gary v1 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Cool thanks. Â How do these things even get started? Â Wish I'd known this as the time so I could have challenged the guy, but it was the first I'd ever heard of it. Â I suppose anybody casting doubt on a record Jewish persecution is unlikely to entirely trustworthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.PeterVenkman Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I assume her drum kit was never used though as the old joke goes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briefcase Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Didn't recent information come out that Anne either died earlier than what was initially thought or much later? Not that it makes much different to the diary but thought I read something fairly recently that her time of death wasn't what it was made out to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Coconut Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 How do these things even get started?  People make it up and pass it off as fact in the knowledge that most of the time, like in your situation, it will go unchallenged simply because most people will not instantly know when Biros were invented or what Frank used to write with.  It's rife in religious circles too. There are plenty of stories of Darwin renouncing evolution on his deathbed and Einstein is constantly 'quoted' as saying the universe is only explainable if there is a God involved. Most people weren't there when Darwin died and haven't read much from Einstein, so it can quite easily be passed off as fact despite being absolute fannybatter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted April 22, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2015 Happens with everything. The atheism / Religion argument is filled with 'Hitler was an atheist'. People will find 'facts' that back up whatever they want. Sadly in the days of the internet people can find things to back up whatever they want and quote it as fact. Â Â Anyway, back on topic. The google doodle yesterday was Nessie and on one of the links it mentions a video filmed in (I think) 2002 by a postman from Glasgow thats been shown on TV but not been made available anywhere. Has anyone ever seen it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted April 22, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2015 Hitler wasn't a teetotal vegetarian either, while we're clearing these up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Teedy Kay Posted April 22, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted April 22, 2015 That's like when religious lot use Newton's Law of conservation of Energy to state there MUST be a god. Â 'If energy can't be created then what started the Big Bang when nothing existed to create that energy? Huh? Huh? ... God that's who" Â The fact that's been somewhat disproved now doesn't matter. That law they learnt in O-level/GCSE Physics that they latch onto far outweighs the scientific research carried out since Newton croaked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary v1 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I'm sure the 2nd law of thermodynamics is often used to try and disprove evolution as well:  'The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the state of entropy of the entire universe, as a closed isolated system, will always increase over time. The second law also states that the changes in the entropy in the universe can never be negative'  Entropy being the disorder of things they argue that evolution is a decrease to entropy and so doesn't hold up against the 2nd law.  Of course what they ignore is the 'in a closed system' part.  The external energy source of the sun would mean nature is not a closed system so entropy can indeed decrease, so again being very selective with facts to suit their argument.   NB I haven't done any chemistry since 2nd year uni though and even then I was shit at it so feel free to correct me here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Coconut Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 What they really, really ignore is the fact that finding something inexplicable doesn't mean god did it. It's the intellectual equivalent of 'I know you are, but what am I?' If they came up with a theory of god that was as robust as Newton's laws, by all means integrate it and test it. Otherwise, I posit that my foreskin did it. Prove me wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted April 23, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted April 23, 2015 'If energy can't be created then what started the Big Bang when nothing existed to create that energy? Huh? Huh? ... God that's who"There's a lad on the Britwres scene that believes trees swaying in the wind are evidence of God, as all movement has to start somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted May 3, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted May 3, 2015 So I know a lot of you enjoyed my piece on James Hydrick, the Kung Fu cultist and man no prison could hold. Well, he's just started speaking publicly about his amazing story, for the first time in over 30 years. Where, you ask? Oh... just on my blog, as a total exclusive. Here's Part I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted May 3, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 3, 2015 Fucking hell, that's awesome. Do you know if he's read the chapter from your book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted May 3, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted May 3, 2015 Yeah, he has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Astro Hollywood Posted May 17, 2015 Author Moderators Share Posted May 17, 2015 So I know a lot of you enjoyed my piece on James Hydrick, the Kung Fu cultist and man no prison could hold. Well, he's just started speaking publicly about his amazing story, for the first time in over 30 years. Where, you ask? Oh... just on my blog, as a total exclusive. Here's Part I. Â And Part II is now up, containing lots of interesting stuff about his Chinaman persona and heat from prison gangs. His first answer is the greatest scene to an unmade movie I've ever heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted May 17, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted May 17, 2015 Ahhh nice shout Astro, i'll have a read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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