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The best way to predict the future is
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a) educated guesswork based on research and a solid understanding of history, b) studying two-thousand year old scribblings of uneducated desert nomads, c) tarot cards, d) Astrology, e) the psychic hotline
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A
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The field of cryptozoology has led to the discovery of
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a) nothing important, b) BigFoot, c) the Loch Ness monster, d) chupacabra
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A
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World Trade Center 7 was destroyed by
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a) a combination of structural damage from falling debris and fire, b) a controlled demolition, c) time traveling Zionist leprechauns
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A
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The Earth is how old
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a) about 4.5 billion years, b) about 5,000 years, c) about 10,000 years
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A
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Anthropogenic global warming and climate change is
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a) supported by an overwhelming majority of all scientific research, b) a vast Leftist conspiracy to destroy the industry of the United States and bring down the West, c) a scheme to make money on solar panels, wind turbines, and documentaries featuring Al Gore
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A
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All Muslims are
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a) Muslims, b) terrorists, c) pedarests, d) violent, e) Arabs, f) misogynists
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A
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The Pentagon on Sept 11, 2001 was hit by
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a) a commercial jet liner, b) a missle, c) a government drone, d) rocket-propelled unicorns
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A
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Speciation through Natural Selection (Evolution) is
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a) a Scientific Theory so amply supported by all available evidence that biologists treat it as fact, b) "just a theory" i.e. a guess- completely different from a Scientific Theory, c) a conspiracy by Atheists meant to discredit religion, d) lies from the pit of Hell
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A
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Americans are
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a) people much like any other, b) evil imperialists, c) under the thumb of a Zionist cabal, d) exceptionally stupid, ignorant, or uneducated, e) exceptionally racist, f) less informed than the average person about matters that do not concern them directly
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A
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Knowledge of modern science and/or current events can be found in this ancient text:
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a) none of the below, b) The Bible, c) The Koran, d) the Torah, e) the Adharva Veda f) the works of Nostradamus
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A
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Numerology is
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a) complete and utter nonsense, b) the key to finding hidden meaningful information in everything
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A
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The Rothschilds
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a) were a wealthy Jewish banking family, b) worked with Hitler to fabricate the Holocaust, c) instigated World War 2 to profit from it, d) control several governements in Europe, e) some combination of the above
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A
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The best way to treat an illness is
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a) modern Western medicine, b) Homeopathy, c) prayer, d) blood-letting, e) power crystals, f) magnets, g) spinal alignment, h) ground tiger testicle, i) laughter, j) acupuncture, k) fasting or a toxin flush
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A
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Atheism is
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a) a position on a single question, b) a religion, c) selfish people just trying to fool themselves, d) a militant political ideology e) a Statist plot, f) Satanic
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A
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Osama bin Laden was
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a) A Saudi national, Muslim jihadist, and terrorist largely responsible for 9/11 and other attacks killed by Navy SEALS in Pakistan, b) a CIA operative, c) Jewish, d) made-up, e) killed long before May 2, 2011, f) never killed at all
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A
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Race is
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a) an almost farcical, largely useless, near completely arbitrary social construct, b) best put into the three categories of White Black and Asian, c) a sound method of dividing up people for the purpose of creating prosperous societies and avoiding miscegenation.
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A
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The best country is
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a) none of the below, b) America, c) Australia, d) the United Kingdom, e) Thailand, f) France
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E
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Cons: a bit conservative, corrupt obscenely wealthy king considering how poor the country is, widespread poverty, Bangkok humidity, dirty backpackers and sex tourists, too religious (though, if you're forced to pick one of the major ones, I guess Buddhism is the way to go), censorship, civic unrest, Muslim terrorists in the south, Gulf residents taking over the area around Soi 4, unrealistically high condo prices, being expected to stand for the king's song before movies, few good-paying jobs.
Bangkok is still more or less the same though the girls on Soi Nana are not as pretty as they used the be and the bars not as lively or interesting. Prices on everything have gone up but not as much as in Phuket. But there are more clean and upscale shopping and dining areas.
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D(ridiculous)
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Also, since the real age of the Earth is 4.5 billion years you don't think "about 5000 years" is close enough to "4014 years?" 986 years is pretty inconsequential in geological or astronomic terms. To quote Mr. Richard Dawkins, "If somebody believes that the world is only a few thousand years old, when the true age of the Earth is of the order of a few billion years old, that means they are out by a factor of... a million. Which is not a trivial error! It's equivalent to believing the distance from New York to San Francisco to be 28 feet."
For a more thorough explanation, see here
Still.... I think it's a pretty negligible number of people who think this way. I hope. I was trying to pick out things that are believed by a reasonable percentage of the population. By reasonable I'd say at least 10% or more.
The verses commonly cited apply more to a circle than a sphere, such as "the four corners of the Earth" in Revelation 7:1. This is most definitely just an expression for distant locations, the same as "the ends of the Earth" used elsewhere. Others like Samuel 2:8 and Psalm 75:3 refer to the "pillars of the earth". This is a single part of a larger metaphor, comparing the earth to a house and getting the point across that the Earth is God's creation.
If you take these verses fully out of context(I'm guilty of this myself), you don't receive the intention that was meticulously written by professional scribes using every possible technique to preserve meaning.
There's also the point that these books were written by people thousands of years ago. Even IF the Bible DID flat out say that the Earth was flat, of course the authors didn't know what the earth was shaped like, not for sure.
Watch from 27:15 to 28:15. And actually maybe the whole thing if you want, it is all pretty relevant.
I don't delete comments but QM wiped out everything posted by users who had not authored quizzes and were inactive over a year. Many follow-up comments were also lost in the purge.
"But if you look closely, you can see the FBI badge on their arm..."
"Those rocks are WAY too organized to be natural."
"Be sure to share this so the truth gets out."
People always project. I have no doubt that *you're* political opinions are in perfect lock-step with whatever is trending on Reddit or Tumblr (or X or Parlour?) right now... but... mine have never been. I've been a committed rational skeptic my entire adult life. My opinions *never* were popular. Not now. Not during the Bush era, which I'm guessing was before you were born. I've always been an independent thinker without a tribe who believed what was evidently true and advocated for what made the most sense. Liberal, conservative, or whatever.