Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 21, 2017

She should be home schooled. In Greenland.

The truth is that everything you’re taught ultimately comes down to taking someone’s word for it.

GHEHSV41, not in Math, and not in science either…If it can’t be proven it doesn’t mean anything….

face facts, teacher. you are not going to win arguments with a kid. ain’t gonna happen … ever. they’ll make great lawyers … talk a lot but don’t say anything.

That’s all well and good for her to waste time in class, but what about that paradigm being used to (mis)-lead our country?

Hubby has a relative who firmly believes the world is flat, because the Bible mentions the “four corners of the earth”. This man is an Air Force pilot, and considers the photos, etc., of a round world to be from the devil, to test our faith. We think he needs his head tested.

This is a perfect representation of how politicians use misinformation to sway public opinion. They are like magicians using misdirection and sleight of hand. “Is this your card?” And the next thing you know we have useless legislation.

Danae has a GREAT future ahead of her writing for Breitfart!

Sometimes “Sit down and be quiet” is the best response.

Hilarious watching city folk try to define the actions of Southern farmers. “Must be ……. !” As if no other motivating factors (like farm subsidies) existed.

Once 3 to 5 tenth graders rehearsed and carried out a little classroom ‘play,’ in which one would ask a seemingly subject related question. When the teacher responded, the other ‘characters’ would pose ‘clarifying questions’ around the teacher’s response. The purpose, of course, was to kill a full class period.

Unfortunately for them, the teacher graded student evaluations on both grades and on how well they completed assigned work for a given day. Their end-of-session evals opened their eyes to the true cost of that ‘amateur dramatic effort.’

Just tell Danae she’s going to be sent back to kindergarten, so she can start all over again. That’ll change here tune in a hurry.

..and nobody is gladder to hear that bell than her teacher!

Someone please PROVE that the Universe was not created 42 minutes ago by the Flying Spaghetti God, complete with the fossil record and our brains implanted with the memories we presently carry.

Cannot be done.

If the world were flat, you still wouldn’t be able to see Europe from New York. As things get farther away, they appear smaller, and the intervening atmosphere causes haze, so they get dimmer, too. It’s not at all unreasonable for people from an earlier age to extrapolate these optical effects to an explanation of why ships at sea go out of sight as they sail away. But a curved Earth? What are you, nuts? Anyone can look around and see that it’s flat (more or less). And obviously the sun goes around it. And it only makes sense that the big rock falls faster than the little one. Geez.

It took the scientific method to disprove all of these “obvious”, “common-sense” perceptions. And we ignore the scientific method at our peril.

Ships, high flying planes and satellites would have shown we lived on a flat, square pancake. It didn’t so…

Never argue with an idiot. Just let him think he’s won and go on his way. Anything else is a waste of time.

They’re here!!

One day when I was in grade school, my mother asked me what I learned in school today. I said that whales don’t spout water like they seem to in cartoons, they breathe air. My mom said, “No, they spout water.” I said, “But my teacher says that they breathe air,” and my mom replied, “Well, your teacher is wrong!” Why does she even want me to go to school and learn things if she’s just going to second-guess things? If I were faster on the uptake, I would have suggested she go tell my teacher she’s wrong in person, then go to the local university marine sciences department to tell them they’re wrong too. After all, she’s the whale expert.

If the earth were flat. You would only say if the earth was flat if you were referring to one specific point in time when it suddenly pancaked.