A MAttR of Time #fundie

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And yes, there is a thing as too much education. Too much education and you start to think YOU are a god and reject the real thing. I have family like that. The answer to life's questions is not Jesus, but more and more education..........

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old comment by apYrs

from the same thread:
"uh? Do you live in America? Please disavow your right to vote ASAP as you are just another fouled cog that appears to be serving NO purpose and apparently have no valid viewpoint or opinion other than to complain about the brightest presidential candidate we've had since Ronald Reagan!"

Reagan was amiable, and pleasant, but could not by any stretch of the imagination be said to be "brightest".

And what's with the "you disagree with me, so you shouldn't vote" attitude?

They bitch about educated people being intellectuals marginalising the little people (rednecks) and the want to exclude dissidents from the vote.

Can't they see that their "redneck" personae lay the US open to ridicule in the world? The US is the most powerful nation in the world, the rest of the world is fearful of it being run by people who can't place Mexico on the map!

old comment by Xotan

Ignorance for Jesus Award?

@ apYrs

Sadly you do have a point. Perhaps because Europe is so small, with so many languages, and yet we share a common (horrible & violent) history and culture we tend to know who our neighbours are. Also, we travel incessantly from country to country... I suppose that makes it easier.

But in a nutshell, yes. We have all probably met bemused Americans who don't realise, for example, that there is a 3 hour sea journey between Britain and Ireland, or that they are separate countries. Or, yes, you can take a train directly from London to Paris or Brussels despite the tract of sea. But even we get confused too. So let's not be too hard on the complicated things. But one's country's neighbours are part of one's own history ...

The real problem is attitudinal. We can all learn unless we set our minds against it.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

@Andre

"In fact, for extra closeness to Jesus, why teach kids anything? Since Jesus is the answer to every question in life, why not just teach them the name "Jesus"?

What's the square root of 3?
Jesus!

Sir, do you know how fast you were going?
Jesus!

Does this dress make my butt look big?
Jesus!

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Jesus!"

'When I did my exams at school, for every question I put down 'Masturbation' as the answer. And I stuck with it, hoping it'd pay off one day, and it has!'

-Johnny Vegas, "QI" (celebrating after jokingly - and coincidentally; mayhaps subconsciously - giving the answer 'Anti-Masturbation aid'* to the question 'Why were Corn Flakes invented?'*)

*- John Harvey Kellogg, after accidentally discovering Corn Flakes (when rolled-out wheat dough was accidentally left, which dried out and broke off into flakes), he believed eating these with milk were a calorific deterrent to masturbation, which he considered a practice to be avoided at all costs.

A MAttR of Time #fundie rr-bb.com

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