It would seem that today's scientists are like the witch doctors of old.
Every time I hear them rant about global warming, I can't help but just imagine them with a bone through their nose, carrying a joo-joo stick and telling the tribe that their reckless wastefulness has angered the great sky god and now the sky god will dry up our crops, kill our fish, and flood our homes.
Well...that's what they say.
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No, we're more like the one savage saying
"We should really move away from the volcano before it spews lava on us again."
and you guys are the ones saying
"Don't be ridiculous! As long as we sacrifice virgins to Volcano god nothing bad will happen!"
It would seem that today's Fundie leaders are like the witch doctors of old.
Every time I hear them rant about shit like same-sex merriage, the President, their angina, etc., I can't help but just imagine them with a bone through their nose, carrying a joo-joo stick and telling the tribe that their reckless behavior has angered the great sky god and now the sky god will dry up our crops, kill our fish, and flood our homes.
Well...that's what they say.
No, the great sky god is the fundies delusion...
Just like they believe they know where "earthly" science comes from...
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This reminds me of one of the poems by a favourite poet, the American Vachel Lindsay. Only it preachers I imagine instead of witchdoctors. Besides, don't most preachers call themselves doctor anyway?
Forgot to mention, the poem is called 'The Congo'. Nowadays it would be regarded as quite politically incorrect,but taken as of its time it may perhaps be forgiven because of its wonderful verbal rhythms.
Oh btw, 'ju=ju' is preferable nowadays to 'joo-joo'.
"Well...that's what they say."
Do they? Do they, really? Really, really, honestly truly?
It would seem that today's fundies are like the witch doctors of old.
Every time I hear them rant about gay marriage and evolution, I can't help but just imagine them with a bone through their nose, carrying a joo-joo stick and telling the tribe that their sin and immorality has angered the great sky god and now the sky god will dry up our crops, kill our fish, and flood our homes.
Well...that's what they say.
It would seem today that christers are like witch doctors of old.
Every time I hear them rant about the second coming, I can't help but just imagine them with a bone through their nose, carrying a jew-jew book and telling the tribe that the volcano gods want a sacrifice of a virgin or everyone is going to die.
Well...that's what they say.
Okay, stay with me. Weather is ... No wait, maybe I should start with climate.... The difference between seasonal.... Oh fuck it, I just can't dumb it down enough for you. Go play with your tabloids and leave the grownups alone.
There's this thing called "proof" that these guys have, you may have heard of it? You know when you were busy driving your gas-guzzler and you listened to the radio with this scientist and his "proof" and you thought he meant witch doctor stuff because he was a Dr?
Well this "proof" is actually pretty good at convincing people of their point of view. You should look into it sometime.
Flooding the air with CFCs is not the same as magical ju-ju, and the Earth's response is not the same as some anthropomorphized cloud.
But I can see why that would be a difficult distinction for you.
@Danny Noonan: Yeah, maybe we should stop with the jokes about the "magic smoke" that keeps technology running. I think they're taking it too seriously.
(You know The magic smoke that leaks out when your computer is on the fritz? When you see that, you know your computer's broken cause it doesn't have the magic smoke to make it run anymore.)
So you're suggesting that the planet has an infinite supply of oil, then?
Even if you don't believe in global warming, the limited supply of oil and other natural resources is still a blatantly obvious fact.
> Every time I hear them rant about global warming, I can't help but just imagine them with a bone through their nose, carrying a joo-joo stick...
That's nothing! Every time I hear a Fundamentalist Christian speak about just anything, I could imagine them as being over 70 years old, wearing an old, barely fitting suit, waving the Bible in one hand and a noose in the other, ranting about hellfire and damnation to gays and Catholics and abortionists and Harry Potter readers with eyes afire, and occasionally pausing to squint suggestively to the direction of the passing-by little boys in the street corner they chose as the center place of their important evangelical mission.
But I won't do that, because I know stereotyping and lulling one to actually believe that the stereotypes (or exaggerated caricatures, in your case) are the truth is really fucking dumb.
Um, Linda, even witch doctors would be fully competent to say, "You appear to have a spear up your ass." The problem's becoming that obvious.
@ #937013
Don't laugh, my printer started spewing the magic smoke as soon as I plugged it in.
But I spoke with the Magi in India, and he is sending me a new box of magic smoke for it. he called it a print head? What ever the hell that is.
(Obligatory D&D Reference)
I'm imagining a ju-ju zombie carrying a stick running* up to Linda and bopping her upside the head.
*Ju-ju zombies, unlike regular zombies, can actually run. I believe they have a Move of 40', too.
Um, you do know that it's unsafe to eat the fish from something like half of the waterways in the U.S., right?
Yet the people who insist that Katrina and 9/11 were divine punishment, although resembling your witch doctor to a much greater degree, are innocent?
Wow, it must be interesting to be so stupid.
Fundies are like with doctors who say, "Don't vaccinate your children. It's an evil govvimint plot to induce autism, and enslave us. Prayer will ward off childhood illnesses like measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, polio, and diptheria."
@Jeff: normal zombies can run too. Ever see the Dawn of the Dead remake? The zombies in that movie sprint like Olympic medalists. So do the infected in 28 Days Later, but those ones aren't actually undead, so they don't really count.
Okay, I'll grant Al Gore does strike me as being this type of person, but you have to give the global warming crowd at least some credit for putting together a decent scientific argument.
Also, why are we assuming Linda J is just some random other fundie, did she put up a lot of other posts arguing for god and saying anyone who disagrees with her goes to hell? This seems to be nagging at the back of my mind as I read all of the "irony!!!" posts.
However, you don't have a problem with computers, medicines and other stuff, eh, Linda the inconsistent.
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