Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Are Gods the problem or the solution? (have a good laugh!)

God. I just couldn't stop laughing. I am not sure that I would like to ge a religion teacher today, and have to explain these kind of things to kids. But then again, if they're confused, it is because you are making them confused, so, what's the solution?
Anyway, if you want to laugh, see a lot more of these at friend.ac .
Also hilarious these ones found at Scribd.com, "they didn't study". There are so many good ones that i wouldn't know where to start from.

I was particularly impressed by this piece of literary art from Jeremy Levin (below). I would like to meet this guy. I am sure he has more interesting conversation than most adults I know. And his conversation may make more sense too. You have to really read his essay below.
As a Spanish speaker and latin person myself, I already started laughing hard when I read "El Nino is Spanish. It is the Spanish word for child. Like all things Spanish, it is dangerous" God. That was a great start, don't you think?! I didn't know we are inherently dangerous! But well, one learns something every day, they say. I also learned that:
"Warm water usually builds up. But not anymore with El Nino. El Nino moves the warm water from Australia to somewhere else, namely to other places. (...) These other places are to the east. Of the water"


Even on these small print, you have to make the effort and read it. On this essay author Jeremy Lavine also advocates for the utilization of less scientific and more God-oriented methods to fight climate change. He seems to recommend -for our future human sacrifices- to particularly pay attention to placate the acummulated but lately ignored anger of Peruvian gods. I think we should all pay attention to his words. For me, it makes more sense than many things I am hearing in the media everyday...

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

The quality of wikipedia entries

This is what happens when you let generations educated by TV edit articles that are supposedly informative. When you search in Wikipedia today the word "subliminal", among other gems, you find:
Many references deal specifically with the military. An episode of The Simpsons involved Bart and his friends joining a boy band, the Party Posse. While watching a video for the Party Posse, Lisa notices the phrase "Yvan Eht Nioj" being repeated continuously by belly-dancers. She plays the video in reverse and finds that it means "Join the Navy". Also, an Uncle Sam "I Want You" poster can be seen in the video frame by frame. The joke was that the United States sends subliminal messages in order to recruit people. In addition, the art of "superliminal messages" was demonstrated to Lisa;
Not that I have anything against cartoons, Bart Simpson, or Wikipedia editors. But come on, read the article, it is full of "citation needed" (I think it means the data has to be verified) and movie and tv trivia. Is this what one looks for in a source that is supposed to be "as good as Enciclopedia Britanica"? It reminds me of the "news" of the Spanish "newspaper" 20minutos.es.
It seems that the boundaries between news, knowledge and entertainment are more blur than ever. At the end of the Wikipedia article on "subliminal", there is -today- an anemic link to "further reading". And sure enough you are going to need a lot of further reading after visiting that page and getting nothing!
(UPDATE 9/4/07 - This entry today is "longer than William Shakespear entry" see what I mean?)

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