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DeezerShoove » 10 Jul 2024, 11:09 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Jul 2024, 11:09 pm

I sometimes ask a question in an admittedly clumsy or odd way.
But I have never posed as any type of know-it-all and defended **** that I know is indefensible.

Peepee and I went around and around for a while because I fell for some of his ****.
He wasn't entirely without chops, mind you. Not against an economic fawn-in-the-woods like me.
His "peepee on money" thread was at first glance a little intimidating.
I mean, who starts a thread like that unless you are extremely confident and actually know what the ****...

Then he turned into a **** clown about it.
Maybe I associate my series of posts with him too closely to others.

I do, however, have respect for some of our posters (especially in this thread) but even in here, not everything gels. Rather than pick at those minor distractions, I will let them slide. You haven't noticed so I leave well enough alone. I was your huckleberry today. We good.      

Peepee proved Alexander Pope's advice: "Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

Peepee considered it his mission to shame rather than inform, because peepee had only a hammer, and everything looked like a nail.

I recall challenging him to say how we might keep the elasticity of our currency while ridding ourselves of its toxic debt load. He was completely clueless. He was good at one thing only: pointing the stink finger while shrieking condemnation. 

Many years ago I was challenged with the question whether I might prefer to know ugly truths, though powerless to do aught about them, or abide in blissful ignorance. Because I found the question worthy, I refused to provide a ready answer, preferring to sleep on the question and give it the consideration I believed it was due. Upon the next morn I had made the choice that I would prefer knowledge to ignorance whether painful or not, and immediately upon speaking that choice into existence, I began to discover many things about which I could do nothing but which had great power in my world. 

People who care about truth strive to speak it. That is what is what I do. And, from time to time, like peepee, I yell it. Or speak it obnoxiously to people who have no interest in it - and this is the majority. Most prefer the bliss of ignorance, unless they have some power to right the many wrongs that knowing reveals.