“It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
Arthur Dent
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I didn’t know this actually had a name. I’ve just postulated it as a possibility before - from a purely “what if” stand point. Same as “how do you know you aren’t in a simulation?”
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How do you know there’s a real world at all and everything you perceive including eeveryone you meet and the entirety of your life experiences isn’t some elaborate hallucination?
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You don’t! So go ahead, play video games all day, nothing matters…
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Getting back to RickyM’s original point on the intersections between reality and politicians; you may remember this:
As a Bush aide once boasted to Ron Suskind: “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
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A Bush aide? Are you sure you aren’t quoting Zorg?
Although… you know, haven’t we heard that Trumps follows a similar philosophy he got from some book? That basically your reality is what you make it? Simply saying something over and over makes it real?
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works for me.
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I wish more than anything there was a chemical that could evolve the brain to a basic understanding of scientific reality, so I could infect people like this with it.
I was reading the main heading, saying to girlfriend someone more stupid than him put him in that office, then immediately clicked thru to see Rick Scott put him there.
My point was immediately proven
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Hey! What’s 'Straya done that’s so bad?
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The Great Hemsworth Migration of aught nine?
I don’t know - you’ll have to ask a Kiwi.
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I swear, someone like this is either
A) a sad case of a real deal unassailable believer in creationism,
B) someone trying to get out of doing this job by saying the same sort of crazy batshit stuff people say to get out of jury duty.
( To quote Homer Simpson: “getting out of jury duty is easy. Just tell them you are predjudiced against all races and religions”).
I also am a person of faith The Bible has a verse a thousand years is equal to one day and one day is equal to a thousand years. There is also the writing of the Creation in Genesis. This Bible writing agrees with Evolution. Nothing was said in the writing of the Bible how many years it took for creation. That was an invention that came later outside of the Bible.
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That aide to Prince Bush was later identified as Karl Rove.
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Always wondered why they needed Judas to point out the 6 foot white guy, with blue eyes, wandering around 1st century Jerusalem.
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It is not for nothing that Fark.com has a special tag “Florida” for stupid behaviors performed in that state.
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Teach them all, indeed. Time to roll out this oldie but goodie.
And of course, ref evolution, there’s the classic Doonesbury. I guess this Floridian gentleman is a streptomycin kind of guy.
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I think I read somewhere (in a book, in the 80s? early 90s?) about some crackpots actually worrying about the commies taking over after the rapture, because all the good guys would be raptured away. 
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