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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4545 on: April 19, 2013, 01:16:53 am »

A rather dumb girl at school wondered where glue came from (Her guess was from tape)
and I said that glue was made from horse hooves.

"So, you're saying that if I get a horse hoof and put it on this paper it'll stick?"

Why does this remind me of the argument against evolution that goes, "I haven't seen a dog give birth to a cat."?
Next time you see her, ask her to fold a block of wood into a paper airplane.
Does this mean that horses can walk up walls?
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4546 on: April 19, 2013, 02:10:53 am »

A rather dumb girl at school wondered where glue came from (Her guess was from tape)
and I said that glue was made from horse hooves.
While you can make glue from horse hooves (though bone or skin glue was much more common due to availability) nowadays most of your basic "white glue" (such as the kind you use in schools) and notably all of the glues made by the Elmer's company contain no animal products, but are instead made through the special processing of petrochemical materials (oils and rubbers).
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4547 on: April 19, 2013, 02:11:47 am »

A rather dumb girl at school wondered where glue came from (Her guess was from tape)
and I said that glue was made from horse hooves.
While you can make glue from horse hooves (though bone or skin glue was much more common due to availability) nowadays most of your basic "white glue" (such as the kind you use in schools) and notably all of the glues made by the Elmer's company contain no animal products, but are instead made through the special processing of petrochemical materials (oils and rubbers).
Yeah, I assumed that we had moved beyond killing old horses for their hooves, it was just the first thing that came to mind.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4548 on: April 19, 2013, 04:02:57 am »

A rather dumb girl at school wondered where glue came from (Her guess was from tape)
and I said that glue was made from horse hooves.
While you can make glue from horse hooves (though bone or skin glue was much more common due to availability) nowadays most of your basic "white glue" (such as the kind you use in schools) and notably all of the glues made by the Elmer's company contain no animal products, but are instead made through the special processing of petrochemical materials (oils and rubbers).
Yeah, I assumed that we had moved beyond killing old horses for their hooves, it was just the first thing that came to mind.

I still make the joke whenever I see a horse lose a race.  :P The conventions well known so there's a high chance people will get it.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4549 on: April 19, 2013, 04:06:15 am »

Why does this remind me of the argument against evolution that goes, "I haven't seen a dog give birth to a cat."?
Probably because your sense of logic is better than a creationists

I'm a Creationist, and even I think that's a pretty stupid argument. Let's not generalize, here.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4550 on: April 19, 2013, 06:55:27 am »

To be fair, it doesn't sound like the girl was being facetious to me. Just genuinely unaware.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4551 on: April 19, 2013, 09:41:10 am »

Why does this remind me of the argument against evolution that goes, "I haven't seen a dog give birth to a cat."?
Probably because your sense of logic is better than a creationists

I'm a Creationist, and even I think that's a pretty stupid argument. Let's not generalize, here.
I second the motion on not generalizing.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4552 on: April 19, 2013, 09:42:18 am »

Why does this remind me of the argument against evolution that goes, "I haven't seen a dog give birth to a cat."?
Probably because your sense of logic is better than a creationists
I'm a Creationist, and even I think that's a pretty stupid argument. Let's not generalize, here.
Agreed. Bloody retarded =/= creationist, though there are a few bloody retarded creationists.

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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4553 on: April 19, 2013, 11:54:16 am »

Yeah, people who generalize are all assholes.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4554 on: April 19, 2013, 11:59:03 am »

Yeah, people who generalize are all assholes.
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« Reply #4555 on: April 19, 2013, 12:21:01 pm »

Why does this remind me of the argument against evolution that goes, "I haven't seen a dog give birth to a cat."?
Probably because your sense of logic is better than a creationists
I'm a Creationist, and even I think that's a pretty stupid argument. Let's not generalize, here.
Agreed. Bloody retarded =/= creationist, though there are a few bloody retarded creationists.
A similar example:
Caller: "There is no proof Jesus ever existed!"
Radio Host: "..........Well, you just have to take it on faith."

Regardless of whether you believe in his divinity or not, there is evidence that Jesus was a real person, i.e., some of the writings by Tacitus or Pliny the Younger. Also Josephus the Jew, but he might be considered biased.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4556 on: April 19, 2013, 02:09:59 pm »

Agreed. Bloody retarded =/= creationist, though there are a few bloody retarded creationists.
A similar example:
Caller: "There is no proof Jesus ever existed!"
Radio Host: "..........Well, you just have to take it on faith."

Regardless of whether you believe in his divinity or not, there is evidence that Jesus was a real person, i.e., some of the writings by Tacitus or Pliny the Younger. Also Josephus the Jew, but he might be considered biased.
All three you list were born after the claimed historical Jesus died. There is evidence to suggest even at the same century Jesus existed there were Jews and Pagans who doubted there ever was a Jesus Christ, who never saw him and only knew of him by reading the gospels and took it for granted that the gospels must be true, despite them being written by many people plagiarizing the previous's work with the earliest from Mark being written after Jesus's supposed death decades later and with inconsistencies in geography and custom that would suggest Mark had never been to Palestine in his life, let alone seen Jesus.
Furthermore with Josephus the extract used has Jospehus seemingly witness Jesus resurrecting himself from the dead, fulfilling prophecies and still denying that Jesus is the messiah. The story itself is deemed intrusive on Josephus's narrative by scholars and is widely accepted to have had a series of Christian interpolations added at least decades later as there are no mentions of Josephus's accounts of Jesus by any other historians or Christian apologetics of that time or close to that time until 240 years after Josephus wrote 'antiquities of the Jews' by Eusebius, a Christian historian.
Even more damming of that passage is that from as early as the 16th century surviving texts have been recorded as found, ones without the Christian passage, one found by the scholar Vossius, making it near certain the Christian owned texts were forgeries.
There is another paragraph from which Christians use Josephus's texts as proof of Jesus's existence, yet they often ignore the fact that Josephus is talking about James the Just [often called brother of the lord], who has much more historical evidence to suggest his existence than Jesus Christ himself. The replacement of James with Jesus came about with the Christian copies.
There is a disturbing lack of pagan and secular evidence for Jesus Christ. Even the things like the darkening of the day at a time when solar eclipses were incredibly unlikely to happen or the more memorable things like the dead rising from their graves - get no mention from anyone.
The Romans and Greeks loved recording important events. Why they would stay silent about the subversion of nature is befuddling, unless it only happened in the realm of the fanciful.
Tacitus wrote what he was told by Christians. He tells of Pontius Pilate being a procurator [without saying of what] despite the fact that Pontius Pilate was a prefect and the title procurator was only existent in the second half of the first century after Jesus's death.
Tacitus does not name Jesus but instead uses the title 'Christ' as if it were a name. Also considering how Tacitus hated Christianity, it would have served him to say what the Christian belief was as it would mean at that time it was a young cult - something which meant it could be openly destroyed, as the Romans were only tolerant of ancient cults.
No ancient Christian writers make use of Tactitus's writings either despite the powerful propaganda it could have served, highlighting just how far ahead of its founding Tacitus was writing about and no other Pagan writers express any knowledge whatsoever of any outrage expressed by the Christians and the Jews.

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In that list of Pagan and Jewish writers who lived during the century Jesus Christ was supposed to have existed, we only have two disputed passages in Roman writings and two forged Jewish passages in the works of a Jewish author.

So far all the evidence used to "prove" the existence of Jesus Christ is pretty debunked. Maybe someone will some day find evidence for his existence? It need not matter on his character's importance, but until then it would be silly to assume such a character must have existed without evidence.

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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #4557 on: April 19, 2013, 02:31:32 pm »

Yeah sorry about that generalization, its just that the last time I talked to one he refuse to let me explain my point, I have nothing against beliefs it's just that most creationist I know are also fudmentalists, and they really piss me off quite a bit, but once again I'm sorry if I offended you
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« Reply #4558 on: April 19, 2013, 02:40:24 pm »

Yeah sorry about that generalization, its just that the last time I talked to one he refuse to let me explain my point, I have nothing against beliefs it's just that most creationist I know are also fudmentalists, and they really piss me off quite a bit, but once again I'm sorry if I offended you
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« Reply #4559 on: April 19, 2013, 02:48:05 pm »

Yeah sorry about that generalization, its just that the last time I talked to one he refuse to let me explain my point, I have nothing against beliefs it's just that most creationist I know are also fudmentalists, and they really piss me off quite a bit, but once again I'm sorry if I offended you
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If someone believes something deeply, you can't really change them, so you may as well learn to live with them, which incidentally is my problem with fudementalism: you believe your right so much, you never let others have their own beliefs, and just for the record in case anyone was wondering I believe in the bible not literally but as a book of lessons, and yes I know there some dark parts to it.
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