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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

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    Maybe the result of US education system

    CHRISTIAN 4TH GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK TRIES TO EXPLAIN ELECTRICITY

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      Link to the book please, I can’t believe this.

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        I second this, it seems a bit too much on the nose to be real.

        Edit: Omg, it’s real.

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          The reviews are hilarious

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          Funny, that giving drugs to children is illegal, but shit like this not.

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            I wish people would give me all these free drugs, they’re wasted on the children.

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              Those free drugs are mostly a lie, drugs are expensive.

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        Fourth grade textbook published by Bob Jones University, and highlighted in a ScienceBlogs post by PZ Myers

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        I have a high degree of confidence this is real. Looks like the hard work of Bob Jones University Press.

        I won’t disable my ad blocker to view the site, but there may be a discussion about it here:

        https://dangerousminds.net/comments/christian_4th_grade_school_textbook_tries_to_explain_electricity

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        This Artikel about it is really funny

        https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/

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      People have most certainly felt electricity.

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        Mistaking it for being touched by the hand of god, when they were trying to remove the bread from the toaster with a fork.

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          As someone who did this before knowing it was dangerous I got away with it a ridiculous amount of times.

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            Your username seems to be weirdly accurate.

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              It was not a title I chose but one I simply learned to accept.

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            How was your Operation game? I’m guessing you won a lot.

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        Also thunder and lightning really ought to count as seeing and hearing electricity.

        Hell, seeing anything at all may technically count, because electromagnetic waves.

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        People can also say where it’s from.

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      Is that really from a book that used to teach children? Holy fuckin hell. No wonder America got shittier every day.

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        I wonder whether the kids being taught by that book ever zapped each other with static

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          IT’S LIKE MAGIC!

          Then they probably got punished for practicing witchcraft and dark arts.

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      As an electrical engineer, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

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        Don’t forget holy water in your toolbox.

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      Christians are as fucking stupid as djt it seems

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        Feeding the children since centuries

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      BRING IT FORTH

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      What a loser. Everyone who has watched the Pokemon TV show knows what electricity looks like.

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      I threw up a little in my mouth…

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      I’ve been shocked a couple of times, I think I have an okay idea of what electricity feels like

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      If you really want to feel it you can, very easily. I have its quite the sensation

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