Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 18, 2016

Kate is at her best as her sister’s nemesis.

Did Wiley plagiarize this from a Trump-Cruz debate?

Because Earth isn’t really a planet. It’s a plane of Heaven that the astronomical bodies have been revolving around for a few thousand years. Duh! I thought every science-hating wingnut knew that.

Rember, don’t trust your eyes. Which actually IS what the Roman Catholic Church taught when it was known for thousands of years that the Earth, like the moon, was not flat, and the sun did NOT revolve around it.

I’m kinda surprised she admits the moon and planets are round, they look like discs hanging in space.

Oh true political believers do the same: La la la la laa – my point of view – la la la la laa – only my point of view – la la la laaa – only what I say – la la la la laa…

Oh, gee, and I thought the true believer’s logic defense system was based on blaming Oblamala la la la la la….and his Democratic folks……no matter what it is…

It seems to work for Trump.. err Chump.

I thought the true believer’s logic(al?) defense system was:Because God knows I’m special, so He makes everything the way I believe it.

Isaac Asimov did a lovely riff on this topic in 1957 called “Ideas Die Hard.” The story is more of a psychodrama than anything else, and delightfully constructed; it concerns two astronauts on a voyage to the moon that goes terribly wrong… or does it? I recommend it for a good read.

Isnt it Trump! or is it another of the losers that has the exclamation mark……

lol, the Right wing is so “precious” in their idiocy. so delicate and so deranged. too bad they “kill” those they disagree with. Survival of the craziest. lol

@everyonewhomakesacommenthere.LA-LA-LA-LALA-LA-LA-LALA-LA-LA-LAAA

Politicos, atheists, creationists using a comic strip to twist the conversation into being a statement of the other guys ignorance la-la-la-la ……. LA! (the last la was for me trying to explain this)

She’s acting like people who believe that Socialism actually works.

I wonder what Danae thinks about the theory of evolution.

I CAN’T HEAR YOU….

I’ve got these carrots stuck in my ears for a reason !

Danae must be related to my ex-wife.

Yup.Thats my family.

knew a person that held views that were outlandish and not correct. he believed that viruses and bacteria were the same thing. that people don’t need oxygen to breathe. women do not go the bathroom to expel bodily waste, but go to bathroom for sex. petroleum is naturally occurring and is infinite. tobacco doesn’t cause cancer. doesn’t believe in evolution, but gets a flu shot every year, and won’t vaccinate his kids. hates gays, but loves lesbian porn. believes in god, but swears, curses, and takes the lord’s name in vain all the time.

A connection was made, thanks to Kate. Sometimes logic is hard to take. Danae’s education is often reluctant to take

maps are flat: QED

Yea. I get this from internet atheist when I try to show them how their caricatures and straw men are wrong.

I just know I’ve had this conversation before…. :D :PFacts matter, dare to evolve.As for the Flat Earth Heads, they believe the earth is flat, but disk shaped. Kinda like paper maps, so figure they can work how Magellan circumnavigated the earth around that. Doesn’t make it true, but if you want to be dumb on purpose, sometimes it takes a clever approach to get around the intellectual approach. Of course, to believe that, they also likely believe that some giant guy throws his cloak, on which the moon, stars, etc. are sown onto, over the sky at night. Yeah, ok.As for me,I’m still giggin’ on gravitational waves. :D As they say at the Adler Planetarium, Science is Freaking Awesome!

People believe what they want to believe.A hard lesson I learned when I was teaching.

The discussion did remind me of the news reports when the first probe took pictures of the “back” or “dark” side of the moon. There was a lot of disussion about what might be revealed for the first time Man saw that side, and the photos weren’t very surprising actually.

Which, what percentage of folks alive today were around before the question was answered? How many folks don’t know a time when it was a “mystery”???

“Tcha, you know what? Uh Uh! La la la la…” – Vancom Lady, Mad TV

Yes, the earth is not flat. However, most people use so little of it at a time, it might as well be flat. When doing carpentry or laying out a flower garden, I’ve never taken the curvature of the earth into account. Rhumb lines work just fine.

Danae has discovered that they live on the Diskworld.

Reality can be such a pain.

Questions: the true weakness of fundamentalists, literalists, and others of rigid thinking. Ask them questions and watch them run.

Or any variation of that.