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2010-09-28 07:33:20
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
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Turquoise wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

I got 12 out of 15.

I missed the Jewish Sabbath one, the blood and flesh one, and the last one.

I'm not sure if that makes me better or worse than believers on average.
http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-re … ram-15.gif
Here's the breakdown.
Filter blocked it..   what's the rub?
standard bell curve peaking around 7-8/15.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
2010-09-28 07:33:34
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
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Turquoise wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

I got 12 out of 15.

I missed the Jewish Sabbath one, the blood and flesh one, and the last one.

I'm not sure if that makes me better or worse than believers on average.
http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-re … ram-15.gif
Here's the breakdown.
Filter blocked it..   what's the rub?
Standard bell curve, you did better than about 80% of people.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
2010-09-28 07:50:52
Beduin
Compensation of Reactive Power in the grid
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Which Bible figure is most closely associated with remaining obedient to God despite suffering?
In the Quran too
الشعب يريد اسقاط النظام
...show me the schematic
2010-09-28 07:51:26
eleven bravo
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isnt this shit common knowledge?
Tu Stultus Es
2010-09-28 07:55:40
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
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eleven bravo wrote:

isnt this shit common knowledge?
Pretty sure you'd have to know a Jew in order to know that their Sabbath starts at sundown on Friday.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
2010-09-28 07:56:12
eleven bravo
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I dont know any jews anymore bud I have seen the big lebowski
Tu Stultus Es
2010-09-28 08:05:35
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
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JohnG@lt wrote:

eleven bravo wrote:

isnt this shit common knowledge?
Pretty sure you'd have to know a Jew in order to know that their Sabbath starts at sundown on Friday.
i don't, i've known that for donkey's years
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
2010-09-28 08:20:45
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6851|North Carolina

eleven bravo wrote:

isnt this shit common knowledge?
The last one is pretty obscure...  I thought anyway.
2010-09-28 09:19:57
Blade4509
Wrench turnin' fool
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Of course nonbelievers would jump at the chance to prove they know more than believers. It could just be that the survey tested a bad group of people. After all, it doesn't say how many the survey tested. FFS it's not that hard to be educated in your religion.
"Raise the flag high! Let the degenerates know who comes to claim their lives this day!"
2010-09-28 09:21:36
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
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Blade4509 wrote:

Of course nonbelievers would jump at the chance to prove they know more than believers. It could just be that the survey tested a bad group of people. After all, it doesn't say how many the survey tested. FFS it's not that hard to be educated in your religion.
It was a sample size of about 3,500 people. Margin for error in a group that large is very small.

The survey of 3,412 people, conducted between May and June of this year, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points, while the margins of error for individual religious groups was higher.

Last edited by JohnG@lt (2010-09-28 09:22:35)

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
2010-09-28 09:24:57
eleven bravo
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the only thing i remember from stats class is that any poll that wants to be taken seriously has to be random and has to have a sample size of atleast one thousand
Tu Stultus Es
2010-09-28 09:25:11
Blade4509
Wrench turnin' fool
+202|5954|America
Perhaps I'm just surprised people who believe can be so blind to simple information about what they believe in.
"Raise the flag high! Let the degenerates know who comes to claim their lives this day!"
2010-09-28 10:06:57
Trotskygrad
бля
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eleven bravo wrote:

the only thing i remember from stats class is that any poll that wants to be taken seriously has to be random and has to have a sample size of atleast one thousand
bias squeezers ftw...

that's why a sample size of over 1000 is overkill...
2010-09-28 10:29:23
Ticia
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Most Atheists and Agnostics I know share the same background, religion was present in our childhood so we got the basics of (in my case Christianity) at Church or from our families. When we started having doubts we looked for answers in other faiths so we read a few books on Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and so on. Buddhism for instance is a teenage dream.

So if you are a believer all your life it is common to only know about your faith since you see it as the true one.

On the contrary as Atheists we are always being asked to justify our position so knowing the basics of every major faith is again common and expected.
2010-09-28 11:41:23
Doctor Strangelove
Real Battlefield Veterinarian.
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Beduin wrote:

Which Bible figure is most closely associated with remaining obedient to God despite suffering?
https://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m182/DoctaStrangelove/GOBwithaJOB.jpg
2010-09-28 14:21:19
unnamednewbie13
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Trotskygrad wrote:

http://mobile.latimes.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=294&nid=23170009&cid=16686&scid=-1&ith=1&title=Nation

I guess you have to know what you're talking about if you want to criticize religion...
Or if you want to proselytize people away from it.

Fluff poll is fluff.
2010-09-29 00:27:00
DrunkFace
Germans did 911
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JohnG@lt wrote:

Here is the quiz for anyone that can't load the pages due to lagginess.

8. Which Bible figure is most closely associated with remaining obedient to God despite suffering? 

    * Job
    * Elijah
    * Moses
    * Abraham
Spoiler (highlight to read):
Job

9. What was Joseph Smith's religion? 

    * Catholic
    * Jewish
    * Buddhist
    * Mormon
    * Hindu
Spoiler (highlight to read):
Mormon

15. Which one of these preachers participated in the period of religious activity known as the First Great Awakening? 

    * Jonathan Edwards
    * Charles Finney
    * Billy Graham
Spoiler (highlight to read):
Jonathan Edwards
The 3 I got wrong.
2010-09-29 03:44:57
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
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Its always surprised me how ignorant people are of their own religion, and religious types seem to be more than ignorant of the details of other religions.

Think I got 12/15 right.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2010-09-29 03:45:34)

Fuck Israel
2010-09-29 06:18:14
Trotskygrad
бля
+354|6445|Vortex Ring State

Dilbert_X wrote:

Its always surprised me how ignorant people are of their own religion, and religious types seem to be more than ignorant of the details of other religions.

Think I got 12/15 right.
same
2010-09-29 07:02:13
Ticia
Member
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Trotskygrad wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Its always surprised me how ignorant people are of their own religion, and religious types seem to be more than ignorant of the details of other religions.

Think I got 12/15 right.
same
The less you know the more you believe
2010-09-29 07:12:44
Trotskygrad
бля
+354|6445|Vortex Ring State

Ticia wrote:

Trotskygrad wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Its always surprised me how ignorant people are of their own religion, and religious types seem to be more than ignorant of the details of other religions.

Think I got 12/15 right.
same
The less you know the more you believe
So Fox Mulder wanted to know less?
2010-09-29 07:15:02
Turquoise
O Canada
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Trotskygrad wrote:

Ticia wrote:

Trotskygrad wrote:


same
The less you know the more you believe
So Fox Mulder wanted to know less?
Well, conspiracy theorists do tend to know very little.  Mulder's cool, but that sort of thing only works in TV shows.
2010-09-29 07:17:48
Trotskygrad
бля
+354|6445|Vortex Ring State

Turquoise wrote:

Trotskygrad wrote:

Ticia wrote:


The less you know the more you believe
So Fox Mulder wanted to know less?
Well, conspiracy theorists do tend to know very little.  Mulder's cool, but that sort of thing only works in TV shows.
pff you don't get my logic...

Mulder's motto is "I want to believe" (last time I checked)

and if you go by the above quote... he wants to know less, because the less you know, the more you believe (see where I'm coming from?)
2010-09-29 07:21:43
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6851|North Carolina

Trotskygrad wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

Trotskygrad wrote:


So Fox Mulder wanted to know less?
Well, conspiracy theorists do tend to know very little.  Mulder's cool, but that sort of thing only works in TV shows.
pff you don't get my logic...

Mulder's motto is "I want to believe" (last time I checked)

and if you go by the above quote... he wants to know less, because the less you know, the more you believe (see where I'm coming from?)
I think the context of that motto was that the truth was being covered up and that he was being pushed into not believing by his superiors.
2010-09-29 07:37:44
Ticia
Member
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Trotskygrad wrote:

Ticia wrote:

Trotskygrad wrote:


same
The less you know the more you believe
So Fox Mulder wanted to know less?
From what i remember of that show his boner was more aliens. And Scully was the one you'd go for knowledge.

 

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