Rage-Inducing Moments of Ignorance and Stupidity

[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.

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."

I seriously hate it when the teacher is actually plain WRONG.

 

[manaman]

A joke. Kinda. I really am puzzled how anyone can be fooled into believing in any kind of God(s), and the idea does make me slightly angry, but I got over it long ago.

Pegghead can waste his life if he feels he needs to. As long as hes not preaching on me.

Christ, you are a joke. What a pathetic person you must be. I'm not going to go on at length, but you disgust me.

And right here is a rage-inducing moment of ignorence and stupidity. Thank you sir.

Assuming you are a christian....

You better hawl your ass to the nearest church and beg for forgiveness. DO NOT USE ZE LORDS NAME IN VAIN!!!!CAPS!!!11!!

Please, do go into detail. Send me a PM. Seriously, I dont know what the hell got you so offended and appaled. I even said I dont care about a persons religion as long as he doesnt drag it onto me. Well, you just did.

It appears we are giving each other examples of what gets us raging. Quite ironic actually.

By the way, feel free to kiss my ass and be assured I couldnt care less if your disgusted by me. *Kiss*

You are a troll right? Either that or you are practicing the same kind of zealotry that I see the religious faithful accused of and bashed for constantly.

Your religion is not having one, your god is the conviction there are no dieties, your prophets are the legions of people who preach the evils of religion in pseudo-cult enclaves.

Not getting what I am saying, you sir are coming across as very hypocritical. The extent you go to preaching your word makes you sound like a loony cultist.

I fail to see how you can have this overwhelming belif that there is no god. True atheism (the fervent belief that there is no god) seems to be a religion in of itself. Most atheists I know (myself included) border more on agnostic, not willing to accept religions based on the flaws they see in them, but knowing that you can never truly prove there is no god, because you can never prove something does not exist.

 

[commasplice]

Most comments on youtube make me cringe.

Concur.

Oh, the irony.

Edit: Wait, wait, wait, I've got another one. When we got to sex ed in Health class, our teacher made us do a project where we were each assigned a type of contraceptive and told to make brochures about them (like ones you'd see in a doctor's office). I was assigned to cover spermicidal foams and jellies. Well, on the day of the big presentation, I was hanging out in the cafeteria with a good friend of mine. He asked to see the brochure I'd come up with and after quickly glancing the front cover, he asked, "Wait, like grape jelly?" I didn't let him forget that for a few months.

 

[MattRooney06]

people who spend all day trying to tell me god dosant exist

if you dont belive in him there is no way i can make you

i belive in him there is no way you can make me

seriously though some of the argumants put you atheists to shame (arguments from stupid people thast is)

 

[Straz]

A joke. Kinda. I really am puzzled how anyone can be fooled into believing in any kind of God(s), and the idea does make me slightly angry, but I got over it long ago.

Pegghead can waste his life if he feels he needs to. As long as hes not preaching on me.

Christ, you are a joke. What a pathetic person you must be. I'm not going to go on at length, but you disgust me.

And right here is a rage-inducing moment of ignorence and stupidity. Thank you sir.

Assuming you are a christian....

You better hawl your ass to the nearest church and beg for forgiveness. DO NOT USE ZE LORDS NAME IN VAIN!!!!CAPS!!!11!!

Please, do go into detail. Send me a PM. Seriously, I dont know what the hell got you so offended and appaled. I even said I dont care about a persons religion as long as he doesnt drag it onto me. Well, you just did.

It appears we are giving each other examples of what gets us raging. Quite ironic actually.

By the way, feel free to kiss my ass and be assured I couldnt care less if your disgusted by me. *Kiss*

You are a troll right? Either that or you are practicing the same kind of zealotry that I see the religious faithful accused of and bashed for constantly.

Your religion is not having one, your god is the conviction there are no dieties, your prophets are the legions of people who preach the evils of religion in pseudo-cult enclaves.

Not getting what I am saying, you sir are coming across as very hypocritical. The extent you go to preaching your word makes you sound like a loony cultist.

I fail to see how you can have this overwhelming belif that there is no god. True atheism (the fervent belief that there is no god) seems to be a religion in of itself. Most atheists I know (myself included) border more on agnostic, not willing to accept religions based on the flaws they see in them, but knowing that you can never truly prove there is no god, because you can never prove something does not exist.

I try to beleive in a God, but I'm just never quite sold on the whole christian faith.
It's quite depressing.

 

[NotAName]

Anytime someone says all Germans are Nazis.
Hell, I'm Jewish and I know most Germans hate Nazis (and Neo-Nazis of course).

 

[ffs-dontcare]

Me = TwilightDF (just to avoid confusing you when you read this)
As can be seen by this image, this person's honest and completely harmless comment about how he didn't like the sound of this band was voted down to the point of it being soft-deleted. I get annoyed when people on YouTube are like "OLOL WHY DID YOU WATCH IT IF YOU HATED IT DUMBASS HURR". According to that type of people, YouTube comments are meant for kissing the ass of the video's creator, NOT constructive criticism. According to these people, you're not allowed to watch a video and give honest feedback on whether you liked it or not. Nope.

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.

Pegghead can waste his life if he feels he needs to. As long as hes not preaching on me.

Wow it would seem I've become the fellow of the forum. All I did was put forward that theAmazingAtheist is a bit ignorant and should just keep to his beliefs and let others keep to theirs (And yes the exact same thing can be said about the hundreds of Biblical fundamentalists telling everyone that their way is the only way, this number only being matched by the hundreds of Atheists doing the exact same thing only forcing other viewpoints down peoples throats. Though in a nutshell I'd either have to say the most prominent bigot with an Atheist view [TheAmazingAtheist] or the most prominent bigot with a Christian view [U2ubers, take your pick]. Though in a...pea-pod, the former is a grown man who should be mature enough to not add to the already prominent problem of religious elitism on the web and the latter are either misinformed kids who've been brainwashed by their parents that can't figure out a mouse from a keyboard who have my pity or little wanker trolls who deserve a good clip across the ear)

I have my own reasons for being Catholic (Techinically I am a Catholic but that shouldn't make a scrap of difference) and my own stance on the religion. I also have good mates of various beliefs from Sikh to Atheist, they all have their reasons as do I and I accept that. Here on the escapist there are many good, different people with various stances in politics, religion and even gaming, I'm not going to push my beliefs onto them through some forum on the web so I can sit back and think how fantastic I am for ignoring somebodies opinion when really that would make me a spineless bigot.

It's self-important tossers like both of you who really bring society down, don't think calling me out simply for being a member of the Catholic faith is in any way justified.

You know what? I agree with you. I'm sick of seeing countless 15 year old pseudo-intellectuals raging on and on about how religion is the problem instead of human selfishness and corruption. They're too immature to realize that they're not real atheists, they've just jumped on the "new atheist" bandwagon so that they can be seen as some kind of "rebel". They have NO idea at all how much they get laughed at by the real atheists. It's amazing. Not to mention, the teenage pseudo-intellectual atheist kiddies are in fact only hurting the cause of atheism.

Sean Bedlam even addressed it in his blog.
http://theseanbedlam.blogspot.com/2009/10/free-your-motherfucking-mind.html

That's not to say that all teenagers are bad, though - if you're 15 and you legitimately came to atheism by your own volition rather than being led there by delusions of juvenile rebellion, then there's no problem. It only becomes a problem when you start hating on other people simply because they don't believe in the same thing you do.

Hey 15 year olds, here's a stellar idea: leave the religious debates to the adults. Kthnx.

"Atheism is the default position.
Any other belief just proves you're a tool who has no individuality from the sweeping historical force that is organized religion."

"Uhhm, no, not that simple is it. Your whole decision making process is fucked if you put any faith into religion. No grey areas my friend."

(to an agnostic) "Sit on some more fences you indecisive bell end"

When you see ANY atheist talking like this, it's best to just completely dismiss and ignore them. People who are like this, regardless of whether they are theists or atheists, are a waste of oxygen and I personally consider them beneath me.

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.

Technically, this was flaming. Just saying.

 

[manaman]

I try to beleive in a God, but I'm just never quite sold on the whole christian faith.
It's quite depressing.

I had my crisis of faith as a youth while I was in the military, I never really liked to go into what exactly caused that, but I spent several years reading, researching, trying to find a religion. Luckily I had the advice of a very faithful man, who was not willing to take advantage of this crisis in my life to try to reel me into his personal faith. The christian faith itself is not all that bad. The new testament, which the religion is based on, brings about the new convent. The religion is pretty simple the Christ died for your sins. He already paid the price, so to speak, for your personal salvation. You would simply need to accept him as your savior. There really isn't a whole lot more to the religion then that, unless you want to start getting into the theology of an afterlife, and the old covenant versus the new covenant. But that would be something better suited to a discussion in private messages.

For me none of the religions I really looked into where a good fit. I was fairly agnostic for a time, and now through more research I have settled on the belief that there most likely is not a god, I believe that firmly enough that for the sake of making it easier for people to understand I just tell them I am an atheist. Even through I personally have nothing against theists. I may sometimes dislike the things they do in the name of their faith, especially when the things they do outright contradict their faith, but as long as they are not harming anyone it's nothing more then a pet peeve.

 

[Cinnonym]

Not related to religion, but this morning my roommate said to me, "It's a software, which is not a hardware."

 

[sam_savage1393]

Some moron in my physics class:

"Is the sun hot?"

In all seriousness, not a joke. How did I end up in a class with these people?

WHAT?? I've heard many stupid questions in physics, but (i)thats(/i) on the top of my list.

OT: During P.E., some of my classmates go around humping each other in the boy's locker room. One of the reason's why I felt uncomfortable dressing down..

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

As a socialist, knowing that socialism is an ideal based in pure democracy, this makes me cringe. Sometimes, seeing somebody use it to represent the socialist ideology will make me feel legitimate feelings of depression for around an hour.

My favorite part of the image is the assertion that Hitler was a socialist.

 

[Chipperz]

*ubersnip*

Dude... You're awesome. Also, cheers for that Sean Bedlam link, it'll help me out next time someone tries to tell me that it matters that I believe in something more than Science

OT - Today, I had a fifteen year old tell me that I'm wasting my life because I'm studying games design instead of playing real sports outside. I would have slapped him if we hadn't been right next to the Project 15 staff room. We need to get a games design room with the rest of the adults...

 

[Twistedx_99]

This is a friend of a friend story...

This woman that a friend of mine knew was working at a large two floor Chapters bookstore. During her shift the escalators broke down and stopped moving. Well, this lady approached her and asked how she was suppose to get back to the lower level if the escalators were not on ...

 

[Jensu]

When someone in my higher physics class thought that reaching terminal velocity meant that something would just stop in mid air. Have no idea how they managed to get that far in the subject.

 

[Tdc2182]

I was in high school when 9/11 happened. Shortly after finding out about it a few people beat up the Chinese exchange student at our school because they thought China was behind the attack. I asked one of the kids why they thought China did it and they told me "China has 2 billion people if they start a war with us they can kick our ass". I had to walk away after that.

Racism in general. That right there is complete bullshit.

A fricking men. Bro. One kid wanted to a hero poster on Hitler. I wanted to kill him where he stood.

Yeah, I am getting to the point where it isnt gonna pass anymore. Also saw your other post about the guy ragging on christians. That to is bullshit. I dont mind atheism, just people who call religious people idiots and shit like that. That to makes me mad, its right there under racism.

 

[x0ny]

"Oranges grow in the ground don't they?" Some girl from school, during A-Levels.

 

[feather240]

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.

I met a guy like that too. Jeez...

"What's a capital 'c'? (Hint: It's 'C'.)

 

[Lim3]

Most comments on youtube make me cringe.

you're going to fit in well here. Welcome to the Escapist.

OT:

Anytime somebody posts this picture:

Spoiler: Large image, ignorance might melt your brain

As a socialist, knowing that socialism is an ideal based in pure democracy, this makes me cringe. Sometimes, seeing somebody use it to represent the socialist ideology will make me feel legitimate feelings of depression for around an hour.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. IS THAT HITLER ON THE FAR RIGHT? I can understand confusing communism and socialism, since they're on the same side of the spectrum but HITLER IS ON THE FAR RIGHT, A FASCIST, ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. HE HATED SOCIALISTS.
/rage

Not to mention the two on the left and center were communists, not socialists.

Both Stalin and Hitler were totalitarian - despite the fact that they were respectively left wing and right wing. There's a theory that when you take Left wing and right wing and go extremist you end up at the same place - imagine a ruler being bent till both tips touch each other.

Incidentally a girl in a lower English class didn't know what Europe was. Never heard of it. She said "What's a Europe?".

people who spend all day trying to tell me god dosant exist

if you dont belive in him there is no way i can make you

i belive in him there is no way you can make me

seriously though some of the argumants put you atheists to shame (arguments from stupid people thast is)

The same is true for the opposite side of the coin. Religous zealots of any faith make an entire religion look stupid. I used to go to church (like many forced to until i was 18). Despite not believing it i knew more about the bible then anyone else my age. And they all professed to be strong Christians.

 

[ffs-dontcare]

My old workmate was telling me today about this situation from the last few days.

He was talking to the new blonde girl employee when a long-time employee walked in. The following conversation, if it could be called that, took place.

Alex: Hey Rob.
Rob: Hey Alex. Hey Harlie, were you in Taupo during the weekend? Thought I saw you out there.
Harlie: Umm... no... I was in Hamilton... *stands there seriously pondering for five minutes*
Alex: *smirking* Uh, Harlie, were you or were you not in Taupo in the weekend?
Harlie: ... umm... no, I wasn't. Hmm. *walks back out to the shop to greet a customer*

At this stage, Alex and Rob both exchanged an incredulous look of "what the hell?".

I just had to laugh when he told me this.

Also, anyone who still thinks that World of Warcraft is for "30 year old virgin basement dwellers who live with their mom". Given the sheer amount of people who play it and the fact that they're all an incredibly diverse bunch ranging from parents to elderly pensioners to celebrities to even your typical frat boy gamers, nobody in their right mind could possibly be that stupid.
I actually had to deal with a teenage girl who thought this way. She outright assumed I was some sort of pathetic nerd. When I showed her how many people play it and exactly what kind of people play it (I specifically mentioned celebrities and sports players such as quarterbacks), she changed her mind on the spot.

Seriously.

Wow. (no pun intended)

*ubersnip*

Dude... You're awesome. Also, cheers for that Sean Bedlam link, it'll help me out next time someone tries to tell me that it matters that I believe in something more than Science

OT - Today, I had a fifteen year old tell me that I'm wasting my life because I'm studying games design instead of playing real sports outside. I would have slapped him if we hadn't been right next to the Project 15 staff room. We need to get a games design room with the rest of the adults...

Thanks, dude. He actually made a video on it as well.


I have to admit, sometimes it does seem like a hive mind. The ones I've come across online all seem to talk the exact same, parroting each other. It's really quite cringe-worthy for me to watch.

What I'd like is for new atheists to realize that the world isn't America. I've yet to meet any Bible Belt-like Christian in this country. There doesn't seem to be any here in NZ, unless you count the Destiny Church, and even then they're nowhere near as bad as the ones in the Bible Belt.