lift yr fists

[fromthishour]

I know that I have never been angry, and have no reason to be because I am incredibly blessed, and so I can shrug that claim off

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[afraidtorejoice]

or maybe they have a psychological problem

and/or a sociological/ego blockage on what they understand to be the limits of reality... and pity is more the term

although that is probably a lot of words from someone who doesn't know the situation

[fromthishour]

thanks tim.
im betting on bipolar disorder. who knows. i dont know how these people become professors.

[blahquaker]

I encountered several professors when I was in grad school that obviously became professors so that they wouldn't have to concern themselves with the outside world. The engrossed themselves in abstract ideas so that they wouldn't have to think about the way things really are/were and never looked back. Then anytime a student (me) would ask something about how the nonsense they were talking about applied to the real world, they would be at a complete loss.

I'm assuming you're not in grad-level math classes so this probably isn't the same situation. but I'm sure the above situation applies to more than just math and sciences. academia is the perfect way to earn worldwide respect and renown without having to concern yourself with reality.

[fromthishour]

I agree, I guess I have just been lucky with professors so far. Its not that he is not concerned with reality though, its more that he is just so unrelentingly anti-religion that my interest in studying islam seems to disgust him as a selfish endeavor to explain away the faults of my "own" people. the more i think about it the more ridiculous it seems, so i think ill make like mariah and shake it off.
she always has the best advise.