The earth is square. The bible says so!
I was fumbling around on the net last night, and I discovered ?THE TRUTH? ? and found it quite humorous, yet terribly frightening at the same time.
Why I find it humorous is obviously (aside from the text itself being a satire) because people actually believe this stuff. And I can?t help but laugh my ass off thinking about it.
That is also the reason that I find it terrifying. The fact that reasonably intelligent, reasonably educated people can remove themselves so far from reality, and believe something as ridiculous as a flat earth at the center of the universe (all based on a literal reading of the bible of course.) And I can?t help but be scared that these people are wandering around in normal society; and could be handling our bank accounts, processing cable subscriptions, driving around in cars, or delivering the pizza I just ordered. Scary as hell, man.
What do you literalists think? (if there are any left here)
(Oh, and anyone here that says they?re from Idaho is a liar.)
Why I find it humorous is obviously (aside from the text itself being a satire) because people actually believe this stuff. And I can?t help but laugh my ass off thinking about it.
That is also the reason that I find it terrifying. The fact that reasonably intelligent, reasonably educated people can remove themselves so far from reality, and believe something as ridiculous as a flat earth at the center of the universe (all based on a literal reading of the bible of course.) And I can?t help but be scared that these people are wandering around in normal society; and could be handling our bank accounts, processing cable subscriptions, driving around in cars, or delivering the pizza I just ordered. Scary as hell, man.
What do you literalists think? (if there are any left here)
(Oh, and anyone here that says they?re from Idaho is a liar.)
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Originally posted by DiscoCow
I was fumbling around on the net last night, and I discovered ?THE TRUTH? ? and found it quite humorous, yet terribly frightening at the same time.
Why I find it humorous is obviously (aside from the text itself being a satire) because people actually believe this stuff. And I can?t help but laugh my ass off thinking about it.
That is also the reason that I find it terrifying. The fact that reasonably intelligent, reasonably educated people can remove themselves so far from reality, and believe something as ridiculous as a flat earth at the center of the universe (all based on a literal reading of the bible of course.) And I can?t help but be scared that these people are wandering around in normal society; and could be handling our bank accounts, processing cable subscriptions, driving around in cars, or delivering the pizza I just ordered. Scary as hell, man.
What do you literalists think? (if there are any left here)
(Oh, and anyone here that says they?re from Idaho is a liar.)
BOO! Honk Honk!
...Bueller...Bueller...Bueller?
Or a sphere. One of those two. Because I've seen a lunar eclipse and the earth's shadow was curved on the moon, so I know that the Earth must at least be circular.
That site was a joke anyway.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
Of course it's ridiculous, the world is obviously a flat, circular disc
Or a sphere. One of those two. Because I've seen a lunar eclipse and the earth's shadow was curved on the moon, so I know that the Earth must at least be circular.
That site was a joke anyway.
blasphemy! the lunar eclipse is the moon being devouered by a giant wolf!
btw, nice to see a fellow minneapolite
Originally posted by CosmoNut
I think that's ridiculous, and I'm a Christian.
Well, I think that's ridiculous too, and I'm a Kopfian!
Everyone knows it sits on the back of a space turtle, which is supported by four elephants.
What the hell did I care, she was hot. We created lots of mini-earths in our short relationship. ZING!
(that joke could have been a lot dirtier
Originally posted by Giaguara
Wait ... is the moon cheddar or blue cheese?
Green cheese, Giaguara, not yellow or blue cheese. It's green because it's been sitting up in the sky rotting for so long.
And rotting is not due to microorganisms, it's because of... because of... God's will! Yeah, that's it! Whenever someone leaves cheese out too long, God punishes them by making their cheese green and inedible.
Anyone who disagrees with me is a heathen and will burn in Hell! Giaguara, believing that the moon is cheese is not enough, you must believe that it is green as well!
Originally posted by GardenOfEarthlyDelights
Revelations is the Twin Peaks of the Bible.
Best. Reply. Ever.
Succinct and to the point...
Screed
Originally posted by Willoughby
She believed that the earth came from some dude's seminal fluid.
Damn, I'd hate to see what happens when he urinates.
Originally posted by CosmoNut
I think that's ridiculous, and I'm a Christian.
Do you think that it's ridiculous because the earth has been proven to be a sphere? Or because (most of) the bible dictates that the earth is flat an immobile?
From this link:
1 Chronicles 16:30: ?He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.?
Psalm 93:1: ?Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...?
Psalm 96:10: ?He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...?
Psalm 104:5: ?Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.?
Isaiah 45:18: ?...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...?
Who knows? Maybe it?s all just a metaphor or parable to base our lives on or something.
Originally posted by DiscoCow
Damn, I'd hate to see what happens when he urinates.
Kidney stones...
Originally posted by Giaguara
Kidney stones...
Are they Evil Kidney stones?
*raises pinky to lip*
[/Dr. Evil]
Originally posted by Scott
Don't forget. Scientist used to think that draining the blood from sick people and smearing bird droppings on their feet would cure them.
Sounds like the sort of crap New Age Gurus dish out as "cures" for a $100 a throw..
& people are cuing up....Go figure...?
Originally posted by Scott
Don't forget. Scientist used to think that draining the blood from sick people and smearing bird droppings on their feet would cure them.
I?m sure they developed these techniques using the scientific method.
No question about it.
At all.