lmao if there is a near-perfect litmus test for how insane a person is - probe them on if they see a chiropractor and/or have any feelings about them.
Thankfully my parents both work in medicine - with my dad doing radiology so I've always known chiropractors are make-believe. But, for example - in high school - I knew a cheerleader who'd go weekly to her 'family chiropractor' (truly don't understand how, as a parent, you'd wind up bringing your entire family to a chiropractor and don't realize its a racket lol. how does your entire family have back issues? ma'am your son is 3) and surprise surprise she was also the one who spent 15 minutes silently crying at her desk with her hands over her ears when we hit the evolution powerpoint in 10th grade Biology while the rest of the class & teacher rolled our eyes collectively lol.
Reminds me of a talk I had with someone about evolution. I pointed out that you can see birds or bugs that are clearly related to eachother but different, they said those were just microchanges and that didn't prove anything, and I pointed out that those microdifferences would snow ball over time. Apparently no one had explained it to her in that way because she immediately had this look of genuine distress like her entire worldview had just come crashing down.
If I wasn't such a nice person I would live for that "Oh god everything I've ever been taught is a lie and I am alone in a cold and indifferent universe" look people get when truth comes cutting through that bullshit like a nuke through a slice of salami.
My friend's ex wife wanted him to cough up $2500 so she could take a Reiki healing class where you just hover your hands over someone and channel your Naruto chakra. She also believes there's child slave colonies on Mars and stares into the sun because there's a conspiracy telling us it's bad to stare into the sun.
That's cool I want to fire a reiki gun too like Yusuke and Master Genkai -- not sure about the sun thing though as someone who is currently suffering from a scratch on my eye
Thankfully I was not taught biology by a creationist but a super intelligent dude who was conned into doing Teach 4 America right out of school and hated all of us with a passion because 95% of my classmates and teachers were creationists lol
I fucking hate that program. They're trying to de-professionalize teaching (well, they were, because they've succeeded) so they can kill teachers unions, lower wages, and make it easier to teach all kinds of wacky Bazinga/Fash bullshit.
:data-laughing: He was my second favorite teacher in HS - had him for the 2 years he was in the program and he made sure to tell us every chance he got that T4A was shit and he wouldn't have chosen to move from Boston to our hick town of ~20,000 willingly. Dude did truly care about teaching - but you could see the pain in his eyes whenever a kid with a lifted kitted-out Ford F150 asked him why he biked to school if our town didn't have any bike lanes in the roads.
He was my second favorite teacher in HS - had him for the 2 years he was in the program and he made sure to tell us every chance he got that T4A was shit and he wouldn’t have chosen to move from Boston to our hick town of ~20,000 willingly
lmao if there is a near-perfect litmus test for how insane a person is - probe them on if they see a chiropractor and/or have any feelings about them.
Thankfully my parents both work in medicine - with my dad doing radiology so I've always known chiropractors are make-believe. But, for example - in high school - I knew a cheerleader who'd go weekly to her 'family chiropractor' (truly don't understand how, as a parent, you'd wind up bringing your entire family to a chiropractor and don't realize its a racket lol. how does your entire family have back issues? ma'am your son is 3) and surprise surprise she was also the one who spent 15 minutes silently crying at her desk with her hands over her ears when we hit the evolution powerpoint in 10th grade Biology while the rest of the class & teacher rolled our eyes collectively lol.
Reminds me of a talk I had with someone about evolution. I pointed out that you can see birds or bugs that are clearly related to eachother but different, they said those were just microchanges and that didn't prove anything, and I pointed out that those microdifferences would snow ball over time. Apparently no one had explained it to her in that way because she immediately had this look of genuine distress like her entire worldview had just come crashing down.
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If I wasn't such a nice person I would live for that "Oh god everything I've ever been taught is a lie and I am alone in a cold and indifferent universe" look people get when truth comes cutting through that bullshit like a nuke through a slice of salami.
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My friend's ex wife wanted him to cough up $2500 so she could take a Reiki healing class where you just hover your hands over someone and channel your Naruto chakra. She also believes there's child slave colonies on Mars and stares into the sun because there's a conspiracy telling us it's bad to stare into the sun.
That's cool I want to fire a reiki gun too like Yusuke and Master Genkai -- not sure about the sun thing though as someone who is currently suffering from a scratch on my eye
I personally think that creationists should not be allowed to teach biology
Thankfully I was not taught biology by a creationist but a super intelligent dude who was conned into doing Teach 4 America right out of school and hated all of us with a passion because 95% of my classmates and teachers were creationists lol
Only good teach4America teacher.
I fucking hate that program. They're trying to de-professionalize teaching (well, they were, because they've succeeded) so they can kill teachers unions, lower wages, and make it easier to teach all kinds of wacky Bazinga/Fash bullshit.
:data-laughing: He was my second favorite teacher in HS - had him for the 2 years he was in the program and he made sure to tell us every chance he got that T4A was shit and he wouldn't have chosen to move from Boston to our hick town of ~20,000 willingly. Dude did truly care about teaching - but you could see the pain in his eyes whenever a kid with a lifted kitted-out Ford F150 asked him why he biked to school if our town didn't have any bike lanes in the roads.
wow it's like real life AP Bio the TV show