This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it's mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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Tide comes in and tide goes out. You can't explain that.
Well, from someone who studied electrical theory in a 'normal' university, the author isn't completely off base in that we know what electricity is but not why electricity is.
science doesn't determine why, it determines how to the best of our abilities. why implies purpose and/or intent, which isn't something science measures.
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When was this written? Also, it's not entirely untrue to say that we know what electromagnetic force does, but not what causes it. They say it's a 'fundamental force', which is basically way of saying we can't further reduce it to explain in terms of other stuff. We don't know what any of the fundamental forces (electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces) really are - we can only describe their effects on the world with maths ('what they do')
It was apparently first printed in 1976 according to this page I found discussing it.
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Are they dense?? Electricity comes from the power outlet. Everyone knows that
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And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
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Found a site with some more fun excerpts:
https://1900hotdog.com/2020/10/learning-day-science-4-for-christian-schools/
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My Catholic school is more grounded to reality than this.
Grounded? That sounds like electricity talk, or should I say WITCHCRAFT?!
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I know people in my day to day who dont belive the earth is more than 2k years old, who believe there were never "cavemen", and dinosaurs weren't real. Baffling. This person is rich and has a ton of land. Education dont mean shit in freedom land.
We have caught the electricity monster into a circuit and now we need to keep it in a loop.
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