*laughing* BB, this is post of the week. I've got a few comments in reply, but I have to get some coffee and stop laughing first. You are killing me.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 7:03 PM, BB47 <[email protected]> wrote: > > You know what I noticed about people? We all think we are > “right.” Every damn one of us. Lucky for you , the statements I > just made are partially wrong, so don’t take all this too seriously, > but I am going to say it all anyway, and I am going to present > everything I say in a tone that sounds like I believe I am right and > that I know what I am talking about. (Why do I do that?) Why do you > do that? > > Anyway, everywhere on the planet people are behaving this way, from > the smartest to the dumbest. I would say 90% of all people who post > on an Internet forum claim they are absolutely correct about what they > are telling you. One hundred percent of them are wrong about one > thing or another, and so is my ridiculous estimate of 90%. (Don’t try > and look it up, it will be wrong or distorted too) The smartest , > most well informed people are wrong more than they might imagine, as > they would find out if they had access all of the bonafide correct > information in the world right in front of them, which of course is > impossible, because it doesn’t exist. At least not in absolute form. > But this neither occurs to them nor is any cause for pause. They > speak to others about their information and facts as if they are > true. > > The 10% remaining believe they are idiots, so they don’t say too > much. Now when the smartest people are wrong about something the > idiots believe it, and now they are wrong too. And worse, they are > emboldened. They now think they have some correct information to > spread around. It is a vicious circle. > > Is it any wonder why people can’t get along? The human race is a > disaster. Thank god I am wrong about that. Oh sure, there are people > who are actually “right” on the surface of it, but the more you dig, > the wronger they get. Just like the word “wronger” (it is a very > shallow dig with me, there is a plus side to all this) > > Let’s say a person reads a book by an expert. They now feel that > they too are an expert, but they didn’t really absorb the entire > book. They think they did, but they didn’t. If they were that smart > or that informed they would have written the book instead of reading > it. You know that thing about telling ten people a story? Well now > this “book report” will be passed down to the next person, slightly > or massively distorted, and anybody who didn’t read it for > themselves? Well they might buy into the wrong interpretation., > carry around those wrong facts, telling people that it is true, > things that the expert didn’t even get right! > > Even that original “expert” will be discredited by the next > expert, who will shred that book, tear it apart, and claim to be right > about it. Now, the smart person poster who read the first book? And > told you how wrong you were because of the book he read? Well he too > has dropped that first book as “rubbish” now in favor of the new > author, who gets some things wrong as well. But does he apologize? > Hell no, people like that never apologize. They are never wrong about > anything. > > And why is it that people , when they are right, have to be such > jerks about it? Too many people do that. “not only are you wrong, > but here is a searing insult to go with it to really make it > sting” (Why in the hell do I do that?) Why do you? The smartest > people can be the meanest. And what does that say about their > character? Do the well informed get to get away with it? Is > knowledge more valued than character around here? Not in my book, > maybe in yours. Oh, there are the people with actual wisdom, that > don’t do these nasty things, but there are so few of those. They > just say wise things, because they think they are right too, some of > which is wrong. Just a smaller percentage is all. The world is a > very complex place and it might not be possible to be totally correct > and be a human being.. > > So what do we do? Well I am going to set a new standard, I am going > to be wrong all the time. Just to try it out and set an example. Like > right there, see how easy that was? There is only one thing wrong > with “wrong.” (which I feel is an improvement) but naturally none of > this is correct. You could tear it apart, like a dog with a paper > towel roll, but then you would be proving my point by setting examples > of how right you need to be before everyone’s eyes! Go ahead, make > my day. > > There are so many smug, arrogant people in the world! It is simply > astounding. Just listen to us! Can’t you hear it? They all think they > are right, or have the golden truth, the mystical knowledge, and the > pure wisdom to offer us; the less fortunate. Not only that, but we > often have it beaten into us by a know-it-all with a meat cleaver. > Well, they are all wrong about something. But the most dangerous > thing is that the smarter you think you are, the less you are likely > to admit being wrong. Look around, make a count. I rest my case. But > nobody likes being wrong. It is the single most powerful driving > force of all human beings if I am not mistaken, which of course I > am. Why do we read? To become more righteous of course! We want to > be smart. So we can tell other people about stuff and correct them > when they are wrong! Show them how smart we are! What other possible > reason is there? (there are several….and I am wrong about that point > in many other ways too, but that does not stop me, nor you from this > drive to get smarter and “informed” so you can tell more people they > are wrong) > > Only the idiots admit being wrong. And only because they are > quickly pounded into submission by the more informed, with a snooty > tone that only the smug can deliver, but the idiots can’t wait until > they have something that they are right about so they can pound that > nail in the head of somebody beneath them. Look at most any post in > any forum and tell me what you see. I see somebody who thinks they > are right, and the other is wrong. It is virtually every single > post. (there I go again!) Well that obviously can’t be true, because > most of the posts oppose each other! And even if they are not saying > they are right, they are offering their opinions of which they are > “selling” as right. Like I do. What pompous, arrogant, smug jerks > we all are. Each and every one of us. Especially me, for writing a > post like this. This is one hard to top, but keep reading, it gets > even better. > > If people were really honest, they would turn their heads from > their computer screens right now and puke their guts out in self > disgust in light of this horrible realization. But of course none of > you will. Which proves my point with such indisputable precision that > it can’t be wrong, even though it clearly is. The intellectuals have > already stopped reading this post or discarded everything said in it > as being drivel, and are composing their wicked reply as you read, > further proving my point. You know what would be ironic? If a so > often wrong person like myself could teach a valuable lesson to the > people who think they are right all the time. Wouldn’t that be > great? But of course that won’t happen . This post will be forgotten > within minutes and everyone will go back to business as usual, being > their pompous, arrogant selves, and that strengthens my points even > more, and proves how everybody desperately wants and needs to be > right , like the vengeful little children we are , had these things I > am saying right now not been so ill conceived, so wholly devoid of > logic and reason, and written with such unbelievable ignorance and > poor taste.. > > But you will be the first to point that out. Don’t lie, you know > you want to! What you don’t know is “why” you really want do it. > You don’t want to think about that. It is ugly. You could never face > such a disgusting and petty truth about yourselves. Unless of course > you rationalize it away, which you are experts at! You are > incapable of complete honesty, just as much as you are not in > possession of the complete and absolute truth. Having said that, > you folks always come up with something I had not thought of. An > angle I was completely blind to. And I am sure that will be the case > here. God how I hate being wrong. From your responses and posts, it > looks like you don’t care for it either. > > The smarter you are, the less honest you become. I am probably > lying right there, but it doesn’t come close to those who rarely if > ever admit to being wrong, which is 90% of you. (Give or take, or I > am not even close, but who cares?) You care! You haughty, nit- > picking, minute error correcting, I have to point that out to you in > front of everybody, bastards! Like that is so important. (Actually > it is, in some cases it can be helpful and informative. I am just > being deliberately obnoxious, which I find “fun”) These so called > smart people, who have built their entire person on being right, have > built castle walls made of “delusion of grandeur” all around them. > They have become experts because they have read the experts. They > will never be reached again, not on an honest human level, locked > within their own prison walls, and they will not hear my call that > wanting to be right all the time, at any cost, is being a jerk, like > I am being right now. > > Ironically, these are the very same people that voice such > concern for the poor, the less gifted, the “suffering”, the mentally > challenged or the underprivileged. That is until they hear one of > those people’s opinions! Then they mentally trash and flog the poor > person and his pathetic opinion worse than society ever did, in > public, and you enjoy it. Like some megalomaniac dictator flogging > someone in the public square. What does that say about you and the > lofty position you occupy as the “informed?” > > Does anybody else see the pure beauty of all this? Of course you > don’t, for if you did, you would never post your arrogant words > again. You would even be able to SPEAK again. There would be nothing > for you to say!. But you will, which only proves my point. It would > make me sick if I believed I was right about any of this, but I am > only nauseated, further proving my point. > > There is no possible reply to this post without proving my point > completely correct by the examples you will inevitably give. I would > be able to point it out so easily, from so many different angles, so > take your best shot . That is until I read in horror what you come up > with, which I obviously completely missed, and never thought of (Hah! > …..Sigh) > > So what is the solution? Do we want a board filled with nothing > but “I agree completely!” or with every single point prefaced with > “I am not saying I am right or anything, but” or the worst possible…. > “I don’t have anything to say?” Of course not! (what was I thinking > there?) Perhaps we need to find a balance. (how many of us can pull > that off?) Some will, the rest may never. I hope I can pull it off. > We shall see. > > If you don’t agree with me, that is perfectly OK, I would like to > hear about it. Don’t worry, I won’t use this stuff against you. > That would be mean, and that would demonstrate my hypocrisy and would > show a lack of character. Unless you really abuse me. Then I am going > after you, with stuff like this. I am not going to sit back and let > some egghead with with a hammer abuse me anymore. Being right is not > all that is it cracked up to be. Being wrong is not that horrible. > There are way worse things…like never admitting it. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
