smart, which I appreciate to an extent, but if you do that, then seriously, you have to do RESEARCH on what you are trying to have an intellectual conversation about. They had no fleeming clue, and basically just put out an awful lot of stuff which was painfully obviously not true. =/

But, whatever. I am probably being too bitter about this, but still, rampant idiocy is something that I do not entirely approve of.
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Old 03-20-2005, 09:31 PM   #22
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I know what it's like to be the only one on topic too. It's a burning, frustrating feeling, as if you're about to explode because you have so much to share no one will listen. Yes, the others misbehaving and being off-topic can be very annoying. Right there, right there you have a group of people, capable of accomplishing a task far greater than just one person alone. Yet, the potential is wasted.

But I've noticed that we all seem to attribute the cause to either the raw intelligence of the stutents who are off-topic, or pure malice. But there have to be other things as well. What if some have the intelligence to stay focused in class,without the motivaton? Or, scarier to think of, what if some people are not incapable, but too afraid to quiet their minds enough to think about the heavier subjects?
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