Why Do People Believe Stupid Stuff?

[JackLuis]

Why Do People Believe Stupid Stuff,

The Misconception: When your beliefs are challenged with facts, you alter your opinions and incorporate the new information into your thinking.

The Truth: When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.

OKay it's not porn, but it explains so much about the AH.

 

[sr71plt]

Facts? Evidence? The AH? hahahahhahaha

 

[Stella_Omega]

if i had a fetish for stupid, Lit would be my candy store.

"Tell me something smart."

"They should quit using our tax dollars to fund those studies and stuff and use the money for something more important."

"Oh, baby, you know what I LIKE!"

 

[JackLuis]

Complaint alleges police tasered, beat mentally handicapped Ohio teen

This may be the type of article he was writing about.

Jesse Kersey, a 17-year-old mentally handicapped boy, was riding his bicycle near his home in Dayton, Ohio last Saturday when officer Willie Hooper pulled him over to talk.

A civil complaint filed in Dayton County this week alleges that Hooper then became confused by the boy's speech impediment and began to shout at Kersey, causing the boy to begin walking back to his mother's home.

 

[lovecraft68]

if i had a fetish for stupid, Lit would be my candy store.

"Tell me something smart."

"They should quit using our tax dollars to fund those studies and stuff and use the money for something more important."

"Oh, baby, you know what I LIKE!"

Good one! Glad I can do something for you! Really need to stop posting after the Friday drinks with the guys.

 

[rgraham666]

As I've been saying for years, belief is easier than thought.

 

[sr71plt]

As I've been saying for years, belief is easier than thought.

It's more comfortable too.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Yup, to the True Believer, everything is either black or white. To a thoughtful individual, everything is shades of grey and it's a disturbing world to have to live in.

 

[Stella_Omega]

All those shades of grey prove to the believer that you don't know anything for sure, so what good are you?

 

[sr71plt]

So what good are which "you" for what?

 

[TE999]

Yup, to the True Believer, everything is either black or white. To a thoughtful individual, everything is shades of grey and it's a disturbing world to have to live in.

Thoughtful? Well maybe, but you're also considered independent, indecisive, a middle-of-the-roader, part of the mushy middle and fuzzy thinking depending on who you're talking to. It's like a feud between clans, either you is or you ain't on the right side.

I guess that's why it's disturbing.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Well, houn' dawgs and babies jes' luv me!

 

[SydneyBlake]

Contradictory evidence is cast aside as an outlier.

LC, where's my drink???

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Dear Reader

What we have here are political epistemologists; they re-invent the wheel every day.

 

[kromen]

Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.

Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.

-Men In Black

 

[lovecraft68]

Contradictory evidence is cast aside as an outlier.

LC, where's my drink???

It's sitting on my nightstand, come get it.

 

[Handley_Page]

Because those who often teach occasionally get it wrong.
So those who were taught get it wrong.
And so on.

I'm thinking of that poor fundamental who seemed to truly believe that the bible was written in English, and it is the literal truth.
May God help her.

 

[SydneyBlake]

Because those who often teach occasionally get it wrong.
So those who were taught get it wrong.
And so on.

I'm thinking of that poor fundamental who seemed to truly believe that the bible was written in English, and it is the literal truth.
May God help her.

I once overheard a couple discussing the Bible, and one of them said, "I read the King James version. If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul, then it's good enough for me."

Ya know, I wasn't around in the first century, but I think the Apostle Paul spoke Greek, you stupid fuck.

That's what I shoulda said.

 

[mynameisben]

I once overheard a couple discussing the Bible, and one of them said, "I read the King James version. If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul, then it's good enough for me."

Ya know, I wasn't around in the first century, but I think the Apostle Paul spoke Greek, you stupid fuck.

That's what I shoulda said.

So? My King James Bible is a popup book, and it's personally autographed by Jesus H. God. I know it's authentic because I got it on eBay. The guy who sold it told me is a paleoncologist. He said the bible's age can also be carbureted by popping it open to LeBron in the book of Lamentations, and counting his rings. Zero! The exact year Jesus parted the Red Sea Scrolls. No reading is required, which makes complete sense because Paul was reaching out to the illiterate masses.

Who's the stupid fuck now?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The last year I taught six grade, which includes late Roman Empire and the history of the Early Church, I had a couple of kids who honestly believed that the Bible was written in English. I gently walked them through the process of determining that it wasn't. Then when I pointed out that Jesus was probably quite well educated for His time and probably spoke three languages, including Koine Greek, they were rather impressed. I wonder if there was any discussion of that at home . . .

 

[rgraham666]

TI wonder if there was any discussion of that at home . . .

If there was there was also a good chance they got a cuff on the ear for listening to heresy.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Could be. However, I figure I used to catch 'em at exactly the right age to make a serious impact on the growing brain. I do know I sure turned out more than my fair share of historians, anthropologists and engineers. "Well, Mr. (RL name here) says . . ." and it was amazing how often that ended arguments.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Well if you didn't have a complaint filed against you for including religion in the classroom, a) they never discussed it at home or b) you taught in a private school.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Your ignorance of curriculum is understandable. Many people, including teachers, think that any mention of religion, especially Christianity, is forbidden in the classroom. That is incorrect. Note how the passage was written, "the history of Christianity,". California law mandates teaching the beliefs of all religions, from a historical standpoint. Note the word "mandates". The curriculum I followed was set out by the state of California. Anyone who had a complaint about it was invited to take it up with their assembly person. In other words, "tough nuggies, mama!"

 

[Stella_Omega]

Because those who often teach occasionally get it wrong.
So those who were taught get it wrong.
And so on.

I'm thinking of that poor fundamental who seemed to truly believe that the bible was written in English, and it is the literal truth.
May God help her.

Because those who teach-- especially religion-- teach it wrong for vested reasons.

I was out last night, and my companions asked me if I were "spiritual," which of course is code for "let us tell you how spiritual we are" The Mistress was explaining how her sub, a transgendered woman, had been foursquare gospel and obviously struggling and in pain between what the bible told "him" and what she knew about herself. Now, J, the sub calls herself a Gnostic and is reading ALLL the other biblical books. J triumphantly told me about the gospel of Mary Magdalene etc. She has a hella grasp of minutia and would have made an excellent researcher

I commented that in my perfect world, parents would spend as much time and effort teaching their children about science-- what it is, how it works, how to use it to question and understand the world-- as they do about the bible-- perhaps by sending their kids to Science Sunday Schools. Hell, if kids alternated between schools on Sundays, we would still be ahead by a thousand percent.

I was faced with identical wide-eyed faces...