The Power of Ignorance

    ignorance is bliss. You´re happy if you don´t know so long as you don´t want to know. Take the Iraqi prisoner scandal for example. We were happy thinking that we were treating the iraqis decently. Now that this has come out though, we can´t help but wonder what else is going on, and worry. However, happiness comes at a price. The happier we are the less we learn about the mistakes of our past, and those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- vh16 Whoever came up with "Mission Commision" should be lined up and shot

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    Well, it all depends on what you do with that knowledge, right? If you´re in the right frame of mind, then you can use that knowledge to make yourself happy!

    Yeah, but knowledge is power, if you´re ignorant, you won´t know anything, and you won´t have any power. I´d rather know everything than know nothing. &quot;If it´s our time to die, it´s our time. All I ask is that when it´s our time, if we have to give these b******s our lives, WE GIVE ´EM HELL BEFORE WE DO!&quot;

    @Sylverfish <font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>Anyone think that this is true? I think it has a hint of truth to it. I mean think of all the seemingly moron people have come with great ideas, or invented something really usef

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    I think there is some truth in what you suggest, sylver, but only &quot;some&quot; <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> it´s always been the case that people without formal knowledge and experience can sometimes see problems and solutions that the skilled have overlooked, but this is the exception rather than the rule. Intelligence and knowledge are not necessarily the same, I know a lot of stuff but I don´t consider myself particularly intelligent at all. I´ve met many people who may not know a scrap of the what I know but who I consider to be far more intelligent than me. As far as your example of &quot;alien abduction&quot; is concerned, I think the &quot;victims&quot; are just about intelligent enough to realise that this is a good way to get on tv or in the National Enquirer. Isn´t it bizarre how aliens seem to prefer kidnapping people from trailer parks? regarding the point mentoned re: current events, oh sS I never thought you were q so naive, unless you´re being sarcastic and I haven´t picked up on it?

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    I had this one experience: I´m giving english lessons to one psychologist, and she showed me two things: an awfull handwriting w/out any sense of a schizoid woman, ande her drawing. Points: the woman states she´s contacted by aliens; she´s considered insane; her drawing (performed with a biro on a regular A4 sheet) is AWESOME! Weird, but it´s sth I´ve never seen before. i´ll try to get a copy of it, scan it, and place it somwehere so you can see it. Point of information: she practically got no education, artistic or other. It´s a long story, but even a commission of psychologists got puzzled (no, I don´t believe mental patients know better<img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>). This was a bit away from the topic. I think that people who know a lot, may be differentiated into two categories: those who think they know everything (or, if not, are afraid to show ignorance), and thus become stagnant and ignorant, and those who accept that they are ignorant in many spheres, and thus are willing to explore. Ah, what the heck, I´ll finish this when I´m sober <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> An idea came to my head and is now desperately searching for brain

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    @Taw I see your point, and I agree with your alien abduction trailer park comment 100%. Perhaps I just like the whole ignorance is power idea cause that means us &quot;average intelligence&quot; people have some sort of edge over the smarties <img src

    but you are right that ignorance can be power and be correct. People with very high skill levels and formal education more often than not work for people with much lower skill levels and less education, because the employer or manager does not necessarily need to possess that level of skill, and may well make decisions and lay out courses of action which would horrify the more skilled employee, but ultimately turn out well. <i><b>sweetness sweetness I was only joking when i said, I´d like to smash every tooth in your head.. </b> </i>

    "for once, i`ll actually tell you what i was thinking; but maybe i won`t have anything to say.."

    Darnit. I must be really pessismistic. I´m bursting with intelligence(but no wisdom or common sense <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ). I agree I do over look things sometimes.