Human Idiocy
22 04 2008I was talking to a friend tonight, and as we talked, something began to emerge to me.
Humans are really stupid.
I mean, seriously. We are idiots. We like to strut around and think we’re pretty smart, that we’ve got it all figured out. But, uhh… WOW ARE WE CLUELESS!!! We get mad at each other over the stupidest things. We try things that are impossible and then refuse to do the things that are so simple, logical, seemingly easy. We don’t want to be responsible, but we do want to be successful. We want to get what we want, but we refuse to do what’s necessary to gain it. We want what we think we deserve, but we refuse to admit what we truly deserve. We hide ourselves when we should trust others, and we trust those whom we should be hiding ourselves from.
We cling tenaciously to people who come and go, but spurn our own family. We devour the latest sports or entertainment news, but refuse to give more than a day or two out of our week to Our Savior. We look at complexity and refuse to appreciate the work that went into it, and look at talent which God gave a person at birth and give them far more credit than they are due.
We’re just plain dumb. And it’s time we admitted it.
yep! we are =)
“all we like sheep are gone astray…”
–Isaiah 53:6a
amen, Jay.
Hey, me here, just saying, thanks for the info about the ACT, I got a 31 =) and an 8 on the essay. Thanks again
It’s not that human beings are stupid, it’s that human beings aren’t human enough. Our nature is corrupted, we are fallen. If we were more human and in better alignment with our intended nature, then we would be far less likely to do that which is, as you say, ’stupid’. Man is not stupid, man who doesn’t act like man is stupid. If we were in perfect accord with our nature we would be in perfect accord with God and perfect accord with God means perfect accord with the Eternal Logos and perfect accord with the Eternal Logos conceivably means ‘not stupid’.
As fallen creatures, yeah, we’re disordered. That God gives us the opportunity and means to fix that which is broken, should be cause for thanksgiving that rings throughout the heavens.