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[–] [email protected] 102 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

Maybe the result of US education system

CHRISTIAN 4TH GRADE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK TRIES TO EXPLAIN ELECTRICITY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I've been shocked a couple of times, I think I have an okay idea of what electricity feels like

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As an electrical engineer, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I didn't know you can't work when the sun is down. Are electricians vampires?!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Don't forget holy water in your toolbox.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that really from a book that used to teach children? Holy fuckin hell. No wonder America got shittier every day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder whether the kids being taught by that book ever zapped each other with static

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

IT'S LIKE MAGIC!

Then they probably got punished for practicing witchcraft and dark arts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

If you really want to feel it you can, very easily. I have its quite the sensation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Christians are as fucking stupid as djt it seems

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Feeding the children since centuries

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

People have most certainly felt electricity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

People can also say where it's from.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Also thunder and lightning really ought to count as seeing and hearing electricity.

Hell, seeing anything at all may technically count, because electromagnetic waves.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Mistaking it for being touched by the hand of god, when they were trying to remove the bread from the toaster with a fork.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As someone who did this before knowing it was dangerous I got away with it a ridiculous amount of times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

How was your Operation game? I'm guessing you won a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your username seems to be weirdly accurate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It was not a title I chose but one I simply learned to accept.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

BRING IT FORTH

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

What a loser. Everyone who has watched the Pokemon TV show knows what electricity looks like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I threw up a little in my mouth...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Link to the book please, I can't believe this.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Fourth grade textbook published by Bob Jones University, and highlighted in a ScienceBlogs post by PZ Myers

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

I have a high degree of confidence this is real. Looks like the hard work of Bob Jones University Press.

I won’t disable my ad blocker to view the site, but there may be a discussion about it here:

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/christian_4th_grade_school_textbook_tries_to_explain_electricity

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I second this, it seems a bit too much on the nose to be real.

Edit: Omg, it's real.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Funny, that giving drugs to children is illegal, but shit like this not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wish people would give me all these free drugs, they're wasted on the children.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Those free drugs are mostly a lie, drugs are expensive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The reviews are hilarious