IgnoranceI 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?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Aug 2012, 12:30)
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You should be grateful for militant atheists like DawkinsFor 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.
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electric_goat, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:08,
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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.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 16:15,
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I get it, really, I do.However, they are bloody annoying, even when you do agree with them.
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