Soon the duties will fall to Mike Collins.
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Didnât he won the Space Race with asteroids?
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Surely not any more? Weâve had generations and generations of people being born, living and dying off since the species as a whole has been aware of the particular mechanics of this solar system. The discouraging thing may well be that the species as a whole has not accepted the particular mechanics of this solar system, insofar as it cares about it at all.
With the rise of ISS, with people rejecting vaccinations because of un scientific reasons: are on the cusp of a new âdark agesâ?
With almost 8 of 10 Americans believing in angels, maybe weâre already there. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-nearly-8-in-10-americans-believe-in-angels/
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Iâm seeing on the twitters that this is an excerpt from a Saudi satirical comedy show, âTash Ma Tash,â although I havenât verified it.
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If angels donât exist, why do you have a word for them? You seem to think you know what it refers to.
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Iâm skeptical that satire would even be allowed to exist in SA. Is Tash ma Tash actually a thing. Or is it only âgovernment sanctionedâ satire?
Scene: A woman walks outside to get her mail. Suddenly, Ashton Kutcher jumps out of a bush and pulls off her hijab
Woman: Oh no!
Kutcher: You just got punkâd
Sudden mob of angry men: Stone the woman
Scene, pile of blood and entrails
Fade to black
Title: There are no excuses for a womanâs uncovered face
Canned laughter, onto the next sketch.
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Heâs just promoting obfuscational cosmology for the masses. The reality he wonât tell you about is our nazi-reptillian overlords of the hollow earth.
Stretch (-ing the truth) Armstrong. Iâd like to upvote you twice: once for the comment and again for being a Carter fan (though you DO realise youâve left the ârâ out of âsheriffâ, rightâŚ?)
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Time to give the Prof an outingâŚ
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The embrace of a geocentric model is bewildering considering the Islamic worldâs influential history at the forefront of astronomy. Imagine an American evangelical preacher trying to get traction by decrying baseball as a Satanic plot.
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This post is about as scientific as the derpwad in the video. You canât interchange âUS Creationistâ with â25% of Americansâ and follow it up with âIâm sureâŚâ.
Citation or GTFO
##FTFY
still sad, though.
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Oh thatâs so cute, they have TeaBaggers over there too.
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The Earth and the sun orbit each other, eh? Only due to the size imbalance, it appears that the Earth orbits the sun.
I probably heard this before, but do not recall it, thanks!
Somehow, though, I suspect this was not the clericâs main pointâŚ
Youâre thinking of Omega Race:
Thatâs because his plane flew in the other direction and approached the speed of light. Not by much, but enough! Too close, and his wings would have melted.
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Why do scientists wear white lab coats?
If Jabberwockâs donât exist, why is there a word for them?
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Or fundamentalist atheists. Faith isnât the only thing that promotes hate. Lack of faith can, too, if done in a fundamentalist way. Iâm an atheist, btw.
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This.
However, religion isnât the only thing that engenders faith.
Atheism, science, musical styles, favorite hair salon â all these do, as well.
Ritual is very important to hidden inner portions of the human mind. We canât articulate them very well, but the shamanic trappings are everywhere. Bottles of champagne cracked across the bow of an oil tanker. White lab coats. The way we all reacted to the antlers &c in True Detective. The cultural unconscious has these resonances embedded deep in our memetic DNA. We canât see them usually, but theyâre there in Twin Peaks, in The Walking Dead, in Animaniacs, Animal House and American Sniper. Itâs not just telling us something we want to hear; we want to hear it because something rings very faintly in there.*
But if we donât want to run around blowing ourselves up or burning bus drivers captured from the next town over alive, we need to listen carefully and interrogate ourselves as well to avoid blind faith.
Not completely sure where Iâm going with this.
Ritual is important. Donât discount it. Donât give it too much credit. Jazz is good, but so are drum machines, although rap-metal is usually not. Fanatics are to be avoided, unless theyâre producing BBQ sauce; but donât stay at their motel if theyâre fanatical about making sausage, or their mother.
* Itâs possible Iâm full of pork-like sausage and suffering from media-burn-induced cultural tinnitus. YMMV. IANAL. LMAO. INRI. MMXV.
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