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I’m sure some people have felt electricity.
Spoiler: that shit can hurt
I have felt electricity multiple times. It is never fun, but you definitely can feel it.
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Your suspicions are confirmed. I have indeed worn wool socks and touched a metal item.
As a kid I one shoved dough hooks into an extension cord. Fun times!
Thank you for your service. 🫡
Yep. And it was no fun, I can tell you. But I definitely felt it!
At first I had a lot of questions, but the Bible verse at the end cleared them all up.
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nobody has ever seen, heard or felt it
I've done all of those things. Seen lightning bolts and heard their thunder, have heard the hum of transformers or the whine of the lines themselves and arcing bolts of electricity from broken ones or Tesla coils. I've been electrocuted both from static electricity, and once when I was cleaning lint out from behind my washing machine.
You can see it. You can hear it. And you definitely can feel it. It fuckinf hurts!
...Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
Dumbasses never heard of lightning?
Next week on Stupid Shit Evangelicals Actually Believe: “Men have one fewer rib than women, because Space Dad used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve. This cannot be disproven because there is no way to see inside a human body.”
Not only have they heard of lightning, it's in the Bible quote at the bottom of the page!
Just baffling.
Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Just like regular magnets, but... lewd?
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What kind of jokebook is that? "No one has ever [...] felt it." - you git, just grab a life wire and hold unto it - the next guy you will be talking to is probably God.
it says nobody has observed electricity, only to later mention lightning...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_speaker
You can literally see and hear it , you could even touch it briefly if you like.
The irony of this page ending with a bible verse that specifically references lightning ...
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Now I'm interested I want to know if they're actually really dumb or if they're just trying to make everyone else really dumb.
Do they actually not know where electricity comes from.
It comes across as someone who dropped out of highschool to become a barefoot pregnant wife, and sometimes hears snippets of science on the TV. "Some people think electricity comes from the sun!" Technically true, but not very accurate.
Why not both?
TV comes on, TV goes off. You can't explain that.
It’s the effing dog, sitting on the remote
I think this actually explains electricity pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEPnKYX5C0
I half expected this to link to a video for the song The Electric Boogie. This was better.
Also, the hand movements slay me!
If we don't know what electricity is or where it comes from... How do we make all those wires splurge a bunch of it into your church's organ where Mrs Abernathy plays the same two tunes every Sunday, eh?
"Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."
Checkmate, atheists!
W T F
You'd know you'd felt - and probably seen/heard - electricity if you ate a nice big arc of it. Not even counting lightning; I've seen high voltage arc several meters in a nice blinding line that would kill anyone it touched fucking dead. Maybe whoever wrote that nonsense should try it out for themselves. Even 120 from an outlet would do - it'll certainly wake you up in the morning.
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I really want to know the title of this book
It's a "Science" textbook for Christian schools (although probably more often used in Christian home-schools) published by Bob Jones University. I don't remember exactly what grade it's for, although 2nd or 3rd seems about right. I'm only remembering bits about it from seeing this posted elsewhere online. Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents and had the 2nd edition of this textbook around 25 years ago when I was in that grade. IIRC it had improved a bit by then, but it was still similarly shallow and had just as much religion sprinkled throughout.
You forgot to put "University" in quotes. Any place that produced or endorses such a book should geht their credentials checked and possibly removed.
The sad part is: They are accredited and that won't change any time soon.
Although, I was one of those home-schooled children of Christian parents<
In my country we do not have home schools, so I am really curious and hope you don't mind the question: How is your education history - when did you get in touch with real science, what did you think about it and did home schooling have an influence on the career you chose?
Sure! Honestly, my home-schooling was better than most, my Mom was a state-licensed school teacher who taught in private schools, and when I was in highschool she became a public school teacher. I was homeschooled for every year except kindergarten, and was strongly encouraged to go to Bob Jones University for university - which I did for 3 years, before dropping out and never finishing. Parts of my education were great, math, language, and any subject that didn't involve evolution or history that couldn't be considered as disagreeing with the Bible were generally good. In high-school, our parents got busy, and we used video classes, also from Bob Jones University taught by some of the school's professors, still didn't learn about the facts of evolution, or climate change, or history prior to ~6000 B.C.E. but at least the physics and biology we got still taught things like biological taxonomy, and basic atomic theory.
The most we talked about evolutionary biology was to note that it was a thing that most people believed, but that God made the world in 6 days, but that scientists eyes were blinded by wanting to not be accountable to a creator, so they invented evolution to poorly explain how we got here. And since God made the world, he wouldn't let it be destroyed, so there's no way human-caused climate change could be real.
It wasn't until after I had been out of university for a couple of years that I started to come around on climate change (in part due to a Veritasium video on YouTube debunking a lot of the claims I had been told) and I started to realize how poor my education had been. I do think being home-schooled helped me learn how to teach myself, and I really do enjoy learning - especially about the topics that were kept from me.
As far as the career, I was heavily encouraged to do something that was in some kind of "Christian ministry." I dropped out of university partly over disagreements about that. So yeah, had I gone to proper school, it's likely my career would have gone in a different direction.
🏆 Wholesomeness award. May your story serve as inspiration for others. To follow in your footsteps, to put in the effort of seeking the education that was denied, to dedicate life to learning and growing as a person and to look at the past with wisdom instead of bitterness.
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Someone needs to show whoever wrote this lightning and tesla coils
Let me guess: America.
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