XPost: alt.astrology, alt.prophecies.nostradamus, alt.tarot
XPost: alt.divination
From: an@nymous.co.za
On 13 Jun 2004 22:39:25 +0200, Star Master
wrote:
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>What does it take to be a scientist in the 21st century?
>First you must learn to obey the following set of rules:
>
> 1) I renounce all faith in God. Anyone who believes in
> God is an idiot. The only smart people in the world
> are atheists. The only true scientists are atheists.
>
> 2) Jesus Christ is a fairy tale concocted by religious
> fanatics to brainwash and control the masses. There
> isn't an ounce of truth in the entire bible. Anyone
> who believes in such fairy tales is mentally insane.
>
> 3) Even though we know that the Catholics are nutcases,
> by sheer coincidence, we also dictate that civiliza-
> tions date back no further than only seven thousand
> years or so. There never was a global flood like in
> the "Genesis" fairy tale, and the world's sealevels
> have always been about where they are today--for at
> least the last several million years or so. Asinine
> rumors of "sunken cities" are pure hogwash. There's
> not a shred of evidence to support such foolishness,
> and certified charlatans like "Edgar Cayce" or "Nos-
> tradamus" were nothing but liars and frauds. Anyone
> who believes that human civilizations date back for
> hundreds of thousands or even millions of years are
> delusional freaks who deserve to be lobotomized. It
> is mandatory that scientists reject all such lunacy,
> or you will be excommunicated from our fine coterie
> of scientific atheists. Hold the party line or else!
>
> 4) Since "God" is nothing but a fairy tale for foolish
> nitwits, the universe and everything in it happened
> only by random chance. Humans are only animals like
> any other animal, they just happen to have superior
> intelligence over most other creatures--at least we
> atheists do. Of course, religious kooks haven't any
> real intelligence to speak of. They're all retarded.
>
> 5) I renounce any and all forms of independent thought.
> The only thoughts worthy of consideration are those
> which the scientific community of atheists agree on.
> Any scientific research which contradicts the party
> line will be summarily ignored and debunked. If you
> fail to renounce any such unauthorized work, you're
> going to be blackballed, and the only job you'll be
> able to hold will be washing dishes at a truck stop.
>
> 6) More than a third of a century ago, while Nixon was
> President, NASA sent astronauts around ONE THOUSAND
> times further into space than any manned spacecraft
> has ever been able to go before or since. Six times
> they made it all the way to the Moon and back--with
> no casualties, and not a sign of radiation sickness
> in any of the crew members. Don't you even dare say
> otherwise, since if you do, you'll be called a kook.
>
> 7) The great pyramids at the al-Gizeh plateau were not
> built by intelligent people, but by ignorant slaves
> under the heavy-handed whips of the Pharoah's goons.
> Only crude primitive construction methods were used,
> and they were built more recently than cir. 3000 BC.
> Today we could build even better pyramids if we wan-
> ted to, but we don't want to and that's why haven't.
> Anyone who believes what kooks like Edgar Cayce and
> Ed Leedskalnin said about the pyramids, then you're
> also a kook...you'll never find work as a scientist.
>
> 8) There's no such thing as "ETs" or alien "UFOs". Any-
> one who claims to have seen a UFO mistook Venus for
> a flying saucer. If you believe in ETs visiting our
> planet even once then you must be absoultely insane.
> Only kooks believe such fairy tales. Are you a kook?
>
> 9) Only since the days of Copernicus has science known
> about the sidereal orbits of planets. Those who say
> that ancient astronomers could see the planets move
> against the starry background of Earth's caelestial
> firmament is a liar and a fraud. Everyone knows the
> planets were thought of only as "wanderers" because
> ancient astronomers couldn't really see the planets
> move over days, weeks, months and years against the
> night sky. Obviously these ancient astronomers such
> as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Mayans, et al, these
> reptilian-brained oafs couldn't think, count or rea-
> son. Just because ancient astronomers commonly knew
> the sidereal order of the planets from the Moon out
> to Pluto, this is nothing more than odd coincidence.
> They were superstitious morons who believed in gods
> and life after death, and other ridiculous nonsense.
> Anyone who says the ancients could think, count and
> track the motion of the planets belongs on deathrow.
>
>10) Finally, if you want to work in a scientific profes-
> sion, then you'd better learn how to "play the game"
> by just playing along. It's okay if you want to sup-
> port the party line. Do that and you'll fit in. But
> don't make waves or rock the boat. Atheists are not
> capable of defending our position. That's why we re-
> ly solely on "peer review" for moral support. Other-
> wise we'd be required to actually defend our ideals
> with facts instead of our routine baseless rhetoric;
> and if it came to that--naturally--we'd be defeated.
> So be forewarned, you would-be scientist. We're not
> able to scientifically defend our positions. That's
> why we've defined science as only what we say it is.
> There's no science beyond the approval of our venal
> whims. Money decides what is science and what isn't.
> Independent thought is prohibited. It's that simple.
you were just rejected by which university?
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