We all have had our fair share of experiences where think "welp, I just lost a little more faith in humanity" or "I didn't know my faith in humanity could get any lower"
This topic is about gaining faith in humanity. Gaining. Yep, you heard me right.
I'm serious. It's happened.
A while back, there was a gaggle of geese passing the road, one mother and a bunch of babies. It was a hot day and I was in a rush, but I stopped and let them pass. And there was a lot of people driving the other way down the road. I was kind of worried they would start honking and driving at the geese to scare them, but they all stopped, patiently, and not a single horn went off. I was surprised, and gained a little faith in humanity.
Also, I did not watch America's Got Talent, but I inadvertently caught the last episode. Apparently a character named Prince Poppycock, flamboyantly gay (full face paint, crazy costume, bit of a Freddie Mercury appeal) went through to the final four. I would have thought, "America, no way they'd allow someone who obviously has got this look to him (I mean seriously, google the guy, he has got a very unique look) get all the way through to this point. They'll hate him or be afraid of letting their kids watch him, and get him off the show" but no, there he was, proudly in front of America. I was impressed that he wasn't hated for his differentness.
So, humanity got a point. Anybody else?
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Of the great projects of Enlightenment, philosophy and literature have become a great collection of preposterous navel-gazing, visual art is a discipline of self-involvement that has alienated everyone but an effete community of the elite self-involved, and music does okay for itself if you ignore the crassly commercial stuff. The only real success story is the natural sciences: we have a (largely) unhindered transnational body humanity working to discover truth as such in whatever form that takes. For every personality cult douche out there there are a thousand LHC collaborators. For every late-night boner pill endorser, there are a thousand pharmacologists slowly curing everything. For every astrologer, there are probably .8 astronomers or cosmologists, but come on, that's pretty good when you consider all the Taylor Swifts and Paul Levinsons and the that guy with the diamond platinum skull things.
Science makes me have faith in humanity. Come on. How awesome is science. Turn on the discovery channel or whatever it is that shows things other than How It's Made and Futureweapons and tell me that you don't have more faith in humanity.
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One word: Wikipedia.
Some more words: The more I think about it, the more impressed I am that nobody has used nuclear weapons to actually kill people since World War II. Knock on wood? Talking about this reminds me of this passage in Heart of Darkness (search for "Why in the name of all the gnawing devils" and read till the end of the paragraph):
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/219/pg219.txt
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"You blockhead!" -Cheez
Willis talks about science and I talk about literature? What's the world comin' too, man?
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"You blockhead!" -Cheez
You also made a homophone error.
Hey now, let's all be peaceful descriptivists here.
Mark, you give me faith in humanity! Yay!
I'm gonna be on the lookout for specific examples, but I know when I found out yesterday that some people independently raised close to $200,000 in order to try to convince Colbert to have a "Restoring Truthiness" rally, and then both Colbert and Jon Stewart decided to actually throw rallies to "Restore Sanity" to political debate, my faith in the American people was restored a little. Hooray for peaceful discourse and evidence that there are a lot of people who actually want it.
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Willis talks about science and I talk about literature? What's the world comin' too, man?
I know. You guys have such green grass is all.
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From: HeyDude | Posted: 9/17/2010 9:50:09 PM | #006
You also made a homophone error.
All right, I'm stumped. Where is it?
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"You blockhead!" -Cheez
"Coming too"
Should be "to."
Also, being a descriptionist doesn't cover spelling errors. :X
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Holy **** we're in the Matrix? - Willis
Oh. Huh. I guess I should refer you to my signature.
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"You blockhead!" -Cheez
Yay, I give you faith in humanity!
Betty White gives me faith in humanity. I'm seeing (peripherally) a rerun of SNL from quite a while back. She seems so honest and up-front. I guess you don't really know an actor unless you know them, but hey, still, she brings a glimmer to the set for me.
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