A textbook would lose most of its credibility in my opinion with a title like “____ 4 ____”.
The fact that it contains such wonderful takes on electricity is just icing on the cake.
US education
Submitted 4 days ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to science_memes@mander.xyz
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AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The title is “Science 4 for”, so it’s the fourth in the series.
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ah! I stand corrected on the title. Thank you.
Draegur@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Oh wow. It’s been a long time since just reading a thing made me physically nauseous. I crave for the person responsible for these lies to suffer excruciating punishment. It breaks my heart having to accept that justice is dead.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Jesus…
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
He’s done enough damage, thank you
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Those Romans had the right idea.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I refuse to believe that anyone can be this incompetent. What is the strategy here? How would religious extremists profit from creating the “myth” of electricity? I’m more confused than anything else, honestly.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
It conditions them into believing that there are powerful and mysterious forces at work in the world that can’t be explained but must be taken on faith. If they get into the habit of looking for answers to questions, they might start asking other inconvenient questions. My sunday school teacher had a similar spiel about how god was like the wind, we couldnt see or touch him but we could see the effects of his actions.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That is really clever. Soften them up slowly but surely. Infest their world view with this nonsense and then one day they will be ready for the sales pitch.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yep.
It boils down to:
Reality is actually magic, and our magic guide book, and my interpretation of said magic guide book, is more correcr than any other book or person, because this book is the bestest magical book, and I am the bestest knower of the magic book.
It is magical thinking, a worldview based on a psuedo reality derived from psuedo logic (where psuedo means ‘fake’, ‘impostor’, ‘sham’), which is a key component of many cults and also severe psychological disorders.
t_berium@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Funny, I heard the exact same explanation for Dark Matter. But the context was ‘so we know, there’s something there, we cannot explain, which is why we need to study more or even rethink what we thought to know about gravity/the universe’. Science is awesome!
0x0@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s not incompetence, it’s malice: a way to stupefy, thus, control more easily.
kshade@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I expect it goes like this: Electricity is real and does things, yet it’s so mysterious and unseen! Just like god!
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 4 days ago
To be fair, the bible doesn’t have any lessons on how electricity works… /s
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
What a shithole country.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 4 days ago
So this is what Lemmy’s come down to? A repost of a 10 year-old Reddit post, which is a repost of a 14 year-old Tumblr post?
lemjukes@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Please, Consider the Following Groups:
- People who were not on Reddit 10 years ago.
- People who were not on Tumblr 14 years ago.
- People who were not homeschooled in a christian fundamentalist household in the last 30 years.
- People who just havent seen the post before.
- People who forget they’ve seen the post and see it a gain and get a chuckle out of it.
- People who havent had all the joy ripped out of them.
I think putting your effort into creating the memes of the new forefront instead of complaining about reposted content might be more a constructive and fruitful effort.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 4 days ago
People who havent had all the joy ripped out of them.
People who haven’t had all the joy ripped out of them don’t make ragebait memes, lol, this is projection.
markz@suppo.fi 4 days ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
It isn’t certainly old, but creationism is still used in US schools, with not better content. I remember a US delegation not so many years ago, wanting creationism as an alternative teaching in European schools and their anger when they were sent to comb the desert. Even in religious schools the religion is separated from academic teaching. This is not the case in the US, where creationism and also scientology are taught as themes equivalent to real science, even in universities.
muhyb@programming.dev 4 days ago
Eh, it’s ok. There was even a Diogenes’ Square post recently, which is centuries old meme. Imagine how many reposts that one saw.
makyo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Entshitification is impossible to completely avoid, even here, when so much of the internet’s content is recycled or reposted from the most influential sites
remon@ani.social 4 days ago
But surely that’s some old book and is no longer used to teach today, right? Right???
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s been revised since this edition. I was homeschooled with the “for Christian Schools” textbooks (and was sent to college at the University that produced them) I was just young enough to get the newer editions as they were being rewritten, my cousins who were 4 grades ahead of me weren’t as lucky and had the version shown in the picture. The versions I had were slightly better, they at least didn’t have this particular nonsense in them. But they still all taught a very warped view of science, and I was in my mid-twenties before I stopped believing in Creationism. The last ~10 years since then has taken both a lot of work to learn about reality, but has also been quite a lot of fun. Science is really cool if you aren’t stopping all the time to try to fit God in somehow.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The next generation… Uneducated dombassrs
kreekybonez@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
second verse, same as the first!
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Elec-trickery!
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
lol I’m sure some of us has felt it before.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
Not only can you see it and feel it, you can also hear and smell it!
yarr@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Man, talk about a deep fried JPEG. If it was slightly more blurry with a few more artifacts I wouldn’t be able to read it at all.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There are no concepts we’ve ever seen, we only see their effects.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
blarghly@lemmy.world 4 days ago
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I had never seen that before, thank you
dullbananas@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Bootleg Christianity.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 4 days ago
Sounds like this m.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU&t=553s&pp=ygUOY…