Conservapedia talk:Schlafly Parable

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A homeless man was in a drug store to purchase a loaf of bread. Short on cash, he emptied all his pockets in order to scrounge up with every last penny he had. The cashier counted all the change and but found it was ten cents short of the total required for the cheapest loaf of bread.

The indigent desperately turned to the man standing behind him and asked him for a dime. The bystander clearly had a spare dime.

Should the bystander give the bum a dime so he can purchase the loaf of bread?

The bystander, who is generous by nature, did something more difficult for him: he denied the request and instead urged bum to "get a job."

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- Lardashe


And I'm trying to figure out how to do a homeschooling one.

Personally, I have to question this story. Where's the evidence that Andy is "generous by nature"? Sounds pretty far-fetched to me. --Kels 09:52, 10 May 2008 (EDT)
(Couldn't think of a decent first paragraph)
The child desperately turned to his mother standing behind him and asked her to put him in a regular school. The mother clearly could.
Should the mother give her child a decent education so he can escape indoctrination?
The mother, who is generous by nature, did something more difficult for him: she denied the request and instead urged the child to "get homeschooled."
The child then gathered all his hopes and left the house.
NightFlareSpeak, mortal 09:57, 10 May 2008 (EDT)
How about a kid who's desperately lonely, or realizing that his friends at public school are getting better education than his parent, who's not an experienced educator and is having trouble with some of the work themselves, can provide? --Kels 10:03, 10 May 2008 (EDT)
Nice try Kels, but smoking is not analogous to smoking in any rational sense. You couldn't dispute this any more than you could dispute that the sun and moon form a mitigated duality that symbolizes our place in the universe. I doubt that logic will hold you back, though! --Aschlafly 10:05, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

"A women had been fasting for several days, and was quite weak. It was Sunday morning, and she wondered whether she had enough strength to attend church. It would have been easy to justify not going, as she had already shown her love and devotion to God that week. But she decided to attend the services anyway. Without eating any breakfast, she prepared herself for the late morning service. She got dressed, gathered her purse and belongings, and drove off to the church.

The church was filled for the late-morning service, with many hundreds of worshipers. The woman sat near the back and watched the pews fill up with members of the community, young and old. The service was about to begin. The woman then heard an unusual commotion outside, including several loud noises and shouts. She turned around several times to look at the door to the church. Her intuition told her something was wrong.

Suddenly, a large man burst through the door and began shooting at the hundreds of worshipers, children and all. The woman mustered all her strength and pulled out her gun from bag. She then shot the intruder. Stunned, and expecting to die from her shot, the intruder killed himself. The worshipers in the church were all saved."

Moral: The woman was equal to males (Because, of course, men are 'so much better' than women in fighting and stuff) because she had a long enough gun to make up for her lack of male genitalia. Thus, guns are cool. And... Church security sucks. And after reading that, I really think that the Conservapedians need to lay off Hollywood. Even when bad movies are produced, and they are quite often, they still have better plots than that. -The Almighty Tuna 10:17, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

Don't we all, Andy? --Kels 10:57, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

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Oh, this one will never last. When I was first reading it, I thought the anti-Catholic vibe would hold it, but second glance reveals a "faith versus works" philosophy that results in the totally wrong moral: You can't wait around on your ass for Jeazzy Chreazzy to save you. No way this bit of "humanism" will be allowed to stay. --Arcan ¡ollǝɥ 11:35, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

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I've started a new article, "Rationalwiki take on Conservapedeia parable". Let's see what the rest of the Rationalwikians can add to the new article. Proxima Centauri 11:36, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

I removed it by accident,sorry. Proxima Centauri 11:40, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

As I said over there,
1. is the mispelling in the title intentional?
2. Shouldn't this have just gone in this article? humanUser talk:Human 15:24, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

Contents of vaped article were:

The child desperately turned to his mother standing behind him and asked her to put him in a regular school. The mother clearly could. The child knew that other children at regular school had more friends.

The mother knew that the children at the regular school were better educated. Should the mother give her child a decent education so he can escape indoctrination?

The mother, who is generous by nature, did something more difficult for him: she denied the request and instead urged the child to "get homeschooled."

The child then gathered all his hopes and left the house.

Saved here for posterity. humanUser talk:Human 19:39, 10 May 2008 (EDT)

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