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Tangle Member Posts: 9509 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
I spent 15 minutes over at Evoution Fairy Tales - a site I was banned from without warning or explanation after half a dozen posts a couple of years ago. I see Mike the Wiz is cock of the roost over there where his logical loonacies go uncorrected.
Anyhoo, this post caught my eye amongst the multifarious madness. This guy is apparently a thearpist. The post was, of course, typed in large bold print, double spaced, I'll save you from that but the spelling is what it is.
quote: Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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Pressie Member Posts: 2103 From: Pretoria, SA Joined: |
Ramoss, you should. Those tracts are sure to turn lots of people away fom religions.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
The post was, of course, typed in large bold print, double spaced,... There actually is a half baked legitimate reason for that. As I understand it, he has a vision problem and thus likes using the larger print and spacing. Someone once tried to teach him the concept of (control +) to zoom to get larger print, but the lesson did not take. MooseProfessor, geology, Whatsamatta U Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment. "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. To be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people." - Conan O'Brien "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5949 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Many normals may not be aware of the fact that "true Christians" need to use their own special kind of counselors and therapists. That is because "true Christians" do not think like normals do.
Dan Barker (Freedom From Religion Foundation, "America's Leading Atheist") described it when I first heard him speak in the mid-1980's shortly after he had deconverted from a life-long belief in fundamentalism (he had also been a fundamentalist minister having been personally called to the ministry at age 11 by God Himself). In that speech, Barker described fundamentalism as being when your theology becomes your psychology. All your thought processes become based on fundamentalist theology and you filter everything you see and hear and think and feel through that theology (please also refer to Glenn R. Morton's talk.origins Post of the Month for February 2002, "Morton's Demon" which describes aspects of that regarding YECs). Add to that the collected experiences of all us normals here who have ever tried to reason with YECs or just about any fundamentalist. They quite literally think differently than us normals, hence they need their own special counselors. I have personally seen this in action. A local mega-church's singles ministry organized huge presentations by a pair of Christian counselors which was very strongly attended (huge main chapel auditorium much more than half filled by singles from at least two local megachurches). A number of things that they said was the same as is said by counselors for normals (eg, setting boundaries, being selective of the people you associate with in terms of where they will lead you), but then they would always go weird. Well, weird to a normal, but right on target for a fundie. For example, there are things that you need to do to straighten out your life. Why should you do that? Because that is what Jesus wants you to do. Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot-Oscar? So then if you are not a Christian, there is no reason for you to try to make your life better? Really?? Similarly in the DivorceCare program they not only state explicitly, but they repeat it over and over again that you can never ever possibly recover from a divorce, but rather only Jesus can do it for you. So then non-Christians are just plain screwed? Thank you very much, sir! May I have another one please? (somebody please identify that first speaking part in a movie for Kevin Bacon) I am living evidence that Christian counselors are of worse than no help to normals. Similarly, I would assume, fundamentalists are unable to find help from normal counselors. Sad as it sounds, that bat-quano-crazy "therapist" is perhaps the only kind of person that a fundamentalist can listen to as a counselor. Which to me speaks of a much more serious problem. Since we are not supposed to present bare links, here are some excerpts from "Morton's Demon":
quote:Do please follow that link to read the entire post and be able to use the embedded links (assuming that they are not already broken). It should also be noted that Maxwell's Demon is a thermodynamics thought experiment. Not that any YEC has ever understood thermodynamics.
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vimesey Member (Idle past 99 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
I suspect people will have figured this already, but Mr Newth's letter is taken from Viz, an anarchic comic book here in the UK, which features a couple of pages of comedy letters like this one, sent in by the readership. Here's Mr Newth's twitter feed about it: https://mobile.twitter.com/adriannewth
It's still funny though :-)Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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vimesey Member (Idle past 99 days) Posts: 1398 From: Birmingham, England Joined: |
The letter section of Viz, btw, is known as "Letterbocks".
Viz aficionados see the "bocks" part of it less as a homonym and more as an abbreviation... Edited by vimesey, : TypoCould there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1051 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
Funnily enough I was back in the UK on a brief business trip last week and bought a Viz (as I tend to do when I visit). Letterbocks included this delight:
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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The internet's finest amateur detectives are now working ceaselessly to identify the true identity of the ringleader, a shadowy figure known only as "Papa John". Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0
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15 year anniversary of my evcforum.net registration.
Moose
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Phat Member Posts: 18338 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
and this makes you the Loony Of The Week? Maybe because you have been here so long... Seriously though...happy anniversary! I think the American Voter already won Loony Of This Week at least.
Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.~Proverbs 28:26
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Phat Member Posts: 18338 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
DWise1 writes: This one sentence prompted me to read your entire post. Good work! Barker described fundamentalism as being when your theology becomes your psychologyChance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain " ~"If that's not sufficient for you go soak your head."~Faith Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.~Proverbs 28:26
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Dr Adequate Member (Idle past 311 days) Posts: 16113 Joined:
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From Right Wing Watch.
Hold on to your hats: Stonehenge, it turns out, was built by giants who were created by Satan. Lindsay told Bakker that these giants were tools of the devil, who seeks to destroy Israel because he’s out to destroy God’s creation and his whole plan of redemption and contaminate the human race. But Satan wants to have his own seed and make his own family, Lindsay explained, and so he created a race of giants who would attack Israel. [...] We all know about Stonehenge, right? That’s just one of hundreds and hundreds of gigantic places around the world that testify that some sort of supernatural power or giants were involved in its construction. Because we know of only two things that can move rocks: giants and magic. Gotta be one or the other.
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quote: Right on Lindsay! Don't let those globalists get to you... Lol! Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
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