funshine said:
You are conceited. And proud of it.
From your posts, it would seem that despite your experience serving the world, you remain judgmental, arrogant, and narrow-minded.
Only a tiny subset of "enlightened" people are worthy of your friendship?
The fact that you post this just shows how disgusting you are.
What a shame
To be honest with you, I really don't care what people's opinion of me on an internet site is. However, I will have you know that I never specified that my friends be "enlightened" or elitist, as you seem to imply. I already mentioned once how one person who I admire greatly is a bartender, and by the way, a college dropout, so your implication is dead wrong.
Everyone has criteria for friendship and the fact that one of my criterion is for my friends to be intelligent, giving, inspiring and touching people who challenge me intellectually and spiritually is offensive to you is rather humorous to me. The fact that some people's criteria for friendship relies upon how many drinks they can down on a Friday night is more offensive to me. Everyone is different. And believe it or not, there are more superficial criteria people enforce for friendship that mine, so I really don't think that expecting my friends to be smart and good human beings is too much to ask. And neither do I feel bad or conceited for this.
In this day and age, if someone is proud of something it is deemed arrogant; that is a label that covers all. Yes, I am proud that I have chosen my friends wisely. I guess this makes me a horrible person. Instead of name-calling, which people are oh so apt to do on this board these days, it would behoove some of you to actually discuss the topic at hand. So far, I have received criticism on the criteria I choose for my friends, and also grave misinterpretions my original posts, yet few people have discussed the many other issues brought up otherwise.
So, am I judgmental? Probably. Yeah, if you sat on your ass all through college, watched opportunities to serve society pass you by, if you cruised through life on daddy's credit card and did not contribute in any way to the world, I don't think we could be friends. If you, being born in the upper crust of society, and having the opportunities in this world to see all the poverty and the horrible conditions that others are made to live in, sit and do nothing except spend other people's money, then it simply reflects poorly upon you. As the upper crust of society, if all you have to offer to the destitute of the world is apathy, then you certainly don't have anything extra to offer me. All these actions say to me is that you have not really and truly challenged yourself. You simply would not add anything or enrich my life.
My sympathies if this is offensive to you. My sympathies if my expectations of humankind are too great; I just feel that we all have great potential and particularly, people who are born with more are obliged to do something with it, and that it is a grave mistake to let our potential pass us by and fall into the trap so many Gen X'ers have fallen into: the trap of self-entitlement.