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kiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:01 AM Original message |
"Scientists don't know why a compass points north." |
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Dr. Death (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes we do! Because god wants it that way! |
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Giant Robot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
2. Sometimes you just have to say |
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kiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Indeed. |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:16 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. well, "making shit up" is what its all about |
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kiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. But they buy it, don't they? |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:48 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. I got an email from my sister a few weeks after the current occupier of the WH moved in |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
31. Simple. They're selling a product people desperately want |
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siligut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. Money washes away sins too. |
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peekaloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:15 AM Response to Original message |
4. Gee whiz, everybody knows about Santa's magnetic pole!!!! |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. luckily Mrs. Santa has an opposite charge |
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peekaloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:52 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Blasphemer! Those elves are snowflake babies! |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
7. Wow. Just when you think you've read the dumbes thing you ever saw... |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
8. Have you any idea how much paranormal research is conducted by NASA? |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:49 AM Response to Original message |
10. For people that spend all their time reading the Bible.. |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:31 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Because real stuff is just too haaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrdddd.... |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. LOL! Yeah.... |
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Mendocino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
11. Actually a compass doesn't point north. |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I wonder how fundies would handle a flip |
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Mendocino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 10:12 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. A flip will be a sort of " polarity rapture." |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
14. I think in fairness what the speaker meant was that we don't know |
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Mendocino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:51 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Simply stated, if you were standing at the south magnetic pole, |
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bettyellen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 10:18 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. have you heard that the polarity flips to an opposite... uhm charge every few hundred thousand years |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. well yeah |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:40 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. that is incorrect. There are indeed underlying natural laws & principles that exist |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. "Idealism proves more enduring and ultimately less liable to dogmatism." WTF? |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 01:04 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. What a dogmatic thing to say. NT |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 01:19 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. MondoJoe, if you read this. I love you. if only we could argue togther over beverage of your choice. |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 01:41 PM Response to Reply #34 |
43. I actually have no idea what you said |
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kiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-04-07 07:10 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Don't worry, I got ya |
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Aviation Pro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
15. Haysus Marimba.... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
17. American rule number one: Assume everybody is as stupid as you are. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
18. What they gona say when the compass flips? |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 09:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. that god is now a woman! |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. They'll call her a flip flopper, implore Congress to provide more war funding for the earth's |
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phaseolus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
25. As to why the earth's magnetic field exists -- |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 10:22 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. We know why the compass points to magnetic north... |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 11:56 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. The concept of "field" works - but this is likely a quibble about a concept/not a proof n/t |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
26. Oh I don't know, maybe the same reason that microwaves work? |
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tjwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
32. I expected to see Kirk Cameron's picture here when I opened this post. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
33. Actually, it's a pointer to God's toilet. He's gettin' old, ya know, prostate and all that. |
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OxQQme (694 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:49 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. If the magnetic field flips |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
35. Hate to point this out, but our magnetic poles have reversed more |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
38. The magnetic pole drifts slowly over time - is God rearranging the furniture? |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
41. This sounds like one of those "why do dogs lick their balls" jokes n/t |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-03-07 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
44. The other end of the needle points south |
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gollygee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-04-07 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
46. What is really sad |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-04-07 07:14 AM Response to Original message |
47. Oh yeah? Well, scientists don't know why things fall down either! |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-04-07 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
48. NO! The real reason a compass points north is |
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