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Echoing General Patton's words to Field Marshall Montgomery...
"From one bozo to another..."
(Patton actually said: "From one prima donna to another...")
posted by
arGee
on January 7, 2007 at 2:46 PM
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Presley - no truer words have ever been spoken >>>
"When FACT is, we're all just a bunch of idiots bumbling our way through life."
I pity those who think they in fact do have all of the answers. If there is one thing that my education and my life's accomplishments have relentlessly emphasized, it is that we are all bozos on this bus.
posted by
gomedome
on January 6, 2007 at 3:45 PM
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Gomedome
Excellent and insightful, as always. Your post makes me think of everyone's
About Me Page and the political affiliations they label themself with: Democrat - Republican - Moderate Republican - Conservative Democrat - Not Saying - Somewhere in the Middle - etc. Rather than label and group everyone into specific categories based on their personal beliefs is what I consider to be a destructive thing. When FACT is, we're all just a bunch of idiots bumbling our way through life. We all "mature" intellectually, emotionally, and obviously physically at a different pace. Nobody knows ANYTHING or EVERYTHING yet! For someone to claim that they do is, in my opinion, complete lunacy.
posted by
Presley
on January 6, 2007 at 3:48 AM
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I also have an enduring love for that old warhorse Schlitz
I think the medical terminology for the affliction is "blitzkrieged"
posted by
calmcantey75
on January 5, 2007 at 1:28 PM
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Talion - I had an experience with Mexican water and a subsquent case of
Montezuma's revenge.
While on a tour of the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza the temperature reached 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Our supply of bottled water ran out so I picked one up from an on site vendor. Both my wife and I drank from it for the rest of the day, consuming all of it. On the return trip to our hotel, the tour bus passed a Coca-Cola plant. The Coke sign had another sign underneath it of the local brand of soft drink that was also bottled and distributed there. I recognized the brand as the same label that was on the bottle of water that I purchased. It seems some kid had washed out a few soft drink bottles and filled them at the local well . . . the rest was painful history.
I agree that much of what people extol as truth is anything but. It does seem that humans are incapable of simply admitting that they do not know. This came up in a recent debate over creationism versus the Big Bang theory. I personally find both explanations of our origins to be equally inadequate but even this concession on my part drew responses of utter disdain from some.
posted by
gomedome
on January 5, 2007 at 10:12 AM
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gomedome
Schlitz is just as bad or maybe even worse than the water in Mexico. Another thing we have in common, it seems.
Another aspect of the human condition is the difficulty to accept not knowing the answers to every question. Instead of throwing their hands in the air and proclaiming, "Beats me!" many often create the answers they need. Whether it's the world is flat, the sun is Apollo driving a fiery chariot across the sky, or certain people are inherently inferior, people will come up with anything to make it all make sense. The results of this fear of the unknown aren't really lies, but most certainly they aren't the truth. They fall in that great gray area of ignorance.
posted by
Talion
on January 5, 2007 at 9:26 AM
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