NationStates Jolt Archive

The world has moved on since the great myths were given any kind of creedence and Creationists are being (rightly) castigated for being extremely silly, while in some places being honoured for bugling above and byond the call of duty. A day after All Hallow's Eve, no less. For shame.

Yes, anyway, trick or treat?

Of all the threads out there, you chose that one to copycat? :(

I'm all for the bubble idea as long as we get to bounce them around from time to time.

shoot em off into space to make their own little god-fearing, backwars colony.

then the rest of us can go pwn them in a few hundered years with our vastly superior technology ;)

shoot em off into space to make their own little god-fearing, backwars colony.

then the rest of us can go pwn them in a few hundered years with our vastly superior technology ;)

I think there would be little enough left, as they will most likely killed each other with exotic fruits over a dispute on how to strictly interpret Mt. 7, 16-20....

Put them into a virtual reality where the stuff they believe is actually true?

Put them into a virtual reality where the stuff they believe is actually true?

Interesting.

Send them here http://www.cryonics.org/ and freeze them so they don't end up breeding and evolving over time.

I think there would be little enough left, as they will most likely killed each other with exotic fruits over a dispute on how to strictly interpret Mt. 7, 16-20....

"16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."

Sounds, out of context, like an argument for inheritance, be it of wealth, honour/shame or whatever. Of course it's not, but it's interesting you should mention it out of context like that; it sounds, here, like some kind of inheritance thing, akin to "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree", with an added sense of command.

It also seems to imply that fruit can be good or evil, a fascinating but totally false anthropomorphisation - and it's Jesus' word itself, meaning there's no "Moral/Ceremonial" shit to fall back on!

Nah, the best thing to come out of that section is the phrase "wolf in sheep's clothing" ;)

Send them to a little island, give them the basics to survive and see what they do.

Send them to a little island, give them the basics to survive and see what they do.
If you could arrange for the only fruit tree on the island to be an apple tree, that might be amusing...

Yeah, I'd do that too. ^_^

I'm all for the bubble idea as long as we get to bounce them around from time to time.

would'nt work. they'd think its flat

Any whats the problem? all the creationists already live in isolation from the world, they're all in the US.

so if there are any anywhere else, just let'em emigrate there

Any whats the problem? all the creationists already live in isolation from the world, they're all in the US.

so if there are any anywhere else, just let'em emigrate there

i'm not in the US i'm in the UK!!!! although i wish i was in the US...

We are not looking at the big picture. The simple solution is to put the creationists back in their native environment. So all we need to do is create a time machine, and send them back to the middle ages where they belong.

We are not looking at the big picture. The simple solution is to put the creationists back in their native environment. So all we need to do is create a time machine, and send them back to the middle ages where they belong.
don't mess with God's laws of time

don't mess with God's laws of time

Very well, I have solved the problem of needing a time machine!

Lots of people love renaissance festivals. You know, where you have minstrels, wenches, swordfighting, etc. What we do is round up all the creationists, and put them into ren-fest communes. Then, when I go for a day trip to one, I can eat my turkey leg, swing a sword, AND experience ancient religion too!

By the way, do creationists still "bleed" people to heal diseases too?

Very well, I have solved the problem of needing a time machine!

Lots of people love renaissance festivals. You know, where you have minstrels, wenches, swordfighting, etc. What we do is round up all the creationists, and put them into ren-fest communes. Then, when I go for a day trip to one, I can eat my turkey leg, swing a sword, AND experience ancient religion too!

By the way, do creationists still "bleed" people to heal diseases too?
They don't seem to. Funny that, really: they aren't having Darwin and all his little demonic goblins of followers, but they're perfectly happy to accept the germ theory. Perhaps Noah took two of every little baccillus and virus into his ark with him, but I'm buggered if I can find any mention of that in the Bible...

Also, wouldn't it be a bit unfair to expect the Renfests to play host to these wankers? Attendence would quickly go through the floor and soon there would be no more RenFests and the pratts would be released into the world again.

I still like the space colony idea. But wouldn't it be ironic if The Star Goat showed up & ate the rest of us? Then humanity would have to start all over from a bunch of numbskulls on another little innocent planet.

I still like the space colony idea. But wouldn't it be ironic if The Star Goat showed up & ate the rest of us? Then humanity would have to start all over from a bunch of numbskulls on another little innocent planet.
we aren't numbskulls. i go to a private school, its in the top hundred in the country, and i don't go there because i have the money, i don't, i'm in there on a scholarship. so you can't really call me a numbskull.

we aren't numbskulls. i go to a private school, its in the top hundred in the country, and i don't go there because i have the money, i don't, i'm in there on a scholarship. so you can't really call me a numbskull.

Good point. Creationist beliefs are (obviously) the result of a mental difference to those without the beliefs, but lack of intelligence (processing capability, if you will) is not it.