(August 29, 2012 at 11:04 pm)tangobunny Wrote: It amazes me the lengths people will go through to block out reality.
I wanted to use a video that perfectly encapsulates that point, but since I couldn't find the clip I wanted I had to nick this from a post at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR.org):
Quote:One of Richard Pryor’s best stories revolved around his wife coming home and catching him with another woman. The woman bolted from the bedroom while Pryor’s wife berated him, as he denied that he’d done anything wrong. Finally, Pryor gave the punch line, as he looked at his wife and asked, “Baby, who you gonna believe? Me or your lyin’ eyes?”
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.'
