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Guess there are no Christian electricians then…
I think those ones are call magic smoke workers…
Electricians just need to know how to follow the rules, they don’t need to understand the underlying physics. Engineers, on the other hand…
But we do.
If you don’t have a working knowledge of your craft, how can you apply common sense?
As the generation that I’m from dies out, there goes the knowledge.
Good electricians might understand the theory behind it, but average ones just need to meet code without wasting too much time or materials. And to do that they follow patterns that work, patterns they learn from good electricians (or engineers).
Also, as an outsider, it seems like modern electrical code is designed so electricians don’t need to use common sense. For better or worse…
This is for real? How is it even legal?
Next chapter needs to be: “Fucking magnets, how do they work?”
I guess we know where ICP got their science education now.
I’ve definitely fucking felt it before, luckily only a little 120VAC tickle, but yea I felt it
I had that feeling… I never did it again. I am lucky it was a split second or I’d be dead.
As a kid, I used to purposely stick my fingers between prongs while plugging Christmas lights in in order to electrocute myself. It’s shocking that I came out from that unscathed.
Electrocution is electric execution. Assuming you’re still alive, you shocked yourself. Pet peeve of a former electrician, forgive me.
I share your pain. In EMS, I have to bite my tongue on every “electrocution” call.
Eh, you only get a little tickle from that. Now completing a circuit across your chest is a doozy. Would not recommend.
You felt god!
And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
I know people in my day to day who dont belive the earth is more than 2k years old, who believe there were never “cavemen”, and dinosaurs weren’t real. Baffling. This person is rich and has a ton of land. Education dont mean shit in freedom land.
We have no clue what electricity is, because we, the authors, are dumb as fuck.
And we say noone knows because we can’t imagine anyone could think on their own, and God forbid be smarter than us.
Nobody knew electricity could be so complicated!
Electricity is remarkably simple. Children make machines that can make electricity since all you need to do is chemistry or move a magnet relative to a wire. You can make electricity you can feel by rubbing a balloon on your hair
But surely that’s some old book and is no longer used to teach today, right? Right???
It’s been revised since this edition. I was homeschooled with the “for Christian Schools” textbooks (and was sent to college at the University that produced them) I was just young enough to get the newer editions as they were being rewritten, my cousins who were 4 grades ahead of me weren’t as lucky and had the version shown in the picture. The versions I had were slightly better, they at least didn’t have this particular nonsense in them. But they still all taught a very warped view of science, and I was in my mid-twenties before I stopped believing in Creationism. The last ~10 years since then has taken both a lot of work to learn about reality, but has also been quite a lot of fun. Science is really cool if you aren’t stopping all the time to try to fit God in somehow.
Replace ‘electricity’ with ‘wind’ and/or ‘moving air’ and/or ‘breath’, and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought ‘spirit’ was.
My Catholic school is more grounded to reality than this.
If it’s grounded then there should be no safety risk
Grounded? That sounds like electricity talk, or should I say WITCHCRAFT?!
So where does that put people who have been electrified? Did they simply die of terror because they thought they had grasped a live wire?
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Looking back when I was growing up I think the most nefarious thing about books like this is that printing gave a lot of implied legitimacy because it was expensive to print a book.
Speaks to how much money these people had to miseducate people.
I was homeschooled my entire childhood. My mom was a Christian. Not a crazy zealot, just a woman with faith. Initially, my school books were through a Christian curriculum program (I believe abeka books, iirc). One of my textbooks had this module on dinosaurs, with little pictures of humans in leopard print look clothes picking berries while a brontosaurus walked by in the background. My mom, ever the fantastic mother, immediately tossed those pieces of garbage and got me on the state curriculum that the public schools used. Took her forever to get it. Initially, when she called the state to ask how to get those resources she was told to stick with abeka, and was offered several other insane religious options before they finally relented. From then on, even though we lived in Virginia, my school standard came out of California, and I had to take end of year tests that aligned with the state of California. I got a great education, and because Mama let me basically choose what hours of the day I did my schoolwork in, I didn’t really need to take summers off. Ended up finishing 12th grade at 14 years old. I am so thankful that she realized how bad those books were, and fought to make sure, even as a single mother working well over full time, that her kids got a good education. My brother and I both placed highest in the state when we took our final exams, in everything but math.
