YEE-HAW, Let's do it again!!!
Naw. We can't. 'Cause we just died from stupidity!
The news just came across that someone died while paragliding - hang-gliding? Whatever!!
Yesterday the news was that someone died while riding an ATV - at five o'clock in the morning. After doing it all night. On a foggy Kentucky hilltop road (it was well paved and double striped, by the way), but you can;t stop stupid.
You are not invincible. Take a good look at what you do.
Do you run red lights? Talk on the 'phone while driving? Even worse, text while driving? Drink before or while driving? Try to eat, drink coffee, smoke, read the paper, etc while driving? Classic stupidity.
Humans are given free will, and cannot handle it. Not only can they not handle it from a spiritual standpoint, they can't even handle it in day to day living.
I know, when I was younger, I did stupid things, too. But, it only takes a few such occurrences to make anyone with any common sense stop such activity. Common sense? We used to call it horse sense. And I got plenty of that. I've been called the north end of a horse travelling south enough times to know for certain that I have lots of horse sense.
The gal on the news just said that you should always stop ten feet from a stopped school bus. Where did she get that number? Common sense tells you to stop at least a car length away. But common sense tells you to stay at least one car length behind any vehicle in front of you for every ten miles per hour you are travelling, too. Do we do that? Very few do so. And so, we have innumerable rear end collisions. But does anyone learn from these accidents? Emphatically no!
Stupidity is not the same thing as ignorance. Ignorance I can live with. Stupidity I can't abide. Ignorance can be abated with education and training. Stupidity can't.
So, the next time you scrape through a situation that you maybe should not have, stop and think. Were you guilty of being stupid again?
Lesson's over. Get back on your Harley, or your ATV or your hang glider or start texting again. The only one you have to blame is yourself.
Yee-Haw!!!
The news just came across that someone died while paragliding - hang-gliding? Whatever!!
Yesterday the news was that someone died while riding an ATV - at five o'clock in the morning. After doing it all night. On a foggy Kentucky hilltop road (it was well paved and double striped, by the way), but you can;t stop stupid.
You are not invincible. Take a good look at what you do.
Do you run red lights? Talk on the 'phone while driving? Even worse, text while driving? Drink before or while driving? Try to eat, drink coffee, smoke, read the paper, etc while driving? Classic stupidity.
Humans are given free will, and cannot handle it. Not only can they not handle it from a spiritual standpoint, they can't even handle it in day to day living.
I know, when I was younger, I did stupid things, too. But, it only takes a few such occurrences to make anyone with any common sense stop such activity. Common sense? We used to call it horse sense. And I got plenty of that. I've been called the north end of a horse travelling south enough times to know for certain that I have lots of horse sense.
The gal on the news just said that you should always stop ten feet from a stopped school bus. Where did she get that number? Common sense tells you to stop at least a car length away. But common sense tells you to stay at least one car length behind any vehicle in front of you for every ten miles per hour you are travelling, too. Do we do that? Very few do so. And so, we have innumerable rear end collisions. But does anyone learn from these accidents? Emphatically no!
Stupidity is not the same thing as ignorance. Ignorance I can live with. Stupidity I can't abide. Ignorance can be abated with education and training. Stupidity can't.
So, the next time you scrape through a situation that you maybe should not have, stop and think. Were you guilty of being stupid again?
Lesson's over. Get back on your Harley, or your ATV or your hang glider or start texting again. The only one you have to blame is yourself.
Yee-Haw!!!
posted by tanstaafl | 6:30 PM
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