• newIdentity
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        211 months ago

        When I was a kid I used to shock myself with these lighter igniter things all the time. It was fun and didn’t really hurt.

        • @A7thStone@lemmy.world
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          311 months ago

          True. I’ve shocked myself with those and put a nine volt battery to my tongue, neither of which are that painful and can be fun. I was more stuck on getting shocked by full mains current which hurts like hell and is anything but fun.

  • @Everblue@lemmy.ca
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    3911 months ago

    At first I had a lot of questions, but the Bible verse at the end cleared them all up.

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    11 months ago

    nobody has ever seen, heard or felt it

    I’ve done all of those things. Seen lightning bolts and heard their thunder, have heard the hum of transformers or the whine of the lines themselves and arcing bolts of electricity from broken ones or Tesla coils. I’ve been electrocuted both from static electricity, and once when I was cleaning lint out from behind my washing machine.

    You can see it. You can hear it. And you definitely can feel it. It fuckinf hurts!

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    Dumbasses never heard of lightning?

    Next week on Stupid Shit Evangelicals Actually Believe: “Men have one fewer rib than women, because Space Dad used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve. This cannot be disproven because there is no way to see inside a human body.”

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      511 months ago

      Not only have they heard of lightning, it’s in the Bible quote at the bottom of the page!

      Just baffling.

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2411 months ago

    What kind of jokebook is that? “No one has ever […] felt it.” - you git, just grab a life wire and hold unto it - the next guy you will be talking to is probably God.

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        711 months ago

        The contents of the rest of the page generates lots of questions and continually proposed that electricity is just a fluke and there’s no understanding of how or why. But the article was written by either an idiot or a liar because the reasons are known. Nuclear reactors are purpose built to make electricity. It’s safe to say that the vast amount of electricity on the planet at any given time is manmade and deliberate.

        The formatting of the page is familiar to all of us because it’s a common layout: ask questions, intrigue the reader, then show how a thing works to answer those questions. The Bible verse at the end is the button line that connects it all - it’s the thing that’s standing up the whole line that the page is describing. Electricity is simple and understandable but this textbook makes it out to be magic and then finishes the page by talking about a time when skydaddy make magic too.

        The entire thing is disingenuous and if you aren’t able to see that then you are either trying to sell people on sky daddy or you don’t know how page educational literature works.

      • @elscallr@lemmy.world
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        211 months ago

        Yeah but we literally know what lightning is, why it happens, etc. I’m no electrical engineer but I can tell you 90% of not only what electricity is but how it comes out of the walls.

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    2211 months ago

    Now I’m interested I want to know if they’re actually really dumb or if they’re just trying to make everyone else really dumb.

    Do they actually not know where electricity comes from.

    • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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      1311 months ago

      It comes across as someone who dropped out of highschool to become a barefoot pregnant wife, and sometimes hears snippets of science on the TV. “Some people think electricity comes from the sun!” Technically true, but not very accurate.

    • @Late2TheParty@lemmy.world
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      1011 months ago

      I half expected this to link to a video for the song The Electric Boogie. This was better.

      Also, the hand movements slay me!

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    If we don’t know what electricity is or where it comes from… How do we make all those wires splurge a bunch of it into your church’s organ where Mrs Abernathy plays the same two tunes every Sunday, eh?

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          Priest: “Dear congregation, we have gathered here today to honor our Lord and Savior. Today’s prayer is read by the 9 year old Kevin”
          Kevin: “BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOOD!”
          Priest: “And skulls for the skull throne, Kevin. Very good. Thank you!”

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        211 months ago

        Necessarily. It’s the same dude that had already wired up the bulbs when God said “Let there be light” :D

  • @ogoflowgo@lemmy.world
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    1511 months ago

    "Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.

    Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."