This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it's mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.
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Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a 'normal' university, the author isn't completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.
science doesn't determine why, it determines how to the best of our abilities. why implies purpose and/or intent, which isn't something science measures.
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Are they dense?? Electricity comes from the power outlet. Everyone knows that
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I somehow have the feeling that this is simply ragebait... if not, well... can someone please take away the printing press from those people? Please?
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And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
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This just in, no one has ever seen lightning, and if you say you have, we’ll have to burn you at the stake to protect the children.
Found a site with some more fun excerpts:
https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/
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Index Tome 5
Meanwhile banned Books in Schools (Dangerous stuff)
I'm understanding more and more how a stupid pedo_asshole can be voted as president by so much people.
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I have seen electric, it’s blue and I have even felt it, it hurts. Also I know where it comes from, it comes from the walls, there’s an electric sockets for it.
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We have caught the electricity monster into a circuit and now we need to keep it in a loop.
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