Hmmm... "silent sound spread spectrum (ssss)" And what creature do we know who says, "ssss"? And yes, it does sound tin hatty... but I believe with all my heart that this is cause for alarm! And I mean ALARM! If this is an innocent conversion for an update on our televisions, why is the government pushing this so hard? The article about encouraging the ministers to pass this info on is the scariest part of all! The Lord says that nobody can take us out of His hand, so if this is something that is a mind-control issue I don't see how it can affect Christians. However, I am seriously considering doing away with my tv! I do not want to be deceived, ya know? Something is up big time with this thing! (am I making any sense at all?)
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Getting a converter box is getting the mark of the beast?
You fundies are silly.
Fine, watch snow on your TV's; see if I care.
I agree, it probably won't affect Christians at all. You see, for any form of mind control to be effective, the subject must possess a mind in the first place.
No, you aren't making any sense and are sounding very paranoid.
Okay, I'll bite: "ssss" snake from Garden of Eden?
Being of the batshit RR crowd your Ministers wouldn't want you to miss the TV Rapturites.
"mind-control issue I don't see how it can affect Christians" easy, you'll believe anything if it comes from your crowd
No, you're not making sense at all. Your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
The reason HDTV is being pushed so hard is because the entertainment industry has paid out big bucks to render useless the last of the VCR's. (which has had them in a froth ever since the things were introduced to the consumer market)
[...silent sound spread spectrum (ssss)" And what creature do we know who says, "ssss"?...I believe with all my heart that this is cause for alarm! And I mean ALARM!]
Yet presumably you don't panic when you hear static on the radio. Why is that, twisty?
[...am I making any sense at all?]
Just enough to get yourself committed to a mental health facility.
My friend's pet garden snake Mr. Cuddles says "ssss!" Oh, and my television says "ssss" when I turn it on.
Cute little garden snakes and televisions are evil now?
Again with the fucking televisions!!! When football season is over, I watch less than 1 hour of television per week. What is wrong with these people???
Read a book! (Besides the friggin Bible!)
Spend time with your family and friends (outside of church and Jebus warship!)
There is a ton of life you people are missing out on being glued to the Bible and the television. TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
"And what creature do we know who says, "ssss"? "
Not a single one bub.
"I do not want to be deceived, ya know?"
Bit late for that bub.
@Vampirehummingbird
True story, my mother has a small bookshelf that is about 3 deep and chock full of books (not gigantic, but close to 200 books). She has literally had visitors from every walk of life give her the same set of questions:
"Wow, are those all of your books?...Oh...have you read them all?...REALLY?!?!?!?!?! ZOMG!"
I don't even know what I would do if I could convince a fundie to read Animal Farm.
You don't want to be deceived, you say. Too late, I say. You're like a baby, but i know you're older, so you must be a simpleton.
@OMGWTFBBQ:
Sibilance, actually.
I never thought my amateur radio license would come in handy here. Spread spectrum is a mode of radio transmission. It's a way of modulating the signal so it transmits useful information. What makes it unusual is that it involves frequency-hopping. The reciever must have the same algorhythm, or the signal will be meaningless. An interesting sidenote: it was invented by actress Hedy Lamarr.
That's Hedley!! (Sorry.)
Listen to you talking about mind control when you're trying to control the minds of your children (let's assume you have kids for simplicity's sake).
Mind control's only bad when it goes against you, doesn't it?
Don't the fundies remember that it was the FCC under their Saint Geo W Bush that started the switch to digital.
Also the absolute level of ignorance of these people is amazing. Just when I thought they could be more stupid, they and and do!
They're pushing it as hard as they are to avert as much of the bitching that the unprepared will be doing once the switch happens.
And yet this moron has to turn it into a sign of the endtimes.
And no, you're making no sense. I hope the other nutcases on RR are saying as much.
My poor irony meter was working fine until I read this.
However, I am seriously considering doing away with my tv! I do not want to be deceived, ya know?
If this is an innocent conversion for an update on our televisions, why is the government pushing this so hard?
Because it uses less bandwidth. With our portable phones, keyless remotes, WiFi connections, cell phones with video and music downloads, GPS, garage door openers, satellite TV and radio controlled toys, and stuff like HDTV, 500 channels, alternate language sound tracks, closed captioning, video on demand and other special features, we're starting to run out.
Just don't google "silent sound spread spectrum" - it's a CTSTDT field day.
In fact, I'm going to walk away from my computer a bit before I start believing too much of what I just read...
"And what creature do we know who says, "ssss"?"
That black swan in the park who hisses at me every now and then?
Maybe we should perpetuate these rumors, get all of these guys to throw away their TVs. Just think, without the majority of fundies what will happen to TBN and the like?
All we need to do then is make them throw away their computers, then we won't have to deal with them at all.
"And yes, it does sound tin hatty..."
Well, at least they're beginning to recognize their own stupidity. The next step is to begin in the stopping of said stupidity.
Ahh, ignorant yokels bewildered and frightened by simple technology. Hilarious viewing.
I'm always bitterly amused by how people can consider themselves members of modern technological civilisation, qualified to have a say on how it should best be run, without even the faintest grasp of the most basic principles of science or engineering upon which pretty much the whole thing is built; indeed, apparently without even feeling a trace of shame or inadequacy for lacking such knowledge.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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