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Iarwain · 03-01-2003, 04:21 PM

You people make me want to weep! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

It goes from calling Tolkien fans geeks to all book learned people geeks, to plotting to take over the world and setting up a Tolkienite regime. I feel like screaming!

Wailing for Goldberry,
Iarwain

P.S. I just realized that this barely shows any opinion at all, so here it is. Most people reguard being a "geek" a negative thing. At the same time, "geek" is an almost completely undefined term with the blind stereotype of clumsiness and oddity attached. Therefore, why and how should we label ourselves as geeks when the very word signifies the opposite of what we are, if only through this website, that is that we are not an anomaly because there are so many of us. I find the terms "geek" and "nerd" very annoying and disturbing, since their very use brings the idea of persecution to mind. Thus the frown on my face at this very moment. [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

[ March 01, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ]

03-01-2003, 04:21 PM	#81
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	You people make me want to weep! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] It goes from calling Tolkien fans geeks to all book learned people geeks, to plotting to take over the world and setting up a Tolkienite regime. I feel like screaming! Wailing for Goldberry, Iarwain P.S. I just realized that this barely shows any opinion at all, so here it is. Most people reguard being a "geek" a negative thing. At the same time, "geek" is an almost completely undefined term with the blind stereotype of clumsiness and oddity attached. Therefore, why and how should we label ourselves as geeks when the very word signifies the opposite of what we are, if only through this website, that is that we are not an anomaly because there are so many of us. I find the terms "geek" and "nerd" very annoying and disturbing, since their very use brings the idea of persecution to mind. Thus the frown on my face at this very moment. [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img] [ March 01, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ] __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"