I get this new phone and it has GPS on it. I go..hmmm thats interesting. Well I am going to see my girlfriend in Oregon next month so I decided to put her address in there...I was expecting to have to put my in there as well. But after I put her address in there...the exact location where I was standing popped up.... I was like...oh my goodness. It knows exactly where I am, without me even telling it where I was. Whew, another sign of the times!
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Another sign of the times, or ungodly science?! Best be safe, throw it in a fire and take a horse to Oregon. Or even better, dump your girlfriend, and have your parents arrange your marriage for you.
"It knows exactly where I am, without me even telling it where I was."
It's a GPS, fuckwit. That's what they do.
Not fundie, but very ignorant of how a GPS device operates and why it's used. At first I thought this was going to be one of those highly entertaining "the government's following me through my cellphone" paranoid rants, but it just fizzled out. Boring.
Hence ...
Aw, it's not worth it.
Yes, and whether you like it or not, you agreed to being tracked by GPS for emergency purposes when you signed the binding legal contract with your provider. What else would you expect from an advanced, handheld telecommunications device?! Quit being so paranoid.
Tom S. Fox: This isn't actually a fundie comment. It doesn't once mention beliefs, morals, values, etc. If it wasn't from Rapture Ready, it wouldn't even be on here. It's just a comment from someone who has no idea how GPS works.
"the exact location where I was standing popped up.... I was like...oh my goodness. It knows exactly where I am, without me even telling it where I was."
That's what GPS does you fucking imbecile.
Holy Christ you guys get more and more stupid every day.
Er... how is this fundie again? "Sign of the times" can also mean "hey, modern technology sure is neato."
Just because it comes from Rapture Ready doesn't automatically qualify it, guys. :P
It knows exactly where I am, without me even telling it where I was. Whew, another sign of the times!
That's 'cause GPS is the anti-Christ!
Quick! Throw your phone away before you get anti-rapturitis!
My god, when I pressed this button marked "a", an a appears on this screen! A sign of the times! ...and s, and h, and t... a-s-s-h-a-t...
That was the first comment by a fundie that almost made me pass out from the stupidity overloading my senses.
I have a question for them.
HOW EARTH SHATTERINGLY STUPID CAN YOU PEOPLE BE!?!?!
GPS is a sign of the times?
Maybe it is one of the seven heads of THE BEAST, also known as DAVID SCHWIMMER!?
Wow, that is one special phone.
It's almost like it's using some kind of System that can tell your Position, wherever you are on the Globe.
Some form of Global Positioning System, if you will
So, I get this new book, and I think, hm, that's nice. So I just sit it on my coffee table. Well, later that month, I decide I need to write some things down, so I go to grab my book, and when I open it up, holy shit, it's alreay got words in it! And I never even wrote anything in there. Must be another sign of the times.
To a lot of people nowadays, this thing called "a GPS" is a device to display a map. They simply don't know that the Global Positioning System is a constellation of satellites allowing a portable device to determine its own location. Or that the map display and route finding features are functions of the device, not GPS.
The only amusing thing about this quote is the idea of how appallingly awkward this person's relationship with his girlfriend must be. Of course, that's pretty goddamn amusing, so I'm not complaining.
It's called SCIENCE. The GPS is the way that SATAN knows exactly where you are at all times.
THERE IS NO ESCAPE - YOU ARE DESTINED FOR THE LAKE OF FIRE!!
What other items has Lord Satan imposed upon us?
Is there no end to his temptations!
GPS stands for Global Positional System and your mobile is tracked by 4 satellites to establish its position.
Another piece of evil science!
Question is, do I give a 5 for stupidity? - it's not so fundie.
@Jack Bauer #788383 2008-Oct-30 09:47 AM
@Norm (fromdownunder)
Now - why would a church need lightning protection?
Shows a total lack of confidence, if you ask me. :-)
"It gets it from its links to satellites that zero in on where the phone is"
More like it knows where the (positioning) satellites are. ;) Cell phones link to towers, not directly to (comm) satellites.
Well, it's a whole lot better than a GPS that DOESN'T know where you are.
Really, though, I think this guy thinks that a GPS is just a gadget that gives you directions, reading from an electronic map. He basically just missed the point that the GPS can pinpoint your location, too.
It's there to enable some functions and help with emergency calls, but if you're truly paranoid about someone "tracking" you, you can shut it off in many models. On my phone, go to Settings...Network...Location, and select "911 Only." The other is "Location on" and allows for those functions, whatever they are. It still has GPS, but only when you dial 911, that way the call is sent to the right place. The tin foil hat crowd still talks about puttimg their phones in tin foil pockets (I'm not making this up) to stop tracking. This, of course, will also block the signal of any incoming call. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Princess Rot wrote:
"Um, yeah. That's called satellite communication. How do you think you get Sky? How do you think Google Earth gets those pictures?"
The high-resolution images on Google Earth are from pictures taken by aircraft.
It's only for those areas of the globe that haven't been photographed from the air that Google Earth has to resort to satellite photos. And those are noticeably lower in quality.
I don't really see how this is particularly "Fundie."
The person is OBVIOUSLY a complete and utter moron, but it's just as likely that this person has never given any thought to their beliefs (acknowledgment of what they believe, not logical assessment) than that they are a radical Fundie
EDIT: I just looked. The quote is from Rapture Ready. My bad
Heh. My partner designs GPS systems for a living, and he says that one of the biggest challenges is making them simple enough for even the least technically-able user to operate.
Now I understand what he's up against!
Hi Kvat3r, just wondering. It's been several days now since number 44 was elected, any signs of government interference with the Rapture Ready site yet? I know you were all expecting it.
Also, can you give us an update on the forthcoming rapture? What signs have you seen?
Thanks, Pule.
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...god fucking damnit.
Fuck it, honestly, I really dont normally get angry just because people are stupid or ignorant, but this just makes me do a /facepalm.
Because GPS wouldn't be a hell lot of use if it told you you are in Moscow when you are in fact in San Francisco. Of course it knows where you are, idiot. There's no magic involved, and all it's a sign of is scientific progress - the sort of thing fundies like to pretend they detest.
A GPS device that knows where it is is not much different from a toaster that makes toast. It's made that way, dummy.
This fundie statement really has Bill O'Reillyesque qualities:
"I get this new phone, and it has GPS on it. ... oh my goodness. It knows exactly where I am! You can't explain that! "
"I was like...oh my goodness. It knows exactly where I am, without me even telling it where I was. Whew, another sign of the times!"
Yes indeed, though perhaps not in the way you meant. GPS is rather cool actually.
I put a CD in the CD player this morning and...oh my goodness...music started to play. It's a sign, I tell you, it's a sign.
(A sign that my CD player works, that is).
And now you know why the US Department of Defence spent untold billions - via NASA - sending all those extremely accurate clocks up in space: commonly known as the Global Positioning System. It's what your armed forces rely on.
@Thal
"what does sign of the times mean ?"
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sign+of+the+times
But as far as those on Ruptured Retards are concerned, it means The Jehovah's Witless Formerly Known as Prince X3
Confused?
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