I mentioned this in another thread, but I know a guy who is hard-pressed on convincing everyone that we won the Vietnam War.
Just stupid! The things people believe!
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There's being positive through life and then there's the Secret positive. Saying you will get a car spot if you ask the universe. You will win lotto if you ask the universe. You will be supreme overlord if you're positive enough and ask the universe.qbert4ever said:
The Chasers had something to say on it as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo
And yet it remains a communist country, how?Lord Krunk said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, The Secret is nuttier then squirrel shit, I'm just saying that the general principle behind it, ie: think good things and you'll do alright, is true enough in itself.PurpleRain said:
Fan death. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death] An entire country, including medical experts, has fallen for this one. Still, people try to convince me that they're smart enough not to let Starcraft 2 take down their economy...
scientology, really self explanatory.
PETA, My GOD what is the matter with you dumb asses.
Then there was heavens cult... we all know how that turned out.
See, when idiots gather round and call themselves a group or cult or association, stupid things are bound to happen
I've also read a book about fitness scams, man what people would do to get outta exercising.
Oh, and there are some idiots saying games cause violent behaviour and there's this one lawyer....
PETA, My GOD what is the matter with you dumb asses.
Then there was heavens cult... we all know how that turned out.
See, when idiots gather round and call themselves a group or cult or association, stupid things are bound to happen
I've also read a book about fitness scams, man what people would do to get outta exercising.
Oh, and there are some idiots saying games cause violent behaviour and there's this one lawyer....
They're well-practiced at believing in things that can't logically exist. From that perspective, the paranoia over witchcraft makes a great deal of sense.
My dad wore one of those "magnetic bracelet" things for a while. He said it helped him quite a bit, but it's very possible that he was just believing it worked. In my opinion though, even if it doesn't physically work, but mentally makes you think it works, it's still a good product.
If I sold sugar pills and claimed they "cured cancer", and everyone that took them fought the disease just that little bit more because they believed it worked, and it actually did work, that's a genuine cure in my opinion.
Like the whole chiropractor thing. If it's true that they don't actually fix your back, and that you only feel better walking out of the practice, then it works in my opinion. That's why you go in there. You want to feel better. If you walk out feeling better, it's a job well done.
If I sold sugar pills and claimed they "cured cancer", and everyone that took them fought the disease just that little bit more because they believed it worked, and it actually did work, that's a genuine cure in my opinion.
Like the whole chiropractor thing. If it's true that they don't actually fix your back, and that you only feel better walking out of the practice, then it works in my opinion. That's why you go in there. You want to feel better. If you walk out feeling better, it's a job well done.
Also the fact most things writen then were done metaphoricly(spelling?). The entire turning water to wine could have been as easy as Jesus buying everyone wine. The people were poor and he was a king so it would make sense. We bought a book about all this stuff, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.Taxi Driver said:
The really, really stupid thing people believe is that the Holocaust never happened.
To give them some credit, many believe that it simply did not happen to the extent documented, but some think the whole thing was made up.
Honestly, some people do not deserve to live.
To give them some credit, many believe that it simply did not happen to the extent documented, but some think the whole thing was made up.
Honestly, some people do not deserve to live.
I find it quite interesting how people believe in the molecules-to-man theorem of evolution.
It's fully apparant that animals change over time, as some die out, while others survive. Antibiotic - resisting bacteria prove that easily. Those that survive reproduce, pass on the gene, and the entire species eventually becomes immune.
But why bother developing a 'new' species?
If you put me in an environment that requires drastic changes to fit in, I'll die.
If you gradually alter the environment to make me change, I won't be a new species. I'll have some new bits tacked on, but it won't alter my physical structure. I won't develop into another creature. If I do, than the origional species dies out, because they don't have the necessary adjustments. If I don't theres no need to develop a new species because we can survive anyway.
It's fully apparant that animals change over time, as some die out, while others survive. Antibiotic - resisting bacteria prove that easily. Those that survive reproduce, pass on the gene, and the entire species eventually becomes immune.
But why bother developing a 'new' species?
If you put me in an environment that requires drastic changes to fit in, I'll die.
If you gradually alter the environment to make me change, I won't be a new species. I'll have some new bits tacked on, but it won't alter my physical structure. I won't develop into another creature. If I do, than the origional species dies out, because they don't have the necessary adjustments. If I don't theres no need to develop a new species because we can survive anyway.
Perhaps the best way to support the bible or your holy text of choice is not to assert and use the amount of full stops in your sentence as justification.thedrop2zer0 said:
A more effective answer would be "Granted, but the jesus upon which this faith is built was not. While your explanation does offer a 'solution' to the Water-to-Wine problem, i do not require such an explanation as that is whole point of Faith."
Doesn't that make life a smoother ride?
I don't think people were really any more stupid then than they are now. They believe in Global warming and cell phone brain damage. Lots of people also think it's wrong to give your kids a good whooping.
1) once out of the gravitational pull of earth, there's no air to slow you down, so (in theory) you can accelerate exponentially, and (eventually) break lightspeed. SO, all they had to do was accelerate, not to lightspeed, but it got them there REALLY quick.TheNecroswanson said:
2) we did, several times, but there's a limit to how much wandering around on a barren rock can tell us, so the moon landings were scrapped to save money.
3) Oxygen on the apollo wasn't reproducing, there were these whacking great bottles of it, just like you get when you go diving.
and besides, if nobody anded on the moon WHY CAN YOU SEE THE FLAG THEY PLANTED?