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by d23 4873 days ago
How do you know I didn't read the Bhagavad-Gita? I did actually.

Regardless, I'm not one of those "quote" people on facebook or in general. To me this post says more about the author than it does the people he is judging. Why does he care so much about the quotes they post? Whether you like the quote, hate it, or are indifferent -- is it so hard to just move on?
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coldtea 4873 days ago
>How do you know I didn't read the Bhagavad-Gita? I did actually.

He doesn't have to know what YOU did, he just has to have a good idea of what the 99% of the morons who shared such quotes have done. And they haven't read it.

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Dylan16807 4873 days ago
Yep, sharing ideas makes you a moron.
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coldtea 4873 days ago
Conflating sharing a dime-a-dozen, easily digested, populist quote (that would be the majority of them) with "sharing ideas", does.
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Dylan16807 4873 days ago
Wow, I've never been personally insulted for calling simplistic ideas "ideas" before. It's an interesting feeling.
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coldtea 4873 days ago
Well, sorry, if I offended you, but really, do you feel "personally insulted"? Because I made a pretty generic argument in both cases.

Is there a better definition for a moron than that of someone who shares "simplistic ideas"?

Come to think of it, isn't "simpleton" a synonym for moron?

So, yes, "sharing ideas" makes you a moron, if the ideas are moronic (as it often happens with quoted "wisdom"), or they consist of soundbites that have been shared to death (as it also happens more often than not).

How else would you call the guy in the office that emails everybody the same BS hoaxes, "funny powerpoints" and "inspirational quotes"?

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Dylan16807 4873 days ago
Oh I'm not offended, but let me explain how I read the comment string. At first you were insulting the people that vapidly shared quotes. Then I questioned if that actually made them morons. Then you said that the very act of conflating 'vapid quote sharing' with 'sharing ideas' marked a person as a moron. I was the person conflating those two, not the people you were originally insulting. Doesn't that make it a personal insult? If I misread something please do correct me.

Anyway I would say that a moron is someone that is stuck at the level of simple ideas, not just someone that indulges in simple ideas from time to time.

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