Ogre
April 27, 2006, 7:01pm
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Found via a friend’s web page, but I thought you guys would get a kick out of this.
Kirk Cameron socks it to the whole dang Theory of Evolution
The bit about the banana is hilarious.
HPL
April 27, 2006, 8:04pm
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Good effort but this has already been passed around the dope a couple times.
Ogre
April 27, 2006, 8:05pm
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Ah. Well then lock 'er up!
Yikes, the banana part was insane. I wish I had the time to watch the whole video.
Man, one time I took this banana and shoved it up this girl’s … wait, are you saying Kirk Cameron did that, too? Whoa.
No no no, don’t close it-you can never make fun of Kirkles too much!
Well, I’ve never seen that before…
And the banana part?
For some reason the idea of repeatedly banging my head against a wall just isn’t enough
I’d like to see a debate between Kirk Cameron and Tom Cruise.
I like Kirk. He has the guts to say what we’re all thinking.
tomndebb:
I’d like to see a debate between Kirk Cameron and Tom Cruise.
You could probably solve the energy crisis just by harnessing the crazy to come out of that.
Here’s my response to all this “is there a god” crap…
Douglas Adams’s “Is there an Artificial God” speech, a brilliant bit of Adamsian work that sums up my feelings on the matter quite succinctly
no it’s not formatted well on the webpage, but give it a good read, it’s a brilliant bit of work…
some highlights…
Imagine an early man surveying his surroundings at the end of a happy day’s tool making. He looks around and he sees a world which pleases him mightily: behind him are mountains with caves in—mountains are great because you can go and hide in the caves and you are out of the rain and the bears can’t get you; in front of him there’s the forest—it’s got nuts and berries and delicious food; there’s a stream going by, which is full of water—water’s delicious to drink, you can float your boats in it and do all sorts of stuff with it; here’s cousin Ug and he’s caught a mammoth—mammoth’s are great, you can eat them, you can wear their coats, you can use their bones to create weapons to catch other mammoths. I mean this is a great world, it’s fantastic.
But our early man has a moment to reflect and he thinks to himself, ‘well, this is an interesting world that I find myself in’ and then he asks himself a very treacherous question, a question which is totally meaningless and fallacious, but only comes about because of the nature of the sort of person he is, the sort of person he has evolved into and the sort of person who has thrived because he thinks this particular way.
Man the maker looks at his world and says ‘So who made this then?’ Who made this? — you can see why it’s a treacherous question. Early man thinks, ‘Well, because there’s only one sort of being I know about who makes things, whoever made all this must therefore be a much bigger, much more powerful and necessarily invisible, one of me and because I tend to be the strong one who does all the stuff, he’s probably male’. And so we have the idea of a god.
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in—an interesting hole I find myself in—fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it’s still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
We all know that at some point in the future the Universe will come to an end and at some other point, considerably in advance from that but still not immediately pressing, the sun will explode. We feel there’s plenty of time to worry about that, but on the other hand that’s a very dangerous thing to say. Look at what’s supposed to be going to happen on the 1st of January 2000—let’s not pretend that we didn’t have a warning that the century was going to end! I think that we need to take a larger perspective on who we are and what we are doing here if we are going to survive in the long term.
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be
Oh, that banana-part just had me in stitches.
I can’t listen to this at work, and I have dial up at home. What the heck did he say about bananas?
It’s driving me
I will spoiler the banana-part for you :
The banana is proof of a divine creator.
My God, you’re a Banana Believer, too? I thought Kirk and I were the only ones!
Nah – there’s a whole Church of the Flying Banana Monster.
Thanks for posting that link, MacTech . I hadn’t read that before and I enjoyed it very much.
Thank you. I was going to write witty repartee to that, but frankly I’m speechless.
MacTech - That Douglas Adams article is fantastic.
Thanks.
Does that mean spherical, difficult to eat, or irregularly shaped fruits are a test of faith? If God loves me, why can’t I get all the pulp off of my mango pit?
