"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley

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The best way to respond to a MLM is with another MLM.

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Someone: recommend u this anime called yakitate
it makes u wanna eat bread

incidentaly this is a story about how ther eis french bread, english bread, german bread..but no japan bread..and so this boy genius go in search of making a bread taht is represenative of japan

it is damn funy and interesteing

Me: damn japs

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Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS (1974)

"This, of course, ignores the use of satire as part of political communication. Indeed, until the past decade or so, the Nazis were often portrayed as ridiculous and incompetent – and not just in "Hogan’s Heroes"; the tradition was spawned most notably by Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940). Frankly, I’m not sure that insisting that the Nazis must be portrayed as sinister is a step forward. I mean, first of all, they were ridiculous. The Nazis were some sort of cosmic joke – led by a deranged, would-be artist, and populated with various petty criminals, perverts, and drug abusers, all of them narcissistic and sociopathic. Second, from a political perspective, insisting that the Nazis must always been portrayed as sinister, menacing, and above all else, ruthlessly competent is problematic. As I mentioned in my review of American History X (1998), this message is more likely to recruit a generation of neo-Nazis than anything else. If you’re an alienated kid, sinister, menacing, and competent is precisely what you aspire to. In a weird way, the Hogan-Ilsa version of the Nazis as laughable and deranged is a more powerful condemnation. (BTW, you can apply this logic to other issues too... like cigarettes. I suspect that anti-smoking campaigns would be more effective if they used ridicule rather than dire warnings. I mean, is there anything more laughable and pitiful and a bunch of nicotine junkies bundled up against the cold or rain puffing away in the doorway of buildings on cigarette breaks? Commercials on that theme would be more useful than grimly worded threats on the side of packages. The message would be, it’s not so much that cigarettes will kill you as much as that they will make you a laughing stock.)"

I actually saw this for sale in JB.

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Catholic Apologetics International - The Geocentrism Challenge

"CAI will write a check for $1,000 to the first person who can prove that the earth revolves around the sun. (If you lose, then we ask that you make a donation to the apostolate of CAI). Obviously, we at CAI don't think anyone CAN prove it, and thus we can offer such a generous reward. In fact, we may up the ante in the near future...

Scripture is very clear that the earth is stationary and that the sun, moon and stars revolve around it. (By the way, in case you're wondering, "flat-earthers" are not accepted here, since Scripture does not teach a flat earth, nor did the Fathers teach it). If there was only one or two places where the Geocentric teaching appeared in Scripture, one might have the license to say that those passages were just incidental and really didn't reflect the teaching of Scripture at large. But the fact is that Geocentrism permeates Scripture. Here are some of the more salient passages (Sirach 43:2-5; 43:9-10; 46:4; Psalm 19:5-7; 104:5; 104:19; 119:90; Ecclesiastes 1:5; 2 Kings 20:9-11; 2 Chronicles 32:24; Isaiah 38:7-8; Joshua 10:12-14; Judges 5:31; Job 9:7; Habakkuk 3:11; (1 Esdras 4:12); James 1:12). I could list many more, but I think these will suffice.

Now, of course, someone will immediately object: "Well, we don't have to interpret these passages literally." Says who? The Church has made no dogmatic teaching saying that we don't have to take these Scriptures literally. In fact, Leo XIII taught in Providentissimus Deus (1893) that, in the first instance, Scripture MUST be interpreted literally, unless there is some compelling reason to interpret it otherwise."

Maybe Andrew Loke can try to convince them that the earth revolves around the sun.

Hopefully in 100 years creationists will be looking this stupid. Am I being too optimistic?