Why Are People So Dumb In This Day And Age?
<div class="IPBDescription">I have lost all faith in humanity...</div> <a href='http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?m=News%20-%20Weather&mi=NBC%20News&i=fed26ac5-113f-4a48-bcb9-ba8bddfb8e87,ed5028af-def3-4d81-9eb6-c2bc8a7c5643,e71fd32e-210f-44f1-b975-f34b18241eac,19d0ce08-52c6-4d9c-8f26-dd91a9857f0f&p=hotVideo_topNews>1=6365&rf=http://www.msn.com/' target='_blank'>http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?m=News%20...://www.msn.com/</a>
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Why are people so dumb in this day and age?
Now this is not an insult to Christianity or any religion, this is me trying to comprehend the immense amount of human ignorance and willingness to deceive oneself that is shown in the above link.
What we have here is hundreds of people flocking to see a salt stain on a highway underpass and literally worshiping and weeping before it.
This is actually causing me physical pain…why is this even tolerated…why would the media broadcast such ignorance into our homes as if it were normal?
If no one calls this insanity by name then…oh to hell with it…
Edit: Here's a link to the text for those of you who can't see the video: <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/20/mary.underpass.ap/' target='_blank'>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/20/mary.underpass.ap/</a>
Watch that...
Why are people so dumb in this day and age?
Now this is not an insult to Christianity or any religion, this is me trying to comprehend the immense amount of human ignorance and willingness to deceive oneself that is shown in the above link.
What we have here is hundreds of people flocking to see a salt stain on a highway underpass and literally worshiping and weeping before it.
This is actually causing me physical pain…why is this even tolerated…why would the media broadcast such ignorance into our homes as if it were normal?
If no one calls this insanity by name then…oh to hell with it…
Edit: Here's a link to the text for those of you who can't see the video: <a href='http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/20/mary.underpass.ap/' target='_blank'>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/20/mary.underpass.ap/</a>
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If they were observing it as an object of art, I would raise an eyebrow and shake my head, but unfortunately that is not the case.
These people are attaching their belief system, which is something very personal for them I'm sure to a salt stain on a highway underpass. They are worshiping and praying to it.
At some point you have to draw the line. Not everything can be respected, not everything can be seen as sane. You have to have boundaries of some sort.
Why?
Just remember there are many forms of Christianity, and I believe that its in most Protestant teaching to ignore these kind of things. As Protestants, we believe more in spiritual manifestation than anything more physical. This is no insult to Catholics and Catholicsism, because some people see this as a better thing.
Personally, the whole following of salt stains, or windows that are a fogged up that look like a mary or something, is just plain... dumb.
I can show you a cloud that looks like a bunny just about every day.
-_-...
Edit: I think I know what this is about now. This is something like the virgin Mary sandwich, right? Still can't watch it. Anyway, if it is, I found a <a href='http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/lenin.html' target='_blank'>relevant link,</a> describing a similar experience that Phil Plait had.
Yes, they might believe that this sort of thing is of holy relvance, but were any of these signs actually fortold in scriptures? My reading says no.
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You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now what? Are all these people sinners? How do they NOT break this law? Oh surely, they did not make the image themselves, but they bowed down to it and served it. We are all saved in Jesus Christ, but is it not our duty to avoid sin? Why do these people sin so readily, when it would be so easy to just go into their chamber and be alone with God instead? Answer me, people in a movie that I have not seen and can only guess about!
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As an old dnd player i had to chuckle on this one <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
lmao, so true
Their seeing what they want to see, its all subjective.
I see a salt stain.
So you think everything should be respected? Society should have no boundaries or limits?
I wouldn't want to live in your world.
Video games and <b>rap music</b>, duh.
And soon they will join in the unholy union that is 50 Cent: Bulletproof.
D:
Meaningful stuff:
Humanity as a whole is much more good than bad, but bad things are more newsworthy and whatnot, so you always hear about it. If humanity was a vile malevolent race, the world would be so much worse than it currently is.
So if I wasn't educated in 'thou shalt not kill'... ?
I just want to say I don't think it's just 'this day and age', I think you'll find it is every day and every age since we first worked out how to wiggle our thumbs. I'd like to think that nowadays we have less excuse but... no, human nature has hardly changed a bit since we were drawing designs on the wall to help us hunt and banishing the evil from our bodies every time we had a headache (though in those days I doubt anyone complained much, I don't think trephinning is much fun).
I blame hackers.
My mum got her turn and after touching it came away looking surprised and almost awed.
"It felt warm and soft! And it smells of roses!"
I was going to say something witty I guess but I just looked over to the stone and saw something glint in the air... then a few seconds later again. They were droplets. Looking up I saw the lamps... the rose oil lamps suspended above it.
To this day when she brings the stone up in conversation with people, I butt in with the rose oil :p
So you think everything should be respected? Society should have no boundaries or limits?
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The same could be said for everyone's own personal world, raesa. I doubt I'd want to live in your idealized world, just as I'd expect you wouldn't want to live in mine.
And to answer your question in your first post: Faith makes you do crazy things.
If humanity was an active malevolent race I would agree with you. It's more passive, just the natural feeling insult to other people, like we're doing in this thread.
But I agree that this just ain't right.
Reading books about the depravity of people only reinforces my belief in the fundamental depravity of the author. I see things everyday that reinforce my belief in people.
That said, if this gives some lunatic sect of Jesus Freaks something to be joyful about, who can blame them? Cynicism is far uglier than anything as innocent and harmless as this. Now, if society were to murder all the cynics we'd be that much closer to a Utopia.
(Now, pardon me while I go find a secret bunker to hide in until all that's over with)
Sadly, I think this really should be done. Besides, it kills 2 birds with 1 stone: Stupidity and overpopulation.
I do believe there are two kinds of cynics: The romantic cynics and the misanthropic cynics. I belong to the former: Very romantic people who have become disillusioned. Fortunately, we never pass beyond hope. You could simply call us romantics in hibernation. The misanthropic cynics are the problem, and I resent being compared to them.
Edit: Actually, I have a correction. Having read more into the matter, I may not be a cynic, but rather an (aspiring) <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism' target='_blank'>stoic.</a> Interesting...
...but seriously. Do people have to go and worship everything that looks like an important religious figure <i>that</i> badly? They don't even have a sign on them that says 'Worship me!'
...I dunno but to me, it's just a salt stain.
i believe it's spelled Marilyn Manson.
Ontopic: The ignorance in man, created by religion. Weaklings.
Stupidity punished with capital punishment you say?
Actually i like that.