Saturday, 29 September 2012

Bertrand Russell: On Silliness

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

Bertrand Russell.

Believe everything you read in the papers, it's all true.
Same with the tellybox.
And anything you see on the internets.
If someone says something happened, it happened.
So don't question anything, ever.
Yay!

PS Bertie, one of the 20th Century's greatest men and leading anti-theists, had as his motto the following quote from Exodus; ''Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil." 
Humbly, I hope that could be Fagburn's motto, too.  
Good day. 

2 comments:

  1. "Believe everything you read in the papers, it's all true.
    Same with the tellybox.
    And anything you see on the internets.
    If someone says something happened, it happened.
    So don't question anything, ever.
    Yay!"

    this is the most useless thing ever written. who thinks this? who are you arguing against?

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  2. Okay - try talking about Iran and see the thick brick wall you come up against.

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