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Turbeaux wrote:

I often feel rather ignoant compared to many others here but I love to surround myself with intelligent folks! Don't tell them that I said so, but many of my friends are kind of dumb.

I voted against the embassy with India for essentially the same reasons as you did. They could have made a much better case for themselves than they did (I think/hope)...

I quite agree with you on India. I telegrammed their relevant official with the results, and they said that they probably would not try again, so... *shrugs*

New rule: nobody feels ignorant or dumb or stupid or not good enough for Forest! That kind of thing is highly discouraged. You were a wonderful Forest Keeper, and we did very well with you. To me, it's much more important that someone is good and wants to do the best that they can rather than they are artful in their speech or that they know how to use a synonym tool. The longer that I go in life, the more I realize how much is out there and, by corollary, how little I know. But that isn't a reason to feel bad.

Just think: the vast majority of people don't ever get a sense that their knowledge is fragmentary at best. Dunning-Kruger is truth. So how wonderful that people kind of realize, albeit with a sense of embarrassment, that they don't know things. And if anyone doesn't have those realizations, then they are ignorant, in the end.

So feel good. Everyone should feel good, insofar as they are doing their best. :-)