Anyone hate being a "geek" somewhat?

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Being a geek is great! It means Mario Kart and junk food, at least when I get together with my friends. It means watching Ghostbusters with a significant other! It means you know how to pirate stuff and save money!

Geeks are cool people. They do what they want when they want, and how they want, as a reflective of their identification. Martin Luther King said: "Let the judgement of one's character be judged by what a person does, and not how a person looks"And Geeks by far are the perfect specimen of the American dream which is to do what you want, how you want, and when you want. (Life liberty and the presuit of happiness). If one person decides to be a douche bag, then that person is responsible for the incurring negative jugement levied aginast said person. (ie a person who is say a serial sexual felon murderer, using their unsual "Geek" (Freak), powers for evil), say that person is a silly person and inspires joy in others, just being a weirdo like for instance Al Yankovic, or Weird Al, or Johnny Knoxville's Geeky (context: freaky), antics arrouse gross laughs).

As a volunteer with the 2010 Paraolympics, I had the pleasure of serving a community of Geeks, such as Lauren Woolstencroft, a fun personality of funess as a Team Canada skiier, winner of 5 Gold medals in Canada, and a Kaylee Frye (from Firefly), like personality her nickname was "pudding", for her love for sweets, she was amputated, from the knee, and elbow, and still designed much of the electrical facilities as a Electrical Engineer! How freaky geeky is that?

Then there are the Geeks that expand upon and create worlds based on the fictional universes created by other geeks. Like this is tantamount to Demigod like powers. Creating a culture within a culture... and the drama students have to earn a degree in it for 4 years. While non geeks are focused on petty existance, squandering their gifts of a brain that runs smoothly.

We're living in an age where it's now cool to be a geek. I dunno why you would hate it so much...

...unless you're like me and believe that society is sucking away the true value of what it once meant to be a geek.

Last edited by raisedbyignorance on 12 Jan 2011, 12:42 am, edited 1 time in total.

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I agree completely. Hell no would I not want to be not a nerd/geek, I love learning lots of new things way too much, especially about languages and computers. I'd rather be intelligent and have a mind of my own than be like the flock of sheep that is mmany American citizens.

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I am a history geek. Thankfully, there are guilds for my geekdom (called Historical Societies) wherein I am greatly appreciated for my contributions and I can read and learn until my heart's content. When I travel, I am immediately accepted into other Historical Societies as a visitor, welcome to all the knowledge I desire. I spent one Spring Break in a small town learning all I could about it. Met the mayor and the fire chief gave me a historical tour of the town. The cemeteries were awesome. I love being a history geek.

I also go Geocaching but I'm not as prolific a cacher as others. I haven't even broke 200 finds, yet and I've been playing for 5 years.

Geocaching is a lot of fun, there are lots of caches in my state. I haven't done it in probably 6 years though, since I did it with my dad.

Yeah, there's lots of caches in your state. You're in Washington! Home state of Groundspeak!

I didn't know what that is, but yep, makes sense.

Nope, I'm ok with it Actually, I sometimes I wish I were even a little more like brainy

As a geeky girl who has dated geeks, I can say only one thing to this: Bulls***.

And I am happy with my geekiness. I like who I am and I like the things I like. If others don't, too bad for them. They're missing out on a lot of interesting and fun things. It can be lonely, however, for the lack of other geeks. It's nice to have people to share one's interests with, and they can be hard to find for the geekily-inclined.



I would agree, except that a lot of people who consider themselves to be geeks, I do not consider to be. The word has become greatly misused.

I really think it's awesome that you had a dad that geocached. My parents never had hobbies or any real interests. I loved talking to my dad because he knew so much, but he and my mom never went anywhere or did anything. I think you should geocache again. I have a FTF prize (first to find... the first person to discover a newly hidden cache) from a cache that the cacher had hidden in honor of her mother. It's a beaded safety pin angel. Pretty common craft item but she made it because it was something her mom taught her to do. So I keep it with great sentimentality.

Yes, I do. I wish to be able to be viewed as an intelligent person that is able to socialise and have fun. Unfortunately, the latter two descriptions are not applicable and I must settle for the commonly used terms 'geek' or 'nerd'.

Well that's really cool, the angel she made.

I do love hiking and camping, and my dad loved it too, and he loved working on cars. Neither my mom nor step-dad like either, and all they like to do is watch football, which is completely boring. But unfortunately... I haven't seen my dad in a year and a half, but that's for another thread.

*facepalm*

I've got to remember that this is a forum with varied ages! I assumed your dad had passed away and hadn't even considered that your parents were divorced. I'm so sorry! My parents are gone so when people use past tense verbs with parents I just assume. I didn't think.