[ In the HBO documentary Questioning Darwin]
If somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2 + 2 = 5, I wouldn't question what I'm reading in the Bible. I would believe it, accept it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand it.
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Minitrue and BB want to congratulate Peter LaRuffa, Prolefeed maker, for his doubleplusgood abilities in blackwhite without needing a stay in the Minilov or a Joycamp nor being entraved by Oldthink.
Winston Smith had to be tortured to even merely envision to accept as true "2+2=5" if Big Brother said so.
What about the "Blackwhite for Jesus Award"?
EDIT:if Big Brother said so." and "employed in Prolefeed" by "Prolefeed maker"
It would be very easy to prove that 2+2=5. Take two objects, then another two objects, put them in front of you and count the total number of objects. If you don't end up with 5 as your answer, keep doing it, because you obviously lack faith.
Almost makes me wish the Bible did state that 2+2=5 so we could see this happen.
@markb
Almost makes me wish the Bible did state that 2+2=5 so we could see this happen.
The Bible already says Pi is equal to 3 (see 1 Kings 7:23 ).
EDIT:
This is the true state of being a fundie: a cabbage for Jesus. Even so, Christians still manage to get out of the Bible that 3=1.
@ aebars
take the url of the image and put [/img] at the back and [img] at the front. (For obvious reasons, I can't do it the other way about).
Here, aebars, use the IMG tag: image
The documentary doesn't actually question the theory of evolution, but rather showcases people who do. So of course fundamentalists would be unhappy about their ignorance being revealed as they babble nonsense about how Darwinism shoves people away from their god. Keep 'em ignorant because knowledge is anti-god!
You, sir, are a very, very dangerous person. People like you are what kept the Holocaust going. And yes, I know it's a Godwin, but that is what unquestioning obedience can lead to.
@ aebars
Fans of Orwell's "1984" will remember "Duckspeak" a Newspeak term meaning literally to quack like a duck or to speak without thinking. We might even change this a wee bit to Duck Dynesty Speak.
But whichever, the Rev is indulging in Duckspeak by saying something stupid and logic-free and acting like it is somehow makes him look good.
"If somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2 + 2 = 5, I wouldn't question what I'm reading in the Bible. I would believe it, accept it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand it."
Your 'inerrant' Bible states that Pi = exactly 3...:
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...when the ancient - as in pre -Christian - Greeks had determined that Pi is slightly more than what your 'God' says. They even proved that the world was spherical before your 'God' stated in his 'True' Bible that the world was flat, with corners, on 'pillars', with a solid 'Dome' with lights in it over such; only proven wrong in 1957, when the USSR sent up Sputnik-1; Yuri Gagarin himself confirming that those ancient Greeks were right all along.
...now, you run along and get your 'Omnipotent ' God to build for us a wheel using his own mathematical model as the basis of such, because trust me, it's impossible for a mere mortal such as you to do so, and I've built bicycle wheels in my time; the rims for such require what the Greeks discovered.
Oh, and speaking of Greeks, 'If. ' [/Spartan Laconic Wit]
I can't imagine any system that would allow for 2+2 to equal 5.
I can imagine 2+2 = 10 if you use base 4, or 2+2 = 11 if you use base 3, but 5 isn't going to work in any system,
Therefore, you are a moron.
Yup, I remember that as well. I was sitting in a hotel room in Key Largo when I watched "Questioning Darwin" and I almost gave my dinner back on that one.
I absolutely couldn't believe I had heard right and had to rewind and listen to it again.
If somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2 + 2 = 5, I wouldn't question what I'm reading in the Bible.
Yet Picard only saw 4 lights...
I would believe it, accept it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand it invent a bizarre excuse for it out of thin air.
I'll offer a few for free: in ancient Hebrew, "five" really means "four"; God added an extra one as a miracle, like the loaves and fishes; 2 quarts + 2 quarts = 5 fifths of liquor.
Two plus two equals five because you have to include the elevator boy. /Firesign Theater
See? That was easy.
(walks away singing: "Oh, how can you be in two places at once, when you're not anywhere at all?")
do my best to work it out and understand it.
"And when that didn't work, I'd hit myself in the head with a hammer till it did."
If somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2 + 2 = 5, I wouldn't question what I'm reading in the Bible. I would believe it, accept it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand it.
And that is why you fail.
And if somewhere in the bible it says you should be put to death if you've ever worked on Sunday, would you question it?
Well, have you ever worked on Sunday?
Your acceptance of the possibility that 2+2=5 demonstrates that you shouldn't work for the Federal Reserve, or any banking institution, or any school, or shop. In fact, I would say that you shouldn't be allowed out in public without supervision.
@#1641567:
And if somewhere in the bible it says you should be put to death if you've ever worked on Sunday, would you question it?
Well, have you ever worked on Sunday?
Don't be ridiculous, this is a fundie "reverend", the odds of him ever working (on any day of the week) are infitesimal... Well, at least if you only count honest work.
Meh. I’ve seen the math trick where you can prove that 1=0.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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