Just One Wish

[SteveW]

I have been an athiest, skeptic, highly intelligent my whole life. I have often wished I could just have one or two days to be reduced to the ignorance of the great unwashed. I want to see what it actually feels like to be "normal." That is, to be fairly inept in skills, have a belief in god and the angels and maybe even think the Loch Ness monster exists.

Does anyone else get feelings like these ever so often?

[evildave]

Only when I'm depressed over something stupid people are doing.

"Wouldn't it be great if I couldn't tell the difference? Then we could all be blissful little lemmings stampeding towards the edge without a care in the world."

But really, I'd probably have to be some typical Joe job moving boxes from one corner of a warehouse to another, or assembling things, or cutting grass, or asking "You want fries wid dat?".

[sorgoth]

Rarely. I feel I can make more of a difference in this world if I understand the rules better.

[Graham]

See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn
I wish I was a moron
My God, perhaps I am!

G K Chesterton, I believe ;)

[The Don]

Originally posted by SteveW
I have been an athiest, skeptic, highly intelligent my whole life. I have often wished I could just have one or two days to be reduced to the ignorance of the great unwashed. I want to see what it actually feels like to be "normal." That is, to be fairly inept in skills, have a belief in god and the angels and maybe even think the Loch Ness monster exists.

Does anyone else get feelings like these ever so often?

Nope, but then I wouldn't have the temerity to be so incredibly patronising either. I wonder if "one of the great unwashed" would look at "one of us" (not that I would qualify) and wonder what it's like to be so up oneself.

I suspect that having to deal with God is just as stressful as being an ass.

[SquishyDave]

Steve, you did come off a tad full of yourself :) I would have said this. (note that I spelled atheist correctly :))


I have been an atheist and a skeptic my whole life. I have often wished I could just have one or two days to be reduced to the ignorance of most people. I want to see what it actually feels like to be "normal." That is, to have a belief in god and the angels and maybe even think the Loch Ness monster exists.
Saying ignorance may be considered harsh, but ignorance in and of itself is just not knowing stuff. So I don't consider it an insult.

And to answer your question, I don't find myself thinking this, and I have never wondered why I don't think this. Meh.

[Charlie Monoxide]

Just watch daytime TV and not question the content.

Charlie (Dr. Phil my brain) Monoxide