Southern stupidity grabs the headlines again...

[Qdrop]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/23/volcano.movie.ap/index.html

IMAX theaters reject film over evolution

Some theaters in South believe 'Volcanoes' a tough sell


CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- IMAX theaters in several Southern cities have decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its references to evolution might offend those with fundamental religious beliefs.

"We've got to pick a film that's going to sell in our area. If it's not going to sell, we're not going to take it," said Lisa Buzzelli, director of an IMAX theater in Charleston that is not showing the movie. "Many people here believe in creationism, not evolution."

The film, "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," makes a connection between human DNA and microbes inside undersea volcanoes.

Buzzelli doesn't rule out showing the movie in the future.

IMAX theaters in Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas have declined to show the film, said Pietro Serapiglia, who handles distribution for Stephen Low, the film's Montreal-based director and producer.

"I find it's only in the South," Serapiglia said.

Critics worry screening out films that mention evolution will discourage the production of others in the future.

"It's going to restrain the creative approach by directors who refer to evolution," said Joe DeAmicis, vice president for marketing at the California Science Center in Los Angeles and a former director of an IMAX theater. "References to evolution will be dropped."

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why must the south embarrass us so?

READ, FUCKERS! READ.....

(something other than the bible...)

[Ace42]

The reason they like reading the bible so is that it is "ok" to not understand how it works.

Take racerstang, whenever he has tried to authoritatively talk about the KJA version, he has shown that his interpretation differs quite substantially from what the text *actually says*.

They don't so much read the bible, as just pretend the words mean what they are trying to tell you.

Fundamentalism is merely science for people who feel more able to blindly believe than actually understand. I know that if I were stupid, I might well be a fundamentalist christian.

[Qdrop]

They don't so much read the bible, as just pretend the words mean what they are trying to tell you.

Fundamentalism is merely science for people who feel more able to blindly believe than actually understand.

*sigh*

yep.

[Qdrop]

"mommy, do volcanoes make baby jesus cry?"

"yes, honey...they do. we won't be coming to THIS movie theatre again!"

[racer5.0stang]

Ignorance, is truly bliss.

[Space]

i grew up on a valcano that used to be underwater a billion years ago.

[racer5.0stang]

The reason they like reading the bible so is that it is "ok" to not understand how it works.

Take racerstang, whenever he has tried to authoritatively talk about the KJA version, he has shown that his interpretation differs quite substantially from what the text *actually says*.

They don't so much read the bible, as just pretend the words mean what they are trying to tell you.

Fundamentalism is merely science for people who feel more able to blindly believe than actually understand. I know that if I were stupid, I might well be a fundamentalist christian.


How do you know that you aren't stupid?

What example would you give support your accusation that my interpretation of the bible differs from what is actually written?

[Rosie Cotton]

"mommy, do volcanoes make baby jesus cry?"
Wait a sec, wasn't it you who said the whole "such and such makes baby jesus cry" thing had to end?

[ProfJIM]

How do you know that you aren't stupid?

What example would you give support your accusation that my interpretation of the bible differs from what is actually written?

Oh geez, here we go. The agruement that has no right answer, and will consume this thread like a mighty case of herpes.

*grabs popcorn*

[Rosie Cotton]

Oh geez, here we go. The agruement that has no right answer, and will consume this thread like a mighty case of herpes.

*grabs popcorn*
Hahaha!

[Ali]

Oh geez, here we go. The agruement that has no right answer, and will consume this thread like a mighty case of herpes.

*grabs popcorn* the agruement which seldom ends in agreement

More Southern Stupidity (http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050323freedom.php)TALLAHASSEE — Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida’s universities. According to a legislative staff analysis of the bill, the law would give students who think their beliefs are not being respected legal standing to sue professors and universities.

...

Students who believe their professor is singling them out for “public ridicule” – for instance, when professors use the Socratic method to force students to explain their theories in class – would also be given the right to sue.

“Some professors say, ‘Evolution is a fact. I don’t want to hear about Intelligent Design (a creationist theory), and if you don’t like it, there’s the door,’” Baxley said, citing one example when he thought a student should sue. Racer can go to School in Florida!

[ASsman]

How do you know that you aren't stupid?

What example would you give support your accusation that my interpretation of the bible differs from what is actually written?
Because it's in English... and he can read?

Anyways, yes ignorance is bliss. Thanks for pointing that out, funny.. coming from you.

[Qdrop]

Wait a sec, wasn't it you who said the whole "such and such makes baby jesus cry" thing had to end?

yeah...but only i may use it now.

[racer5.0stang]

Because it's in English... and he can read?

Anyways, yes ignorance is bliss. Thanks for pointing that out, funny.. coming from you.

This coming from the one who thinks Joseph Smith talked to Jesus.

So how do you like Burger King so far?

[racer5.0stang]

Oh geez, here we go. The agruement that has no right answer, and will consume this thread like a mighty case of herpes.

*grabs popcorn*


Thats funny! (y)

[ericg]

.. like Boo Radley down here.. like you wouldn't believe.. like a kidnapped Sasquatch with no way to leave.. the negative elevation that makes it hard to conceive(when will it give way to the sea).. quagmatic gasses that make it so difficult to breath... intel circuit shorts with the humidity seize... the south can't see past.. to begin to believe. the bush's they're diggin' it, don't you smell that foul breeze :( :)

[Ace42]

How do you know that you aren't stupid?

Because of numerous qualifications, born out by significant testing, etc.

What example would you give support your accusation that my interpretation of the bible differs from what is actually written?

There are numerous examples, however I don't see why I should be obliged to dig them out, as whenever I do, you totally fail to grasp the point.

RE: Me pointing out your and ill's falling out a while ago, and giving evidence, and despite it quite clearly showing him cussing you, you somehow maintained the position that you were on good terms, and then suggesting that it is *I* who has a weak grasp of the English language, something that is clearly false as, unlike you, I was able to follow what was said and use a reasoned and rational argument.

If I gave you an example, you'd just come up with another bullshit and nonsensical argument which is wrong in every single respect, and argue that black is white and that monkeys do not have opposable thumbs until the whole thread stalls.

In short, you'd persist in your errors no matter how much proof I have that you are wrong, and thus it is beyond the point where I need to furnish proof.

You have never offered any proof whatsoever to support any one of your ridiculous arguments based on faith, so that alone undermines and credibility you might delude yourself in having.

To put it in a way that even someone as stupid as you might understand:

You are wrong, and you are too stupid to understand why.

Just accept it and move on. If you do that, you might actually get somewhere, instead of staying in your downward spiral of ignorance.

Rest assured that I can offer large amounts of conclusive proof, just as I have on countless occasions before. It is not worth my time proving you are wrong when you just stick your fingers in your ears and go "nah-nah-nah-nah-nah, I can't hear you!"

To reiterate (Alas, I cannot put it any simpler than I have, so as usual I am left rephrasing the same simple message again and again in the hopes that repetition will make it sink in):

You are wrong. You have been proven *conclusively* wrong about so many things that you are never *right*.

You know *nothing* - therefore your opinions are worthless.

You are stupid, so even on the subjects you profess to know about, your opinions are worthless.

You are an embarrassment to yourself, your country, and to the whole human race.

Your ignorant dedication to misrepresented dogma does not mitigate your stupidity and worthlessness, which means you are an embarrasment to God, who is no doubt ashamed that his creation could go so disastrously wrong.

No matter what words you find in the bible that you think support your case, does not change the *fact* (and it is a fact) that you are wrong. The words do not mean what you think they do because you are *stupid* and thus unable to understand the meaning contained within.

Whatever you *think* they mean is beside the point, as because you are *stupid* and do not *know* anything, you are going to be *wrong*.

You're a joke, and the saddest thing is that you'll be dead when it gets to the punchline.

[racer5.0stang]

Because of numerous qualifications, born out by significant testing, etc.

Testing at the "special" school?

RE: Me pointing out your and ill's falling out a while ago, and giving evidence, and despite it quite clearly showing him cussing you, you somehow maintained the position that you were on good terms, and then suggesting that it is *I* who has a weak grasp of the English language, something that is clearly false as, unlike you, I was able to follow what was said and use a reasoned and rational argument.

I personally know Ill. It was a joke between us, one that you obviously didn't get.

You are wrong. You have been proven *conclusively* wrong about so many things that you are never *right*.

You know *nothing* - therefore your opinions are worthless.

You are stupid, so even on the subjects you profess to know about, your opinions are worthless.

You are an embarrassment to yourself, your country, and to the whole human race.

I never knew you cared so much Ace. *Sniff*

Anyways, no one this board cares about your self willed posts. The majority of your responses are centered around your superiorty complex that you are smarter than everyone else.

Granted, I will admit that you are a great deal more educated than I. Just because you have more knowledge than someone else does not give you the right to try and verbally brow beat them. Maybe you are just arrogant on this board because you can hide behind your keyboard and monitor.

You have never offered any proof whatsoever to support any one of your ridiculous arguments based on faith, so that alone undermines and credibility you might delude yourself in having.

Neither have you with all the assumptions and guesses that the articles have stated in which you have posted.

Whatever you *think* they mean is beside the point, as because you are *stupid* and do not *know* anything, you are going to be *wrong*.

I guess this makes my entire post null and void.

And yet you still strive to contend with me, in all of my stupidity and ignorance.

[Ace42]

Testing at the "special" school?

If by "special school" you mean prestiguous universities and colleges, not to mention Mensa, etc - then yes, very special.

I personally know Ill. It was a joke between us, one that you obviously didn't get.

No, it was him mocking you quite clearly. Obviously it was a mocking that *you* didn't get.

The majority of your responses are centered around your superiorty complex that you are smarter than everyone else.

Smarter than *you* - which has nothing to do with my superiority, and everything to do with your *inferiority*.

Granted, I will admit that you are a great deal more educated than I. Just because you have more knowledge than someone else does not give you the right to try and verbally brow beat them.

Being right gives you *every right* to tell people who are incorrect that they are wrong.

And you are wrong.

Maybe you are just arrogant on this board because you can hide behind your keyboard and monitor.

Or maybe you are once again trying to mitigate *your* profound stupidity by suggesting the problem lies with someone whom you have acknowledged is smarter than you.

Neither have you with all the assumptions and guesses that the articles have stated in which you have posted.

No, I have issued proof after proof after proof. Anyone with more than three braincells (that excludes you, obviously) would see these immutable and objective facts, and thus adjust their opinions to take them into account. You do/can not because you are profoundly stupid in a way that most people cannot achieve without surgery or exposure to excessive alcohol as a fetus.

And yet you still strive to contend with me, in all of my stupidity and ignorance.

Because, on the day of judgement, when you try to plead ignorance (which is no excuse under law, incidently) - God will say "but lo, he showed you the way. He gave arguments and undeniable physical evidence, but you persisted in your ignorance."

And then you will go to hell, and I will laugh while me and Jesus share a beer with the other people capable of free thought in heaven.

You see, heaven clearly would not be populated by a bunch of backward ignorant hicks. Sorry, but them's the breaks.

[Bob]

Ignorance, is truly bliss.

deep man, deep

[racer5.0stang]

If by "special school" you mean prestiguous universities and colleges, not to mention Mensa, etc - then yes, very special.

No meant special like, short bus special.

Smarter than *you* - which has nothing to do with my superiority, and everything to do with your *inferiority*.

No, I have observed your previous posts and all contain the same I'm better than you because I'm King Ace attitude.

Being right gives you *every right* to tell people who are incorrect that they are wrong.

Yes, but using your knowledge slander someone is not a right that you hold.

Or maybe you are once again trying to mitigate *your* profound stupidity by suggesting the problem lies with someone whom you have acknowledged is smarter than you.

I never said that you were smarter than me, only more educated. There is a differance.

No, I have issued proof after proof after proof. Anyone with more than three braincells (that excludes you, obviously) would see these immutable and objective facts, and thus adjust their opinions to take them into account.

Only proof that you think is correct. No one would adjust their opinion or stance on an issue using false information, which is what you have used in backing your opinions. Merely assumptions and guesses.

Because, on the day of judgement, when you try to plead ignorance (which is no excuse under law, incidently) - God will say "but lo, he showed you the way. He gave arguments and undeniable physical evidence, but you persisted in your ignorance."

You have tried to give evidences that God does not exist. So how is it, according to you statement, that God would reward you for lying about him? This is the age of Grace, we are not under law. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the New Testament would know that.

And then you will go to hell, and I will laugh while me and Jesus share a beer with the other people capable of free thought in heaven.

You see, heaven clearly would not be populated by a bunch of backward ignorant hicks. Sorry, but them's the breaks.

According to you, what you just described, does not exist.

I'm sure Jesus is real proud of you.

[ASsman]

This coming from the one who thinks Joseph Smith talked to Jesus.

So how do you like Burger King so far?
Heh, I do not believe in what cannot be proven. But nice try.

And BK is great, God made low paying dirty jobs for all Mexicans alike.

[racer5.0stang]

Heh, I do not believe in what cannot be proven. But nice try.

And BK is great, God made low paying dirty jobs for all Mexicans alike.


Well I guess you fit right in.

[ASsman]

Thank God.

[Ace42]

No meant special like, short bus special.

I know, I was using a rhetorical device to put you in your place. You were too stupid to get it.

No, I have observed your previous posts and all contain the same I'm better than you because I'm King Ace attitude.

No, you have not observed that because it is not true. Just like you pretend the bible says things that support your arguments (it doesn't) - you pretend my posts convey things which support this allegation. They do not, it is just one more of your dellusions that have no basis in fact.

My arguments are better than yours because mine are based in objective fact.

Yes, but using your knowledge slander someone is not a right that you hold.

That you are stupid is not a slander, it is demonstable fact. For example, people who aren't stupid do not make as many logic errors in their arguments as you, and are not convinced that things which are most definitely false are true.

I never said that you were smarter than me, only more educated. There is a differance.

Indeed there is a difference. However the difference is irrelevant. You seem to think that you knowing nothing somehow can make you smart. Actually, people who know nothing clearly cannot be smart. I am most certainly smarter than you will ever be.

You might think that you knowing absolutely nothing about the world is somehow "ok" or perfectly acceptable (because you are a hypocrit and an egotist, and probably because as a god-bothering hick you are surrounded by other like-minded <read: about to have their feeding tube removed> morons)

It isn't. The only reason you think this is ok is because you are stupid and know nothing.

No one would adjust their opinion or stance on an issue using false information, which is what you have used in backing your opinions. Merely assumptions and guesses.

See, this is why you are stupid. I have, on numerous occasions, given objective and undeniable fact to support my arguments and prove you conclusively wrong. For example, you think the fact that monkeys do not have opposable thumbs. They do, this is fact.

The only reason that you think this (and other examples too numerous to list) is "false information" is because you are stupid.

The information I give is NOT "false."

When you argue with these facts I use, you are arguing with THE TRUTH. And not "The Truth" in the sense that you use it (IE something that is made up and bears no relation to reality whatsoever) but in the litteral sense.

These facts are not assumptions and guesses, they are facts that you can go outside and test and examine yourself. If you were not so monumentally stupid, you'd know them to be true.

When you disagree with the facts I give, it amounts to you disagreeing that the Earth is round. These things are *objective fact* - which means they are, by definition, true.

The reason they do not agree with world view is not because THEY are wrong, but because *YOU* are wrong. Again, if you weren't an ignorant stupid egotist, the fact that every intelligent and educated person in the world knows they are true, and that you are the only person in the whole world who thinks differently would give you pause for thought.

However, *YOUR* monumental arrogance means that you deny the truth (for example, that monkeys do have opposable thumbs) in deference to your completely unsubstantiated dellusional belief structure.

You have tried to give evidences that God does not exist.

No, I haven't. Again, only someone as stupid as you would argue that. You can't even read simple modern English correctly, and you think that you have an understanding of the middle-english the KJA bible is in? Hah, if you weren't so pitiful I would laugh.

Once again what you say is WRONG. This is not an opinion, this is not an assumption, this is not guesswork. Just like the Earth is round, and black is not white, and monkeys have opposable thumbs, this is not an opinion, this is fact.

This is NOT arrogance, this is merely stating cold hard facts.

So how is it, according to you statement, that God would reward you for lying about him?

You are the one lying about him, therefore he will not reward nor punish me for something I haven't done. You *ARE* lying about him (again, putting hubris to one side for a moment, you have made claims about God citing the bible, and your interpretation of what has said has been quite different to what it litterally says. Unsurprising considering that your interpretation of what the posters here say is different to what they actually say) and therefore you should be much more concerned about your present state.

This is the age of Grace, we are not under law.

You don't even know that monkeys have opposable thumbs, let alone anything about the state of the age we are living in. As far as you concerned we are still living in the dark ages.

YOU ARE STUPID, THEREFORE WHAT YOU SAY IS STUPID.

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the New Testament would know that.

You do not have a cursory knowledge of the New Testament, because you are stupid. Therefore you cannot lecture anyone on this subject. You lecturing people about the bible is truly the blind leading the blind.

According to you, what you just described, does not exist.

Either way, you don't get into heaven.

I'm sure Jesus is real proud of you.

Your sarcasm not withstanding, I am amazed that you'd think Jesus would be anything but disgusted by someone as profoundly worthless as yourself.

[Rosie Cotton]

No meant special like, short bus special.
This is disgusting. How can you call yourself a Christian and say something like this?

[RT400z]

.

why must the south embarrass us so?

READ, FUCKERS! READ.....

(something other than the bible...)

Yep, down here they basically hate anything that has to do with evolution. You can't get mad at people by following the bible, though. I know some people who go to church everyday of the week and try to follow the bible word by word, but you can't get mad at people who think they are doing the right thing. These people are taught from the day the are born by their parents and the people around them that following the bible is the right thing to do. Personally, I'm not really religious, but you have to understand where people are comming from.

[ASsman]

Meh, if it was a cult of mass murderers, we wouldn't let them use that excuse. Why does this make any difference.

[Qdrop]

Meh, if it was a cult of mass murderers, we wouldn't let them use that excuse. Why does this make any difference.


(lb)


we live in a new world now....with internet, TV, phones, ect....allowing anyone to access any information, at anytime.
geography is no longer a barrier.....
and local environment (how you were raised) is fast no longer becoming a viable excuse.

all of these creationists have come into contact with FAR more viable theories on existance such as evolution, yet they turn a blind eye to it- preferring ignorance.
shame on them.

[RT400z]

Meh, if it was a cult of mass murderers, we wouldn't let them use that excuse. Why does this make any difference.

Uhhh, I think there is a difference. They are both based on ignorance, but I the the difference is obvious.

[ASsman]

Uhhh, I think there is a difference. They are both based on ignorance, but I the the difference is obvious.
Meh, ignore the fact that one is illegal.

[baltogrl71]

Yep, down here they basically hate anything that has to do with evolution. You can't get mad at people by following the bible, though. I know some people who go to church everyday of the week and try to follow the bible word by word, but you can't get mad at people who think they are doing the right thing. These people are taught from the day the are born by their parents and the people around them that following the bible is the right thing to do. Personally, I'm not really religious, but you have to understand where people are comming from.
What about school are the public schools not teaching about evalution? I learned about all of this in public school. I am Jewish I belive in my religion to a point I love the traditions, the history, but I also believe in evalution sceince is based on facts religion is based on beleifs and no one should be deprived of education and choice and that is why I can't stand these people. I let my daughter go to church with her freinds, if she had any muslim freinds I 'd let her go to a mosk why are these people so scared of learning about other things, because there are too many wholes in their story.

[racer5.0stang]

What about school are the public schools not teaching about evalution? I learned about all of this in public school. I am Jewish I belive in my religion to a point I love the traditions, the history, but I also believe in evalution sceince is based on facts religion is based on beleifs and no one should be deprived of education and choice and that is why I can't stand these people. I let my daughter go to church with her freinds, if she had any muslim freinds I 'd let her go to a mosk why are these people so scared of learning about other things, because there are too many wholes in their story.

Are you saying that they should allow evaluations in schools?

That is wrong on so many levels.

Oh, and I before E except after C.

[Ace42]

The idea of racerstang chastising anyone is in itself amusing, but the fact that he neglected to correct "mosk" was more so.

[racer5.0stang]

The idea of racerstang chastising anyone is in itself amusing, but the fact that he neglected to correct "mosk" was more so.

I left that one for you.

[baltogrl71]

sorry I can only get on here after I have worked for 18 hours and don't really check my spelling what ever do you get the point or not this is not a fucking grammar class or typing jesus.

[RT400z]

What about school are the public schools not teaching about evalution? I learned about all of this in public school. I am Jewish I belive in my religion to a point I love the traditions, the history, but I also believe in evalution sceince is based on facts religion is based on beleifs and no one should be deprived of education and choice and that is why I can't stand these people. I let my daughter go to church with her freinds, if she had any muslim freinds I 'd let her go to a mosk why are these people so scared of learning about other things, because there are too many wholes in their story.

I never said it was right. I'm just saying people should be a little more understanding than to straight out call them stupid. I was raised in the south and I did feel a little uneducated because I wasn't really taught about evolution. I think it should be taught, personally.