Rage-Inducing Moments of Ignorance and Stupidity

[blindthrall]

But the worst display of stupidity I've ever seen?

2004 American Presidential election.

To quote Shaquille O'Neill:

"I'm like George Bush. You may not like me, you may not respect me, but you voted me in."
-Said upon being inducted into a hall of fame.

So truthfully, he was, more than anything, just extremely divisive. You may have thought the re-election of Bush was stupid, but he WAS voted in.

Never said he didn't win the vote. That's what makes it an astounding display of stupidity, not criminality.

 

[Spiner909]

What's France?-Freshman math class girl #7

 

[S-Unleashed]

The AmazingAtheist I suppose, I died inside a bit when I found his channel and realized he was the awesome, witty trailer failer (Yes I am a Christian).

*Twitch* Christian? *Twitch* Hating on the amazing athiest? *More violent twitching* Okay... Stay calm.... Dont flame him.....

Well, I raged when I found out Pegghead is ignorant and stupid enough to believe in christianity. Wait, I raged when I found out ANYONE is that niave.

If I'm double posting so be but I will not let this stand. WHO DO YOU THINK YOUR ARE???!! Yes you have your own ideas but how dare you call anyone stupid for having faith in something. Who are you to judge? How dare you act so hateful because we have faith in Jesus Christ. I'm so sorry that the fact that we think of hope and goodness will win in the end and we don't buy into the "We are nothing." crap. People like you make me sick.

 

[XiVViX]

*Twitch* Christian? *Twitch* Hating on the amazing athiest? *More violent twitching* Okay... Stay calm.... Dont flame him.....

Well, I raged when I found out Pegghead is ignorant and stupid enough to believe in christianity. Wait, I raged when I found out ANYONE is that niave.

If I'm double posting so be but I will not let this stand. WHO DO YOU THINK YOUR ARE???!! Yes you have your own ideas but how dare you call anyone stupid for having faith in something. Who are you to judge? How dare you act so hateful because we have faith in Jesus Christ. I'm so sorry that the fact that we think of hope and goodness will win in the end and we don't buy into the "We are nothing." crap. People like you make me sick.

It's like a double box of fail!

I'd like to add to my list of stupid:
- All religious people are naive imbeciles.
- All atheists are nihilists who think "We are nothing" and hate hope and goodness.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Ugh...here's a good example about what kind of ignorance and stupidity makes me rage. I'm not saying you guys are, but just to be sure, don't take all of us atheists as being like the people here. So long as you aren't shoving your religion down other peoples throats and using it as a shield to do bad things, I don't care about what you believe in. That also goes for you guys shoving atheism down the throats of religious people.

 

[Augg]

In Humanities last year, we had to study Globalization, when the teacher asked the class what it was, a girl put her hand up and tried to convince him it was the direction the world turns for like 15 minutes.... face palm x1000
ignorant people piss me off, especially ones that try to convince you that they're right when they are so obviously wrong

 

[Coldie]

Mechanical Engineering class: We were told we had to draw on a cutaway section lines that were exactly parallel and evenly spaced. What for? A GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION THAT THERE IS A CUT AREA. I could shade those areas and get the point across. I know it looks better, but I seriously doubt in a job that I will have to slow productivity by evenly spacing and making sure lines are parallel to get a point across (the official explanation for this was "That's how everyone learns it." The college in question challenged us on the first day to think differently and to basically not be lemmings).

There's a big difference between "thinking differently" and violating a universal standard because you consider it inefficient. Line thickness, spacing, angle, etc - everything is strictly defined by the standard and they will murder you if you do anything wrong[sup]1[/sup]. Many, many years have passed since I've had this class and it still is Nightmare Fuel for me. Fortunately, there are ways to automate the process, like AutoCAD or very patient friends.

If I recall correctly, the base standard for technical drawings is ISO 128 and then it branches out into a bazillion detailed specifications for various fields. Standards are boring a very good thing.
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[sup]1[/sup] They probably will not murder you.

 

[Straz]

Most comments on youtube make me cringe.

Concur.

 

[Straz]

There is a huge difference between a creationist pastor and an evolutionary biologist. The pastor bases his beliefs on a single ancient book, whereas the biologist bases his beliefs on evidence and experimentation. Could the biologist POSSIBLY be lying and POSSIBLY have gotten his lies past peer review? Certainly. Plenty of things are possible. It is possible that right now if I walk outside I will be struck by a crashing airplane. Does that possibility mean I should stay inside for fear of falling aircraft?

And yes, most strong atheists could be considered 'closed-minded'. They are making a claim to KNOW that something does NOT exist, when proving a negative is nigh impossible. However, you will find that the vast majority of atheist are 'weak' or 'agnostic' atheists precisely for this reason.

And I would really like to know what in the world you mean by that last sentence.

Well, I think you at least understand. I just don't think it's fair to call creationists stupid because they believe what they've been told, just like the rest of us. We've never seen a primary source, at least not most of us. You appreciate what I'm trying to say, right?

Similarly, most religious people are the same way. Most aren't close-minded, they just get offended a lot by strong athiest douchebags. Sure, there are fundies, but there are athist fundies too. I have no issue with atheism, it's the assholism that is so often associated with it. Just like the way most of them view Christianity.

The last sentance is as it reads. Both strong athiesm and religious fundamentalism are steeped in ignorence, the close-minded nature to be unable to accept the possibility that you just don't know. Ironically, it's more ignorant to say you know than don't. It's an interesting paradox.

Oh God, that is one of my greatest hates.
Athiest fundamentalists.
Always having a go at like every religon, and for no actual reason (I know this aint fundamentalist but...) to appear socially informed and independant.
Pretentious retards.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

A fairly computor illetarate teacher was showing us a website that had the Nicene Creed on it, there was a banner ad at the top for a dvd called "The PORN-again christian".

Now, we laughefd our arses off and she looked at and tried to get rid of it, she tried to get rid of it by clicking on it, we were all like 'Nooooo, dont click on it, dont click on it!'.

She eventually just changed the site to one that dosent have the ad on it.

 

[Straz]

A fairly computor illetarate teacher was showing us a website that had the Nicene Creed on it, there was a banner ad at the top for a dvd called "The PORN-again christian".

Now, we laughefd our arses off and she looked at and tried to get rid of it, she tried to get rid of it by clicking on it, we were all like 'Nooooo, dont click on it, dont click on it!'.

She eventually just changed the site to one that dosent have the ad on it.

Now explain the "Ignorant" part of her actions.

 

[Stabby McRunfast]

Well, I'm from D.C. so all this business about Marion Barry is bringing out the worst Washingtonians I have ever seen or heard. It's sad really. The number of idiots in this city is appalling.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

A fairly computor illetarate teacher was showing us a website that had the Nicene Creed on it, there was a banner ad at the top for a dvd called "The PORN-again christian".

Now, we laughefd our arses off and she looked at and tried to get rid of it, she tried to get rid of it by clicking on it, we were all like 'Nooooo, dont click on it, dont click on it!'.

She eventually just changed the site to one that dosent have the ad on it.

Now explain the "Ignorant" part of her actions.

Trying to click on an ad to get rid of it...

 

[commasplice]

Let's see, uh... This first one didn't actually happen to me, but there's that one time in high school when my friend's history teacher decided to give them a day off and play Independence Day instead of actually teaching a lesson. During the scene where the mothership destroys the White House, a guy (yes, that is his actual Facebook profile picture), who shall remain nameless (we usually called him "Agent Orange" or "The Tan Man"), allegedly leaned over to my friend and asked, "Did this really happen?"

There was also that one time when the student teacher for my English class junior year asked me who my favorite rapper was. It's worth it to note that I was the only black person in the room and that this is about all the rap I listen to. Like I say every time I retell that story, the teacher was really a nice guy and I know he didn't mean anything by it. It's just that, well, I kind of grew up with people always assuming things about me and it gets kind of annoying after a while.

 

[Straz]

A fairly computor illetarate teacher was showing us a website that had the Nicene Creed on it, there was a banner ad at the top for a dvd called "The PORN-again christian".

Now, we laughefd our arses off and she looked at and tried to get rid of it, she tried to get rid of it by clicking on it, we were all like 'Nooooo, dont click on it, dont click on it!'.

She eventually just changed the site to one that dosent have the ad on it.

Now explain the "Ignorant" part of her actions.

Trying to click on an ad to get rid of it...

Fair enough.

EDIT:
Although that's more gravitating towards the "Dumb" catogory of idiocy, as opposed to ignorant.

 

[commasplice]

Someone i know genuinely thought the sun revolved around the earth 0_o

I'm not mentioning names as he would kill me if he finds out i posted this.

I once got into a (very minor) argument with my grandmother over teaching intelligent design as science in schools. My position was that there's really no scientific evidence to support it, so it shouldn't be taught as science. Her response was something to the effect of "the bible is the evidence," so I just kind of dropped it.

 

[Straz]

Ok.
I am reminded.
Year three right, my mate Alex got into a fight with his teacher, Mrs Duncliffe, over whether or not paper was a three dimensional object.
She was asserting that it was not.
Facepalm time.

 

[commasplice]

Ok.
I am reminded.
Year three right, my mate Alex got into a fight with his teacher, Mrs Duncliffe, over whether or not paper was a three dimensional object.
She was asserting that it was not.
Facepalm time.

Oh jeeze, that reminded me of something else. There was this one time in fifth grade where I got into an argument with (go figure) the teacher's aide. The woman kept asserting that a number multiplied by the third power is called "___ squared" as opposed to "___ cubed."