Page 63 - Character Types of the Unbelievers

Harun Yahya-Adnan Oktar
They Do Not Think About What They Are Doing
These elderly individuals live their entire lives distant from the
morality of the religion; they hide behind their perception as old,

trying to find some excuse to act thoughtlessly — another bad habit
in the society of ignorance. They believe they can excuse their moral
deficiency by their age. Whatever the case may be, the society of ig-
norance accepts these deficiencies as typical of some old people.
They will try to pass over an elderly person’s eccentricities by say-
ing, “Excuse him, he’s old; he doesn’t know what he is saying.”
However, that elderly person is completely aware of what he has

done, and has probably done it deliberately. When their personal in-
terest is at stake, they understand all too well what is owed to them;
they know when they are not getting their due, or when a mistake
has been made not in their favor. In any case, much of their tactless-
ness is often deliberate.
They know very well when to use talk insinuatingly, and
whom to say it to. They use these tactics at almost every chance they
get. They know how to have a normal, straight-forward conversa-
tion, but rarely do so.

If they are asked for the reason for their sickness when they fall
ill, they say things like “because I have not eaten meat for a long
time,” “the room I slept in was cold” or “I get very tired,” thus hint-
ing that someone else is to be blamed for being neglectful.
At times, they will pursue minor forms of revenge. For exam-
ple, when guests come to visit, they will bring up a subject that will
embarrass the other members of the house, will speak the most in-

appropriate things for all to hear, although they know that it will
hurt the people around. Then, they will hide behind their age, pre-

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