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    This is somehow more offensive to my brain than if they’d simply said “electricity is god”. The way they completely muddy the issue, making the reader not just misinformed but made to feel complacent, like there’s no correct information to be found, is way more grotesque. It shuts down the mind of the reader. It’s anti-education.

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      That is the sense of religion and because it is so used by goverments. Ignorant and submisive people are easier to dominate and manipulate.

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    Looking back when I was growing up I think the most nefarious thing about books like this is that printing gave a lot of implied legitimacy because it was expensive to print a book.

    Speaks to how much money these people had to miseducate people.

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    This is the stupidest shit I have heard in my life. Ever seen fucking sparks? Ever had to deal with static electricity? What do they mean they don’t know where electricity comes from? We have power plants and an entire grid to provide electricity. The ways to generate electricity is extremely well known and are common fucking knowledge… I mean I learned it as a kid from cartoons and video games.

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    Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a ‘normal’ university, the author isn’t completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.

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      to be fair, we don’t know why anything is, but that’s something for philosophy so ponder, not science where you seek answers

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      science doesn’t determine why, it determines how to the best of our abilities. why implies purpose and/or intent, which isn’t something science measures.

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        Oh we do measure why’s, that’s the point of social sciences. You just have to accept that purpose and intent don’t exist in a vacuum and are the result of human perception and expression then study it as such. As a human phenomenon. From philosophy to psychology, there’s a vast body of analysis on the why of many things. Cultural artifacts for example are the equivalent of batteries, where meaning is concentrated, captured and can be measured, studied and analysed.

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    Now, i usually don’t advocate for book burning, but this one is making a compelling case

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      slow down there bud. burning the book would release co2 to the atmosphere and only return ashes and heat.

      RECYCLING THE BOOK enables it to have a chance at being a better book, a book not fulla shit. a book someone should read. The tree that was cut down to make these ridiculous pages deserves better.

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      But send a few copies to foreign museums. So your descendants in about a 1000 years can study their history ✊😅

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    And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.

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      This is from 1976 (uncertain if this specific passage was change from the original run though)

      The US education system has been slowly, but surely gutted since then

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        Conservatism needs its masses of ignorant and near-illiterate electorate who cannot think for themselves and cannot use critical thinking to realize how badly they are being hoodwinked. This hollowing out of the educational system has been done on purpose to bulk up the Republican electorate.

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    Used to live across the street from a Freewill Baptist Church.

    Always curious about other beings mindsets, went and attended a service.

    Walked through the main door and felt the trope of crickets chirping. No one greeted me, said hello, welcome, nothing. I was stared at but never acknowledged.

    The service was strictly talking. No hyms or singing.

    The sermon told me they are creationists that believe “Singing and dancing lead to temptation”.

    Point is their “educational materials” were horrifying. Mostly just fear mongering and advising self segregation from reality.