Loced Intellectual - Ignorance blinds Truth

About an hour or two ago I had an interesting conversation with a man that came to my office. Now upon first glance of this man, (STEROTYPICALLY) most people would think that he wasn't very knowledgable at all. He wore his hair in long unkept locs that hung down to his back, a scruffy un even beard and dirty clothes and work boots. I engaged in some simple conversation, as I reguarly do to make the 2-3 mins I spend with the customers go by faster, and to my surprise he was very well read and spoke with such intelligence. We talked about how youths today don't have any sense of history, and how their chances of being successful is significantly decreased by not knowing the past. We also discussed how certain individuals in life will reject certain proven facts due to their faith in their religion. He told me of a woman who once had told him that the world was created 2000 years ago and there where no dinosaurs and things of that nature. After that we discussed the Sphinx and how Jesus couldn't have been really named Jesus, becuase the letter J wasn't even in existance when Jesus lived, and this was in a matter of 3 minutes. Just goes to show you have the power of ignorance can blind truth. Meaning (IN THIS SITUATION) that if I would have went with the ignorance of our society I might not have had the worldly conversation I had with the gentleman.