I had this chat with a Air Force guy -- don't ask why -- and he basically demonstrated that soldiers are the same beasts as Christians: they're presumptuous Botnoids sent by Beelzebub to mesmerize people's thoughts into tangential submission.

• Submission: there are wrong ideas and everyone is having them -- excluding the speaker, naturally
  
• Tangential ( Read more... )

"You're thinking about this too much Justin".

WTF?  Aren't you people always calling people "stupid"?!  So over-analyzing isn't an antidote!  Well WHAT the fuck do you want?  It's 'thinking too much' versus 'everyone (else) is stupid'.  Think about it.  And don't give me that instinct/innate crap.

Hard; long and hard.  *ugh*

It's worse when the ( Read more... )

The Great and Glorious A!

This little story made me laugh -- alot.  hehe.  It's simply delicious at poking fun of smarty-poohs.  Mmm.

"Do you know what A means, little Piglet?"

"No, Eeyore, I don't."

"It means Learning, it means Education, it means all the things that you and Pooh haven't got.  That's what A means."

"Oh," said Piglet again.  "I mean, ( Read more... )

Calling people stupid is synoymous to calling them retarded.  Opinions, arguments -- words -- are stupid.  People are not stupid.

I just searched my friend's list and am prepared to call people out for using this label.  Before blasting half my friends away, I want to note a trend.  A person usually calls kinds of people stupid, and this lends ( Read more... )

I am again at odds with my lil' world of LJ'ers and peeps.  This time it's the "stupidity" phenomena sweeping virtual and real worlds.  Puns totally intended.  But I'm not on your side LJ and peeps: I'm defending those small-minded, stupid (American) retards.

*GASP*

And that's all I really need to say but allow me to step onto the soapbox alongside ( Read more... )

I loathe mocking, picking, or jabbing people, but I will mock, pick, or jab in retaliation to persistent, personal attacks.  Here's a concise little description of the tactic: I'm brilliant; you're stupid.

I just read an opinion on the psychological and sociological state of relativists -- people who doubt truth.  And I am floored.


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While perusing the library to learn more about the LCC (Library of Congress Classification), I bumped into -- how unsurprising -- two papers on dogmatism, intelligence and critical thinking.  Both papers shed psychological light, instead of the philosophical sort, on beliefs and thinking.

"Although dogmatism, intelligence and analytic ability are ( Read more... )