Crop Circles
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Found out the other day that my son's teacher's assistant (let's call her Anne) has gone on hols for four weeks to the UK, so he has a substitute teacher for four weeks. Fair enough. The email informing us then went on to say that, if we wished to subscribe to Anne's email newsletter about crop circles, to contact her. The Wife(tm) tells me that she (Anne) is a crop circle 'fan' and believes in their healing powers, amongst other things. I was both astonished and horrified. Surely Crop circles are completely proven to be man-made? People making them have filmed themselves, and shown how it was done? How can a sane person believe in their mystical powers?? And she's teaching my Boy! The Wife(tm) did point out that it's only like being taught by someone who's Catholic (for example) - fine as long as they don't preach to the kids. But I'm still kinda concerned that someone who (IMHO) is close to being certifiable is allowed to be in charge of children! your thoughts?
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What's actually the differency with Christian, Jew, Moslim, Hindu, Bhoedism... believes? People just want to believe in unexplainable things, despite science already provided an explanation. Granted, crop circles are weird, but IMHO not weirder then normal believe, just less socially accepted. :-D
V.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Why
Because I have always loved teaching.
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
for how long
initialy 8 weeks - but hopefully inthe future full time
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
What age and subject are you teaching,
senior school (probably 14 through 18) Science and I.T.
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
because of PC you are not allowed to kick the little sod in the rear
Where can you kick them, then? Actually, because of PC, you can't get caught kicking the little sod in the rear :) I, too, grew up in the days when a good slap across the back of the legs (short trouser days) was sufficient to keep us more or less in line. And I have to say that my secondary school's strictness was the only thing that enabled a teenage me to progress academically - I was far more interested in other forms of biological research.
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
I was far more interested in other forms of biological research.
I went to a boys boarding school and spent a lot of time and energy avoiding biological research. I figure if I had to teach a me I'd not have made it to 15, I really was a little shit in those days, I like to think I have mellowed somewhat since then.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
The Wife(tm) tells me that she (Anne) is a crop circle 'fan' and believes in their healing powers, amongst other things.
And what's the problem? Scientists believe in the Higgs existence. Some folks even think C# is a programming language. :rolleyes:
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_Damian S_ wrote:
I didn't say thick
No - but I feel that to believe in crop circles you MUST be thick.
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Thanks. Thanks a lot. I DO believe in crop circles. They do exist, even if they obviously are the work of some pranksters.
A while ago he asked me what he should have printed on my business cards. I said 'Wizard'. I read books which nobody else understand. Then I do something which nobody understands. After that the computer does something which nobody understands. When asked, I say things about the results which nobody understand. But everybody expects miracles from me on a regular basis. Looks to me like the classical definition of a wizard.
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Found out the other day that my son's teacher's assistant (let's call her Anne) has gone on hols for four weeks to the UK, so he has a substitute teacher for four weeks. Fair enough. The email informing us then went on to say that, if we wished to subscribe to Anne's email newsletter about crop circles, to contact her. The Wife(tm) tells me that she (Anne) is a crop circle 'fan' and believes in their healing powers, amongst other things. I was both astonished and horrified. Surely Crop circles are completely proven to be man-made? People making them have filmed themselves, and shown how it was done? How can a sane person believe in their mystical powers?? And she's teaching my Boy! The Wife(tm) did point out that it's only like being taught by someone who's Catholic (for example) - fine as long as they don't preach to the kids. But I'm still kinda concerned that someone who (IMHO) is close to being certifiable is allowed to be in charge of children! your thoughts?
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
But I'm still kinda concerned that someone who (IMHO) is close to being certifiable is allowed to be in charge of children!
I was taught by monks in a Benedictine Monastary School for 2 years. Dont worry, your son wont be any more damaged than most of the rest of us ;)
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
modified on Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:23 AM
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What's actually the differency with Christian, Jew, Moslim, Hindu, Bhoedism... believes? People just want to believe in unexplainable things, despite science already provided an explanation. Granted, crop circles are weird, but IMHO not weirder then normal believe, just less socially accepted. :-D
V.
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And did your Aura glow?
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I saw a crop circle (live) for the first time last week coming back from Harrogate to Manchester.
Two heads are better than one.
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V. wrote:
People just want to believe in unexplainable things, despite science already provided an explanation
Yeah, like Global Warmists for example. They are completely nuts. :)
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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CPallini wrote:
Some folks even think C# is a programming language
Some other people even believe VB is a programming language, imagine that :omg: .
V.
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All the evidence I've seen shows that crop circles can be made by humans; nothing proves that all of them have been. It seems a pretty harmless belief to me, and one that the kids will one day be able to decide whether follow or not without anyone's help. Everybody needs to believe in something - better little green men with nothing better to do than draw pictures in cornfields than racial genocide. There are degrees of goofiness... After all, I was raised to believe in a man who supposedly rose from the dead after three days, but there's no tangible proof that he was ever born. It hasn't hurt me a bit, and I still choose to believe the myth... To quote another fictitious character, a favorite of mine, "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh." I believe I'll have another beer...
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Roger Wright wrote:
that all of them have been
Tornados. Europe has quite a few small Tornadoes. They often just touch the gound and die. On a field of wheat you end up with a crop circle. Of course all the complex ones are man made. And probably most of the small circular ones are too.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
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_Damian S_ wrote:
I didn't say thick
No - but I feel that to believe in crop circles you MUST be thick.
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I believe in Crop Circles! I have seen them with my own eyes. I am not thick. They undoubtedly exist.
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This is an attack on someone's beliefs, and should probably not be in the lounge. Just because I don't agree with crop circle's 'healing powers' doesn't protect it less.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
RichardM1 wrote:
This is an attack on someone's beliefs, and should probably not be in the lounge.
Not so sure about that: when what someone believes in is demonstrably and factually nonsense it isn't really an attack: it's more like pointing out that they are a suitable case for treatment. :-)
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_Damian S_ wrote:
thought it was about "how could someone who is educated possibly believe in such a thing"...
Absolutely. Sorry - it is a contextual thing. I should really have posted "How come people still believe in crop circles?"
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
I should really have posted "How come people still believe in crop circles?"
Because they exist, see here[^], as you can see they do exist. Why do you deny the existance of these things?
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Aren't they the maniacs who were taunting the Japanese whalers and got a borrowed trimaran seriously damaged/scuttled?
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Roger Wright wrote:
that all of them have been
Tornados. Europe has quite a few small Tornadoes. They often just touch the gound and die. On a field of wheat you end up with a crop circle. Of course all the complex ones are man made. And probably most of the small circular ones are too.
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
If you want to go to the Tornado Capital of the world, come to England. England has more tornados per Square Mile in a Year than any other country in the world.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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peterchen wrote:
WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM?
Jeez - no need to shout! I'm not seriously bothered about my boy believing in crop circles or not - he told us a while ago that he doesn't believe in God - he thinks Santa probably made everything (I just typo'd that as Satan!!!!!) You misunderstood that my concern was that she'd teach the boy that crop circles are drawn by aliens (or whatever) - that's not the thing that bothered me - I was genuinely surprised that there were apparently sane humans that still believed in crop circles when they are so obviously and demonstrably pranks.
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
I was genuinely surprised that there were apparently sane humans that still believed in crop circles when they are so obviously and demonstrably pranks.
Well, the whole Mormon church was started as from a prank
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
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What's actually the differency with Christian, Jew, Moslim, Hindu, Bhoedism... believes? People just want to believe in unexplainable things, despite science already provided an explanation. Granted, crop circles are weird, but IMHO not weirder then normal believe, just less socially accepted. :-D
V.
Nothing's Inexplicable, Merely Unexplained.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
But I'm still kinda concerned that someone who (IMHO) is close to being certifiable is allowed to be in charge of children!
I was taught by monks in a Benedictine Monastary School for 2 years. Dont worry, your son wont be any more damaged than most of the rest of us ;)
Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription
modified on Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:23 AM
fat_boy wrote:
was taught by monks in a Benedictine Monastary School for 2 years. Dont worry, your son wont be any more damaged than most of the rest of us
Was that supposed to calm him down :-)
"When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert
