in light of the recent events in my fair city, with the DrunkenNegroHeadCookies and now the CopKillingChimpCartoon....there seems, justifiably so, a hoopla over all of this...my stand is this...we must maintain a certain level of understanding about ignorance...and that is exactly what these 2 events are..ignorant...there are many sayings that could be thrown out here like:
"Empty barrels make the most noise"-?,
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."- William James,
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."- William James,
"Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence;"-Saadi,
"There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it."-George Carlin,
"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today, and it will set the pace tomorrow."-Franklin K. Dane,
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."-William Hazlitt,
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
-- Mark Twain
-- Mark Twain
but maybe the most poignant:
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
nuff said.
2 b continued...
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I've felt the sting of this ignorance on many deep levels. I've engaged it in wit, stumbled it in intellect and crippled and maimed those who transgressed on the physical plane. Like the Nile and amazon it runs deep and violent. However, regardless of the guise it's a seed of beginning for true knowledge seekers and on the other scale a mere refuge for those stink and taste of fear.
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