Truth! - part 10
The following statements are accurate, actual, appropriate, authentic, authoritative, bona fide, correct, dependable, direct, exact, factual, fitting, genuine, honest, indubitable, kosher, lawful, legal, legitimate, natural, normal, on target, perfect, precise, proper, pure, regular, right, rightful, sincere, straight, suant, sure-enough, trustworthy, truthful, typical, undeniable, undesigning, undoubted, unerring, unfaked, unfeigned, unquestionable, valid, veracious, veridical, veritable, very, wash:
I am a peaceful person by nature. However, if you tickle me, and I ask you to stop and you don't stop, I will punch you. I don't care if you are a tiny woman. I don't care if you're handicapped. I don't care if you're carrying a baby. I don't care if you ARE a baby. You have one chance to stop. If you do not, it will end in violence and it will be your fault.
You know what you never hear? "That baby is a real asshole." Babies are called fussy, cranky, moody, even temperamental, but they seem immune to the regular run of insults that we adults can be saddled with. At what age do you suppose a person is capable of being a cunt?
While we're on the subject of criticizing children, the age at which one can be considered a loser is a little ill-defined. It does however seem to be getting older. Teachers all the way up through high school are now being instructed to avoid things like red ink and words like failure because they make kids feel bad about getting answers wrong (or should I say getting answers "alternatively correct"). Come to think of it, apparently, at the age of 38, I'm too young for negative comments as well, because my supervisors at work insist on giving me feedback, despite my insistence that I'm mature enough to handle criticism. Doesn't it seem like we're all being treated as if the powers-that-be think we may snap and kill somebody if we experience anything unpleasant? I guess that episode of the Twilight Zone with the superpowered little kid turned out to be a prophetic parable.
Deductive reasoning is systematically being discouraged in our society. The people that hold our leashes want it that way. Take a moment to examine your surroundings, employ logic (if you are still capable) and you'll see it's true.
The flush toilet does not get enough lip service (ewww!) for it's brilliance. It is one of the most elegantly efficacious yet low-tech devices ever devised by humans. Open one up sometime and see how it works. It is an utterly sublime use of gravity. I would put it up there in the pantheon of human tools with levers, pulleys, and wheels.
Everything that you do, every system within which you work, every social convention you employ, every assumption you make about life, your fellow humans, love, food, music, television, board games, phlegm, airplanes, school, law, morality, grapefruits, blogs and everything else in the universe, every word you speak, every word you understand, every single atom of minutiae within your sphere, is entirely held together by belief. This belief was given to you by the people that came before you, and has no objective reality what-so-ever.
Imagine a thing called "Borple". Borple created "flang" and "mord" and all the "gerbs in berbity". There is no evidence for the existence of Borple, but most people wouldn't want to live in a world without Borple, so Borple must exist. For centuries people have argued about how Borple created "flang" and "mord" and all the "gerbs in berbity", whether "flang" came before "mord" or vice versa, or whether they were created simultaneously, or even if, being outside of the stream of time, "before" had any meaning for Borple. These arguments, over time, became much more heated, growing into murder and wars and mass cullings of primo-flangist by primo-mordists and primo-mordists by primo-flangists. Gerbists initially joined in the violence but eventually retired to a more academic role, seeing the vital importance of teaching the young the truth about Borple and its wonders. Eventually, some people discovered that 2+2=4 and tried to tell the various Borplists this fact. As Borple had not said it, the Borplists refused to believe it and despite their differences rose up and enacted laws based on Borplist principles. Those who asked what Borple was, if Borple really existed, and what Borple had to do with basic mathematics were ostracised, beaten, imprisoned or even sometimes killed publicly. Mind you, not all Borplists were violent; some of them were quite friendly and only pitied the poor nonbelievers because of their easily demonstrated yet false belief that 2+2=4, and reminded them of the torments that awaited those that did not follow the ways of Borple. Generation upon generation lived the ways of Borple, and Borplists made sure that all people, Borplist and non-Borplist, never had more than 3 of anything, because to have four, youd have to first have 2 sets of 2 and that is against the will of Borple. That's why atheists tend to be a bit angry.
I am a peaceful person by nature. However, if you tickle me, and I ask you to stop and you don't stop, I will punch you. I don't care if you are a tiny woman. I don't care if you're handicapped. I don't care if you're carrying a baby. I don't care if you ARE a baby. You have one chance to stop. If you do not, it will end in violence and it will be your fault.
You know what you never hear? "That baby is a real asshole." Babies are called fussy, cranky, moody, even temperamental, but they seem immune to the regular run of insults that we adults can be saddled with. At what age do you suppose a person is capable of being a cunt?
While we're on the subject of criticizing children, the age at which one can be considered a loser is a little ill-defined. It does however seem to be getting older. Teachers all the way up through high school are now being instructed to avoid things like red ink and words like failure because they make kids feel bad about getting answers wrong (or should I say getting answers "alternatively correct"). Come to think of it, apparently, at the age of 38, I'm too young for negative comments as well, because my supervisors at work insist on giving me feedback, despite my insistence that I'm mature enough to handle criticism. Doesn't it seem like we're all being treated as if the powers-that-be think we may snap and kill somebody if we experience anything unpleasant? I guess that episode of the Twilight Zone with the superpowered little kid turned out to be a prophetic parable.
Deductive reasoning is systematically being discouraged in our society. The people that hold our leashes want it that way. Take a moment to examine your surroundings, employ logic (if you are still capable) and you'll see it's true.
The flush toilet does not get enough lip service (ewww!) for it's brilliance. It is one of the most elegantly efficacious yet low-tech devices ever devised by humans. Open one up sometime and see how it works. It is an utterly sublime use of gravity. I would put it up there in the pantheon of human tools with levers, pulleys, and wheels.
Everything that you do, every system within which you work, every social convention you employ, every assumption you make about life, your fellow humans, love, food, music, television, board games, phlegm, airplanes, school, law, morality, grapefruits, blogs and everything else in the universe, every word you speak, every word you understand, every single atom of minutiae within your sphere, is entirely held together by belief. This belief was given to you by the people that came before you, and has no objective reality what-so-ever.
Imagine a thing called "Borple". Borple created "flang" and "mord" and all the "gerbs in berbity". There is no evidence for the existence of Borple, but most people wouldn't want to live in a world without Borple, so Borple must exist. For centuries people have argued about how Borple created "flang" and "mord" and all the "gerbs in berbity", whether "flang" came before "mord" or vice versa, or whether they were created simultaneously, or even if, being outside of the stream of time, "before" had any meaning for Borple. These arguments, over time, became much more heated, growing into murder and wars and mass cullings of primo-flangist by primo-mordists and primo-mordists by primo-flangists. Gerbists initially joined in the violence but eventually retired to a more academic role, seeing the vital importance of teaching the young the truth about Borple and its wonders. Eventually, some people discovered that 2+2=4 and tried to tell the various Borplists this fact. As Borple had not said it, the Borplists refused to believe it and despite their differences rose up and enacted laws based on Borplist principles. Those who asked what Borple was, if Borple really existed, and what Borple had to do with basic mathematics were ostracised, beaten, imprisoned or even sometimes killed publicly. Mind you, not all Borplists were violent; some of them were quite friendly and only pitied the poor nonbelievers because of their easily demonstrated yet false belief that 2+2=4, and reminded them of the torments that awaited those that did not follow the ways of Borple. Generation upon generation lived the ways of Borple, and Borplists made sure that all people, Borplist and non-Borplist, never had more than 3 of anything, because to have four, youd have to first have 2 sets of 2 and that is against the will of Borple. That's why atheists tend to be a bit angry.
posted by John McKenna at 12:34 PM
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