Long time listener, first time caller.
Before you start insulting someone's intellect, you should try to make a cohesive argument that doesn't have as its thrust a personal attack or the strong arming of people to adopt your preferences.
Honestly, you're too passionate to be considered an intellectual. Passion is a good characteristic. Motive force through which you can accomplish things, sometimes great things, which I'm sure doesn't hurt your already substantial ego. A large ego also lends itself to accomplishing things, through the self-confidence it produces. Both are very positive traits.
But you're not an intellectual.
Again, you're too passionate. You have a vested interest in being right. This is poison to the pliable mind. It seems you define yourself as intelligent, so the possibility of you being wrong not only affects you the way it affects everyone, since no one likes being wrong, it also has you question the entire way you view yourself. So, understably in light of this, you become prejudiced. Instead of doing your best to see the world objectively, you have as your goal to fit the facts to your presumptions and prior beliefs about them in a frantic attempt to avoid being wrong. It seems the entire "observe" process of intelligence has atrophied in you, due to your constant vigilance to always be right.
This isn't an attack. I hope you can see that. It's an assessment. An assessment you didn't ask for, but since your passion has you making them about others, I assume logically you do not mind others making genuine ones about you. If you decide to discuss this with me, and believe me to be wrong, one way to show me I might be is to not have your reply be based on persoanl attakcs and strong arm tactics, and instead present a coherent argument. Also, if you do reply, please reply in this thread. Any PM I receive from you will be posted in this thread and I welcome you to do the same should I send you any.
If, however, you do see the truth in what I'm saying, which I'll assume is the case in the absence of a reply from you, you'd do well to start defining yourself as passionate and self-confident, as I've said both of which are very good traits, but not as an intellectual. It's simply not the case.
