We all know the type. The one who is so sure he or she is right.
They will gladly prove it to you. Hundreds of web links must prove they are right. How can you be so stupid in the face of facts after facts after facts?
What sets them apart from any religious fanatic?
They'll tell you.
It's about facts.
Religious fanatics don't have facts.
World of difference, isn't it?
Or is it?
What these "facts people" share in common with all religious fanatics is the tone of intolerance coupled with shock at how anyone else could disagree. They all congratulate each other, the singer to the choir. They all collectively shake their heads in amazement at those who "don't get it."
Not agreeing must mean those people are stupid, ignorant, not aware of what's going on in the world. If those people did read the newspapers those people might learn that their view is wrong.
They are most bewildered by the nuances, by eclectic selectivity.
Having a clear stand is most valued. Nothing less computes. Nothing less makes sense. Don't befuddle an issue --- an issue that is perhaps legitimately befuddling.
That, my dear friends, is to be distrusted.
In fact if both sides are weighed, giving neither hegemony over the other, why that's downright AMBIGUOUS and therefore it becomes an excuse to do nothing.
Never mind that such lack of clarity might be a deeper understanding of the issue, perhaps a more tolerant understanding of all sides of that issue.
Certainty. That's the key. Certainty is irritable.
Don't try to change the subject !!! Ever hear that one?
They see your attempt to bring in another issue as having no relationship to the issue they are discussing.
They look at each issue as though it is an island not touched by the waves from another shore.
The best example of this "don't change the subject," is the idea of the GOOD CAUSE. No GOOD CAUSE will submit to the issue of shared resources. Shared resources is another topic. Not relevant. Not germane.
YOU'RE EITHER FOR IT.
OR, well you know, how it is.
But could it be that no GOOD CAUSE is an island? Don't all GOOD CAUSES compete with each other for the same resources? It is the difference between a child who sees no connection and to an adult that needs to prioritize and accept in their maturity such compromise is never perfect.
EXCUSES they yell.
Such behavior, however, is to be distrusted, demonized.
And so the pebble is a french fry and if you don't understand, that's okay. But I know there is somebody out there that can tell the connection between two seeming unconnected objects.
Just make sure you come ARMED WITH THE FACTS !!!
That makes you different from all those other zealots.
They will gladly prove it to you. Hundreds of web links must prove they are right. How can you be so stupid in the face of facts after facts after facts?
What sets them apart from any religious fanatic?
They'll tell you.
It's about facts.
Religious fanatics don't have facts.
World of difference, isn't it?
Or is it?
What these "facts people" share in common with all religious fanatics is the tone of intolerance coupled with shock at how anyone else could disagree. They all congratulate each other, the singer to the choir. They all collectively shake their heads in amazement at those who "don't get it."
Not agreeing must mean those people are stupid, ignorant, not aware of what's going on in the world. If those people did read the newspapers those people might learn that their view is wrong.
They are most bewildered by the nuances, by eclectic selectivity.
Having a clear stand is most valued. Nothing less computes. Nothing less makes sense. Don't befuddle an issue --- an issue that is perhaps legitimately befuddling.
That, my dear friends, is to be distrusted.
In fact if both sides are weighed, giving neither hegemony over the other, why that's downright AMBIGUOUS and therefore it becomes an excuse to do nothing.
Never mind that such lack of clarity might be a deeper understanding of the issue, perhaps a more tolerant understanding of all sides of that issue.
Certainty. That's the key. Certainty is irritable.
Don't try to change the subject !!! Ever hear that one?
They see your attempt to bring in another issue as having no relationship to the issue they are discussing.
They look at each issue as though it is an island not touched by the waves from another shore.
The best example of this "don't change the subject," is the idea of the GOOD CAUSE. No GOOD CAUSE will submit to the issue of shared resources. Shared resources is another topic. Not relevant. Not germane.
YOU'RE EITHER FOR IT.
OR, well you know, how it is.
But could it be that no GOOD CAUSE is an island? Don't all GOOD CAUSES compete with each other for the same resources? It is the difference between a child who sees no connection and to an adult that needs to prioritize and accept in their maturity such compromise is never perfect.
EXCUSES they yell.
Such behavior, however, is to be distrusted, demonized.
And so the pebble is a french fry and if you don't understand, that's okay. But I know there is somebody out there that can tell the connection between two seeming unconnected objects.
Just make sure you come ARMED WITH THE FACTS !!!
That makes you different from all those other zealots.
