Regarding stupidity

@NiftyWhite I agree with you. However, many do turn away from knowledge even before they tried, and they would never know if they could work for Nasa or be the next Michelangelo.

@PhantasmaMechanica depends on their interests. doesn’t make them stupid though. watch the movie Good Will Hunting - it’s roughly about that same thing .

Eh, thank you for the recommendation.

@PhantasmaMechanica Truth to me is very important but a lie spoken to help save a life from an enemy in wartime, can be just as important. It's up to the individual to tell the truth or to lie. I hope I've answered your question.

Yes, it does. But how about the lies that are spoken to the mass, say, the belief that Inventor X or President Y (I don't want to throw around names) is a good person to be respected because what they do benefited many, even if in fact they are responsible for the suffering of many as well? -- Something like that.

@PhantasmaMechanica Every man is a liar, but not every man chooses to be a liar. What I'm saying is that we are capable of not telling the truth all the time. Even those who are in the White House haven't told the truth for one reason or another. If one's heart is pure in the fact that he/she has to lie in order to prevent a bad situation from happening, that's one way of caring for others. However, if one tells a lie to gain one's own lustful desires, whatever they are, then they are pathological liars and care for no one but themselves. No doubt, the truth will come out sooner or later in both events. There will be suffering in both events but there will be more suffering in the latter event than the former. The liars' intent is to hurt others and not prevent them from getting hurt. I hope I've answered your question.

@Goralski I do not claim to have superior intellegence. In fact, I am not content with the state I am in now either; I have a lot more to learn. I wonder about this because I see many came up with an excuse to not learn because "they are stupid", which I believe to be untrue. Please do not make hasty assumptions, because it is quite uncomely, as I am a stranger who did not attack you or meant to attack you in anyway.

@bijouxbroussard That is one way to look at it. However, there are some instances where some also say that they don't care or belittle themselves that they are stupid. My question arises from those circumstances.

@PhantasmaMechanica being ignorant and manipulated is only a fear the ones who already arent those things can have.

They're trapped, my friend. I've tried to bring people out of the fog but they go silent and go back into the fray

The scary thing is, sometimes I think it's me who is in the fog. Maybe I am. Maybe everyone is.

@PhantasmaMechanica Perhaps we all are in one way or another, but there are different types of fogs. As an example: I believe that people who haven't accepted God into their heart lives in a type of fog.