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Posted: **Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:28 am**

Look into your wallet or purse

If you find no library card you are not a self-learner. You are at best a dilettante, a dabbler in knowledge.

A self-learner has a multitude of clamoring questions, in a multitude of domains of knowledge, seeking answers. To discover the nature of reality and the answers to these questions one must have access to a library of books.

Most colleges have a ‘Friend of the Library’ card, which, for a small annual fee, will allow anyone to borrow books from that library.

After schooling is over the experience of learning begins. I think that the first step toward becoming a self-actualizing self-learner is to acquire at least one library card.

Posted: **Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:36 am**

I have one but I dont use it. I normally buy all of my books so I can have my own library one day.

Posted: **Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:54 am**

Hamster wrote: Thats true...I only read self help/personal development/spiritual growth books and most libraries only have a limited range for me...

If I can't get it on Amazon I don't bother...

Wow - you only read self-help books and yet you STILL act like you do........

(this is a joke, Hamster). Hamster, my apologies ahead of time. I know I don't know you that well and, yes, I admit I am joining in the Rodent Discrimination, but I just couldn't help myself!! Sorry!!

Posted: **Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:53 pm**

ArnoldLayne wrote: Look at your hands

If you find no callouses you havent done a good days work

Same logic

Agreed.

I guess Im just dumb and lazy :yh_doh

Posted: **Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:29 pm**

What if you have a library card, but you never use it?

Posted: **Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:57 pm**

coberst wrote:

If you find no library card you are not a self-learner. You are at best a dilettante, a dabbler in knowledge.

We are all dilettantes and dabblers, Coberst. Some of us are just a bit more blinkered than others.

Posted: **Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:59 pm**

AussiePam wrote: We are all dilettantes and dabblers, Coberst. Some of us are just a bit more blinkered than others.

Maybe I should use my library card more often, because I have no idea what dilettant means.

Posted: **Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:35 pm**

My apologies KSnyder, the filter I used allowed that word as it had been in previous posts in this thread. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines dilettante as follows:

Lover of the fine arts: amateur; smatterer, one who toys with subject or concentrates on nothing.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines dilettante as:

A dabbler in an art or field of knowledge

(From Latin delectare - to delight)

Posted: **Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:41 pm**

By the way, I did look in my purse and found

Two sets of keys

One pair designer sunnies

One Paris metro used ticket stuck in

One novel of the trashy bodice ripper variety

A hairbrush

Two lipsticks

An Italian sudoku puzzle book

iPod

Diary

Address book

Clipped recipe for Sicilian pasta sauce

Five pens

Small bottle Opium perfume

Money

Driver's License

Credit cards

Library card

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:09 am**

I don't have a purse,...but heres what's in my wallet...

Trash

An "F-U, I don't ever wanna see you again" note

Oh, heres a penny

A condem,...tied off 3 times.:sneaky:

"Sir, if we don't hear by you by 3 am tommorrow morning we will close the account" note

PS: you're dog died

Used napkin

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:13 am**

Used sanitary napkin, K?

Oh and Pinky - yeah, business cards. And I know what you mean about the ones you've collected from people you met in a swimming pool, on a train, in an airport, at a bus stop, in a cafe, at a party..... and never done anything with.. hey who were those guys and gals?????

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:20 am**

I do sometimes follow one up, or get a call out of the blue and accept the adventure. Grin. Too many possibilities, too little time.. grin.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:23 am**

AussiePam wrote: I do sometimes follow one up, or get a call out of the blue and accept the adventure. Grin. Too many possibilities, too little time.. grin.

And then you realize he's nothing but a "diaper dandy", and you would have been better off dancing with his grandmother.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:38 am**

What the heck is a diaper dandy?????????????????

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:58 am**

I believe true knowledge is learning how to apply sucessfully what you have learnt

A quote by wopster: "True knowledge comes at the point of enlightenment" :wah:;)

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:44 am**

AussiePam wrote: What the heck is a diaper dandy?????????????????

"Diaper Dandy" is a reference a particular college basketball enthusiasts uses when referring to kids who are strait out of high school, and don't have much experience in playing basketball at a college level. It has become well known American slang.

Perhaps you have heard of Dick Vitale -- "He's a diaper dandy baby"!

I was just joking around anyway...