So let's say you have a kid. Pick a boy. Pick a girl. Or an intersexual. I don't care. And say you have been teaching them something for the last 41 years. Ok, so on the basis of this assumption, you tell me that you must be freaking old. What the hell, stay with me on this. Like I was saying, you've been teaching them something for hell of a long time. Something. Anything.
And one day, when they're all grown up, they tell you that you've taught them bollocks. You probably think they're wrong, but have you wondered if they could be right? What if all this while, what you have religiously believed in has been nothing more than a pile of turd? What if you have been led to believe that what you believe is true but you never bothered to check it out for yourself? Maybe it's because everyone else isn't. Maybe because everyone else is made to believe that it's true.
Back to your kid. If they one day decide that Santa Claus is real, how would you respond? Would you beat the crap out of them? Or let them wait under a plastic tree on Christmas eve? What if they had decided that chickens lay eggs as opposed to your theory that chicks are pushed through a very narrow passage? You would freak out wouldn't you?
Why wouldn't you freak out in the first scenario? Because you know that a fat man isn't going to appear with a sack full of toys and that your kids are going to sheepishly tell you the next day that they have been mistaken. But in the second scenario, you think to yourself "What if chickens really do lay eggs?". And your balls tighten and start to shrivel up. So, you stop them from telling everyone else what they think. That's what you would do, isn't it? That's what I would do.
Read another version of this story, albeit in real life, here.
And one day, when they're all grown up, they tell you that you've taught them bollocks. You probably think they're wrong, but have you wondered if they could be right? What if all this while, what you have religiously believed in has been nothing more than a pile of turd? What if you have been led to believe that what you believe is true but you never bothered to check it out for yourself? Maybe it's because everyone else isn't. Maybe because everyone else is made to believe that it's true.
Back to your kid. If they one day decide that Santa Claus is real, how would you respond? Would you beat the crap out of them? Or let them wait under a plastic tree on Christmas eve? What if they had decided that chickens lay eggs as opposed to your theory that chicks are pushed through a very narrow passage? You would freak out wouldn't you?
Why wouldn't you freak out in the first scenario? Because you know that a fat man isn't going to appear with a sack full of toys and that your kids are going to sheepishly tell you the next day that they have been mistaken. But in the second scenario, you think to yourself "What if chickens really do lay eggs?". And your balls tighten and start to shrivel up. So, you stop them from telling everyone else what they think. That's what you would do, isn't it? That's what I would do.
Read another version of this story, albeit in real life, here.
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