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Originally Posted by Mike Brewer
...or that you're completely full of shit. Who can tell?  |
That's the great thing about opinions, we all get to have one and we're all certain we're right. Which leads to a whole new problem, being certain just means:
1. You are young and/or Inexperienced.
It doesn’t matter what you are being certain about, I can guarantee that your certainty is proportionate to your lack of knowledge. Absolute confidence is borne of absolute stupidity.
2. You are lazy.
You have not taken the time or the effort to actually think about what you are saying. People who are certain tend to adopt their position (on anything) as an emotional reflex, like being afraid of something, for instance. You are afraid of death so you latch onto the religion with the coolest post-life offer, you are afraid of black people so you join the Republican Party, etc..
3. You don’t know any smart people who disagree with you.
I don’t care how smart you think your beliefs are, nor do I care about your rock-solid arguments, I can guarantee you, however, that there is somebody out there who is not just smarter than you, but who believes the exact opposite of what you believe. Pretty much every position on everything has a counter-argument that will discredit it and show its proponents up as fools.
4. You think you are a lot smarter than you really are.
Who the **** are you to be certain of anything? You leave skid-marks on the toilet seat, you can’t park your car properly at least 3 days out of the week, and you are divorced. Basically, you get proven wrong about shit you were “certain of” on a regular fucking basis, so your absolute confidence in any one thing is meaningless. Yes, I’m talking about you.
5. It says that you are an optimist.
You are assuming that something is simple enough that you can figure it all the way out. You imagine that an aspect of life has somehow molded itself into something that your brain can digest. You probably think of lottery tickets as “investments” and yourself as a genius for “investing” in chance. The truth is that everything you believe involves you jumping to a bunch of baseless conclusions, that’s why there is thing they call “surprise”. You have been surprised before, right? Surprise is what happens when you certainty fails.