Forum: Rants Topic: stupid beams from orbit started by: Wolfguard Posted by Wolfguard on Aug. 15 2000,16:34
I think i have a handle on why the human race as a whole is getting more and more stupid.Its my belief that the goverment has put stupid beams in orbit and these are set on wide field. as a result people are getting dumber. or i could just be nuts. but it would explain so much... ------------------ Posted by SimplyModest on Aug. 16 2000,05:24
the sad thing is... dumb people dont know they are dumb.. they just keep walking around bothering us, stereo-typing others, laughing at some racist remark they heard earlier, while they cut someone else off in traffic and sporting an elevated middle finger. but thats just m opinion.... the real question is.. since dumb people dont know they're dumb (which is so obvious it hurts) then.. are we dumb too ? (ofcourse if we were, we wouldn't admit it) ------------------ Posted by Kolben on Aug. 16 2000,08:55
FFox, I believe those words were spoken by Gandhi (#1). He also said "The more you know, the more reason you have to be sad". True, true...think I'm gonna have me a bud
Posted by SimplyModest on Aug. 16 2000,13:24
modesty is the best policy.(thats what i always say) ------------------ Posted by Lordbrandon on Aug. 16 2000,14:04
its not that there more stupid people, its just that we here about them more,i.e. they have more acess to media where before they were on farms and unable to bother us
Posted by hyperponic on Aug. 16 2000,14:52
quote: I remember stumbling across something like this in a book awhile back. The author mentioned it as a kind of learning complex - the more you learn, the more knowledge you realize you do not (and cannot) possess. So you will keep learning until you know nothing. Heh, of course, that doesn't mean you should stop learning. Ignorance is still being fought, even though Stupidity was a lost battle... ------------------ Posted by Firefox on Aug. 16 2000,17:18
Someone old and wise (damned if I remember who) once said "The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing".This is so true. When we are young and naive, we think we know everything. When we are sitting around in grade 2, we think we have all the answers. But the more you learn about people, the world, and everything else, you realise that you know very very little about most things. The problem with dumb people is that they don't see this... they are too dumb to realise it, so they walk around in life with that "I know everything attitude... it's the telltale sign of someone who doesn't really know that much, I often say. That is another reason why I personally feel humbleness is a virtue... because most humble people are humble because they are smart enough to realise how little they know. Obviously, education is a key... but education won't even help some people. -FFox ------------------ "A christian, an anarchist-slash-prostitute, figures out the true meaning of freedom. Not freedom like America, freedom like a shopping cart." |