It’s in the Bible.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:
Metric scales are incredibly simple. There’s a reason the whole world uses it (minus a few select retarded countries).
From one scale to the next it’s by factors of ten.
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Come on, now, there’s a good reason the metric system was not popularly adopted in the United States. As you are probably aware, the meter is one ten-thousandth of the length of a curved line drawn between the equator and the North Pole, passing through Paris.
As there is no mention of the North Pole, the Equator or Paris in the Bible, let alone the concept of a spherical earth, the existence of these things is regarded as “just a theory” by most Americans, and any system of measurement based on such shaky ground is widely regarded as suspect, if not actually invented by the Devil.
Many schools will mention the metric system in passing, to teach the controversy, but the only people who actually believe in the metric system are scientists and other atheists. [/quote]
Ha, that was great.[/quote]
Except the part about the lack of mention in the Bible of the concept of a spherical earth. He flubbed that one.
And it’s one tenth-millionth not one ten-thousandth. Otherwise the distance from Toronto to Ottawa would be about 5,000 hours.[/quote]
Oops. You’re right. Ten thousand kilometers, ten million meters.
As for the spherical earth in the Bible, maybe you can clear something up for me. See, I’ve never been to Israel, but I hear there’s this mountain, maybe Mt. Meron, that’s gotta be one helluva high mountain. I’m interested in this mountain because it says in the Bible that if you climb this mountain, you’ll be able to see all the kingdoms of the ancient world. To be able to see Rome, Assyria, Kitai, Indus… not to mention Mali, Nubia, and the kingdoms of the Incas, Mayans, Toltecs and Aztecs. That would be swell. I would have assumed that all these places would be so far over the horizon from the top of any mountain in Israel so as to be invisible, but apparently not. Heck, I was under the impression that even if you were in a spaceship in geosynchronous orbit over Jerusalem, you wouldn’t be able to see all of these kingdoms at the same time.
I know it has to be possible, because Satan took Jesus to this high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world. Right there in the Bible, plain as day. Tell me how this would be possible, assuming both a literal interpretation of these verses and a spherical earth. If Satan flew Jesus all around the globe in his private DevilJet, pointing out all the kingdoms, I could buy that. If he whipped out his iPad* and showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the earth that way, that would also be a plausible story. But the Bible doesn’t say that.
Also, the second coming of Jesus is referred to in the epistles as “the day of The Lord”. Now, nobody knows the time of Jesus’ arrival, so it’s hard to tell whether the “Day” of The Lord is literally daytime or nighttime. It does say that the second coming will come like a thief in the night, but that doesn’t mean Jesus himself will come in the night like a thief.
In the book of Revelation, though, we get a better hint. If we are to take this verse literally, then Jesus will come during the day, and it will be cloudy. I mean, he could come at night, and glow in the dark, but John doesn’t specify. What he does say is that everyone on earth will see Jesus at the moment of his arrival “with the clouds”.
“Every eye shall see him”. Now, if the earth were spherical, how could people on the other side of the earth see Jesus coming with the clouds? That’s just crazy talk.
Obviously the earth is flat. It’s right there in the Bible.
- Satan invented the iPad. If fact, the Fall of Man occured when Satan induced Eve to try the Fruit of Knowledge, which was an Apple. She later upgraded to an Apple II.