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• Jermanator Posts: 16,244 Senior Member

  December 2018 #2

  I agree!
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  (moves on)

  Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

  -Thomas Paine

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• zorba Posts: 25,287 Senior Member

  December 2018 #3

  Well heck, who would I argue with then?
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  

  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."

  )O(
  

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• das68 Posts: 662 Senior Member

  December 2018 edited December 2018 #4

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• breamfisher Posts: 14,108 Senior Member

  December 2018 #5

  zorba said:

  Well heck, who would I argue with then?
  

  I can see how that is a problem. 

  Meh.

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• bisley Posts: 10,815 Senior Member

  December 2018 #6

  breamfisher said:

  ...and social media  (including Internet forums and  comments sections) in particular.
  
  Don't argue with those of lower intelligence. Either ignore them and agree and then move on.
  

  How do we know if this person that we write off as stupid might only be ignorant? Should we also refuse enlightenment to the ignorant?
  

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• CaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member

  December 2018 #7

  bisley said:

  breamfisher said:

  ...and social media  (including Internet forums and  comments sections) in particular.
  
  Don't argue with those of lower intelligence. Either ignore them and agree and then move on.
  

  How do we know if this person that we write off as stupid might only be ignorant? Should we also refuse enlightenment to the ignorant?
  

  If someone is adamant about their opinion and they are obliviously ignorant, then they are stupid. This is the information age...the cure for ignorance is a click(s) away. Most people are willingly bound to their ignorance. There are only a few exceptions. 
  
  
  

  When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.
  
  Adam J. McCleod
  
  

  
  

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• earlyagain Posts: 7,928 Senior Member

  December 2018 #8

  If I have a disagreement with someone. It's always because they are wrong.
  
  
  That's a jo-
  I say that's a joke son!

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• Jayhawker Posts: 18,362 Senior Member

  December 2018 #9

  I was participating with a homesteading group for a period of time not too long ago...within a month or so I discovered that the level of stupid out there was monumental...things like
  
  "I'm bleeding out of my ass...anyone know of any good home remedies?"
  "Dude! You really need to get to a hospital!"
  " I don't believe in modern medicine..."
  
  Stuff like that led me to the conclusion that there is an epidemic of idiocy out there and to avoid groups of people like that at all costs...

  Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"

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• Linefinder Posts: 7,856 Senior Member

  December 2018 #10

  That's not something I have to worry about, according to everyone I know.
  
  Mike
  
  

  "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
  N454casull
  

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• FFLshooter Posts: 1,057 Senior Member

  December 2018 #11

  Billy_Budd said:

  Jayhawker said:

  I was participating with a homesteading group for a period of time not too long ago...within a month or so I discovered that the level of stupid out there was monumental...things like
  
  "I'm bleeding out of my ass...anyone know of any good home remedies?"
  "Dude! You really need to get to a hospital!"
  " I don't believe in modern medicine..."
  
  Stuff like that led me to the conclusion that there is an epidemic of idiocy out there and to avoid groups of people like that at all costs...

  Lol! Reminds me of the folks who think vaccines are some ultra governemnt conspiracy to preform super secret mind control or some other tin foil hattery nonsense. But then again, there are those who insist that the earth is flat and that the Moon landings were filmed by Stanley Kubric when he was a secret operative for the CIA. Lol! Too bad those types never grew up in the early 20th century when the flu, TB and cholera were commonplace and wiped out people by the millions. 
  

  I draw the line with vaccines for things that the normal immune system can fight off. I’ll never understand why we are giving hepatitis C and HPV vaccines to babies.

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• centermass556 Posts: 3,618 Senior Member

  December 2018 #12

  "Never argue with an Idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience"
  George Carlin

  "To have really lived, you must have almost died. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."

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• Make_My_Day Posts: 7,927 Senior Member

  December 2018 #13

  CaliFFL said:

  If someone is adamant about their opinion and they are obliviously ignorant, then they are stupid. This is the information age...the cure for ignorance is a click(s) away. Most people are willingly bound to their ignorance. There are only a few exceptions. 
  
  
  

  Ordinarily I would agree totally, but the internet is full of lies as well as truth, and you have to be careful about where you get your "facts" from.
  

  JOE MCCARTHY WAS RIGHT:
  

  THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE NEW COMMUNISTS!

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• bisley Posts: 10,815 Senior Member

  December 2018 #14

  CaliFFL said:

  bisley said:

  breamfisher said:

  ...and social media  (including Internet forums and  comments sections) in particular.
  
  Don't argue with those of lower intelligence. Either ignore them and agree and then move on.
  

  How do we know if this person that we write off as stupid might only be ignorant? Should we also refuse enlightenment to the ignorant?
  

  If someone is adamant about their opinion and they are obliviously ignorant, then they are stupid. This is the information age...the cure for ignorance is a click(s) away. Most people are willingly bound to their ignorance. There are only a few exceptions. 
  
  
  

  A stupid person is one who is unable to learn, not just unwilling to learn. An ignorant person is able to learn, but lacks the wisdom to do it, either out of impatience, laziness or maybe just because they enjoy being angry. Some folks believe that being angry about everything excuses them from the obvious 'pain' that pursuing a reasonable solution seems to always cause. It doesn't - it just makes people think that they are stupid.
  

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