the prophecy is fulfilled!
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I donât know for sure, but I imagine most of the people in the dark ages were just worried about surviving, and left all the âintellectual debateâ to those who owned the land and had idle time for such trivialities.
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I like that they are having a âJesus & Dinoâ day out, itâs special.
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Hard to understand how they got here from the Middle East, if they believe the Earth is flat. Mohammed had presumably never seen a ship go over the horizon, or if he did, he did not ask what was happening. Do all Islamic fundamentalists only travel in the centre seats of the plane so as not to see the curvature of the Earth?
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Just think, you can visit Oklahoma (or Kentucky, or a few other places) and ask them yourself.
The concept of continuing progress in ideas is illusory. In 3rd century BC Syracuse people were making mechanisms that would not be possible in Europe until the 18th century AD. The Romans, the equivalent of todayâs Republicans (only interested in money, power and outward respectability) did not see the point of what Greek advanced thinkers were accomplishing. There is no obvious reason why climate change and population pressure shouldnât result in new Dark Ages in various parts of the Earth.
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Iâd be fine with passing the bill as long as there was a rider saying any and all court costs spent in the doomed attempt to defend the law are paid by the people that voted âyesâ on the bill personally.
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If the Earth is spherical it greatly complicates which direction is facing Mecca. At any point on the sphere, facing away from Mecca is also facing towards it, just the long way around. And suppose youâre⌠[looks it up] âŚfloating between two particular uninhabited atolls in French Polynesia, directly antipodal to Mecca. In which direction do you pray? Down?
(OT, but check out these palm trees. Were they planted, or do they naturally arrange in a honeycomb pattern like that?)
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BTW, I really like how much dino-Christ looks like a pirate with the tricorn hat.
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The dino-Christ pirate prophecy has now been fulfilled by the grace of his noodly appendage.
also that AR-15 was not my best work
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From Orbit has similar issues⌠https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9031-when-youre-in-orbit-which-way-is-mecca/
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This is settled law. We have already had two Supreme Court cases, and this bozoâs side has already lost. If he sometimes succeeds in getting the bill through the legislature and signed, it will never be implemented.
I wouldnât know, Iâm not in the business of mocking Islam. Thereâs plenty of people hard at work on that one.
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Of course not, donât be silly. He wore a bowler.
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Not trolling here at all.
But a bit of logic applied to religion:
Considering these complexities will be appreciated by any deity you are worshipping. A for Effortâeven if you get it wrong.*
*Assumes said gods are benevolent. A malicious creator is notably absent from the worldwide discussion.
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I thought it was Captain Jack SparrowâŚ
Applying some sort of bdsm gag to that dino.
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Interestingly that was good motivation to learn such complexities. The Muslim world was behind all sorts of advances during the middle ages, and just as astrology prompted much astronomy, it seems at least their improvements to astrolabes were in part as a way to solve the problem of finding the direction of Mecca.
If you actually were at the exact antipode, it looks like you get to choose your direction, just as you do in Mecca (or more particularly the Kaaba) itself.
Not much in nature is regular on that kind of scale! Searching around the web, it looks like most of the Tuamotu Islands were planted with coconut palms around the 1960s. Theyâre now mainly notable as habitats for some endangered species like Polynesian ground doves.
Interesting, though I might guess no. Pure research has also been struggling for some time now with the sort of capitalists who wonât allow anything as worthwhile unless it looks like it will directly and measurably improve bottom lines. Even if this economist excepts education, thatâs what comes to my mindâŚbut there sure is a lot of overlap between the two agendas.
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Ah our OK lawmakers embarrassing the state yet again. Would be nice if the spent their time working on how to dig the state out of the one billion dollar deficit but then again most of the ones proposing these bills are morns. Luckily most of these bill never make it to a committee hearing and if they do very rarely do they make it out. But the lawmakers can go back their districts and say I tried and get reelected.
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why teach just one?
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Sadly this is true. And often they actually think that they are great analysts and thinkers because they attend âbible studyâ groups several times a week. Hint: Itâs not really anything other than an echo chamber if your study group is really more like rote memorization and then very echo-chamber like discussions with nobody willing or able to question anything. A circle jerk is a circle jerk is a circle jerkâŚ
I know someone who thinks himself to be a great scholar, and is more than willing to throw bible quotes at you. He thinks heâs willing and able to discuss them on a reasonable and rational level, but when any thoughtful (and I might add respectfully stated) questioning happens, reverts to simple repetition and absolutely batshit insane unprovable statements.
A good example of this is a discussion we had on why âgood people canât have tattoos, and anyone who has a tattoo cannot be good.â (his words not mine). Since the bible prohibits tattoos, theyâre a mark of evil. I posited my vegetarian cousin who works for a charitable non-profit had a tattoo (quite a nice one actually), and if she wasnât a good person, then there were very few that would qualify. The response? Well, she may do good deeds, but goodness is not determined by acts, and by succumbing to temptation, she obviously was in the thrall of âthe demon sitting on her shoulderâ (not a metaphor, I checkedâŚ). Whaa? No, he seriously believes that there is a literal fucking invisible demon whispering in her ear, and as such she was evil.
And he votes. And has reproduced. TwiceâŚ
Fucking scary shit. And this is in CA, not bumfuck flyoverâŚ
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Damn, I was trying to come up with reasons why palms might naturally do that. No branches and no extensive root systems would mean less competition for sunlight and water; mature treesâ crowns are pretty much the same diameter as younger treesâ, so the saplings (are baby palms even called saplings?) wouldnât have to contort to reach light; relatively short lifespans mean no geriatric monster trees throwing shade⌠I could see a honeycomb pattern developing even on that scale.
Oh well, that was one shit-and-showerâs worth of contemplation wasted. Donât those atolls get wiped out by typhoons on the regular though?
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