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Thursday, July 20, 2006

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There was an interview with some useless teen poplets named AJ an Aly in a recent issue of Blender. Now, I couldn't give a shit about what two twits that get airplay on Radio Disney have to say, but there was a highlighted quote that caught my attention.

"Evolution is silly!" -- AJ.

Wait. Evolution is silly. Creationism teaches that there's a magical guy who created everything in the universe in 6 days, including man, who went about his days naming things. Although omnipotent, he didn't foresee Adam getting lonely and wanting a companion, so when he catches Adam playing with himself he yanks out a rib and makes Eve (which, of course, is why man has one less rib than women-- duh). Then, in another lapse of omnipotence, God is unsettled when he sees that they've managed to clothe themselves so their parts don't slap them in the face as they're playing T-Rexes (which aren't ever mentioned in the bible but we know they were there, wink), and is immediately angered because it must mean they've been eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, even though anybody that's had kids knows that it doesn't take long for kids to try something you go out of your way to tell them not to do, specifically when it comes to food (tell a child not to eat a cookie, when you come back in the room the cookie will be eaten-- and those don't given contain knowledge of Good and Evil), so God kicks them out of Eden, which nobody has ever found, because God put two flaming swords at the entrance-- would you enter a place with flaming swords at the entrance? Then Adam and Eve, the only two people on the entire planet, get to work on having lots and lots of sex and having a Jerry Springer-quality family that kills one another and has incestuous relationships whenever possible, because they had to populate 3 billion people in 6,000 years time, and how else are you supposed to do that when there's only one bloodline besides having sex with your mom and your sisters?

All this is believable but believing we evolved from apes, which seems kind of obvious just by eye balling it, is silly. I wouldn't even bother mentioning it except that it's a growing sentiment in this country that makes no sense whatsoever. Then I read that the teen pop starlets have been home schooled, which brings me to another point I've wanted to make for a while. In public schools when a teacher gives your kid wrong information, it's corrected the next year. For example, when we first learned about atoms, we learned they were so small no one had ever seen them. The next year our teacher told us that was wrong, in fact, back in the 70's IBM spelled out their logo using atoms as a publicity stunt. In the 5th grade we learned about the tongue chart, that certain parts of the tongue tasted certain flavors. Later we learned that all parts of the tongue tasted all flavors, and that had been outdated years ago. My point is that the education system, flawed as it is, has a way of updating and correcting itself as time goes by. If you stop and try to help your teenager with complex math, you'll learn that he probably does it differently than the way you did, because education has learned more efficient and better ways of teaching.

But when you're home schooling your kids, you can make up any cockamamie thing you want, and no one will ever correct them until they're adults, and by then they'll just be regarded as idiots and ignored by everyone except other closed-minded dipshits like them! After all, who is more qualified to fill your kids' heads with misinformation than you?
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on this day last year a sight gag that you should see. i'm really proud of this one because i managed to find the actual font road signs are written in.
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with love from CRS @ 8:43 PM

Thursday, July 20, 2006

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