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| Would you teach your children the Earth is flat? |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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 Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: Flat Earth |
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| Would anyone here actually teach their children the Earth is flat? |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| If you are wondering where this came from, check out any news feed on "The View" with Barbara Walters and the gang with the key words "flat" and "Earth". I don't care what your religious beliefs are, the mere fact that there is even one person (even just one) that has to think about the question scares me a lot. |
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atomic42
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Location: Gimhae
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| You're referring to a ghetto tool with a sixth grade education. And the world wonders why Americans are stupid? Dumb down much?! |
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Cliffhanger
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yea, I saw that episode of the View. At first I thought she was joking trying to be funny, but then I saw she was serious and was like wtf?!? I just thought what one of the other women said when she said something like-Hasn't this already been proven as fact??? Then I started to doubt myself and started thinking -Maybe the earth isn't round? Have I been lied to all these years?
I got confused, so thats why I chose "I'd have to go look it up first." |
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Hopelessly Human
Joined: 03 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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Here's the conversation:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LNC117UYsHs
I don't know how long it will stay on there though, because a couple of them have been pulled already. |
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Cliffhanger
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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To be fair, she did explain the next day that she was flustered at having to defend her religion for the first time on television.
Probably just an excuse, but I find it really hard to believe that someone actually has to think about that for more than a second. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat
"the world is "flat" in the sense that the competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging market countries have been leveled."
So, yes, I would teach my students the world is flat. However, I'm teaching my students English. Not macroeconomics. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: |
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Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_is_Flat
"the world is "flat" in the sense that the competitive playing fields between industrial and emerging market countries have been leveled."
So, yes, I would teach my students the world is flat. However, I'm teaching my students English. Not macroeconomics. |
That's good for you pkang0202, though I was talking about your children (offspring), not students (unless of course you have been a really busy bee...)
Just in case of confusion, I am asking if you think the geometric shape of the planet we live on (Earth) is more round than flat or the opposite... |
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pharflung
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:09 am Post subject: |
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Cliffhanger:
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To be fair, she did explain the next day that she was flustered at having to defend her religion for the first time on television.
Probably just an excuse, but I find it really hard to believe that someone actually has to think about that for more than a second. |
I'm all for being fair. But this was not some person on the street with a reporter suddenly thrusting a camera in her face. She took a job on a television show to talk about these sorts of things. And she didn't look flustered, not like the Miss America contestant from SC.
No, this is a not uncommon result of the American educational system. It makes me embarrassed to be an American.
I met a man, a big, burly fellow with a beard, who believed the earth is flat. The way he saw it, he was the genius, and everyone else in the world was an idiot for believing the world was round, and that included me. It was all a big fraud. You don't argue with a person like that. A good thing to remember on Dave's, too. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:30 am Post subject: |
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I think she was being obtuse in order to avoid the trap Whoopi was trying to set up.
Another funny thing from the conversation is Whoopi saying that evolution happened. And the way she prefaced her explanation of creation by saying, "I'm gonna make it in the way that I speak so that it's fun." God sneezed and had an idea. Real fun, Whoopi! No wonder she's had such a lackluster career. What a bore.
Most terrifying comment: "Four members of the Republican party running for president do not believe in evolution." Godamn. What is it with these cornbread idiot Americans proudly refusing to acknowledge science?? |
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dutchy pink
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: |
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| Which 4? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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What's wrong with cornbread? Nothing goes better with a bowl of hot chili than a hunk of hot cornbread, made with coarse-ground corn, dripping with sweet butter.
Could you have meant corn-pone, another fish entirely? Well, 'fish' in the expression department anyway. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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I wouldn't say round or spherical. I'd say it's a ball that's flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator.
The earth has a little bit of a dong-pae. |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| I saw the clip first on Alternet and I was shocked (well..not really) to see this. I just don't know why religion had to be brought into the equation. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Zutronius wrote: |
| I saw the clip first on Alternet and I was shocked (well..not really) to see this. I just don't know why religion had to be brought into the equation. |
religion was already there before anyone knew any better. things such as a round earth, which revolves around a sun (which isn't, in fact, a guy riding a flying fiery chariot), and is not (cosmically speaking) the center of anything, flies in the face of what some people made up way back when and called the word of god(s). for people faced with the choice between 'the world is round and really really old', 'dinosaurs predated man by tens of millions of years', and 'there is no santa claus' vs. 'some of the things my parents told me aren't true', it can be a tough decision to make. |
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