(June 8, 2014 at 1:09 pm)Nestor Wrote:(June 8, 2014 at 1:03 pm)rasetsu Wrote: I think it's probably part of life in the echo chamber. If everybody is telling you how good you are you tend to believe them. The same with arguments. If all you're exposed to are the good points, and don't grapple with the criticisms, you'll have a tendency to think the arguments are strong.
Very true. But once a person is old enough to experience the world on their own, say by about the age of 17, wtf is their excuse then? Laziness?
Technically it is a form of brainwashing as children and it is difficult to overcome that under any circumstance. Time does not necessarily heal all wounds.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
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-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
