i wonder how many people, if asked, believe that the sun revolves around the earth.
Do you really want to know?
In a 1999 Gallup Poll: 18 %.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strega - Aug 03, 2006 12:19:07 pm PDT #433 of 10001
Aims - Aug 03, 2006 12:19:42 pm PDT #434 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Polter-Cow - Aug 03, 2006 12:35:44 pm PDT #435 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
In a 1999 Gallup Poll
Copernicus weeps.
Beverly - Aug 03, 2006 12:41:18 pm PDT #436 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
That's not what he told the good child, Beverly. He tells him, "You are always with me, and everything I have is yours. We're celebrating because your brother was lost, and now he's found. He was dead (the "to us" is implicit), and now he's alive." And of course, that was a parable, not an account.
What I get for accepting what I was taught in Sunday School...
JZ - Aug 03, 2006 1:00:07 pm PDT #437 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
More than half of Americans believe in Creationism/ID/Not!Darwin....
Holy crap. That's boggling. Of course, I believe that the whole shebang was indeed created, by some kind of intelligence, but in my mind those are both "why/to what [Pooh case] Purpose" questions and don't interfere in the least with accepting that Darwin and the various brilliant folks who've followed him are perfectly right about the mechanics of the how and to what small-p purpose.
Is there any breakdown of that more than half by specific faith/sect? 'Cause, thinking it over, I don't know if I've ever met anyone in my own sect who believes in young-earth creationism.
t thinks
Maybe one person. Maybe the one. But just the one. I think.
sj - Aug 03, 2006 1:02:06 pm PDT #438 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Holy crap. That's boggling. Of course, I believe that the whole shebang was indeed created, by some kind of intelligence, but in my mind those are both "why/to what [Pooh case] Purpose" questions and don't interfere in the least with accepting that Darwin and the various brilliant folks who've followed him are perfectly right about the mechanics of the how and to what small-p purpose.
I'll just let JZ speak for me from now on.
Lee - Aug 03, 2006 1:04:13 pm PDT #439 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
BB: AS watchers-- who do you think will get thrown out tonight, and do you think there is any reason to care?
Sheryl - Aug 03, 2006 1:08:43 pm PDT #440 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Hmmm, conversations about religion/belief and boobage running side-by-side...must be Natter!
JZ - Aug 03, 2006 1:10:08 pm PDT #441 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
BB: AS watchers
I always get a twinge when I see that, because there's invariably a millisecond when I think "Ben Browder watchers? HELLS YEAH," and then I remember Big Brother and get all disappointed.
I'll just let JZ speak for me from now on.
Except for the gracious and elegant world of tea lore and rituals, in which I entirely defer to you.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 03, 2006 1:14:19 pm PDT #442 of 10001
What is even happening?
Cindy, I'm sure lots of people actively interpret the Bible and think about context and metaphors and so on. I have trouble with the idea that those people are incapable of doing the same thing to interpret a survey question.Have you ever taken a survey and found you picked the answer that is closest to right-for-you, because is exactly right-for-you isn't there? I could certainly see myself picking "literally true" in a survey, if there wasn't another description that better fit my beliefs, and yet I'm far from a biblical literalist on a lot of issues (although I am literalist on others).