What are some doozies you've heard?

[Raganhildis]

What are some others you've heard?

Last year, I watched a show on the History Channel called Ancient Aliens. I was hoping to see some evidence for possible UFO sightings in ancient cultures; instead, what I got was probably some of the most mind-numbing conspiracy theories I've ever heard on television. Apparently, some of our ancestors had children with aliens, and said aliens are the cause of many world religions! Also, ancient people were capable of flight (think jets and airplanes), and the aliens used the pyramids to mine gold... or something. Oh, and the Egyptian gods were really human-animal hybrids created by said aliens.



I think my braid died after the fourth episode, but here's the episode list and their summaries if you want to check it out.

[Lokabrenna]

What are some others you've heard?

Again, not sure if this is a doozy or not, I just thought of something...
I've heard of the concept of a monarch representing sovereignty over the land that they rule. Some authors *coughEdainMcCoycough* seem to take this more literally and imagine that land was bestowed upon people by...having sex with the ruler.

Think about this for a second. How many nobles are we talking about, first of all? Is the ruler allowed to appoint a representative for the days they can't be around to boink people? Not to mention the STDs, oh gods the STDs! They would have been walking STD hotels! "No, thank you, Your Majesty, I'll pass on the land in favour of not dying a horribly painful death."

[Marilyn/Absentminded]

I think my braid died after the fourth episode,

You know something is bad when it starts killing your hair.

Absent - past my bed-time.

[Erinnightwalker]

"No, thank you, Your Majesty, I'll pass on the land in favour of not dying a horribly painful death."

You! Cake or death!

(Would it be muffins or death for the Queen? )

[Nomad of Nowhere]

Here's one I heard recently: our governor Perry is a job creator. That's not taking into account that the job growth is less than the growth of the work force.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...-force-growth/

There's a sci-fi novel about them: http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Silver-...2241006&sr=8-1



They also seem very anti-Pagan, as in this quote:

Nevertheless, these are pagan goddess forms in the sense of belonging to defunct traditions. The modern mind, with its political and progressist perspective, is likely to say "but aren't they only defunct because the Christians won?" The answer is in fact the reverse. The Christians won because paganism was already defunct. It was a religious system only half-believed, if believed at all, by most of its followers. It had degenerated into mere civic ritual and the legends of the gods and goddesses seemed to represent them as something little above human beings (indeed, in their moral behaviour, often below them).


From here.

I don't even want to begin to deconstruct that statement.

That one is a doozy, but an assumption that I'm fairly used to. One taken directly from the Christian playbook, and one that I've actually had to deconstruct for people many times. The worst examples of pre-Christian belief (Often exclusively from Greek and Roman polytheism) are used, and all of the morally questionable gems from the Bible are glossed over. The fiery struggles between pagans and Christians are omitted almost completely from our history lessons, and the victory of Christianity is virtually always assumed to be a spiritual one, never a politically motivated one. It's no real surprise to hear things like this: welcome to a Christian culture, and all of the interpretations of history that come with it.

[Lokabrenna]

That one is a doozy, but an assumption that I'm fairly used to. One taken directly from the Christian playbook, and one that I've actually had to deconstruct for people many times. The worst examples of pre-Christian belief (Often exclusively from Greek and Roman polytheism) are used, and all of the morally questionable gems from the Bible are glossed over. The fiery struggles between pagans and Christians are omitted almost completely from our history lessons, and the victory of Christianity is virtually always assumed to be a spiritual one, never a politically motivated one. It's no real surprise to hear things like this: welcome to a Christian culture, and all of the interpretations of history that come with it.

Well, to be fair, I think some Pagans tend to portray Christians as "teh ebils" who never did anything right historically when in reality, Christians fought tooth and nail to make sure that women had the right to consent to marriage (at least, that was the ideal) in certain areas. Maybe that's just part of the tendency to see everything in black and white, when it's more complicated than that. Maybe I've just been reading too many Pagan revisionist accounts of history?

I guess the lesson here is that humans will do both bad things and good things no matter what ideology they subscribe to?

[Nomad of Nowhere]

Well, to be fair, I think some Pagans tend to portray Christians as "teh ebils" who never did anything right historically when in reality, Christians fought tooth and nail to make sure that women had the right to consent to marriage (at least, that was the ideal) in certain areas. Maybe that's just part of the tendency to see everything in black and white, when it's more complicated than that. Maybe I've just been reading too many Pagan revisionist accounts of history?

I guess the lesson here is that humans will do both bad things and good things no matter what ideology they subscribe to?

Well, in theory Roman law demanded willingness too. Just not in practice. Cultures all over have accorded marriage rights to women. I think what Christianity brought to the table was the option of celibacy. I'm kind of split on that, because to a certain degree, I believe good and bad people choose their ideologies to suit their natures. At the same time, any ideology will change the culture it is propagated in, influencing people directly. It's sort of a 50/50%

[MadZealot]

The Freemasons are behind EVERYTHING nowadays! Honestly, having minored in Medieval Studies, I find this whole obsession with the Freemasons aggravating. They were a legitimate guild in the Middle Ages, for cryin' out loud! The more esoteric stuff didn't come into the picture until much later.

See, now stop that.
As long as people believe stuff like what you've said, my coffee refills are free and the cops don't pull me over for driving under the speed limit.

[MadZealot]

I think the stupidest one I've heard in a long time is the one where plastic water bottles contain hormones and steroids that will cause an otherwise straight person homosexual.

Except that might explain the way I love on my Perrier bottles.

[spoOk]

Except that might explain the way I love on my Perrier bottles.

!! O.o