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In ancient times, there were people called Mycenaeans. They sometimes saw flashes of lights bolt out of clouds, causing a thunderous roar. They were unable to understand this strange phenomenon. It was just too complicated for them.
So what did they do?
They created a "theory" as a means to explain what they couldn't comprehend.
Evidently, the best they could do was say a guy named Zeus hung out on the clouds and threw lightening bolts at those he was angry at.
If a modern scientist went back and tried to explain the real explanation for lightening, they still wouldn't come close to understanding it. They just didn't have enough practical knowledge of the field. They would probably reject the scientists evidence, and stick to their Zeus theory. To the uneducated Mycenaeans, their version would be much more simple and easy to believe.

In the modern age, there were people called "truthers". They saw collapses of buildings live on television. However, none of them could really understand structural engineering and had probably never even seen a building collapse before. It was just too complicated for them to comprehend.
So what did they do?
They created their own "theory" as a means to explain what they couldn't understand.
Evidently, the best they could do was say that invisible, soundless explosives were used.
When the scientists tried to explain the real explanation for the collapse, the truthers couldn't come close to fully understanding it. They just didn't have the practical knowledge of the field. Instead, they rejected the scientific evidence, and stuck to their own amateur "explosives" theory. To the uneducated "truthers", their version was much more simple and easy to believe.

Just a little bed time story you can read to the kids.

anhailla

the sad part is..it probably is being read to some kids.

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...either I go, or that wallpaper does.

Oscar Wilde

MarkMiller

Definitely a Brother Grimm story!

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"The ram has touched the wall.....no mercy!"
Mark Antony, (James Purefoy)
HBO's "Rome"

Duvidoo

Didn't you ever see the original Fantasia movie? That whole period with flying horses, unicorns, satyrs and ol' Zeus flinging "lightening" [sic] bolts was way more interesting than tales of some guy who could change water to wine, raise the dead and walk on water ... wait a minute ... I bet some of you bought into that piece of mythology. Nothing wrong with a story if it's well written. Sometimes that's all we've got....

Duvidoo

Another story ... one morning in September, 19 men from the Middle East managed to abscond with FOUR airliners and fly them (with absolutely no opposition) into three targets of the World's Greatest Superpower (as that nation's Supreme Being listened to children read about goats and other pastoral subjects) ... the fourth airliner was wrestled from the bloody hands of the hijackers by valiant passengers with cellphones who all perished when the aircraft crashed into a field. It was all the work of a certain giant who lived in a cave and was attached to a strange machine (and who had a thing for Whitney Houston). Many years later the giant had still not been brought to justice but it didn't matter because the Supreme Being and his entourage had managed to get everything they had set out to get (including capturing a country that had had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the initial event that got this ball to start rolling). And they all (including the evil giant) lived happily ever after.

Duvidoo

And the Vice Supreme Being kept freshing up the story of how the Totalitarian Supreme Being of EYERAQ had aided and abetted the 19 martyrs to fulfil their destinies on the 11th day of the ninth month in 2001. (The adult version of this tale tells ... in x-rated detail ... of the wonderfully sex-filled afterlife of the 19 martyrs when they arrived at the portal of Seventh Heaven.) And so the World's Greatest Superpower demonstrated its mettle upon the penny ante dictatorship of EYERAQ and soon few were left standing there. The Supreme Being having heard that the Evil Giant also took a shining to goats continued to research their habits and habitat in the Boys & Girls Library in the nation's capital. To be continued....