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I once was in a programming class where the task was "build a calculator". A student did one with buttons 1, 2, 3 all the way up to about 25 and then ran out of space on the screen. We've asked this before but liked it so much we're asking again: What's the best example of ignorance you've encountered?

(, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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People who say 'atheists are as bad as proseltyzing religious people'
Yeah, because you can't move round here for al the atheists knocking on the door saying 'having you heard the bad news?'
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:39, 12 replies)
Bet you wouldn't dare say that about the muslims of course because of multiculturalism gone mad I suppose.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:49, closed)
How many Muslims has anyone ever had knock on their door trying to convince them that the one true god is Allah?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:52, closed)
I had an argument with a chap in the street once that stopped me to tell me about how great Islam was.
At one point he pointed out that my girlfriend should have her hair covered for modesty.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:56, closed)
Or a paper bag maybe?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:13, closed)
Why would she need to cover her paper bag?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:18, closed)
I take it then your girlfriend wasn't an ugly munter?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:22, closed)
No, she wasn't - I don't do uggers or fat chicks; I am a gentleman of fine taste.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:29, closed)
So.
No need for a paper bag then you misogynist virgin.

How many fine tasting gentlemen have you had?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:33, closed)
Great misuse of misogynist there.
It depends - do you count public school and prison?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:36, closed)
F. Nar. F. Nar!
Public toilets are included.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:19, closed)
Oh LOL, look everyone, the man looking for cheap hookups on the internet behind his wife's back is getting all right on.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:04, closed)
Oh look - it's, ummm... you.
Again.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 21:34, closed)
Umm.. yes. *Cringes cause I'm agreeing with you*
How many atheists has anyone ever had knock on their door trying to convince them that god doesn't exist?

Sp. & punctuation AB. What, are you pissed at 0930?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:50, closed)
Must you post this again?
Al the Atheist is a right cunt, too.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:51, closed)
No but militant atheists are equally annoying as militant religious types.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:57, closed)
Agreed.
I'm afraid Richard Dawkins does come off as an arrogant dick. Unfortunate, but there you are. Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry were far better public figures for this, should atheism ever require such.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:11, closed)
It's the pontification and disparagement of others that annoys me.
I find the same with politicians - "Vote for this party, because that party's rubbish!" piss off I'm perfectly capable of making up my own mind, thank you.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:13, closed)
Do you know where the word "pontification" comes from?
Hint: pontiff.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:54, closed)
Yes.
My employing it was deliberate.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:59, closed)
What about Alain de Botton?
I think I remember reading that he was going to build a temple for you lot.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:33, closed)
The only use for Alain de Botton's temple
is to provide a steeple from which he can be thrown.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:54, closed)
"If a tree falls in the forest and there is no-one around to hear it, does Alain de Botton write a book about it anyway?"

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 21:18, closed)
I don't believe he exists
There's as much evidence for the existence of Richard Dawkins as there is for the existence of God.

Lots of people claim to have seen both, but I've never seen either. Therefore, neither of them exist.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:55, closed)
Bollocks!
Richard Dawkins is a human, you've seen lots of humans, and are aware that many more of them than you've met exist. God is a supernatural being, you've never met one, and have no reason to believe they exist other than hearsay.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:12, closed)
I've met god
but then I'm from vanuatu, and I'm one of those people that worship prince philip
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:32, closed)
As a figment of his imagination,
who are you to tell him what is or isn't real?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:43, closed)
I've only got your word for it.
You say he's real and he's a human, but you are a believer. I could pop down to the church down the road and find someone who reckons that God is real and right there in the room with us. It doesn't prove anything.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:08, closed)
Try as I might to understand this
I'm afraid I'm going to have to file this under "Bloody daft". The closest concept I can think of for this is the "My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay" concept from H2G2, or the self-aware universe bollocks courtesy of Alan Wilson Watts. Sorry, that's just daft.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:45, closed)
Once you accept that you cannot be 100% certain of anything,
you can pretty much deny everything. Quite likely to end you up in an institution, though.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 14:13, closed)
It's very simple
If you believe that God does not exist because you have no objective experience of him, then logically you must believe that Richard Dawkins doesn't exist if you have no objective experience of him.

Lots of people claim to have seen Richard Dawkins, and even spoken to him - but lots of people claim that about God, too. Some claim that they both exist, based on their objective experience of them.

Can you prove that God exists? Can you prove that Richard Dawkins exists?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:04, closed)
Really?
Who claims actually to have seen god? What does he look like? Did they take pictures?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:55, closed)
I assume he probably looks like W. G. Grace.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 14:04, closed)
From the department store?
Does He have a sexy nurse looking after him?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 15:33, closed)
You should be grateful for militant atheists like Dawkins
For millennia religions have kept people from questioning the status quo, very often with the threat of ghastly punishments for unbelievers. Bad enough to tell small children they will go to hell and suffer for eternity if they don't toe the line - even worse to actually e.g. pour molten lead down the throat of a blashpheming youth in Renaissance Italy. Religion has only ever unwillingly given up its power over society when opposed by determinted - militant to you - opposition. Militant religious types want you to think like them. Militant atheists want you to think for yourself.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:08, closed)
Militant atheists get rather cross when you disagree with them on theological matters,
so their desire for you to think for yourself only goes so far, before they start sounding exactly like those they're in opposition to.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:15, closed)
I get it, really, I do.
However, they are bloody annoying, even when you do agree with them.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:34, closed)
I'd have thought they
would knock on your door and say

"Well, still no news but we'll pop round next week and let you know if there is any"
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:38, closed)
I'd have thought atheists would be more sure of themselves.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:50, closed)
Let's stop splitting hairs and agree that
Anyone who goes about bothering people about stuff said people have no interest in is a fucking prick.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:06, closed)
Isn't that qotw's raison d'être?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:23, closed)
Oo get you with your foreign words!

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:25, closed)
Cushdy.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:27, closed)
Everyone on qotw is a fucking prick.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:34, closed)
Prick.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:43, closed)
^...
...Errrm - I don't think you've thought that one through have you?

:-D
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:49, closed)
prick

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:50, closed)
Look at him calling someone else a "prick".

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:54, closed)
wanker

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:01, closed)
So you read my post from last week then?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:14, closed)
soz i was on a banning, it comes as no surprise that you're a massive wanker though

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:22, closed)
Oh petal.
you weren't missed.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:43, closed)
You obviously missed being upset with him.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:10, closed)
Ahh, but you were here to fill in weren't you?

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 19:56, closed)
I'm self-aware.

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:55, closed)
Hello, Skynet.
Fancy a game of noughts & crosses?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:11, closed)
Or at least a game of "Open the pod bay doors please HAL"

(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 12:17, closed)
noughts and pricks
Prick prack proe.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 13:59, closed)
Oh, dear.
I think the Doc is broken. Has anyone tried switching him off then on again?
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 14:15, closed)
yes?
are you sure he's plugged in?
(, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 10:09, closed)
What about if they can save your money on your existing phone plan?
It'll only take five minutes, I promise
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:24, closed)
If "round here" is b3ta
then yeah, you're right. Think you'll find there are more proselytising atheists on b3ta than proselytising Christians.
(, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 20:16, closed)

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