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Title: The Laws of Stupidity
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Published: Dec 29, 2010
Author: Bob Wallace
Post Date: 2010-12-29 12:30:18 by Turtle
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Views: 534
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The First Law of Stupidity is to blame all of your problems on someone else. This relieves you of any responsibility whatsoever for your life, and also makes the people you blame your problems on into permanent enemies. This is a highly intelligent thing to do! The Second Law of Stupidity is to never learn from your mistakes. The smartest people learn from other people’s mistakes, the second smartest learn from their own, and the dumbest don’t even learn from their own mistakes. The Third Law of Stupidity is to talk or act without thinking. That is, be impulsive! It’s the same thing as being ruled by your more childish, indeed infantile, feelings. The Fourth Law of Stupidity is to think than what you feel is what is right. One of the things it’s based on is arrogance, or what the Greeks called Hubris. It is of course followed by Nemesis. The Fifth Law of Stupidity is not to know you are impulsive and convinced that what feel is what is right. Instead, you believe you are rational and logical, even though you don’t know even one logical fallacy. The Sixth Law of Stupidity is to not listen to good advice. This is related to the Second, Third and Fourth Law of Stupidity. In fact, all the Laws of Stupidity are related to each other, and it’s probable that all Stupid People show all of them in one degree or another. The Seventh Law of Stupidity: you don’t know you’re stupid. In fact, you think you’re smart! Aristotle noticed this one, when he wrote about ignorant people who didn’t know they were ignorant. That was like 2500 years ago! Oh no! Stupidity is inherited! Someone get me one of those castration things that are used on sheep. The Eighth Law of Stupidity: you can’t tell when someone is smarter than you and almost always think you’re smarter than them. This is related to what I call Scott’s Law, after a friend of mine who formulated it: “The smart understand the stupid a lot better than the stupid understand the smart.” The Ninth Law of Stupidity is that you can have a high IQ and still be stupid. I’ve heard these people referred to as “high-IQ idiots.” The Tenth Law of Stupidity is: “The stupid are always really surprised when they end up in prison or when someone kills them.” It’s a bit frightening to realize there are Ten Laws of Stupidity, just as there are Ten Commandments (although “Commandments” is the wrong word – Utterances, or Words, is correct). Let’s see if I can put all this into one sentence. Stupid people blame their problems on other people, they never learn from their mistakes, they think and act impulsively, they always think they’re right, they think they are logical and rational, they don’t know they’re stupid, they think they’re smarter than other people, they don’t listen to good advice, and they’re amazed when they get caught. The Laws of Smartness, of course, are the exact opposite of the Laws of Stupidity.
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#1. To: cynicom. farmfriend, abraxas (#0)
Y'all might need some help to overcome your deficiencies.
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
Error, error, error, mistake....... I KNEW from day one I was stupid. How you ask????? It was easy, born on the wrong side of the tracks, lived on the wrong side of the tracks. Everyone on the other side, from day one, made sure we understood what stupid was. Stupid is as stupid does, society made sure we stupids KNEW we were stupid. Yes they did.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Yes they did. You know what really pisses them off? Refuse to live down to the stereotype. "“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
I will send this to my relatives.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
stupidity requires profound lack of self and situational awareness. americans tested #1 in the world for confidence. ties in with stupidity, when you know it all, who needs to learn new stuff?
Thou hast power only to act not over the result thereof. Act thou therefore without prospect of the result and without succcumbing to inaction. The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it...Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction...Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise. The Bhagavad Gita
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.
there isn't a person alive who doesn't do these stupid things on occasion. when it becomes your personality style and causes you functioning, adaption, and relationship problems, it's mental disorder.
So true!
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Likewise!
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Lost In Translation I will never hear or see this word again without thinking of this joke. Today's word is................. Fluctuations I was at my bank today; there was a short line. There was just one lady in front of me, an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars. It was obvious she was a little irritated . . . She asked the teller, "Why it change? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I only get hunat eighty? Why it change?" The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations." The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people too"
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing its idiot.
#2. To: Turtle (#0)
they don’t know they’re stupid,
#3. To: Turtle (#0)
#4. To: Cynicom (#2)
It was easy, born on the wrong side of the tracks, lived on the wrong side of the tracks. Everyone on the other side, from day one, made sure we understood what stupid was. Stupid is as stupid does, society made sure we stupids KNEW we were stupid.
"The best revenge is living well." ~ Anatole France
#5. To: Turtle (#1)
#6. To: Turtle (#0)
#7. To: Cynicom, 4 (#2)
#8. To: Turtle (#0)
#9. To: christine (#8)
there isn't a person alive who doesn't do these stupid things on occasion. when it becomes your personality style and causes you functioning, adaption, and relationship problems, it's mental disorder.
#10. To: Horse (#5)
I will send this to my relatives.
#11. To: BTP Holdings, 4 (#10)
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