Can somebody please explain to me why people are so stupid?
Really, is it something in the water?
I have tried my best to be as patient as I possibly can, but christ ona crutch already...could the general population, both individually and collectively, please take a moment to extract their heads from their asses?
Seriously, please, because there are some of us out here that are just fed-up with constantly having to deal with all your crap.
I met a woman Sunday, easily in her late 50's. I only mention her age because you would think that after that many freaking years on the planet she would have acquired some wisdom....but, oh hell no, this idiot actually believes that she "manifested" the car that she is driving. She is 100% sure of this because the person that she received the car from (a friend of hers, that I would suspect genuinely liked her and wish to remain a friend), actually had some integrity and just gave it to her. Apparently the car had serious mechanical problems, which, (totally forbid you should point this FACT out to her) meant it wouldn't pass emissions, therefore (in the state of Colorado) COULDN'T be sold as anything more than salvage, meaning most insurance companies wouldn’t insure it so she couldn’t plate it, i.e it wasn’t drivable. She got the car and used the money she was supposed to use to buy it, for the repairs. Then when it was fixed and the title was clear, had it transferred.
She is relating this story to me and it took a supreme act of self-control to not just laugh in her face. I wanted to point out the logical sequence of events, the facts and laws, her errors, and even to ask her why she didn't just "manifest" a decent, running car?
Why is it that when you hear about people “manifesting” they never manifest a new Mercedes? Is that just beyond the scope of the powers of "manifestation"???
*rolls eyes*
Then a 1/2 hour later I had to listen to a 60+ year old man talk about how 30 years ago he had an epiphany and "heard a voice" telling him to leave his medical practice/career, while flipping through the channels on his television and catching a snippet of a story on Joseph Campbell.
All I could think was, "Lemme get this straight? You heard a voice that wasn’t real speak to you? And then listened to the voice? You're an effin doctor and you can't recognize a symptom of any number of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia?” Maybe its good he got out of the health care field, because he is obviously a nutbag. I hope that voice never comes back while he is watching tv and tells him to go on a shooting rampage…
What sucks about this anecdote is that he wasn't the first person (or unfortunately the last, I'm sure) to relate to me such an "epiphany" while sitting on his ass in front of his television. I have one about a Wiccan and Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” too, but its just so pathetic and sad, I can’t ever retell it. Is it just American's that are stupid enough to believe everything they see on that ridiculous piece of machinery??? I'd venture to speculate no, but I try to refrain from such unproductive exercises.
And its not just old people that behave so bizarrely, I had an unemployed friend tell me once that he was intending to spend his last $20.00 at some metaphysical store, buying the necessary herbs and such to perform a "spell" to help him get a job. And also another unemployed person told me once that she was about to spend $25.00 to get a "psychic reading" about whether she was going to get this particular job. The "psychic" told her yes, and she didn't actually get the job, by the way! Which is only that much funnier, because I knew as she was talking about the position, that she wasn't going to get the job. Fuck, I should have charged her the $25.00 bucks and called it a day!
Oh, wait, that would have been intellectually dishonest and a crappy thing to do to someone that I knew didn't really have the extra money to spend on such idiocy.
But low and behold, it sure didn't stop the "psychic" from taking her money, did it?
How I consistently end up the meany bitch in all this, because I'm not afraid to point this shit out, is beyond me. Demonizing me makes about as much sense as admonishing that poor little girl from "The Emperor's New Clothes" for pointing out that he was naked. It wasn't her fault that his dumb ass got conned any more than its my fault that you're all doing stupid shit.
You know, quite honestly, I don't really care that the overwhelming majority of people apparently are so weak minded that they need the crutch of all this made-up crap to get through their days. Ride whatever pony you need to, to get from sun-up to sun-up. But please, please, please, spare me your melodrama when a sane, rational person points out that your "horse" is lame and needs to be sent off to the glue factory. Get over your martyr/victim complex and stop feigning offense as though you have been physically assaulted, when faced with a challenging opinion, a contradictory observation or the realization that you too "are naked" as the story goes. Again, its your lame-ass pony, nobody else has to like it/acknowledge it/agree with it, for it to still get you from point A to point B. Your pony is no better than anyone else's pony, and is, for all intents and purposes just as lame as the next person's. Nobody is trying to take your little pony away from you, least of all me. Please, by all means, keep riding the damn thing around. You'll SUPPOSEDLY get to where you THINK you want to go, eventually. And on a good day provide me with some mirth and amusement or on a bad day annoy the piss out of me and give me more content for my blog.
While you are riding around on your high horse vilifying me for making rational observations...I'll be over here co-creating a blissful existence, free from the emotional baggage, psychological indoctrination and the physical limitations that all your unhealthy behavior creates