Comments on: Holy I35 http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430 A Daily Digest of Twin Cities News, Arts and Culture Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:31:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: JACC http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128610 JACC Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:59:40 +0000 #comment-128610 <em>People can be manipulated into believing the most bizarre when they are unsure or scared. </em><br /> <br /> <A href="http://artofmentalwarfare.com/pog/covert-agent-speaks-out/">PsyOps</a><br /> <br /> And Cat, the first half of your comment cracked me up. <br /> People can be manipulated into believing the most bizarre when they are unsure or scared.

PsyOps

And Cat, the first half of your comment cracked me up.

]]> By: George W. http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128591 George W. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:14:23 +0000 #comment-128591 <em>People can be manipulated into believing the most bizarre when they are unsure or scared</em>.<br /> <br /> Heh! You're telling me! People can be manipulated into believing the most bizarre when they are unsure or scared.

Heh! You’re telling me!

]]> By: Cat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128588 Cat Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:05:12 +0000 #comment-128588 I just saw <em>The Mist</em> and Marcia Gay Harden's character, Mrs. Carmody is so annoyingly real that I can see how 45% of Americans believe the bibilical creation story. <br /> People can be manipulated into believing the most bizarre when they are unsure or scared. I just saw The Mist and Marcia Gay Harden’s character, Mrs. Carmody is so annoyingly real that I can see how 45% of Americans believe the bibilical creation story.
People can be manipulated into believing the most bizarre when they are unsure or scared.

]]> By: Mpls Simpleton http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128579 Mpls Simpleton Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:42:39 +0000 #comment-128579 <a href="http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/2004/US/724_public_view_of_creationism_and_11_19_2004.asp" target="_blank">National Center for Science Education</a><br /> <br /> Further explaination of the poll. You can be shocked too that 45% of the people in the US still believe in the biblical creation story as fact.<br /> <br /> By other gallup polls - A 2007 Gallup poll showed that as much as 66% of the US population believe "the idea that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years".[13]<br /> <br /> National Center for Science Education

Further explaination of the poll. You can be shocked too that 45% of the people in the US still believe in the biblical creation story as fact.

By other gallup polls – A 2007 Gallup poll showed that as much as 66% of the US population believe “the idea that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years”.[13]

]]> By: Mpls Simpleton http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128566 Mpls Simpleton Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:28:20 +0000 #comment-128566 <em>The museums target group is the <strong>45</strong> percent of Americans who, for 25 years, have consistently agreed with the statement in a Gallup poll that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.</em><br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/magazine/25wwln-geologists-t.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin" target="_blank">Rock Of Ages</a><br /> <br /> Guess I reversed the numbers. The museums target group is the 45 percent of Americans who, for 25 years, have consistently agreed with the statement in a Gallup poll that God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.

Rock Of Ages

Guess I reversed the numbers.

]]> By: Cat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128509 Cat Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:49:52 +0000 #comment-128509 That's it - I don't believe that the guy in the vid is gay. <br /> <br /> But it was funny that he felt "like he was on acid" every time the other guy said: "fire."<br /> <br /> Ya' Know, I don't have a problem with people believing what they believe, but why is it that they feel the need to convert my sorry ass? <br /> I am definitely not pickin' up what they're putting down. Plus, I like my ass sorry. That’s it – I don’t believe that the guy in the vid is gay.

But it was funny that he felt “like he was on acid” every time the other guy said: “fire.”

Ya’ Know, I don’t have a problem with people believing what they believe, but why is it that they feel the need to convert my sorry ass?
I am definitely not pickin’ up what they’re putting down. Plus, I like my ass sorry.

]]> By: JACC http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128502 JACC Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:39:28 +0000 #comment-128502 <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek"><em>Stereotype much JACC?</em></a><br /> Whenever possible.<br /> Stereotype much JACC?
Whenever possible.

]]> By: DouglasG http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128501 DouglasG Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:35:40 +0000 #comment-128501 <em>Also, can one's homosexuality really be "taken away?" And where is it taken to?<br /> </em><br /> <br /> You'll have to ask the guy in the video. He was once on "the gay" and now he is not. Apparently it had something to do with the word "fire" though. Also, can one’s homosexuality really be “taken away?” And where is it taken to?

You’ll have to ask the guy in the video. He was once on “the gay” and now he is not. Apparently it had something to do with the word “fire” though.

]]> By: Cat http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128500 Cat Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:32:11 +0000 #comment-128500 I'm fascinated by how they phrase things: "Get on Fire for God" and "Purity Siege." <br /> <br /> Also, can one's homosexuality really be "taken away?" And where is it taken to?<br /> <br /> That video is so like the movie<em>Saved</em> it's scary. I was waiting to hear them say they were "Kickin' It Jesus Style." I’m fascinated by how they phrase things: “Get on Fire for God” and “Purity Siege.”

Also, can one’s homosexuality really be “taken away?” And where is it taken to?

That video is so like the movieSaved it’s scary. I was waiting to hear them say they were “Kickin’ It Jesus Style.”

]]> By: yoder http://www.secretsofthecity.com/mnspeak/11430#comment-128498 yoder Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:26:03 +0000 #comment-128498 And by the title I thought this was going to be about Batman and Robin.<br /> <br /> Robin "Holy rusty metal, Batman!"<br /> Batman "Huh?"<br /> Robin "The metal, it's rusty, and full of holes."<br /> <br /> Cracks me up every time. And by the title I thought this was going to be about Batman and Robin.

Robin “Holy rusty metal, Batman!”
Batman “Huh?”
Robin “The metal, it’s rusty, and full of holes.”

Cracks me up every time.

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