@IterIntellectus I want to do everything for the first time
@IterIntellectus That’s what happens when people skip linguistics 101.
@IterIntellectus it’s just a polite way of saying you’re a noob at having sex
@IterIntellectus People are so illiterate these days they don’t even know the root meaning of words in the English language anymore. I'm hopeful for the future, but moments like this make me fear we’re inching toward another intellectual dark age.
@IterIntellectus Pro tip: Use "Enthusiast" instead of amateur. Semantically almost the same without the stigmata. E g. Gynecological enthusiast sounds a lot more classy and refined than amateur gynecologist.
@IterIntellectus Sucking at something but persisting out of love is a special feeling
@IterIntellectus Words can make any action sound beautiful.
@IterIntellectus Amateur = for the love of the game. Which is what Twitter was before Elon started paying.
@IterIntellectus “I have an almost fanatical hatred of the word ‘professional’ as it applies to the theater. The theater is the last place on earth where the word ‘professional’ should be used. It is a word that has come to mean ‘competent but passionless.’” - Orson Welles
@IterIntellectus Love is assigned through eureka moments and is the direction for a specific person. Different humans have different directions and build different models of the world and compete.. That is the deep search..
@IterIntellectus You know… unconditional love is the highest form of intelligence.
@IterIntellectus it's true. doing something professionally will often make you hate it.
@IterIntellectus More like people have this notion of professional equals good, and amateur is the opposition of professional, therefore bad.
@IterIntellectus People used to prefer amateurs because they did it for the love of the game. I think it was a coordinated campagne by a certain sector to discredit amateur @grok is this right?
@IterIntellectus Is this where, "for the fuck of it" came from? Basically means the same thing
@IterIntellectus Okay, by that logic never park your car in a driveway again because it’s NOT a parkway.
@IterIntellectus It’s often amateurish interest which led to great achievements eventually. Not a dirty word.
@IterIntellectus No coin to speak of. Only passion, for many things…
@IterIntellectus What is the difference between Amateur and Professional? One gets paid. It does not denote quality of craft. I know plenty of "Amateur" musicians who are incredibly talented.
@IterIntellectus Pedophile comes from Greek. Philia meaning love or friendship