On Smartness

I've never understood why being smart's often considered to be a bad thing. Like the phrase "Too smart for your own good." I hate that phrase. It's not true. It's not being too smart that gets you, it's thinking you're smarter than everybody else, and getting sloppy and overlooking things. It's pride, not smartness that does that.

Is it jealousy? Fear? Feeling that somebody's geting "above themselves"? It's especially ironic when you get teachers or school administrators who ask you things like "are you getting smart with me?" What, you're supposed to say no, I'm not being smart, when you're at school? It doesn't make any sense.

And there's many kinds of smart, not just one. Most people have different levels of each kind. But none of it I can see being bad.

People are strange.

Tags: Mindscribbles, Language

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Warren Ellis on writing.

DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT, read the rest of his LJ while eating. And never click on links he just posts. Warren Ellis is a crude and disgusting man, and one hell of a writer. And the fact that he ha an LJ still manages to weird me out on a regular basis.

I think I'm too boring to be a writer, sometimes

Tags: Links, Writing, LJ

Discordia Day?

I would feel bad about not even realizing today was 5/5/05, which apparently makes it Discordia Day, if Discordians actually cared, or could even agree what calendar to use. And 5/23/5 seems more appropriate, like demiurgent said over on Websnark. Besides, knowing Discordians, somebody just made it up last week. Because Discordians do that. That's kinda the whole point of a disorganized religion.

And so I'll steal his link from a temporarily free Discordia! RPG .pdf file. Which I have yet to read, so you're subjects too.

Also, I wonder if anybody's made Discordian LJ icons besides the spinning Chao. Or Discordian smilies. Little bouncing golden apples...

Tags: Links, Gaming, Religion