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Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)

4. but I just don't get.

Reply to WhollyHeretic (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 13, 2015, 11:38 AM

Oct 2015

I kinda do.

It's an "I'm so special" kinda thing. They "know" or have been included in the cool kids group that "knows" something major.... that everyone else will laugh at, but they KNOW something the hecklers don't...something really big!

EGO.

Everyone wants their lives to be special. Just start talking about...oh... wisdom teeth problems... and everyone will have a story.

As Richard Feynman would say:

"OH man! You'll never guess what happened to me today!"

"What? What?"

"Absolutely nothing."

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