{"id":353,"date":"2016-02-15T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2019-03-27T17:34:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:34:06","slug":"against-stupidity-the-gods-themselves-contend-in-vain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/against-stupidity-the-gods-themselves-contend-in-vain\/","title":{"rendered":"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been called a blind, unthinking sheep for buying an iPhone.<\/p>\n

I’ve been called a cult leader for trying to teach people how to think independently and attain personal spiritual powers.<\/p>\n

I’ve been called called a counterfeiter and liar for making a verbatim quotation from the Bible.<\/p>\n

I’ve been called a right-wing racist misogynist bigot for having straightforward opinions based on evidence.<\/p>\n

I’ve been called stubbornly wrong for claiming that 2+3*5=17.<\/p>\n

I’ve been called illiterate by people who probably can’t sign their own name.<\/p>\n

I’ve been called uneducated by people who think that the rocks in the pyramids of Egypt were organically grown.<\/p>\n

I’ve been called unenlightened by people whose entire concept of spirituality is copied from some book.<\/p>\n

It bothered me at first. Later I tried arguing with them. Now I just confirm what they said. Yeah, I’m a sheep, I’m too stupid to make up my own mind and I bought the expensive shiny thingy because I’m too lazy to see the alternatives. Yes, I’m a cult leader, I’m in it for money and pussy. Yes, I like counterfeiting the scriptures, my father Satan is very proud of me for it. Yes, I’m a right winger, Heil Hitler, get back to the kitchen and make me a sandwich. Yeah, I’m stubborn, and I’m too fucking lazy to just make operations in the proper order, from left to right like all normal people. Yeah, me dumbass, can’t write, can read a little but slowly. Yeah, I’m uneducated and close-minded and I don’t even believe in the tooth fairy. I’m totally unenlightened, I don’t care about that shit at all, I didn’t even give enough fuck to read a Richard Bach or Paulo Coelho book and get the right answers.<\/p>\n

In other words, fuck me if I care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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