Soubasse
New member
Right I'll be going then. 
I give up.
There is no reasoning with people like you. There is no real discussion or debate with you because you believe that you are always right and everyone else is wrong. It has not escaped my attention that in quite a few other threads, you appear to take great delight in annoying people with inflammatory comments occasionally supported with some credible knowledge, but mostly supported with what seems to be an inflated superiority complex. Rarely, if ever, are you seen to actively support or agree with anyone else's opinion, or to lower yourself enough to say that they may just have a point. If you do agree with them, it's usually to turn their words around to support your own arrogant point of view. Furthermore, the only resolution to a situation such as this is to just blindly agree with you so that everyone can see how wonderful you are (which I will not be doing here).
My only real error here has been in stupidly rising to the bait. So I'll just go back to my "wrong" way of teaching, and my "wrong" way of thinking ... and I'll send them to you afterwards so that they may sit in awe of your profoundly "correct" knowledge, admit their transgressions, beg for forgiveness, and look down their noses at me who lead them astray.
What I can console myself with in the meantime is the fact that at least there are a handful of people here at this school who do matter, and who believe I'm not wrong, especially since I was headhunted for this position and invited to fill it without it even being advertised. I can also quietly be grateful for the number of students who have enjoyed moderate success, locally or elsewhere, and who have been kind enough to thank me personally for contributing towards that. But I guess they're all wrong as well.
Last year, I was abused and screwed over by an arrogant and ignorant narcissistic bully. The only way you differ is that you're obviously not that ignorant - but I don't know which I hate more; someone who knows nothing, tries to pass it off as fact, uses "smart" words and sheer arrogance in order to cut down people who dare to disagree with them, or, someone who does know a thing or two and lauds it over others to do the same.
You know, I think I work harder at trying to be diplomatic, at extending a hand of friendliness, offering an olive branch or whatever, than I do at trying to be right about any or everything. I do this in the hope that I might be able to set off some spark of decency and tolerance.
But then someone on the internet always seems to have the fire extinguisher at hand.
So you may chalk this up to a success for your basically unpleasant and intolerant philosophy. Don't forget also to allow yourself the satisfaction of a smirk and/or sneer as I walk out.
I give up.There is no reasoning with people like you. There is no real discussion or debate with you because you believe that you are always right and everyone else is wrong. It has not escaped my attention that in quite a few other threads, you appear to take great delight in annoying people with inflammatory comments occasionally supported with some credible knowledge, but mostly supported with what seems to be an inflated superiority complex. Rarely, if ever, are you seen to actively support or agree with anyone else's opinion, or to lower yourself enough to say that they may just have a point. If you do agree with them, it's usually to turn their words around to support your own arrogant point of view. Furthermore, the only resolution to a situation such as this is to just blindly agree with you so that everyone can see how wonderful you are (which I will not be doing here).
My only real error here has been in stupidly rising to the bait. So I'll just go back to my "wrong" way of teaching, and my "wrong" way of thinking ... and I'll send them to you afterwards so that they may sit in awe of your profoundly "correct" knowledge, admit their transgressions, beg for forgiveness, and look down their noses at me who lead them astray.
What I can console myself with in the meantime is the fact that at least there are a handful of people here at this school who do matter, and who believe I'm not wrong, especially since I was headhunted for this position and invited to fill it without it even being advertised. I can also quietly be grateful for the number of students who have enjoyed moderate success, locally or elsewhere, and who have been kind enough to thank me personally for contributing towards that. But I guess they're all wrong as well.
Last year, I was abused and screwed over by an arrogant and ignorant narcissistic bully. The only way you differ is that you're obviously not that ignorant - but I don't know which I hate more; someone who knows nothing, tries to pass it off as fact, uses "smart" words and sheer arrogance in order to cut down people who dare to disagree with them, or, someone who does know a thing or two and lauds it over others to do the same.
You know, I think I work harder at trying to be diplomatic, at extending a hand of friendliness, offering an olive branch or whatever, than I do at trying to be right about any or everything. I do this in the hope that I might be able to set off some spark of decency and tolerance.
But then someone on the internet always seems to have the fire extinguisher at hand.
So you may chalk this up to a success for your basically unpleasant and intolerant philosophy. Don't forget also to allow yourself the satisfaction of a smirk and/or sneer as I walk out.
