Crazy people

Too much Botox

 

There are and some of us are on GC.

 

I was an influencer on here for years.
But I've given up now.

 

I've been saying for years that I think the human race is at an evolutionary fork in the road. Much like when millions of years ago some species of ants evolved to make the bees, industrious and organised, and the wasps, just insect chavs.

We're at that fork now. Some are critical thinkers and careful planners. Others are gullible idiots. Trouble is, which one will win? The critical thinkers can be swayed by apparently good objective evidence, even if that evidence is not conclusive but is very compelling. The other side on the other hand can not be swayed. For those, once a belief has been embedded, no amount of compelling evidence will move their opinion. Therefore that branch of humanity has the advantage and will grow in number. The critical thinkers will become increasingly marginalised until they can't achieve anything useful, as their activities will be blocked and undermined by the other group.

I think I might have accidentally described the prelude to the plot of the excellent movie, Idiocracy.

True story. There is a religion now called pastafarianism. It's members belong to the church of the flying spaghetti monster. I think some people actually believe it now. But digging into its origins, it was created in protest by a US college student who thought it unfair that members of certain mainstream religions got certain rights that weren't afforded to atheists. He invented the church of the flying spaghetti monster to highlight the point that if it's ok to accept one religion without tangible proof of the existence of a god, then the law must accept faith in something unprovable, so why not the flying spaghetti monster? I think people dismissed at the time, which was fine, he'd made his point. The fictional flying spaghetti monster and the religion of pastafarianism had served the purpose of making a point. But people heard about it, which was the intention, but what was not the intention was that others actually adopted it as their belief system.

 

Feel I have to stand up for wasps at this point, there are many different species of wasps some of which are parasites on insect pests, others are pollinators; the common wasp does tend to go off the rails at the end of it's breeding season, but by then it has captured a lot of garden pests and fed them to the larvae, so it's work is done.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-do-wasps-do.html

 

Why is it because a certain species is of no use to man it is considered not worth a place on the planet.

 

Both the Jedi and the Pastafarians appear to be fairly peaceful, without schisms, heretics, fatwas or declaring war on non-believers.
So to my way of thinking preferable to most other religions; although give them a few hundred years and a million or so more believers and it could all have changed.

 

Religious conflict is people falling out over whose invisible friend is the best. Said originally by a famous terrorist leader whose name escapes me at the moment.

 

I know you're right, but they're still chavvy. If you sit out in a pub beer garden in late summer, they try to nick your beer. If they're that hard working, they should be able to buy their own beer but no, they try to steal everyone else's. A swarm of chavvy wasps once nicked my scone when I was on holiday in Cornwall. I'd have fought them for it but there was loads of them and only one of me.

 

Yes but....wasps are such nasty things. I'll concede that they are useful for clearing up other insect pests, but there's really no need for the aggression. OH was one of these 'leave them alone and they'll leave you alone' types. Ha! He soon changed his tune when a paper wasp dived out of a wall he was peacefully walking by, to sting him
Sadly, the climate here seems to favour lots of nasties, paper wasps, hornets, mosquitoes, termites et al. It's not so much that they're no use to man as that they're actively nuisances.

 

The quote above was Yasser Arrafat(sp?) leader of the Palestinians at the time.

 

I first heard about this last year from a member of my family. There is a story related to it but I'll have to ask permission of my family member first. Pastafarians have adopted colanders as headwear.