September 19th, 2008
Why do we believe impossible things?
ABCNews.com: Why do we believe impossible things?
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September 19th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
ok, this f***ing ROCKS! I truly did LOL! thanks!
September 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Thanks for the great article, Bernie! So true.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
A-ha! Short but sweet.
The rock should probably be covered in chlamydia, though.
Just for the sake of realism.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
If only it were that easy :(
September 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I am deluded myself, but at least I admit and realise it; unlike religious types….
September 19th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Is it funny because it’s impossible for the rock to actually stop, or is it funny because he thinks the spam (rock) has stopped (won’t roll on him)?
September 20th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Man those comments on the article are pretty depressing mostly….
September 20th, 2008 at 5:56 am
and thanks for updating alp!!!!!!!!!1111one
September 20th, 2008 at 10:48 am
hahaha!! Very funny. just reporting spam can do such wonders!!! LOL!!
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September 20th, 2008 at 11:23 am
That article isn’t too horribly messed up but it confuses issues constantly.
It talks about how people need to assign meaning to things, but focuses on belief in space aliens rather than religion.
Believing in heaven gives people a sense of order in the universe, but believing that the government has a dead alien in a box is more likely to do the opposite. That theory of “making sense of the world” doesn’t cover most conspiracies–one could argue that living Elvis people are making a just universe because they don’t like a universe where he is dead, but people who imagine aliens are torturing unsuspecting people and swirling messages into our crops aren’t entering themselves into a more comforting or just world.
Also, the article has the fundamental flaw of equating “evolutionarily advantageous” to “superior.” What is superior on the mainland can be inferior on an island and so on. Peacocks have giant tails that aid them in finding a mate but hurt their ability to survive immensely, making them slower and easier prey. Perhaps our ability to create and accept stories and lies is simply how we choose mates and form groups, and not in itself the cause of our apparent widespread success as a species.
September 20th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
are all those titles from spamusement?? because that rocks!
September 30th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
bert don’t sleep yet! the best spamusement piece ever. ‘spect for that shout-out, Bern.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Loved the article- using it in my ministerial class next week!
the comic is hilarious only because of the connection to the article – duh!
August 19th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Funny comic, pretentious article.
A question that I believe sums it up nicely in comment constraints: Pythagoras inferred that the Earth must be round–would you have believed him back in the day, and why or why not?
I have pondered this myself as best I could whilst not being “back in the day”. So, I decided to start by chucking out all the repeated rhetoric and empty words about a round earth, as rhetoric and empty words too led to folks believing in a flat earth. So, toss out stuff like: “The earth is round because I say so”, “the textbook says the earth is round”, “flat earth? Come on, guys.”
I have since come to a reasonably assured, common sense answer to that question. One could argue that “If the earth were flat, we could see unobstructed.” Okay, it makes sense, but it needs to go farther than that. You can go out and take a look, but it still LOOKS flat. So, what you can do is get a large ball, tape something to one side, and slowly roll the ball over and watch the item sink out of your vision. Now, get on a ship and sail away from land, and watch it do the same thing.
That’s enough to convince me, without all the pointless rhetoric. Now, you can also say “Satellites have shown the Earth to be round” but two things: I said “back in the day” and also “implanted images?” are a possibility.
Anyway, the point of all this was that some of those people calling space aliens and stuff impossible right off the bat would probably have called Pythagoras a nut job were they in his time, for the same reasons.