Before anyone calls it, Language.
this is also a short summary of a long article I read.
A question I found interesting while digging around is this:
-> Angel is looking at Firefly, but Firefly is looking at Cyanide. Angel is married but Cyanide is not. Is a married
person looking at an unmarried person?
If your answer is no or the fact that you cannot tell because nothing was said about Firefly, then you're wrong.
The correct answer is always yes.
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I opened a thread like this in another forum before it died and remembered all the replies there, cheap shots, flaming
and a ton of other replies which was actually rather hilarious to read. Overall I gained their concept of what
constitutes as stupidity just by reading replies.I wondered if anyone here wanted to voice out the same way, or it could
be because I have nothing else to do while sitting at work.
To start the topic off, what exactly does stupidity mean this far into the future? The word was first brought into the English Language at possibly 1550 or something if I recall right and wondered if many of you at all have deterred from how the word was used back then. I'm sure everyone uses the word almost everyday, if not by speech then by thought. (Firefly uses it everyday on the phone I'm sure) (<-- Women..)
LadyText mentioned something in my last conversation with her about 50 years ago when we were 23 or something about how
certain concepts have deteriorated over the years from what they originally were. Although that is common knowledge, it
was more the question of how and what that really caused me to open a thread on Stupidity.
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If I told you something was impossible and you believed me, you're most likely considered an idiot if you deny on the outright. In the days before cars and computers, these things were the objects of our past thought impossible to be made, yet here they are. The worst possible thing that society of individuals could mess up is the English Language considering Usagi and his British dictionary had already ruined several words I mostly spelt normally, Mery who can't spell in general, Cyanide who aims to tap 1 letter on the keyboard and ends up tapping the surrounding 4 and Val who has a keyboard full of heart keys when she talks to me. (None of which are true except the first 2)
The main view on stupidity which is commonly understood is if someone makes a clear point and you miss it despite it being offered to you openly, if you do something which hurts you more than it hurts anyone else if that was your intention or something as simple as having a low IQ quotient. Despite any of these there are still variations on what stupidity really is, and humans are the leading champions when it comes to the word. We tend to think our evolved status constitutes a form of supremacy to other things or other people, which is basically stupid in itself. Furthermore, thinking that we are all equal for any reason also constitutes as being stupid. By fact, humans were never equal in anyway despite having the same body structure or basic outlook, yet even that can change due to deficiencies in the body, blood or brain.
If people were equal we would never have winners or losers.
Variety is the spice of life, but at the same time it can also get you killed.
To be killed off in any department does not show equality if someone else did it and you didn't.
To be equal is to be the same as, to be different is already a baseline that it's not equal.
It is a common misconception that just because something can be done by anyone does not mean that all are equal, yet
people still argue against this fact because of fear of being grouped anywhere away from the normal. People speak of
different ways to phrase things to make themselves seem like they make sense, but if it didn't make sense the first
time, then you're probably being tricked or in the modern term 'bullshitted'.
Let's put it this way: If you understand it in 1 way rather than in the other, why would a different set of words
convince you otherwise? Are you an idiot that the first time wasn't enough? or was the other guy an idiot for not
using the proper words to help you understand?
The word or term we seek, is known as Dysrationalia. We try to avoid thinking too much because most of the time it is
counterproductive, but at the same time thinking too little on simple things can ultimately make you sound stupid. But
does being tricked to make a bad decision say they have a weak mind to overestimate their ability to apply rationality?
or are they actually really stupid?
In the end, it's not so much that people are stupid (although the majority of them are) but to be able to tell the
difference between a mental slip up and someone who is genuinely an idiot is generally the way to go about
things.
To discern is to have success.
I wrote that.
If I made an error, complaints should be given to the front desk.
Best saved for last.
Salt on the wound, don't click the spoiler.
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