Ignorance - It Says, What It Does Not Know Is Stupid

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This is the nagal point in the absurd paper. Nothing an just justified external to that rit. But he ends this section, like chapter seven, with this doubt. He has just a bit of a doubt that maybe he's wrong. It occurred to me that there still might be something that i did not know. After all, ignorance acts precisely in this manner. Ignorance always says exactly what i was saying. Whenever it does not know something, it says, whatever it does notknow is stupid. And we've all been there. We've all been that person where we don't fully under stand something and so we think, what i don't understand or know,

David and Tamler continue their discussion of Leo Tolstoy’s 'Confession.' When we left him last time, the famous author had bottomed out just years after writing two of the greatest novels ever written. Our eventual death, Tolstoy thought, strips life of all meaning and purpose – all answers to the question “so what?”. How does he emerge from this state of suicidal depression? What role does faith or “irrational knowledge” play in his account? What’s the meaning of the cryptic dream at the conclusion of the memoir?

Plus, bombarded with this recommendation, we were going to talk about a certain article that came out in Qualitative Research about masturbating to Japanese shota comics – we even had a guest – but had to scrap it. Instead, we discuss a recent study on conspiracy theories that shows that liberals are just as likely to believe in them as conservatives. Mostly we just talk about the conspiracies.