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#1128255
Wayte
......SERIOUSLY!?
3/3/2010 3:58:01 PM
#1128343
Iczer-04
Ugghhh... Go back to school and Learn some Science! Fucking idiot..
3/3/2010 8:21:42 PM
#1128358
Antichrist
I've actually heard this from an adult (60+) fundie. When I tried to correct him he accused me of calling him stupid and wouldn't listen to what I had to say.
3/3/2010 9:53:53 PM
#1128441
David B.
What I find astounding is that the proper explanation for rainbows has been around since at least the early 14th century.
To be out of date even by medieval standards takes a special kind of dumb.
3/4/2010 3:11:01 AM
#1128472
poe
Obvious poe is obvious.
3/4/2010 4:58:28 AM
#1128485
David B.
Poe's law, that "without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing", only holds because however extreme a parody of fundamentalism is, at least as extreme views have been proposed in all seriousness by genuine fundamentalists.
If I posted a comment that I'd just bought a new atlas and the 'scientific' map of the world in it still has four corners, just as the bible describes, I'd have to be either joking, mad or really really dumb. But as this site shows, there are people that mad or that dumb alongside whom my comment would not look out of place.
Originally Poe's law was about people missing the joke, i.e. there's always someone who won't realise that the guy calling for maths classes to stop using the "unholy" value of pi = 3.1415... is joking. But now it has become as much a byword for the inability to tell if that poster was joking when others are simultaneously, and seriously, calling for the destruction of all those "evil" fossils that deny God's word. Perhaps the worst thing about Poe's law is that on some fundy sites it is actually hard to come up with a parody so extreme that there is no-one who will not only take it seriously but agree with it!
A "poe" should be a joke or parody statement of fundamentalism or by a fundamentalist that has been mistaken for a sincere statement. That the statement is not sincere requires more than a bald assertion that it's an "obvious poe", because frankly it's got impossible to tell.
3/4/2010 5:30:14 AM
#1128649
ND
Fundyism taken to a whole new low right there.
3/4/2010 1:34:12 PM
#1128653
Caretaker
@ David B.
Thank you. Deciding a very silly quote is therefore obviously a Poe bothers me as much as the "not religious therefore not fundie" concept does.
As for the quote, it's... I... the... *speechless*
3/4/2010 2:01:44 PM
#1128810
His Dudeness
If I too can make rainbows, then am I a God? What if I told you I could create rain and fog in a jar? Maybe they should start a church after me.
3/4/2010 7:39:16 PM
#1128811
His Dudeness
If I too can make rainbows, then am I a God? What if I told you I could create rain and fog in a jar? Maybe they should start a church after me.
3/4/2010 7:39:29 PM
#1128865
Doug
Isaac Newton - look him up. As religious as you are but not as stupid. He figured out rainbows.
3/5/2010 12:18:31 AM
#1128935
TeH L0lZ
sadly, I even know which movie he quoted this from -___-'
3/5/2010 7:59:54 AM
#1129054
Troll alert
IT's Y!A if you've never been it's troll haven
3/5/2010 2:43:33 PM
#1129072
Zodiac
Your analogy fails harder than you do. (And registers 4.79 on my irony meter. Just saying.)
3/5/2010 3:27:51 PM
#1129639
moose
Oh hell, both you religionist and atheist are both wrong. Dont yall know that rainbows are caused by pots of gold? Just follow a rainbow to the end and you will find a pot of gold. Any leprechaun can tell you that.
3/6/2010 9:26:29 PM
#1130310
Reika
Rainbows are explained by science. You friggen idiot. -.-
3/9/2010 4:20:26 AM
#1130311
Reika
Rainbows are explained by science. You friggen idiot. -.-
3/9/2010 4:20:35 AM
#1130454
andrew fink
rainbows are sunlight diffracted by water droplets and god is bullshit diffracted through retards
3/9/2010 2:07:39 PM
#1130763
Gah
I swear, Yahoo Answers has become the Internet's dumping ground for complete blithering idiots. Why does it still exist?! Surely no one is getting anything remotely resembling actual answers from there. It's amazing that the people who post can even work out how to use a keyboard...
3/10/2010 9:24:35 AM
#1130917
P
Actually, everyone knows that when you see a rainbow God is having gay sex!
3/10/2010 1:58:59 PM
#1131063
Anemone
Rainbows are result of light reflecting through water droplets in the air.
3/11/2010 5:53:15 AM
#1131114
Anon-e-moose
@His Dudeness
"If I too can make rainbows, then am I a God?"
Last summer, I was using a bottle with a squirt trigger to water the flowers in my mother's garden. The mist it emitted created a rainbow.
Ergo, I'm God too. QED. As is everyone who does the same. As is every child who performs the simple experiment with a lightbox, a piece of card with a slit, and a prism.
There's a helluva lot of deities on Earth then, Dro! And speaking of Rainbow...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toikYmPAfYI
Watch this whilst playing with your twangers!
X3
3/11/2010 9:15:36 AM
#1131500
NoriMori
OMG... What century are you living in?? We DO know the cause of rainbows!!! They are caused by the prismatic refraction of light!! And the reason you can't touch them is because they are nothing more than light! It doesn't have a true position in the air — its position changes depending on the position of the viewer.
And we know air is there because we BREATHE it. And because technology allows us to detect the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, etc. that it's made up of. DUH.
And in any case, your whole argument is a fallacy, commonly known as the "God of the Gaps" fallacy. This is where one assumes that because there is no scientific explanation for something, it means that "Godidit". It doesn't. It just means we don't have answers yet. We used to not know what eclipses were, and attributed them to the wrath of the gods. When now know what causes eclipses. Does that mean that BEFORE we found out, all eclipses were caused by gods? Of course not! We were just ignorant. And thinking that one's own ignorance is proof of a higher power is, quite frankly, extremely self-centred and egotistical.
3/12/2010 1:23:01 PM
#1131694
Abdul Alhazred
I know that this can be a difficult concept for some of you to grasp.
Difficult by your standards, I assume?
3/12/2010 8:34:27 PM
#1133195
Meh
Funny...not only is a rainbow have a scientific explanation. That metaphor is also for that of hinduism (except its with salt water). This person is a closet pagan who knew
3/16/2010 1:40:53 AM
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