A new Tumblr blog asks graduate and undergraduate students to submit their thesis in one sentence. Some cannot keep it to strictly one sentence, but that's all right, as long as it's short. The thing is, ask anyone about their thesis and they'll either talk your ear off or say it's too complicated to explain. When boiled down to one line, they become completely ridiculous. For example:
All I care about is food and I found a way to make it vaguely sociological.
When you collect oral folklore from your Southern family, you find out creepy things.
I spent 372 pages describing what Kafka meant by everything he didn’t write.
The government hiring people is a good way to bring down unemployment; we stopped doing it because we are stupid.
I stared at kids playing videogames to prove that kids like playing videogames.
Read more, or submit your own, at LOL My Thesis. -via Time Newsfeed
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Seriously, I had to crunch the numbers to analyze the effectiveness of my school's several alternative education programs for non-traditional students.
If you actually knew how science works, you'd realize that to scientists who actually spend their entire lives studying their respective fields, the word "theory" does not mean opinion, as you seem to imply. In fact, a good scientist rarely ever uses the word "fact," because the best that we humans can do is make conclusions based on observations, but rarely can we ever say that something is an absolute "fact."
To a scientist, the word "theory" refers to a PROVEN concept backed by evidence and repeated observation. There is absolutely NO evidence or repeated observation to back up creationism. None whatsoever.
The people who don't vote have the right idea, though not necessarily for their reasons. Voting is irrelevant because of, inter alia:
(a) institutionalized vote fraud,
(b) our problems being commercial in nature, thus being unsolvable via political means--apples vs. oranges,
(c) the foolishness of looking to politicians for solutions to problems we the people are creating,
(d) the citizenship requirement for being eligible to vote, U.S. citizenship being an inferior status, and
(e) etc., etc., etc.
These people don't vote.
You know young people don't exactly have good turnouts to vote, and honestly, do you think an idiot who thought the Titanic was fiction is going to be interested or even AWARE that politics are happening?
The same type of ignorance that believes in creationism and waves off evolution.
For heaven's sake, can you restrain yourself from bashing people's beliefs for one minute?
You can't compare the two at all. Titanic = fact. Creationism/evolution = theories. Not knowing about an incredibly well-known shipwreck does not equate to believing/disbelieving a theory.
Since then nothing can surprise me.
Humanity is doomed.
I wonder if these are the same people who don't believe men have walked on the Moon.