Self promotion? I'm not aware of this. But didn't you say it takes amongst other things, self-promotion to become famous/seen as great?
You are not aware of how often you bring up your intelligence and personal life in every thread? Wow, I don't know what to say.
And I did not say that you were (or should be seen as) famous or great, I merely said that you seem to shamelessly self promote yourself. Please do not put words in my mouth. Especially ones as absurd as that..
You have inferred and have tried to promote your self acknowledged genius a number of times.
Once you posted:
Well, I’ve never called myself a genius, but unfortunately my IQ scores do - I score between 145 - 160 on average - that falls into the “Genius category”, and I have High IQ societies membership certificates to prove that.
By bragging about your scores and putting them on display, then categorizing the results as "genius", you are infact calling yourself a genius.
You then posted in your sig a passage (accompanied by a photo of yourself) that read:
For anyone who cares to see what a genius looks like in blue – the colour shining on all ingenius beings
So you put yourself on display again as a genius, this time with photo identification. What's kind of funny here is that you declared yourself a genius but spelled “ingenious" incorrectly.)
Finally (and this was a little pathetic) you started a thread titled " So, Philosophicus thinks he's a genius...? " under the sock of "Mind".
In that post you wrote:
To me, a genius is someone who opens up a hidden window onto the absurd universe, like Werner Reyneke, aka Philosophicus. I know his real name because I happened to stumble onto an interesting site called Useless-Knowledge.com where he his a columnist and read his article "What is Genius". I read all his other articles as well - simply the works of a rare philosophical genius! I myself have a masters degree in Philosophy and am busy working on my Phd. I have to admit that Philosophicus/Werner Reyneke is utterly original and revolutionary in his ideas. You're probably wondering how I got his real name, I mean everyone uses pseudonymns around here - well, I emailed him a compliment on his extraordinary articles on the website Useless-knowledge and he told me about this philosophy forum and also to read the posts under the name Philosophicus - am I a great sleuth or what!
So stop arguing semantics.
Philosophy to me is an end unto it's self. It's like a dog chasing its tail. My mothers taken many philosophy courses. Before that we used to be able to talk. Now she will never admit she is wrong on anything. Finally she'll say words are subjective. You can never win an argument because they live in "philosophy world" where there are only plays on words.... She also seems much more of an angrier person then she used to be. I like her when she was human.