RE: I don't know
September 28, 2013 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2013 at 12:59 pm by Cyberman.)
(September 27, 2013 at 2:46 pm)Dunno Wrote: Would you tell the stupid person that they are wrong, that leaves aren't green, because they are stupid? That would just be very mean of you wouldn't it.
Yes I would tell them they are wrong, or at least inaccurate, if the leaves are brown. It would only be mean if I did it in a demeaning way. I would consider it very mean to let them continue in their mistaken belief and assertions instead of helping them to learn and grow from them. However I wouldn't tell them these things just because I think they're stupid. Stupid isn't not knowing things, or not knowing the avtual nature of things; stupid is not even wanting to learn.
(September 27, 2013 at 2:46 pm)Dunno Wrote: Let me ask you something, who was smarter, the person who created clockwork, or Einstein, who said time was the fourth dimension? I think the person who invented clockwork, Einstein was just sitting around thinking after all, while the person who invented clockwork made something useful. But do you know the person's name who invented clockwork? They did so much for you, worked so hard, were so inventive, but you know Einstein's name instead.
Let me ask you something, who was smarter, the person who invented clockwork or the person who invented the wheel, without which clockwork would be just so much scrap metal? Which is tastier, bacon or pork? Which is more blue, the sky or blue paint?
There is a name for the fallacy of setting up dichotomies to make false comparisons, but it escapes me for the moment... Suffice to say, why are the two options you gave the only ones under consideration, and what's your point anyway?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
