Why should you let ignorance blossom?
When you have weeds, don't you pick them?
When you have cancer, dont you immobilize it?
So why, then, should you accept and let blossom the ignorance of another?
Why is it that it is ok for you to talk to someone and then they will make an outlandish statement, and you are supposed to let them carry on as such?
Why is it that you "should" not be bothered by other people's ignorance?
Why is that ok?
And most of all, why is it ok that these people are all around me?
Every time I get into intellectually charged conversations with people, I will remain calm and discuss... meanwhile, they will explode into calling me names and arguing moot points, etc and then get really immature and block me.
This always happens, how does this happen? I mean, let me think... I have had maybe two times this has not happened to me, but all other times it does occur. And the other person will *always* think they are ok in their statements, but when I go forward [and I do, always, to make sure it is not me] and show a copy of the conversation to someone else: they are always pointed out to be acting out.
How is it OK that this person can be ridiculous, and immature and that is all right? However, my distaste for ignorance is frowned upon? I just can't see the one sided "live and let live," the one sided "to each his own."
Tonight this was Alan, again. Last time Alan and I talked it was about like religion.
You know what makes me mad? Not atheists. Atheists are fine, they like their own life: I am really into the whole idea that anyone can do whatever they want, but that I have the option to remove them from my life if what they do interferes with what I wanna do. Well, so any way, atheists are fine: atheists who try to "convert" me are not. If you believe so strongly that there is no God, why do you spend so much time disproving him? I just hate atheists who, like Alan did, will approach me and say "hahaha you're wrong!! Wrong, prove God to me!" Well, I can't prove God. But religion is faith, so get off my back. Like... what is the need for you to try and get me to not believe? Does this make sense at all?
Any one? Bueller? Bueller?
Regardless of what anyone feels about me, I do not mind. I mean, I will mind to an extent: sometimes things will hurt me, like if I like someone but they think I am dorky or something. However, anyone may feel free to hold any opinion on me, so long as they hold it as an opinion and don't try to trade it off as a fact. I don't mind being disliked, I mind when people try to create facts. Opinions aren't facts, you can't -- by definition -- make facts in that manner. Seriously, does this not make sense? Someone, tell me.
I am also of the school that is AGAINST the following: "if it is not true it should not bother you." This is something people say a lot but people themselves hardly follow. Honestly, it just is not always that simple. Sometimes, people make rumors about you and they're false... but it still bothers you for some reason or another. I think using this phrase or what "should" or "should not" bother you is a horrible thing because not everything is as easy as "do unto others." Life has complications. People have emotions, and just because emotions take their own control sometimes does not mean that someone IS a whore because there's a rumor going around that they are and they're sad about it.
-Samantha
][EDIT][ And additional thought that I can't find a place for in the above. I am aware that there is a psychoanalytical theory and that a minority of people believe it. I don't, though. That is pretty much it. I know that me believing it does not make it fake, but others believing it does not make it real. While you can run around and inconsiderately speak like youe *theory* is composed of facts, that pretty much makes you really closed minded. That does make perfect sense, and I know it.
When you have cancer, dont you immobilize it?
So why, then, should you accept and let blossom the ignorance of another?
Why is it that it is ok for you to talk to someone and then they will make an outlandish statement, and you are supposed to let them carry on as such?
Why is it that you "should" not be bothered by other people's ignorance?
Why is that ok?
And most of all, why is it ok that these people are all around me?
Every time I get into intellectually charged conversations with people, I will remain calm and discuss... meanwhile, they will explode into calling me names and arguing moot points, etc and then get really immature and block me.
This always happens, how does this happen? I mean, let me think... I have had maybe two times this has not happened to me, but all other times it does occur. And the other person will *always* think they are ok in their statements, but when I go forward [and I do, always, to make sure it is not me] and show a copy of the conversation to someone else: they are always pointed out to be acting out.
How is it OK that this person can be ridiculous, and immature and that is all right? However, my distaste for ignorance is frowned upon? I just can't see the one sided "live and let live," the one sided "to each his own."
Tonight this was Alan, again. Last time Alan and I talked it was about like religion.
You know what makes me mad? Not atheists. Atheists are fine, they like their own life: I am really into the whole idea that anyone can do whatever they want, but that I have the option to remove them from my life if what they do interferes with what I wanna do. Well, so any way, atheists are fine: atheists who try to "convert" me are not. If you believe so strongly that there is no God, why do you spend so much time disproving him? I just hate atheists who, like Alan did, will approach me and say "hahaha you're wrong!! Wrong, prove God to me!" Well, I can't prove God. But religion is faith, so get off my back. Like... what is the need for you to try and get me to not believe? Does this make sense at all?
Any one? Bueller? Bueller?
Regardless of what anyone feels about me, I do not mind. I mean, I will mind to an extent: sometimes things will hurt me, like if I like someone but they think I am dorky or something. However, anyone may feel free to hold any opinion on me, so long as they hold it as an opinion and don't try to trade it off as a fact. I don't mind being disliked, I mind when people try to create facts. Opinions aren't facts, you can't -- by definition -- make facts in that manner. Seriously, does this not make sense? Someone, tell me.
I am also of the school that is AGAINST the following: "if it is not true it should not bother you." This is something people say a lot but people themselves hardly follow. Honestly, it just is not always that simple. Sometimes, people make rumors about you and they're false... but it still bothers you for some reason or another. I think using this phrase or what "should" or "should not" bother you is a horrible thing because not everything is as easy as "do unto others." Life has complications. People have emotions, and just because emotions take their own control sometimes does not mean that someone IS a whore because there's a rumor going around that they are and they're sad about it.
-Samantha
][EDIT][ And additional thought that I can't find a place for in the above. I am aware that there is a psychoanalytical theory and that a minority of people believe it. I don't, though. That is pretty much it. I know that me believing it does not make it fake, but others believing it does not make it real. While you can run around and inconsiderately speak like youe *theory* is composed of facts, that pretty much makes you really closed minded. That does make perfect sense, and I know it.