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Ummmmm.try to be open-minded a little people-
“Electricity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.”
This is true! We sense it and observe it indirectly.
“Some scientists think that the sun may be the source of most electricity.” Well, yeah, coal, oil, photosyhthesis, steam turbines, et al.
“All anyone knows is that electricity is everywhere and that there are many ways to bring it forth”.
Sure- the grid, static electricity from movement across a carpet, natural discharge through lightning.
I think you guys are being pwned by whoever wrote this; he counted on your knee-jerk rejection of religion.
#10 KiltedTim: not only do they breed, they breed more than normal people, because their god wants it and will make it all OK (they say). Look up the “Quiverfull” movement, and examples such as the Duggars. Idiocracy In Action.
Who ever wrote, “Electricity is a mystery. No one has ever observed it or heard it or felt it.” has never put their fingers in a light socket.
Yikes!
Can anyone suggest a good electricity primer to be like “On Origin of Electrons” offering?
#20 qb “Have you ever flown from LA or Chicago to Salt Lake? You get off the plane and go “Wow, are there a lot of very white people here!”.”
LOL, I see what you are saying and it must be a shock. Did you ever think about someone going the other way?
#24 Mextli Oh yeah. I’m a white guy from Calgary. The first time I was on the south side of Chicago I knew I was way out of my element.
Verne Biddle teaches “Natural Sciences” at BJU. The whole campus is full of people like that.
What these people need is a textbook of unquestionably divine origin to tell them what to believe about electricity, something they would recognize as the only authoritative source for this information.
That’s the sort of thing they prefer.
#9–Jason==you crack me up. Feel superior because you have one foot/one toe out of the supersititious/ignorant camp? Well, thats actually true. Why not take another step though? Do you have no glimmer of the notion that to reject electricity is as well founded as rejecting evolution? No? Really?
Yep, same thing. The is ying and yang. Dark and light. Encouraged Ignorance and Learning. Religion and Science. Choose your camp.
I’ve called white people “albinos” to good effect. Being of the class that never gets insulted, most take it with a quizzical look.
Still fighting against what we were told as kiddies. Silly Hoomans.
#27–myself==”Still fighting against what we were told as kiddies.” /// Thats if your lucky. This thread however is about: “Still fighting FOR what we were told as kiddies.” Its not just a perspective thing. Can you ever actually grow up without fighting against what we were taught as kiddies? God, Country, Politics, Food Habits, bathing all the rest? Or as the top thread asks: Patriotism?
Its amusing that somewhere along the line of becoming human we don’t recognize the great gifts/tragedies/responsibilities of the young maleable mind. St Augustine recognized it: Give me a child for the first four years and he is mine forever. (sic-close enough).
So, in the same way you can discover electricity==take two groups of kiddies, all born the same. Raise one group in Oklahoma, the other on a pig farm === oops, that won’t work, same thing. Ok–raise the other group in a commune north of San Fran. Oops, again same thing. OK_OK=== raise the other batch of kiddies somewhere that isn’t a pig farm. Note how the two groups remain the same (eg, 7% grow up gay, 90% grow up with some religion or another, 5% learn to think for themselves, 85% have kiddies and so forth). Then look at the differences: different religion, different patriotism, love of different sports.
Some things arise out of the condition of being human, others arise out of culture.
I mean, really, each of you should be able to look within yourself and see where your values really come from.
No?
Hey some states may still have equipment to make
em feel it. Strap em in.
Ignorance will warp more minds than anything else.
TAX ALL RELIGION – TODAY- NOW -FOREVER.
Banish all free thinkers for they DO understand letrisitee!
“We know it makes … telephones ring…”
Now I’m confused. I thought someone calling me made the phone ring!
To paraphrase Arthur Clarke: Even basic technology will appear like magic to a cretin.
Can probably substitute God for electricity and it would read perfectly well.
Sigh. “We” know how to manipulate electricity and have the electron theory and hole theory (holes flow on way and the electrons the other way). But they are theory. When you use an electron microscope and zoom in in the atom the closer you get the fuzzier the picture. At an atomic level we don’t really understand it fully. Science is still a work in progress and we are still learning. Unless you know it all. Sigh.
Lets see..
I have to ask a question here…
HAS ANY STATE ignitated a INTELLIGENCE TEST of public employees, BASED on living experience and GENERAL intelligence?
ALSO KNOWN AS…
Can they program the VCR/DVR and know the price of MILK??
Yes you can feel electricity. A few years ago I was unplugging a night-light and my fingers slipped down on the metal contacts. OUCH!
I’m old enough to remember a religous pamphlet back in the early 70′s that was almost word for word identical to this textbook extract. It had lots of cartoony psychadelic images that was typical of the hippy Jesus trend of the time. This sort of rubbish just keeps bouncing around.
I call BS on this story. I went to a private school that used some Bob Jones textbooks and they weren’t crazy like this example. I first saw a Hertz-Russell diagram in a Christian school science textbook.
I would like to see the rest of the chapter in this book. Where are the schematics of simple circuits or the discussion of how batteries and generators work? I think we need a paragraph saying the difference between potential energy and kinetic energy and such things.
Is anybody else thinking “hoax”? OK, we look at their social conscience and think “oh, that is just SO 14th century”, but this doesn’t even _look_ like a textbook. Besides the existence of electricity isn’t a threat to evangelical dogma, so there’s no reason for them to censor the science of it. This is a bit of subtle satire by prankster or prankst0x0rz unknown.