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on the one hand, yeah, sure, if you say so, on the other hand, this is just some person asking for money over the phone, like what exactly did you expect? Sure, give us your bank details? Obviously, they asked if the person she is asking money for (which is also weird) is a member of their congregation. You can imagine them just looking for ways to get out of paying (which they are not obliged to in the first place) or you can think they wanted to know what is actually up.
loving the tag of "christianity" btw, I am sure the local muslim or hindu community went out of their way to help the outgroups, right?
Says something that it never even occurs to them to seek help from those groups because unlike with their little "Gotcha" game they already know what the answer will be without asking.
This post has everything
>#ThatHappened
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>hot topic slogans
Truly the post of all time
Sheer projection, really. Because anyone who says "I believe the government should tax rich people more and help those less fortunate" is someone who wants the veneer of morality while having the goal of doing absolutely nothing to help.
Calling random churches to ask for money and then shaming them for not just giving you money to allegedly help someone you won’t help yourself is how you pretend you have the moral high ground.
Also note how, if this actually happened, the bill wasn't paid for by the government either. It was done by...survey says...individual charity! Which is the exact opposite of a dunk against charity.
Most common life mistakes:
- hurtling with reckless abandon
- Levitation without a permit
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- Being sucked into an unseen vortex in the sky
• trying to hold a beach party inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone
The Earth is lumpy.
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I was not aware of this. thank you
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this makes so much sense but it makes me so uncomfortable
i wish i hadn’t seen this
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One time my bf was telling me about people who argue about intelligent creation by saying “the earth is perfectly round!” And I said “but it isn’t!” And he was so proud of me
okay so im just learning this
I’m not happy about this
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What a stupid rock we live on
We don’t live on a rock. We live on a Potato.
Sorry, peeps, but this is mislabeled. As should honestly be pretty obvious when you compare it to a picture of Earth from space:
However, I can’t entirely blame people for being fooled; reverse-google-imaging it will give you hundreds of shady gif-collecting sites labeling it “earth without water.” But this is also not true.
This is where it originally comes from (hooray for Tineye). If you don’t want to bother to check the link, it’s the page for a Matlab program designed to image geoscience data. That gif is a map of gravitational field strength across the earth… exaggerated by a thousand. Here’s what it looks like not exaggerated:
As you can see, significantly less potato-y. But still lumpy, because that’s the whole point of the program: to show areas where the numbers are higher as higher and areas where the numbers are lower as lower.
As the page itself points out, in real life, the Earth is very close to a sphere. However, there’s a pretty simply and logical reason for this: gravity. Things that are in higher areas relative to the center of the planet will tend to move downhill, resulting in the lower parts being filled and the higher parts getting shorter.
So, you know, if you ever run into any of those loony intelligent-designers an earlier commenter mentioned, now you know the REAL reason they’re wrong.
As an intelligent-design believer for all thirty-odd years of my life, I have literally never encountered anyone arguing that one sign of intelligent design is the earth being round? Like I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but this feels along the same lines as my geology professor who sarcastically claimed IN CLASS that “Theology majors” can’t comprehend the whole universe fitting into a tiny ball before the Big Bang. And I had to be like “I’m not a theology major but that’s not what we question, we more want to know ‘But where did the matter COME FROM before that point?’
I’m never sure if these assumptions about us are based on misunderstandings or if these guys just happened to encounter some fringe argument that most of us Creationists have never thought was relevant to the discussion.
I’m a Christian and a patriot and as these things I quite disagree. As an American patriot I think it’s against the principles of liberty to compel children to take loyalty oaths, and as a Christian I believe prayer should be a sincere expression of the soul instead of, once again, an act compelled by authority figures.
Children should certainly be taught the Pledge and what it means so that they can choose to take that pledge when they’re of an age to understand what it means, and opportunity should be given to children to pray, but having a teacher make the children in their class do these things strips them of the very things they stand for.
"the average income in <X> is <Y> of <currency>" cool, what's the median
Average isn't useful here. however, after a little bit of research, apparently the median income in the US is $24,327, which means the reality is actually much worse than this meme makes it seem. yay!