One of the eternal truths about stupid people (Click directly on the graphic to enlarge it):
Your personal experiences with or personal observations about either or both of the above nuggets of wisdom?
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Monday, February 18, 2019
The Wisdom Of Mark Twain
One of the eternal truths about growing up (Click directly on the graphic to enlarge it):
One of the eternal truths about stupid people (Click directly on the graphic to enlarge it):
Your personal experiences with or personal observations about either or both of the above nuggets of wisdom?
One of the eternal truths about stupid people (Click directly on the graphic to enlarge it):
Your personal experiences with or personal observations about either or both of the above nuggets of wisdom?
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Intelligence is knowing that one is "stupid" about certain matters. Stupid is never acknowledging one is stupid about some things.
ReplyDeleteI suggest one of the tenets of today's educational system. The premise seems to be that there is no need to learn anything about much of anything. The ending of most of the history courses in colleges as an example. To suggest one doesn't know is to "hurt" their feelings.
I think it's the Dilbert Principle that says that everyone is stupid about something.
DeleteIt's like Whack a Mole. Nail one and another pops up.
Ha ha! I give my Dad a shout out with the first quote every Fathers Day. I love Twain. I've been reading and rereading his works since high school.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with the second quote; arguing with the truly stupid (who I define as knowing the facts but discarding them in lieu of emotional gratification), can be most educational......to see the mechanisms of deceit laid bare, or to expose the charlatans and pied pipers of perfidy.
ReplyDeletePlus, it’s entertaining.
CI,
DeleteSometimes, yes.
But sometimes they are too much of nuisances to be entertaining. No names mentioned.
To be sure, the entertainment value wears off, especially when the stupid reflexively turn to pejoratives and base insults, since they lack an intellectual argument.
Delete"Here is the truth, the real truth, the thing we must be most afraid of is the destructive power of absolute beliefs -- that we can know anything conclusively, absolutely -- whether we are compelled to it by anger, fear, righteousness, injustice, indignation."
Delete--- Howard Beale
The thing we have most to fear –– and have ALWAYS had to fear: –– LUST for POWER –– the always inappropriate desire to deceive, seduce, hector, badger, bully,humiliate, –– or physically BEAT –– resistance to being dominated –– out of anyone you fear and, loathe, –– or whose talents, accomplishments and property you covet.
DeleteWisdom, indeed! I used to be a fairly gentle, refined sort of fellow interested almost exclusively in high culture and, prayerful, high-minded thinking.
ReplyDeleteEver since I began jousting with leftists on the internet, I have watched myself steadily degenerate. I have become coarser, cruder, more insolent, less tactful, and sometimes downrght obscene
I have no one to blame but myself, of course, for succumbing to temptation, but I have to say that no one can take daily dips in a cesspool and expect to step out smelling like a rose.
The hypocrisy, dishonesty, disingenuousness, deceptiveness and shamelessly manipulative qualities the Left exemplifies and embodies have succeded in transforming our National Conversation into an unending, ever-expanding Feces Festival.
OONE of the MILDER EXAMPLES of WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT:
DeleteDearest, __________:
This is to inform you that YOU are about as much FUN as
Sand Fleas on the Beach
Sharks in the Water
Ants at a Picnic
A Vomiting Germ
An Automobile Accident
A Stopped Up Toilet
Being Trapped in a Burning Building
Enuresis
Erectile Dysfunction
Seeing Dog Dirt on Your Shoe
___ AFTER You've Walked on a White Shag Rug
A Diagnosis of Inoperable Cancer
A Paraltytic Stroke
An Airplane Crash
A Train Wreck
Being Buried in an Avalanche
Explosive Diarrhea
Drowning at Sea
An Outbreak of Scabies on a Cruise Ship
___ or at an Island Resort Hotel
Finding Out Your Spouse Just Gave You HIV-AIDS
Finding Maggots Crawling Around at a Salad Bar
Learning Your House Burned Down
___ While You Were Away
Finding A Picture of Your Spouse
___ Performing Fellatio On Your Best Bud
Developing a Bad Case of Bleeding Hemorrhoids
Finding a Poisonous Snake Hissing at You
___ As You're Opening A Gift
Discovering Your Lawfully Wedded Wife of Twenty Years
___ Was Born a Male.
Y'ALL TAKE IT FROM THERE. I'M DONE
Franco, you claim to be old, but your mind is still frighteningly fertile!
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DeleteThank you –– I think.
But please be assured I have no wish to frighten anyone –– except MARXISTS, of course.
Be assured that you don't frighten anyone.
DeleteNaturally, I'm delighted to know that.Just be assured that TRUTH is certain one day to frighten the HELL out of YOU, Canardo.
DeleteThose aren't raisins! hehehehehe
DeleteSredni Vashtar, perhaps? Certainly Saki at sny rate.
DeleteMakes ya yearn for simpler times.
ReplyDelete...B.I. - Before the Internet.
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean "B.L." –– Before LANGUAGE?
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The corollary is "Higher a teenager while they still know everything."
ReplyDeleteDo you LOWER him after he discovers he's not as bright as he thought he was? ;-)
DeleteEvery step goes HIGHER and HIGHER when climbing Jacob's Ladder, but when we HIRE someone to do a job, it's a different kettle of fish.
Franco, Cut Ed some slack. Probably a product of voice-to-text. I use it all the time and by reading my texts you would think I can't spell my daughter's own name
DeleteSF,
DeleteLOL! I have the same problem with prediction in my texts.
I was not trying to give our friend Ed a hard time, but I AM –– and always will be till the day I die –– a staunch defender of the integrity of our –– fast disappearing –– language.
DeleteMy aim grows
hyer
heier
heiyir
hygher
haier
every day.