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It may be fun, but I don't think that solves anything the long run. The question is what are you trying to accomplish with this person? If nothing, just walk away. If you are trying to get them to change, confrontation probably isn't the best option.
Rubbing their faces in their own ignorance isn't a very Christian approach.
Reaction memes.How do you deal with a pretentious know it all?
Maybe the person isn't as important as the community, and maybe a community of pretentious know it all's wouldn't be as important as the larger society.
Why let it spread? Change has to start somewhere.
Hmm. Was the same true of Christ, rubbing the ignorance of false teachers in their faces?
The person is as important as the community. The community is made up of persons. It's not as if pretentiousness is a disease. Christ did counter ignorant teachings to further His message. Spinning up other people just to show you are smarter than their ignorance, is not what Christ was doing. I've yet to hear what you are trying to gain with this person. Community shame? They probably already have that, even though they don't recognize it. Taking them to task sounds more like pride than anything.
I already answered, and if you don't agree, sorry, you don't need to know any more, because I don't answer to you.
Aren't you a funny little know-it-all in a huff
For the record, you really didn't answer anything. You just quoted a scripture about God's will and the intent of His message. You're not suggesting you are God, called upon by the most high to tear down the words of others.....are you?
How do you deal with a pretentious know it all?
Someone who views their self as the intellectual crusader who must change everyone, because in their view most people are ignorant and stupid.
Someone who has insulated their self from getting input from most, because in their mind everyone is stupid, and their self is the agent of change for the "stupid people"?
Is there a way to constructively confront such a person, or should one consider such a person as incapable of being reached due to elevating their self in a self contained intellectual apparatus of arrogance?
Yes, people do exist who truly feel as if they are THE intellectual crusader whom all the "stupid people" must submit to.
These people go berzerk if you pose the possibility that they aren't the intellectual mover and shaker they believe their self to be. They'll claim you "just don't get it" if you suggest they are possibly being arrogant or placing themself above others.
Their easy out card is the "you just don't get me" "you just don't get it" statement, whenever you slightly suggest that they are being arrogant, insulated, and possibly not as relevant as they esteem themself.
They're the misunderstood "outsider".
The lone voice in the wilderness every stupid person refuses to submit to.
Is there a way to break through their deluded arrogant facade?
This is the truth, I've come across know it all's that it is at some level related to a mental illness issue and often doing anything more than ignoring them literally feeds them in some way it either irritates them or encourages them or both. I think one has to try and judge the true personality of the individual and try and ascertain their motive for correcting others. I used to be somewhat of a know it all and still at times confidently state my opinion. I think often know it alls do know things but I think the problem they have is social skills in that they want to be helpful but instead of trying to help they are seen as "taking over" in a conversation and correcting someone. I have to resist at times the method in which I try to correct someone such as to make it not seem like doing so makes me better or more important but rather I want the other person to learn from me and then later they too can correct someone also and perhaps in time ignorance in that matter can be reduced.Quite often these people have narcissistic personality disorder...and if that is what is going on, they aren't going to learn or change no matter what people say...you are wasting your time even trying to "put them in their place".
Once you've been stuck around a lot of people who have advice for everything you start to second guess everything you say, pretend you know less than you do, or otherwise aspire to never become what you dreaded being aroundIf anybody needs advice, I pretty much know everything. I was only wrong once and that's only because I thought I was wrong.
If anybody needs advice, I pretty much know everything. I was only wrong once and that's only because I thought I was wrong.
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