I think you're spot on! I've noticed the same trend you mention. A child of 10 or 11 would be FAR easier to reason with than the graduate of a "higher learning" facility. Could it be that it is so unsavory to the "all wise" students for having spent lots of calories and days of their lives learning a lie? Or maybe the threat of an in…
I think you're spot on! I've noticed the same trend you mention. A child of 10 or 11 would be FAR easier to reason with than the graduate of a "higher learning" facility. Could it be that it is so unsavory to the "all wise" students for having spent lots of calories and days of their lives learning a lie? Or maybe the threat of an infusion of truth into their created (taught) paradigm is a direct affront to their pride, and therefore rejected before it even gets weighed.
The scenarios are so "out there" and illogical, that it always astounds me, and I"m totally in the dark as to the short circuiting in their brains, when so many of the "educated" and otherwise seemingly "normal" people will venture down a road that is so obviously treacherous, dark and foreboding.
Thanks for the reminder. Now, help me to forget about it! lol
RRR,
I think you're spot on! I've noticed the same trend you mention. A child of 10 or 11 would be FAR easier to reason with than the graduate of a "higher learning" facility. Could it be that it is so unsavory to the "all wise" students for having spent lots of calories and days of their lives learning a lie? Or maybe the threat of an infusion of truth into their created (taught) paradigm is a direct affront to their pride, and therefore rejected before it even gets weighed.
The scenarios are so "out there" and illogical, that it always astounds me, and I"m totally in the dark as to the short circuiting in their brains, when so many of the "educated" and otherwise seemingly "normal" people will venture down a road that is so obviously treacherous, dark and foreboding.
Thanks for the reminder. Now, help me to forget about it! lol
Ray