# *snobs

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Posted by Cygnus [Cygnus] on October 27, 1999 at 14:47:27 {dPkPwxsNJEB1pOXGOGwkL4bdfUTIaI}:

In Reply to: snobs posted by B on October 26, 1999 at 21:19:13:

What you've experienced here is not a belittling of choice of employment. Rather, when someone is called a graduate of WWU, it is because he stuck his nose into a discussion where he had no business doing so. For instance, many JWs and fundy-types know zilch about cosmology factors, biological evolution, and so forth. Or they've merely read what other fundies have written on such topics, and so when they enter a discussion on, say, creationism, and remark upon how atheists believe "nothing exploded into something," or evolutionists believe that "intelligent humans came from chimps," well, they demonstrate their ignorance. Since it doesn't take a lot of mental capacity for logical thought to wash windows or do menial janitorial work, that's why the slurs are directed in such a fashion.

Myself, I do manual work for a living. I'm a "solid, gas, and liquid fuel venting specialist." Which basically means I'm a chimney sweep. Although I perform several different functions in my company. I rebuild chimneys (stone and brick), install corrosion resistant liners which eliminate condensate, install prefabricated fireplaces and gas conversion inserts, sell custom solid-brass glass enclosures, and we renovate and design new fireplace facings.

So while I come home from work dirty, tired, full of mortar dust, and never even having obtained a high-school diploma, I think my mental skills have been honed enough to contribute to boards like H2O with decent technique. So I've never been offended by the WWU comments.

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