Atheists Explain Why You Don’t Die When The Sun Goes Down
24 July 2008 by StardustMatt and Russell of the call-in show in Austin, Texas called “The Atheist Experience” have a lot of patience responding to a caller who has very little (if any) basic knowledge of science and how the human body functions. The funniest part of this is when the caller thinks that we get our electrical energy in our bodies from lightning and then asks what keeps us from getting electrocuted when we take a shower. Un-fucking-believable!
24 July 2008, on 2:56 pm
I’d like to know why Austin Texas has an atheist radio show and we don’t have one in the Chicagoland area???
24 July 2008, on 3:45 pm
Because Austin is the best city in America, yankee.
24 July 2008, on 3:57 pm
Twi, I’ve heard it’s one of the best cities to live in. Amazing that it is part of the state of Texas!
24 July 2008, on 4:37 pm
Gob, that was funny; thanks so much, Star! I needed a good laugh in the middle of deadlines…
I’m so gonna remember that question while I’m taking my next shower: why am I not getting electrocuted? Omaibod, it’s proof of God! Hallelujah! Glory be!
I mean, really…
24 July 2008, on 6:21 pm
Scoff at that caller if you will, but no more showers for me. Why take chances?
24 July 2008, on 9:45 pm
How can we take a shower without getting electrocuted?
Leave the toaster in the kitchen.
That is all.
24 July 2008, on 10:38 pm
I really have to give those guys credit. I could never have exhibited such patience and courtesy with anybody who was THAT FUCKING IGNORANT. I really hope that they don’t let him reproduce!
24 July 2008, on 10:59 pm
Amazing! This story, and the one in today’s news, about the crew falling asleep at an Air Force ballistic missile launching facility…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/air_force_nuke_codes;_ylt=AubiPInjHULAUNrmDNExoPys0NUE
WTF!…and a daily onslaught of many others…like the military being so desperate that they’ve been accepting, known, convicted felons; gives one…shall we say…
“pause”?
[Men O' pause?]
This uncanny Austin, Texas story also reminds me that when I first got on the Internet in late 1999, I had heard about the Austin group. It kind of amazed me then, during the 2000 (stolen) election, that, given Dubya’s, then, governorship there, that they would have such an active, already well established and nationally known atheist group.
Here’s a link with some of their ‘history’:
http://www.atheist-community.org/history/
Like Stardust says, why not Illinois?…
Why not…Sheboygen?
“Huh?”
Seriously…WHY NOT a national, universally distributed, cable channel on Comcast etc.?
(Here I go again with another “The Producers” line reference.)
Like Hans Leipkin(?) commenting, at the opening of “Springtime for Hitler”:
“Today Broadvay…tomorrow (global hand tweek)…
DA VURLD!”
25 July 2008, on 3:27 am
They podcast out the audio every week and I listen to it. If you think this is bad, just listen to some of the others. He asks them very good questions and most of the time the xian callers ignore it, usually by changing the subject. Luckily they aren’t like journalists who allow questions to go unanswered, so they ask the question again.
Eventually, they hang up.
25 July 2008, on 10:00 am
Man, that’s funny shit!
25 July 2008, on 11:36 am
just listen to some of the others.
Like Tina on evolution?
“Do you think we can evolve into like a hippopotamus?”
and when she says her friend tells her she “was thinking” that her background was like from a gorilla or something because every once in awhile she has a craving to eat a banana. Too funny, but pathetically sad at the same time because these people are so uneducated.
25 July 2008, on 3:47 pm
^ Very sad, Star. And that’s just how religion likes ‘em, wilfully ignorant.
27 July 2008, on 5:18 pm
Yeah, gotta give these guys their due, cos they really, really show a great deal of patience, even when teh stoopid is burning them.
Hey Star! Speaking of teh stoopid…Ed shut down his blog and deleted it from teh intarwebs. He had a spat with his buddy John Fraser and John stopped giving input and Ed couldn’t go on fighting teh evul atheists all alone.
27 July 2008, on 6:13 pm
Ed shut down his blog and deleted it from teh intarwebs. He had a spat with his buddy John Fraser and John stopped giving input and Ed couldn’t go on fighting teh evul atheists all alone.
Yay, VICTORY! It was all too much for him and he was always crying that his Xian buddies wouldn’t back up his ludicrous desire to see a national Xian church. Good he is gone, hope he stays gone.
28 July 2008, on 2:44 am
wow, “how can you take a shower without being elecracuted?” how dumbass could you possibly be?
28 July 2008, on 10:40 am
While I have to give the caller ten stars for being stupid, those two really botched up their explanation pretty thoroughly. “We get our energy from the sun” - yes, we do, but don’t make it sound like we run on freaking solar panels, guys. They had an opportunity to clarify matters with this guy, and instead the conversation probably added to his confusion. I can see where they were going with the topic, but there were some assumptions made about the caller’s level of knowledge that left a big chasm between his understanding and their explanation.
T
28 July 2008, on 11:25 am
Thomas, I too thought the hosts could have done a better job explaining to the caller about where we get our energy. If they are going to attempt to “educate” then they should be more informed themselves. I feel the caller was no more educated when the call ended. He was quite confused.