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[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is a great example of how conspiracy theories are: There are some bits that are quite true, but they are connected in such a weird and completely wrong way that you wonder how it even came to this.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

That the problem with religions, they are not searching hypotheses to explain observed Phenomens, they search hypotheses to explain in what they believe, ignoring facts.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 349 points 1 week ago (43 children)

Electrician here, I've certainly felt electricity, and it sure ain't pleasant.

And those generation alternators must be very confused.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 113 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Masochist here, you're wrong

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sadist here. You're right.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Appeaser here: You both make very good points.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As a non-electrician, I've also felt electricity and can confirm, it is indeed not pleasant.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago

You can resist it

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 217 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is somehow more offensive to my brain than if they'd simply said "electricity is god". The way they completely muddy the issue, making the reader not just misinformed but made to feel complacent, like there's no correct information to be found, is way more grotesque. It shuts down the mind of the reader. It's anti-education.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

That is the sense of religion and because it is so used by goverments. Ignorant and submisive people are easier to dominate and manipulate.

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[–] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 169 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Stupidity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it. We can see and hear and feel only what stupidity does. We know it makes people say strange things, make poor decisions, and ignore obvious facts. But we cannot say what stupidity is like.

We cannot even say where stupidity comes from. Some say it might stem from ignorance or misinformation. Others think that social influences or emotional bias produce some of it. All everyone knows is that stupidity seems to be everywhere and that there are many ways for it to surface.

[–] illi@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago

No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.

I wish.

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago
[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 1 week ago

This is child abuse. Pure and simple.

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 93 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We have no clue what electricity is, because we, the authors, are dumb as fuck.

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[–] AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 82 points 1 week ago (12 children)

We homeschooled our kids for non-religious reasons. Most of the commercially available books, materials and curriculums were Christian oriented. While I am a Christian (although not a conservative) I found some of the materials just flat out intellectually insulting, factually incorrect, extremely biased (without the benefit of scriptural justification) and the above example is far from the worst of what I saw. It says a LOT about where your faith actually lies if you have to promote a false reality to justify it.

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[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 81 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Some scientists think that the sun may be the source of most electricity.

I wish most electricity waa from renewable energy

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 55 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Lots of it is generated by burning biologically sequestered solar energy from hundreds of millions of years ago.

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[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 74 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I was homeschooled my entire childhood. My mom was a Christian. Not a crazy zealot, just a woman with faith. Initially, my school books were through a Christian curriculum program (I believe abeka books, iirc). One of my textbooks had this module on dinosaurs, with little pictures of humans in leopard print look clothes picking berries while a brontosaurus walked by in the background. My mom, ever the fantastic mother, immediately tossed those pieces of garbage and got me on the state curriculum that the public schools used. Took her forever to get it. Initially, when she called the state to ask how to get those resources she was told to stick with abeka, and was offered several other insane religious options before they finally relented. From then on, even though we lived in Virginia, my school standard came out of California, and I had to take end of year tests that aligned with the state of California. I got a great education, and because Mama let me basically choose what hours of the day I did my schoolwork in, I didn't really need to take summers off. Ended up finishing 12th grade at 14 years old. I am so thankful that she realized how bad those books were, and fought to make sure, even as a single mother working well over full time, that her kids got a good education. My brother and I both placed highest in the state when we took our final exams, in everything but math.

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (33 children)

American Christianity is so weird. This sort of nonsense just isn't a thing in Europe or at least not in my country.

[–] hexagon@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I went to Italian catholic school from kindergarten to high school and studied dinosaurs and shit, nobody gets to american level of nonsense

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My American catholic school taught us that creationism is against catholic doctrine. They also taught the controversy.

My friends who went to public school got less instruction on evolution and their science teachers were obviously creationist while mine barely hid that she thought it was moronic

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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"Ok, so here's the theme for this one: you're in the 1890s and you've just seen your first lightbulb. All you know is it runs on electricity instead of oil, and that some fucking idiot caught some electricity in a jar during a lightning storm. Go!"

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In 1890 they had telegraph lines between continents for about 40 years.

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[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 46 points 1 week ago

There are more pixels than the neurons in the writer's brain

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 week ago

Looking back when I was growing up I think the most nefarious thing about books like this is that printing gave a lot of implied legitimacy because it was expensive to print a book.

Speaks to how much money these people had to miseducate people.

[–] Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

My brother in America I have felt electricity and I can say exactly what it's like.

If you still don't believe though I will gladly share the secret of how to feel it for yourself. You need only bring a fork.

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Tide comes in tide goes out. Can't explain that.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 38 points 1 week ago

This is the stupidest shit I have heard in my life. Ever seen fucking sparks? Ever had to deal with static electricity? What do they mean they don't know where electricity comes from? We have power plants and an entire grid to provide electricity. The ways to generate electricity is extremely well known and are common fucking knowledge... I mean I learned it as a kid from cartoons and video games.

[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This feels like a projection of their deity. Did they want to conflate the mystery of their god to the mystery of electricity? I guess I'm a theist now...

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

I swear I saw somewhere Texas schools gives out these books

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Next chapter needs to be: "Fucking magnets, how do they work?"

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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

ISBN please— full title and author will help too

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Guess there are no Christian electricians then...

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