They definitely seem like they could be real. I'm not really sure how I could tell which were real and which were satire. (Most of the reviews were insanely negative, though.) I just had a hunch that these particular ones were being funny about the whole thing.
Congratulations! You almost made me have soup come out of my nose.
Beyond that lovely picture ... scarily, these people are REAL REAL REAL, even if these reviews aren't. My yaydee-friend (sound it out, it makes more sense) has an ex (her most recent) who really believes that the fossils were put as a test of faith. Seriously.
I cannot imagine having to pretend to take that seriously.
Oh, I can. I was totally taught that shit as a kid. Of course, I didn't believe it, never have, which is probably why it took all of one philosophy course to crumble my faith. But there were lots of people who believed it completely.
I wish I had more insight to that mindset, but I really think that my parents, by not raising me to believe in God as a little kid, didn't lay the necessary groundwork for that sort of mindless belief. Which I suppose is actually a good thing. :)
See, I was raised with a faith (Lutheran), but they're very moderate. They deal with fossils and stuff by saying that the creation story isn't necessarily written in seven HUMAN days, but rather seven god days, which could be any amount of time as we measure it. Always made total sense to me.
Thank god for being raised fundie-less and, really, with very openminded parents, in terms of religion. They still don't love the pagan thing, but I think that they've taken it a lot easier than a lot of people would.
My poor parents. They got the pagan, queer, radical feminist activist daughter. They're still sitting in Montana, scratching their heads and trying to figure out how THAT happened.
Hehe. I imagine it's probably a lot like a tabby cat who gives birth to a cocker spaniel puppy. :) I think they (my dad and stepmom) just look at me and blame all of my quirkiness on my pagan feminist mom.
Anyway, they tried the God-days thing on us, too, but they said that it was known for certain that one God-day equaled one thousand years. Had they been a little more reasonable I probably would have believed it. As it was I thought they were full of poop and ended up just believing that God did indeed create the universe, and that evolution was his tool with which to do it.
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THE TRUTH IS OUT!, September 27, 2005 Reviewer: K. Hooper "The Truth" (Farmington Hills, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) Centuries of hard intellectual work, empiracal data, experimentation, research, and peer review by the most intelligent and educated human beings the world has had to offer has now been flicked off humanity's nose by cute pictures of panda bears and pseudoscientic babble!
Yes! It's so obvious! God just created everything -- then he stopped. He still pops by every few million years and creates something new, replete with a lot of junk DNA and vestigial organs! After all, every watchmaker crams the case full of useless old wiring and previous failed attempts at making a working watch!
Why didn't we see this before! Oh GOLLY! FIVE STARS!!!
Don't they get it? God is messing with our heads. He wants to challenge us to really have faith by putting something so believable in front of your eyes that it can not be denied... and then contradicting it with the book he gave mankind. The point God is making is that science should be denied regardless of how much sense it makes because our fate depends on it.
Didn't Bill Hicks once do a rant on this and the people he'd met that actually believed it?
Me, too. Although really, I think he'd be so furious with our lack of progress as a species that he might have ended up pulling a George Carlin. Anyway, I think I've heard the routine you are talking about. Fucking hilarious shit.
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it's hard to tell.
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Beyond that lovely picture ... scarily, these people are REAL REAL REAL, even if these reviews aren't. My yaydee-friend (sound it out, it makes more sense) has an ex (her most recent) who really believes that the fossils were put as a test of faith. Seriously.
I cannot imagine having to pretend to take that seriously.
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I wish I had more insight to that mindset, but I really think that my parents, by not raising me to believe in God as a little kid, didn't lay the necessary groundwork for that sort of mindless belief. Which I suppose is actually a good thing. :)
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Thank god for being raised fundie-less and, really, with very openminded parents, in terms of religion. They still don't love the pagan thing, but I think that they've taken it a lot easier than a lot of people would.
My poor parents. They got the pagan, queer, radical feminist activist daughter. They're still sitting in Montana, scratching their heads and trying to figure out how THAT happened.
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Anyway, they tried the God-days thing on us, too, but they said that it was known for certain that one God-day equaled one thousand years. Had they been a little more reasonable I probably would have believed it. As it was I thought they were full of poop and ended up just believing that God did indeed create the universe, and that evolution was his tool with which to do it.
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Reviewer: K. Hooper "The Truth" (Farmington Hills, MI USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Centuries of hard intellectual work, empiracal data, experimentation, research, and peer review by the most intelligent and educated human beings the world has had to offer has now been flicked off humanity's nose by cute pictures of panda bears and pseudoscientic babble!
Yes! It's so obvious! God just created everything -- then he stopped. He still pops by every few million years and creates something new, replete with a lot of junk DNA and vestigial organs! After all, every watchmaker crams the case full of useless old wiring and previous failed attempts at making a working watch!
Why didn't we see this before! Oh GOLLY! FIVE STARS!!!
AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Didn't Bill Hicks once do a rant on this and the people he'd met that actually believed it?
Man, I miss Bill Hicks.
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