Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 19, 2017

Well, the earth is flat… in a roundish sort of way.

The third panel pretty much sums things up of late…..

In some areas flat, some concave, some convex…

You can get all the proof you want, at Danae’s search a lot…

This again? Someone please let me know when psycho-brat and her horse hallucination is gone. Sick!

Of course it’s flat. You would be able to see it on TV if it wasn’t.

Huffington Post; whole article on how they went to the Bonneville Salt Flats and proved it.

Too many ways to prove it round. Though for the longest time it was hemispherical. Just watch how things moving away seem to sink into the ground and those coming in seem to rise out of the horizon…

You have to have your discerning abilities on at all times. Some call it a BS detector.

Danae and Captain Eddie need to get together. Maybe he could show her the earth is not flat and she could help him expand his stories.

Like many, Danae seems to believe anything she is told by an ‘authoritative’ source. Too bad that term is rarely accurate when applied to anything reported by the media and much of what appears online.

The problem with common knowledge is that it is either knowledge but not common or common but not knowledge.

My fear is that Danae is referring not to anything even as questionable as the Internet, but to social media which is nothing more than, at BEST, a gigantic gossip fest.

The Earth is flat, but they say the global economy is improving.

We all know somebody…

One word, discipline.

Danae (and more than a few posters in here) probably should read “A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age” by Daniel J. Levitin. Plenty of humor along with the more serious material.

“Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.”

“As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you’re gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headaches…make you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.”

- F Zappa

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”

- F Zappa

V. M. Hilyer, about a century ago, explained in the preface to his masterpiece, “A Child’s History of the World”, that the point of his book wasn’t to teach everything, but to build in the child’s mind a “History” bookshelf large enough to file all his (or her) future learning in. That’s the real problem with Danae’s plan. True, there’s a lot of sheer garbage on the Internet, but there’s always been garbage out there: you need good teachers to teach you how to deal with it, wherever you find it.

Has she been listening to B.S.Spiceweasel again??

Yes!! The Earth is flat!

I saw that fact on Facebook.

It was posted by the religion-is-everything-and-the-bible-is-to-be-interpreted-exactly-as-written society.

She’ll be valedictorian of her class when she graduates from Trump U.

About all those false “facts” or “alternate facts” she gets off that phone, POTUS poison from those sites is bad for all of us.

the bliss of living in ignorance.

“Boy in a Band” made a surprisingly good song called “Don’t Stay in School” about how schools fail to teach what you need to know while filling your head with things that you don’t need. Some teachers commented and were sympathetic saying the state set the standards, not the teachers.