On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:17:35 GMT, "necoandjeff" <spam@schrepfer.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Rykk wrote:
>> "Ryan Ginstrom" <ryang@TINNED.MEATgol.com> wrote in message
>> news:340mdcF455qvcU1@individual.net...
>>> "Rykk" <NospamIshnar@nospamhotmail.nospamcom> wrote in message
>>> news:1fFCd.1224902$Gx4.1082502@bgtnsc04-
>>>> If it truly is a fact then maybe you could explain it.
>>>
>>> In the case of interviewing for English teachers, it seems that
>>> spotting the
>>> inability to hold inane conversations with no particular point would
>>> be fairly important.
>>
>> I was asking how it made me conceited not whether or not it is an
>> important ability.
>
>My original point had nothing to do with conceit, it had to do with being
>self-centered. Conceit is thinking you are better than others, which is
>different. I think the inability to take an interest in what someone else
>wants to talk about indicates self-centeredness, and a judgment that what
>someone else wants to talk about is "inane" or "has not point" is a
>self-centered judgment, because it is based solely on what you consider to
>be important.

Everybody is self-centered. Except maybe Mother Theresa, and she's
dead.

We're all self-centered. The question is a matter of circumference,
not centering.






--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College