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Post by szaleniec on Jan 24, 2011 22:18:25 GMT -5
Found this in a fundie YouTube comment. I'm not sure it's quite main page material, but still...
There's no citation (do you really expect one?) and I'm inclined to call shenanigans. For the obvious reason if nothing else.
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Post by lighthorseman on Jan 24, 2011 22:29:05 GMT -5
Seems pretty standard fundie thinking though... X is bad, therefore, claim X leads to less babies. More babies is good, therefore everyone will believe X is bad! See all their claims about homosexuals being bad because if everyone was homosexual the species would die out. Very interesting book, by the way... www.sexatdawn.com/ that is all about just how promiscuous humans, as a species, evolved to be.
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Post by gyeonghwa on Jan 24, 2011 22:31:32 GMT -5
That's a bad thing because?
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Post by Sigmaleph on Jan 25, 2011 15:17:09 GMT -5
I could see a possibility... promiscuity could lead to more widespread use of birth control, though I don't know if enough to counter the increased unprotected sex.
In any case, more sex and less babies? I don't see the downside.
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Post by The Lazy One on Jan 25, 2011 18:54:59 GMT -5
Someone didn't pay attention in health class, or they'd know how girl get pragnent.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jan 27, 2011 16:32:16 GMT -5
Well. The birth rate in Ukraine is a lot less than the death rate despite attempts to steady the population. Such as the government offering child support payments. But that's all I know.
As for promiscuity. Looking around the US it seems it is the opposite.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jan 27, 2011 22:12:11 GMT -5
That's a bad thing because? Sweet, my country is a slut.
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Post by lighthorseman on Jan 28, 2011 7:35:43 GMT -5
No one gets born in Greenland?
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Post by gyeonghwa on Jan 28, 2011 12:46:17 GMT -5
No one gets born in Greenland? Everyone ignores Greenland
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Post by Random Guy on Jan 29, 2011 18:45:29 GMT -5
No one gets born in Greenland? They do, but Greenlanders obviously freeze to death/get eaten by polar bears at a rate that exactly equals the birth rate.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jan 29, 2011 21:11:42 GMT -5
People get born elsewhere then immigrate to Greenland.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Jan 29, 2011 23:35:19 GMT -5
Since the birth rates in the colour scale are all real numbers, it stands to reason that greyscale would correspond to imaginary numbers. So, obviously, people aren't born in Greenland, they are imagined.
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Post by matante on Jan 30, 2011 8:49:27 GMT -5
Does that imply that if you found a way to square Greenland, they would become negative people? Would they cancel out a matching number of positive people? I'm scared now, the world didn't need that new menace.
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Post by SCarpelan on Jan 30, 2011 15:44:02 GMT -5
Does that imply that if you found a way to square Greenland, they would become negative people? Would they cancel out a matching number of positive people? I'm scared now, the world didn't need that new menace. A solution to the overpopulation problem! Just have more people move to the Greenland and square it!
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Post by gyeonghwa on Jan 30, 2011 19:01:50 GMT -5
But you can't just square only Greenland. East Timor and Bhutan are gray too!
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