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New Term: media
First Developed: 1841
Potential Uses in a Bible Retranslation: relevant to prohibition against false idols

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"From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another." John 1:16 (NIV)

"grace" has become a female name and a sports term to refer primarily to smoothness in style

Oh no! We cant have a Smoov Lord.

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― waldo geraldo faldo (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:35 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ "grace has become a sports term"

Essay:Greatest Myths of American History

Here is a growing list of the greatest myths or falsehoods taught about American history:
that a "triangular trade" existed in the 17th and 18th centuries with the New World[1]
that the Founding Fathers were deists
that Thomas Jefferson was the originator of the key concepts in the Declaration of Independence
that James Madison was the "father of the Constitution"
that the Constitution established a wall of separation between church and state
that government regulation brought American prosperity
that President FDR brought the United States out of the Great Depression
that President LBJ's Great Society alleviated poverty
that President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy was not key to ending the Cold War.

It takes a certain amount of math knowhow to appreciate the awesome kookiness of this:

http://conservapedia.com/Talk:Elementary_proof

but I promise you guys there is really nothing better on the whole site.

The Schlafly:

"Complex analysis does rely on an assumption that there is a unique, algebraically manipulable square root of negative one. It's a unique pair, obviously, and it's a sign of desperation that some above looked for a way to deny this."

Fundamentalism of any stripe is not a theology so much as a psychology.

eephus are you thinking of quaternions/octonions/etc? or just that he's completely ignoring what others are saying?

I'm baffled that they're discussing elementary proofs, and kinda scared since it's one of the topics that my research focuses on. I'm glad they didn't cite me! Wikipedia has an entry that's not much better; maybe the conservapedia people just pick topics that wikipedia has already? Although in thinking about elementary proofs one does quickly run into the notion of a conservative extension of a theory, so maybe that's the hook.

Ahh, science-related articles on Conservapedia. Last time I saw it - the site seems to be down for me now (maybe it got overloaded with people boggling at their translation project) - they had a page about how relativity was clearly bunk because it sounds a bit like moral relativism and liberals like that kind of thing.

eephus are you thinking of quaternions/octonions/etc? or just that he's completely ignoring what others are saying?

No, it's that AS insists complex analysis requires a unique square root of -1, and someone who knows more math than he does points out that actually there are two such square roots, and Schlafly comes back with "it's a unique pair!"

Admittedly, this is not the very deepest thing of the many things he's confused about on that page but it indicates his peculiar, rigid style -- he has a taste for using mathematical language ("unique," "elementary proof") in ways that are particular to him, then gets very angry when it's pointed out that his usage isn't standard, and typically ends up accusing the mathematical community of liberal bias; in this case, for defining "elementary proof" to mean something other than what, to Schlafly, it CAN ONLY mean.

Euler, I promise you that A-Schlaf does not know what a conservative extension of a theory is. I really hope he doesn't find out there's such a thing.

i and -i

rite?

"Powerful, insightful new conservative terms have grown at a geometric rate, roughly doubling every century. For every insightful new conservative term originating in the 1600s, there are two new terms originating in the 1700s, four new terms in the 1800s, and eight new terms in the 1900s, for a pattern of "1-2-4-8". Implications of a geometric increase for new conservative terms include a more conservative future and a correlation between conservatism and truth"

http://conservapedia.com/Essay:Best_New_Conservative_Words

"why is transistor a conservative word?"

"The transistor played a central role in national defense systems, such as the Strategic Defense Initiative, a program proposed by conservatives and which helped bring the downfall of communism in the USSR. Moreover, the transistor epitomizes Yankee ingenuity, which is a conservative value."

ah yes, ingenuity, that most ~conservative of traits

Yeah, but the transistor also played a central role in introducing me to liberal, hedonistic rock and roll, aka the devil's music.

I'm baffled that they're discussing elementary proofs, and kinda scared since it's one of the topics that my research focuses on. I'm glad they didn't cite me!

― Euler, Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:51 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.conservapedia.com/Euler obv

fuck yeah

The Sex Pistols were one of the founding punk rock bands of the United Kingdom whose lyrics and antics commonly caused controversy in 1970s Britain, and a number of their records were banned from radio airplay.

The group featured vocalist John Lydon (born 1956) billed as Johnny Rotten and bass player Sid Vicious. Lydon subsequently formed the post-punk band Public Image Ltd. (PiL). He has published an autobiography entitled Rotten - No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he has property interests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AfY5HGeVaE

i and -i

rite?

Yeah, surely Conservapedia can't endorse something that's important to those infidels the Rastas.

So how long til Stephen Colbert shows up in there?

http://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Conservative_Bible_Project&diff=707916&oldid=707914

lololol

"Special message to the Colbert show watchers: do yourselves a favor and watch less television. Colbert and his advertisers want to make money off you, but you can accomplish some good instead by unplugging the TV. You could even pick up a Bible. "

the trolling is less funny than the real shit tbh

They're replacing "Holy Spirit" and "Holy Ghost" with "Divine Guide" in their Bible translation - which seems a bit soft from what you'd expect to be a bunch of fire and brimstone Old Testament stans.

Ghosts and spirits = Halloween.

it's not a 'divine guide' the thing nailed mary for chrissake

^^ clever eh

hurrah

When John saw how many Pharisees and Sadducees came to be baptized by him, he said to them, "You jerks! Who has warned you to flee from the divine sentence that's coming to you?

But I tell you that any person who is angry with his brother shall be liable for trial, and anyone who says to his brother, "Airhead!" shall be liable to be brought before the council, but whoever says, "Moron!" shall be liable for the fire of hell.

so that the crowd were bug-eye amazed, when they saw mute people speak, maimed people made whole, lame people walk, and blind people see. And they gave glory to the God of Israel.

They're making a new -- conservative -- version of the Bible.

it's been covered (read thread) - but I just wanted to reprint this marvelous sentence:

You may think Dwyane Wade is the best there is, and I may prefer Kobe Bryant, but if we can't agree they both play a game called basketball, if you say it's basketball but my conservative dictionary tells me it's actually checkers, then we can't even have the debate

This is so great. Emphasis on the part that brought the biggest lols bolded, from the Conservapedia entry on "Dinosaurs."

Dinosaur-like creatures in history and modern sightings

Creationists cite a number of reasons to believe that dinosaurs have existed until relatively recent times, and perhaps still survive.
Charles W. Gilmore, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology with the United States National Museum, examined an ancient pictograph which he claimed portrays dinosaurs and man coexisting

* There have been a number of claimed sightings of dinosaur-like creatures.
o A thousand people reported seeing a dinosaur-like monster in two sightings around Sayram Lake in Xinjiang according to the Chinese publication, China Today.[9]
o Locals in the Congo have reported a creature they name Mokele-mbembe[9][14], and from its description it appears to be a small plant-eating dinosaur. The reports have been taken seriously enough that a biologist from the University of Chicago has made several expeditions to find the creature. Another biologist has reported seeing the creature.[9]
o Dinosaur-like creatures have been seen by several people in two different parts of Papua New Guinea since 1990.[15]
* There are drawings of creatures resembling dinosaurs.

I have a devout Mormon friend, and one time we were talking about dinosaurs and I asked how it worked into her view of history...she proposed that maybe dinosaur fossils were actually taken from other planets that had alien dinosaur creatures...like, God made this planet out of those dinosaur planets.

lotta creationist types think dinosaurs are a form of temptation, god put all these wicked awesome skeletons in the ground to dare people to question him. kind of a dick move if it turns out to be true.

my aunt believed they were too big to fit on the Ark.

Creationists cite a number of reasons to believe that dinosaurs have existed until relatively recent times, and perhaps still survive.

the construction of this sentence is amazing

gods pull dick moves all the time if holy books are to be believed -- "why are you hitting yourself? why are you hitting yourself?" --"that dude over there said your mom's a hooker" -- "does this halo make my ass look fat? ... HOW DARE YOU SAY I'M FAT, I WILL SMITE THEE WITH GREAT ANGER" etc.

gods pull dick moves all the time if holy books are to be believed -

LOL Exodus 4:24-26

More of a proverbs 1:26 gal myself.

on principle, would fully hit on somebody who said that to me at a bar

conservapedia should really put dinosaurs in the conservative bible to clear up any ambiguities.

And how blessed are the dinosaurs, for they shall be called some cool-ass names like "T Rex"

Egypt getting a plague of oviraptors would be pretty fucking bitchin'.

http://thedinosaurpark.com/images/S970505.jpg

I mean how awesome would Heston v these guys be?