Author name: positivejoe

When the Know-It-All Ego Goes Completely Rogue Oh boy, folks. Let me tell you what happens when the Know-It-All Ego goes off the rails. It starts out small, like a little “Well, actually…” in a conversation. Next thing you know, it’s running around the neighborhood in its underwear screaming about lizard people and penguin bunkers at the South Pole. What They Believe (Brace Yourself) Here’s the highlight reel of what my Know-It-All friends are convinced of: The Earth is flat. Because apparently every pilot, astronaut, and geography teacher is lying just to sell more globes at Walmart. History is fake. Columbus? Never sailed. Jesus? A marketing gimmick. Dinosaurs? Rubber props buried by oil companies. The pyramids? Built by aliens on an IKEA weekend project. Science is a hoax. Gravity? Fake. Vaccines? Microchips shaped like breath mints. Doctors? Paid actors with stethoscopes from Spirit Halloween. Politics is just lizards in suits. Yep. Congress? Komodo dragons in neckties. CEOs? Iguanas with Rolexes. Taylor Swift? Obviously a gecko with good lighting. And if you don’t believe them, it’s not because their ideas are bonkers—it’s because you’re a sheep. 🐑 Welcome to the Echo Chamber Now once you’re in, you don’t just dip your toe—you cannonball into the conspiracy hot tub. You watch the same videos, listen to the same podcasts, go to the same “truth conferences,” and of course, everyone there already agrees with you. What a shocker! You start rehearsing imaginary arguments in your head where you DESTROY the fools on the other side. Then you post videos like “Watch This Guy Get Owned in 10 Seconds Flat!” But spoiler alert: no one got owned. Both sides just look like people with opinions and Wi-Fi. If you actually put two intelligent people from opposite sides in a room? Neither one gets obliterated. They both make solid points. You might even find yourself nodding along… until your ego panics and runs back to YouTube for comfort food. DESTROYED (For Real This Time) Flat Earth: You say it looks flat when you walk around, you don’t feel yourself spinning, and every photo is from NASA. Okay, fine. But then explain circumnavigation, satellites, gravity, eclipses, GPS, airline routes, and the fact that astronauts from multiple countries have livestreamed our blue marble in orbit. Unless every astronaut is just Tom Hanks in a space suit filming Apollo 13: The Sequel. Was Jesus Real? On YouTube, a guy in his basement with a whiteboard “DESTROYS” Christianity by mocking believers with half-baked history and a smirk. But scroll down a little further and there’s a Rhodes Scholar who’s studied Greek for decades, walked the ruins, researched manuscripts, and he “DESTROYS” the skeptics with equal swagger. Unless, of course, ancient lizard lobbyists forged thousands of papyri just to sell sandals. Politics: Sure, divide and conquer is real. But millions of politicians, bureaucrats, and DMV clerks executing a flawless centuries-long conspiracy? Please. We can’t even get two senators to agree on lunch. But somehow they’re running a global penguin bunker in Antarctica? Pull the other one. The point: each side can sound compelling. The ego just doesn’t want you to see both. It prefers the safety of the echo chamber, where you can always walk away yelling, “DESTROYED!” even when nothing of the sort happened. But Seriously, Why? Now here’s my question: why do you gotta bring this up at lunch? Why must my turkey sandwich come with a side of “gravity is fake”? Why corner your coworker about NASA green screens when you could ask how her sick mom is doing? Why bother your buddy with penguin bunkers when you could just laugh at his dad jokes and actually enjoy being human together? And here’s the answer: ego. This isn’t about truth anymore—it’s about feeling superior. Ego loves that little rush of saying, “I know what you don’t know. I’m awake, and you’re asleep.” Ego can’t stand humility. Ego doesn’t want real discovery; it wants an audience. It doesn’t want connection; it wants applause. Which is why these conversations don’t build friendships—they bulldoze them. The Grand Trap And here’s the cosmic punchline: if there are powers trying to distract, divide, and conquer us, then guess what? They’ve already got you. Because you’re so busy trying to prove everybody else wrong, you’ve missed everything right. Instead of helping your neighbor buy groceries, you’re binging your 30th video on penguin fortresses. Instead of volunteering at a soup kitchen, you’re ranting about geckos in government. Instead of growing yourself, you’re scrolling forums at 3 a.m. looking for that next dopamine hit of “truth.” You’ve taken the bait, hook, line, and lizard tail. The Final Word “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but have not love, I am nothing. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge… but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1–3 Doesn’t sound like a guy removing love from the equation, does it? Listen, I love you. You are a wonderfully intelligent, thoughtful person with amazing talents. But you’ve gotten too stuck in your head and let ego take the driver’s seat. If you took that same intensity, that same brilliance, and poured it into love, serving, humility, and kindness—you wouldn’t just change lives. You’d have superpowers. Real ones. The kind that heal, restore, and transform the world around you. And that, my friend, would be the ultimate way to flip the script on the system.