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See, okay-- there's this one thing I don't understand. I don't know if I want to understand. I stare and stare at it and it makes no more sense than it did 5 minutes ago, when I first started staring at it, trying to divine how any human being who can string 2 sentences together can be this stupid-- and yet, this is more than 1 human being. This is basically a whole bunch of people.

(And, uh, to see that link you have to be logged in and registered, so I'll reproduce the contents for this ebook torrent link here:)
   ( `The Dark Spell of Darwinism', indeed. )

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I think the thing that really pings me about this particular bit of stupidity is that the whole thing is ranting about exactly the sort of 'omg, black is not white' stupidity I'm talking about. It's like, they're saying 'but wake up!' while they're actually dead asleep themselves. I don't get it. Isn't that some sort of meta-level of extreme stupidity??

How can anyone be both of mental age older than 12 and also this stupid? I mean-- what is it that drives people to this? Are they just gullible? But what makes anyone that gullible? What is it about our psyches that makes us prey to ideas that basically make no sense no matter how you look at it?

And I'm not saying believing in god in general makes no sense-- I'm saying if you believe in that while denying reality and logical thought and other people's freedoms, and if you think that's the only way you can believe (which a lot of people seem to), doesn't that admit that basically you're wrong & in denial by definition? Isn't belief of that paranoid sort kind of self-destructive? Like, on some level these people must -know-, right, that they're spewing 100% grade-A bullshit, and yet they keep doing it, why? Because they think if they stopped, they'd have to kill themselves of despair? What? Does their entire world crumble if evolution is real? Do they not know how to go on? What?

I think I'm sort of spell-bound by this whole concept. I don't even know if 'stupidity' explains the phenomenon; it seems more to dismiss it. How is it that memes like this so entirely destroy the human capacity for rational thought? How can people's brains be -that- vulnerable to utter pollution? It's almost like all our intelligence, all our understanding, is a tiny sapling being bent in the horrendous wind of-- I dunno-- mass dementia, the dementia of group-think & superstition. It's just really scary.
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...On a vaguely more cheerful note, I find I can't really get into the idea of ebooks, even though I read all this fic online. It's not any moral reason (I basically have no moral fibre when it comes to this sort of thing, or rather my moral fibre consists of saying 'to hell with it')... it's just that I can't imagine enjoying reading 200+ pages of a pdf file. I dunno if I'm being sentimental or just literally only able to comprehend/enjoy books if they're printed. I also like to print my fanfic sometimes, but I don't -have- to, so it's odd.