Time Cube and the BS on the Internet
So there is this guy who is a good representation of one bad thing about the internet. His name is Gene Ray and is the author of the Time Cube Theory. Dr. Ray (he bestowed a doctorate on himself. I wonder if my doctorate from University of Minnesota is worthless…) rants about how the current educational system is completely wrong. He, like many religious fanatics, tries to convince people he is right and everyone else is wrong by badmouthing the other guys. A few excerpts from his website should illustrate my point.
“Religious education is mindless declaration of ignorance, still maintained from its
ancient origin by dumb and evil humans.”
Educators are teaching doom. I charge academia, religion, media and government with a criminal act of collusion and conspiracy against children. USA on a path to cannibalism.
“Any dumb ass should know that a prime meridian does not just pass through the Greenwich point, but it also passes as a great circle through both poles, crossing the equator at 2 opposite points, dividing Earth into 2 halves of light and darkness, with each its own 24 hour rotation - in a single rotation of Earth. You should know that harmonic symmetry demands a second great circle meridian to create sunup and sundown corner quadrants? There are 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single rotation of the Earth. You may be too damn evil to accept it.”
”Time Cube discovery makes me wiser than human/gods. YOU were educated EVIL, &
too dumb to know about Time Cube Creation.”
“-1 times -1 = +1 is stupid and evil”
There are pages and pages of this stuff. His views are pretty overt, but more subtle websites exist, my favorite being Cubic Awareness Online. This one talks about how the combustion of hydrogen is the root of evolution. I think. This crap is hard to read in places. You can get a DVD with this guy’s lectures here, and even order a T-shirt. I just might have to get one.
Here is an interview he did once. This guy is priceless.
I am not sure why this stuff fascinates me, but it does. It is fun entertainment to see someone so tied to their (in my view, wrong) beliefs and try to prove them. These types of websites are everywhere. Did you know that evolutionists are just plain wrong?
As a college professor (with a Ph.D. from an evil university) I ask my students to do a small amount of research for some of their laboratory exercises. In some cases, they are asked to give the source of their information. On several occasions, I have had students give simply ‘The Internet’ as their reference. That is as useless as saying you found the information in ‘The Library’. Once, I had a student list as his reference (no joke) “My Dad”. When I asked him who his Dad was, he said “A professional scientist”. What the ….
At least back when information was only published in books, SOMEONE read over the material before it was published. Someone did a reality (bullshit?) check on the information before it got out. Yes, pseudoscience drivel was published before the internet, but now, with no restrictions on web publication, people can publish whatever they want to and say whatever they want to. Some websites are very convincing in their presentation. So much so, that the uneducated might just buy into this stuff.
How do you convince someone to take this stuff with a grain of salt? I like to think education is really the only way to give them a filter. I suppose we could extend this thought process to television advertising as well, right? That seems to be filled with half truths. You mean if I but this aftershave lotion, I get the girl? Cool!