Life Lesson : When ignorance screams, intelligence shuts up. Your peace and tranquility are worth more.

[ClausThomsen]

A wee tale that made me think of some of the discussions I see on GOT .
The donkey told the tiger: 'The grass is blue.'

The tiger replied: 'No, the grass is green.'

The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, and to do so they approached the lion.

Before reaching the clearing in the forest where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"

The lion replied: "True, the grass is blue".

The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him".

The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence".

The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating: ′′The grass is blue"..

The tiger accepted his punishment, but he asked the lion: ′′Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"

The lion replied: ′′In fact, the grass is green".

The tiger asked: ′′So why do you punish me?"

The lion replied:

That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey, and on top of that to come and bother me with that question

The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense... There are people who for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand, and others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.

When ignorance screams, intelligence shuts up. Your peace and tranquility are worth more.

Now the donkey is gonna go round perpetrating his nonsense and polluting the minds of young and impressionable animals with justifiable confidence. Meanwhile, the brave intelligent Tiger will not be able to counter this with his sound rationale.

The King has lost an entire generation just so he can stroke his own resentful ego by smugly lecturing someone he obviously feels intellectually threatened by.

What a prick.

 

[LostLegend]

*IGNORANT SCREAMING*

 

[ilikecheese]

King? I didn't vote for him.

 

[blueloon]

Now the donkey is gonna go round perpetrating his nonsense and polluting the minds of young and impressionable animals with justifiable confidence. Meanwhile, the brave intelligent Tiger will not be able to counter this with his sound rationale.

The King has lost an entire generation just so he can stroke his own resentful ego by smugly lecturing someone he obviously feels intellectually threatened by.

What a prick.

Hard to disagree with that , and it would be easy to argue the Lion should have eaten the donkey, but heh ho my peace and tranquility are worth more.

I came across it originally in reference to Trump and his followers I.e. The Donkey. But really I’m not sure about the Lion guy . As advice to GOT I would probably have been better going for something simpler like the old “ Never argue with an idiot, they’ll drag you down to their level and beat you on experience.”

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

A wee tale that made me think of some of the discussions I see on GOT .
The donkey told the tiger: 'The grass is blue.'

The tiger replied: 'No, the grass is green.'

The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, and to do so they approached the lion.

Before reaching the clearing in the forest where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn't it true that the grass is blue?"

The lion replied: "True, the grass is blue".

The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him".

The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence".

The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating: ′′The grass is blue"..

The tiger accepted his punishment, but he asked the lion: ′′Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?"

The lion replied: ′′In fact, the grass is green".

The tiger asked: ′′So why do you punish me?"

The lion replied:

That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey, and on top of that to come and bother me with that question

The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense... There are people who for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand, and others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.

When ignorance screams, intelligence shuts up. Your peace and tranquility are worth more.

Is this a roundabout way of saying "use the ignore button more"?

 

[blueloon]

Is this a roundabout way of saying "use the ignore button more"?

Sorry, who said that ?

 

[bluejohn66]

Kopites think grass is red.

How would they know, in Norway it's covered in snow !!

 

[Jimishorts]

When’s the next international break?

 

[bigjonny]

Is this a roundabout way of saying "use the ignore button more"?

I thought it was a roundabout way of saying “don’t talk to kopites”.

 

[Billy Dean]

This is why you shouldn't waste too much time in Current Affairs