The arogance of youth is something I find utterly disdainful... we're all such idiots when we're young. [Spirituality & Religion]

I watch this show called The Big Questions on BBC1 most Sunday mornings. It's hosted by Nicky Campbell. He & the audience discuss important issues around society & faith. This morning one of the questions was 'is death easier if your u believe in God'

After one lady who is dying of cancer spoke so beautifully about her faith, & another spoke eloquently of her humanist beliefs up pops this spotty little imbecile who's only contribution was to say that anyone who has faith is deluded, while parroting Dawkins. The bloody cringe!

Lock them all in a cupboard till they're thirty. It's the only way around it I reckon.

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Cierzo · M

It has been always like that. Later life shows you how stupid your teenage certainty was

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Cierzo: I wasn't stupid when I was a teenager. I was incredibly violent though. I'm still trying to control that about myself.

Cierzo · M

@BlueMetalChick: Where does violence (when it is not self-defensive) come but from arrogance and stupidity?

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@BlueMetalChick: oh, you were. You'll see. We all see eventually. Lol!

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Cierzo: Violence came from a necessity to be that way because I was in constant danger of being harmed by others. What, was I supposed to just lay down and die? Let myself be beaten to death?

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Sonnet: Because there's never ever been any teenager who wasn't stupid, in the history of the world, ever. Because Sonnet says so.

No, I was most certainly not "stupid" as a teenager. Stupidity is something you are born with. A stupid teen will make a stupid adult, just as a smart teen will make a smart adult.

Cierzo · M

@BlueMetalChick: Then it is for self-defence, and not stupid

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@BlueMetalChick: you're missing the point, & looking quite stupid right now actually 😂

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Sonnet: I'm looking stupid, but you're the one saying intelligence depends on age? Yeah, because that makes sense. Obviously, everyone is born with the brainpower of a toaster, but somehow they become smart as hell when they reach the age of thirty.

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@BlueMetalChick: perhaps emotional intelligence develops with age, I'd wager that that is true.

But I was talking about the arrogance of youth, not IQ levels. So you've went off on one about something I didn't even say 🙂

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Sonnet: No, I went off about something Cierzo said that you encouraged. Because he specifically used the word "stupid" which means unintelligent.

Sonnet · 41-45, F

@BlueMetalChick: it has a few meanings actually. Like foolish, pointless, irritating.