This is a great example of how conspiracy theories are: There are some bits that are quite true, but they are connected in such a weird and completely wrong way that you wonder how it even came to this.
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That the problem with religions, they are not searching hypotheses to explain observed Phenomens, they search hypotheses to explain in what they believe, ignoring facts.
I was homeschooled my entire childhood. My mom was a Christian. Not a crazy zealot, just a woman with faith. Initially, my school books were through a Christian curriculum program (I believe abeka books, iirc). One of my textbooks had this module on dinosaurs, with little pictures of humans in leopard print look clothes picking berries while a brontosaurus walked by in the background. My mom, ever the fantastic mother, immediately tossed those pieces of garbage and got me on the state curriculum that the public schools used. Took her forever to get it. Initially, when she called the state to ask how to get those resources she was told to stick with abeka, and was offered several other insane religious options before they finally relented. From then on, even though we lived in Virginia, my school standard came out of California, and I had to take end of year tests that aligned with the state of California. I got a great education, and because Mama let me basically choose what hours of the day I did my schoolwork in, I didn't really need to take summers off. Ended up finishing 12th grade at 14 years old. I am so thankful that she realized how bad those books were, and fought to make sure, even as a single mother working well over full time, that her kids got a good education. My brother and I both placed highest in the state when we took our final exams, in everything but math.
What a coincidence! I had a very similar path! My elementary mis-education was largely a fundie school using Abeka as well. Their weird religious nationalism was so crazy when I look back on it. It's amazing they could actually publish this crap.
I wish I still had all the old books we had to get because that would make for a good laugh (and possibly an embarrassment campaign.)
Like c'mon we were kids how were we supposed to know? But also it just felt so bullshitty, like a written form of that awkward feeling you got when it was really obvious adults were lying to manipulate you and thought you were stupid.
It was in California, so eventually I had to move to the state curriculum also, around middle school, for my grades to actually count.
Honestly, that requirement saved my intellect. I went to a secular charter school where I was pushed into interacting with so many different people of different perspectives, and I would be a much crappier person without that experience.
Even today the damage isn't gone, there's still so much untangling and deprogramming to do.
These "curriculums" are child abuse.
After all that, I still kept my faith, not because of that upbringing, but in spite of it. That being said, I'm a Christian anarchist now. I make a point to counter this anti-intellectual, anti-Jesus, pro-fascist propaganda mongering wherever I can.
For what it's worth. . .I'm glad we both made it through the other side of being exposed to that slop.
If only my mom had had half the motivation to look after my education as yours did. Hell, even a tenth.
I didn't do bad, but I could've done much better weren't it for the hindrances that mom didn't care about.
Looking back when I was growing up I think the most nefarious thing about books like this is that printing gave a lot of implied legitimacy because it was expensive to print a book.
Speaks to how much money these people had to miseducate people.
My brother in America I have felt electricity and I can say exactly what it's like.
If you still don't believe though I will gladly share the secret of how to feel it for yourself. You need only bring a fork.
Used to live across the street from a Freewill Baptist Church.
Always curious about other beings mindsets, went and attended a service.
Walked through the main door and felt the trope of crickets chirping. No one greeted me, said hello, welcome, nothing. I was stared at but never acknowledged.
The service was strictly talking. No hyms or singing.
The sermon told me they are creationists that believe "Singing and dancing lead to temptation".
Point is their "educational materials" were horrifying. Mostly just fear mongering and advising self segregation from reality.
Now, i usually don't advocate for book burning, but this one is making a compelling case
slow down there bud. burning the book would release co2 to the atmosphere and only return ashes and heat.
RECYCLING THE BOOK enables it to have a chance at being a better book, a book not fulla shit. a book someone should read. The tree that was cut down to make these ridiculous pages deserves better.
But send a few copies to foreign museums. So your descendants in about a 1000 years can study their history ✊😅
Why is there a 4th book? The way this book teaches, they don't even need a class.
Electricity is the flow of electrons, (negative charge,) caused by one substance gaining electrons, and one substance losing electrons in a redox reaction. The thing that is oxidized loses electrons, and the substance that is reduced gains electrons. Oxidation is visible in nature via Rust. Water and oxygen gain electrons that are lost by the pure iron creating an iron oxide that is reddish brown. (Batteries have a + and - sign, hooking them up into a loop with a device creates the electricity that powers the device. Everyday batteries utilize zinc and a magnese oxide, but there are many other types of materials that are used in other types of batteries.) 25 years of this Christian faith homeschool bullshit; pretty clear why these dipshits voted trump.
That's electricity by chemistry. Electricity by physics is done by moving a magnet relative to a wire, for example as the alternator in a car does
Yeah, can you tell I went to school for chemistry? I hadn't even thought about electromagnets or explaining circuits, capacitors and V = IR.
Yeah, my high school was history, history, maths, and maths, at least year 11 and 12 I did double maths and double history. I think I learnt more about electricity when I got into amateur radio, the licence for that is pretty detailed
Ehhh.... That can't be right. And we gotta teach both sides.
It's not needed to explain electricity here, but needed to ban the Bible and religious faith from science and academic books in the US, because the US has too much (weapon) power in the world to let it in the hands of stupid and ignorant creationist people. 50% of cientifics in the US are foreigners and with the Trump policy and cuts of supports, a lot of these are leaving the US (4.000 from the NASA)-
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.
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?
Yeah it's not
I mean, this particular image might be, I don't know for sure, bit the content? Yeah, that's what the Bible thumpers wants taught.
Fuck Christianity, fuck all religions, it's the main cause of most of all suffering in world history
Unfortunately, this appears to be real.
And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
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.
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.
Boom! Science, removed! drops mic
Replace 'electricity' with 'wind' and/or 'moving air' and/or 'breath', and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought 'spirit' was.
De-energize an electrical panel, remove the panel covers, energize it and let them fuck around and find out.
So where does that put people who have been electrified? Did they simply die of terror because they thought they had grasped a live wire?