Reading or hearing something one does not understand and dismissing it as useless, calling it "philosophy" as an insult, then falling for every media pronouncement and logical fallacy as being profound or meaningful.
Ayn: To love is to value.
Sam: Huh? You mean you have to pay for it? Philosophy sucks! That's just intellectual masturbation.
Nan: We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
Sam: Makes sense to me. That's deep.
Sam: Huh? You mean you have to pay for it? Philosophy sucks! That's just intellectual masturbation.
Nan: We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
Sam: Makes sense to me. That's deep.
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Every single person who tried to define "pseudo-intellectual" just made themself out to be quite farcical. Their parents must be siblings.
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He went on and on about how many uses he had for an avacado and a water pik, but we didn't want to hear about that intellectual masturbation
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he poses an intellectual threat to her entire argument by using better, contrary, evidence and clearer reasoning that calls her assessment into question.
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Get the immature intellectual mug.The act of throwing one's legal weight around to deliberately stifle innovation so one can be the only one who can charge license fees for an obvious invention. The RIAA, MPAA, ESA, and Microsoft are supporters of intellectual terrorism. So called because the cease & desist letters and infringement lawsuits instill terror.
"The Dump" video game ROM site was a victim of intellectual terrorism.
Charging someone twice for one usable copy of Windows XP because they lost the install disk and their hard drive crashed is an example of intellectual terrorism.
Charging someone twice for one usable copy of Windows XP because they lost the install disk and their hard drive crashed is an example of intellectual terrorism.
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