(July 10, 2013 at 3:06 am)Raven Wrote:(July 10, 2013 at 2:43 am)Attie Wrote: On another forum this morning I read about a guy crying because he lost about $28500-00. Apparently he left a car to be sold by a secondhand dealer who now refuses to give him his money.
Turns out the guy signed all transfer papers etc. before the deal was made. This is in South Africa.
So to me it looks like Faith and Trust goes hand in hand.
I'd say that was more a case of if you are that fucking stupid, then you deserve what you get. I can't have any sympathy for a guy who is such a complete imbecile that he would sign all of the papers over before he got his money. This, however has nothing whatever to do with faith or trust.
With normal humans who have functioning brains, unlike this bonehead, trust is only bestowed when earned. I trust my wife because we've been together for decades and she has never given me any reason not to. Quite the contrary. In a more general sense, you could say that I have a great deal of faith in human nature: I have a great deal of faith in their inherent lack of being able to be trusted by any person with a healthy sense of self-preservation. I think your South African dude found that out the hard way.
Your reaction really makes me feel welcome but I have difficulty distinguishing between being a moron and having faith, sorry. I don't mean to get personal it's just the
way my brain started working. I just don't trust faith. It makes me uneasy and it makes me feel a bit stupid.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell
