As an athiest (well, a person who doesn't follow religion... I hate labels for non-labels) I say it and so do many others in conferences and light hearted discussions. It's gotten to the point that it's just a signed/sealed/delivered kind of saying. An affirmation.
The difference is there's some REASON to the first one.
It's like a parent telling their child not to do something..
a) Bobby, don't ride your bike in the street because I said so. b) Bobby, don't ride your bike in the street or those cars will hit you and you will die.
One is avoiding an issue naturally existant (b... for those that don't get it), the other is because some almighty person disapproves of it.
The first doesn't fly with anyone semi-intelligent unless there's some mix of a and b in the reasoning... or just b.
The problem is that humans in general do not have common sense and would eat fece if told to in some cases. Even today, I've ran into people (I'm not kidding about this one here...) that actually tell me they do what their told because they don't need to think about stupid things and can just live.
I've always laughed at the answer to that, it's as if some 6 year old kid smiled gleefully and was telling you about their invisible friend.
"Well ummm... God's always been around and mm he lives forever and nothing can kill him because he's BIG and ALMIGHTY and will crush any other God because he's the only one and uhhh he's always existed! yeah!"
That's not necessarily true - "arriving at God" is akin to the following from the movie "Joe Dirt": "Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? How does posi-trak on a Plymouth work? Some things we'll never know."
Everything is answerable with a scientifically plausible answer.
By the way, since we have a "joe dirt" moment with the question "where does tectonic movement come from?", I figure I'd answer it since your school didn't and you haven't opened up enough middle school books to explain the whole mix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
In a nutshell, the earth was a molten ball of lava before it cooled down. The outter shell became solids and broke apart at several locations over the years. The pieces are called plates, and they float on the remaining molten rock that did not cool down. That rock is called magma, and it's temperatures cause it to have "currents" that push the plates subtly. They run into each other and often just slide under/over each other inch by inch over years without notice.
I know you were just trying to be a douche, but I figured we'd bring logic into the picture before things got stupid.
Nerds like to learn? and knowing about things happening help you correlate things, and correlations help with learning about anomolies... it's science.
The point of talking to your child is not to learn anything from him/her... it's the parent's job to accustom their child to the world and it's inner workings. I can't believe you even said that!
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The GP has to be a joke, no one could type that without laughing hysterically...
Then again... maybe that was what was being done...
I love you, man.
If anything deserved a mod point, this does... you've hit the nail square on the head.
As an athiest (well, a person who doesn't follow religion... I hate labels for non-labels) I say it and so do many others in conferences and light hearted discussions.
It's gotten to the point that it's just a signed/sealed/delivered kind of saying. An affirmation.
You can be Christian, just not Catholic.
or perhaps:
catholic family has more kids = more catholics = more donations
but religion and sex are the same... in both, your getting fucked.
the irony is that in that same frame of mind, their Gods been trying to wipe them off the face of the planet for centuries now...
The difference is there's some REASON to the first one.
It's like a parent telling their child not to do something..
a) Bobby, don't ride your bike in the street because I said so.
b) Bobby, don't ride your bike in the street or those cars will hit you and you will die.
One is avoiding an issue naturally existant (b... for those that don't get it), the other is because some almighty person disapproves of it.
The first doesn't fly with anyone semi-intelligent unless there's some mix of a and b in the reasoning... or just b.
The Jews moved, so not sure.
The problem is that humans in general do not have common sense and would eat fece if told to in some cases.
Even today, I've ran into people (I'm not kidding about this one here...) that actually tell me they do what their told because they don't need to think about stupid things and can just live.
I'm not kidding about that at all... in 2011...
I've always laughed at the answer to that, it's as if some 6 year old kid smiled gleefully and was telling you about their invisible friend.
"Well ummm... God's always been around and mm he lives forever and nothing can kill him because he's BIG and ALMIGHTY and will crush any other God because he's the only one and uhhh he's always existed! yeah!"
That's not necessarily true - "arriving at God" is akin to the following from the movie "Joe Dirt":
"Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? How does posi-trak on a Plymouth work? Some things we'll never know."
Everything is answerable with a scientifically plausible answer.
By the way, since we have a "joe dirt" moment with the question "where does tectonic movement come from?", I figure I'd answer it since your school didn't and you haven't opened up enough middle school books to explain the whole mix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
In a nutshell, the earth was a molten ball of lava before it cooled down. The outter shell became solids and broke apart at several locations over the years. The pieces are called plates, and they float on the remaining molten rock that did not cool down. That rock is called magma, and it's temperatures cause it to have "currents" that push the plates subtly. They run into each other and often just slide under/over each other inch by inch over years without notice.
I know you were just trying to be a douche, but I figured we'd bring logic into the picture before things got stupid.
... and as everyone knows, DC is a disaster movie waiting to happen.
Nerds like to learn?
and knowing about things happening help you correlate things, and correlations help with learning about anomolies...
it's science.
If there's a fault line, it isn't documented.
If you mean seismic zones, yes... but no fault lines.
Yeah, since the Sierra Nevada mountain range isn't real or anything...
It was a shot across the bow ;)
by moving the bedrock?
After all, that's what everything is on, underneath of the dirt.
person I knew right outside of DC had her phone go completely out of service. Verizon, of course.
Scary since cell is the infrastructure of today's phones.
You don't have one, do you?
Admit it.
Your right, it's best to only give toys to children.
That's why there are android tablets, now.
The point of talking to your child is not to learn anything from him/her... it's the parent's job to accustom their child to the world and it's inner workings.
I can't believe you even said that!
Right, because as everyone knows, the place where the toilet stays is called a restroom.
(tongue-in-cheek grin)
correction: the XBox 360 is the best console for YOU this gen.
How the hell is this a TROLL?
It's history! It's basically de facto standard business model...