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50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know

scribd.com — Certain parties don't want you to know certain facts. My girlfriend was an active feminist in the 1970s, yet she had never heard that the founding mothers of feminism opposed abortion. Small wonder, since their profile views are almost never mentioned in biographies or documentaries. Here are 50 things you're not supposed to know.

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  • caponumen, on 12/08/2007, -35/+1213. Many popes where nothing more than oppressive war lords.
    7. It is public record that the defense department had recommended fake 9/11 style attacks in the early 1960's.
    10. There are several instances of near nuclear world war, this not even the most serious.
    14. The existence of Israel today is proof Churchill was partially right and yes terrorist agitation helped to make it happen.
    23. Police are mainly corporate enforcers operating based on administrative code, not constitutional law.
    30. Assisted fertility will probably doom humanity, today if you ask a kid where tomatoes come from they will invariably answer: "the store". In the future when asked where babies come from the answer will most likely be" "the geneticist." Technology being brittle will certainly fail us some time to come resulting in an unsustainable population plunge.
    • jackkerouac, on 12/08/2007, -78/+21Wow, you really are crazy! And not just run-of-the-mill crazy, either - you're the special kind of crazy that gets their own special room.
      • nicholai, on 12/08/2007, -5/+34That must be why you are the one that is getting buried...
        • mike17032, on 12/08/2007, -7/+6Or it could be the ***** moonbat spammers using 20 accounts each to do it. Kinda the same reason you have so many diggs. You and the 4 other retards that gamed this story to the homepage and are jerking each other off in the comments should be locked away under state care where you cant harm yourselves.
      • Ephil, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4Yeah, the majority can never be wrong!
    • MaxPayne3476, on 12/08/2007, -5/+177Introduction
      01 The Ten Commandments We AlwaysSee Aren't the Ten Commandments
      02 One of the Popes Wrote an Erotic Book
      03 The CIA Commits Over 100,000 Serious Crimes Each Year
      04 The First CIA Agent to Die in the Line of Duty Was Douglas Mackiernan
      05 After 9/11, the Defense Department Wanted to Poison Afghanistan's Food Supply
      06 The US Government Lies About the Number of Terrorism Convictions It Obtains
      07 The US Is Planning to Provoke Terrorist Attacks
      08 The US and Soviet Union Considered Detonating Nuclear Bombs on the Moon
      09 Two Atomic Bombs Were Dropped on North Carolina
      10 World War III Almost Started in 1995
      11 The Korean War Never Ended
      12 Agent Orange Was Used in Korea
      13 Kent State Wasn't the Only — or Even the First — Massacre of College Students During the
      Vietnam Era
      14 Winston Churchill Believed ina Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy
      15 The Auschwitz Tattoo Was Originally an IBM Code Number
      16 Adolph Hitler's Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State
      17 Around One Quarter of "Witches" Were Men
      18 The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism
      19 Many of the Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion
      20 Black People Served in the Confederate Army
      21 Electric Cars Have Been Around Since the 1880s
      22 Juries Are Allowed to Judge the Law, Not Just the Facts
      23 The Police Aren't Legally Obligated to Protect You
      24 The Government Can Take Your House andLand, Then Sell Them to Private Corporations
      25 The Supreme Court Has Ruled That You'reAllowed to Ingest Any Drug, Especially If
      You're an Addict
      26 The Age of Consent in Most of the US Is Not Eighteen
      27 Most Scientists Don't Read All of the Articles They Cite
      28 Louis Pasteur Suppressed Experiments That Didn't Support His Theories
      29 The Creator of the GAIA Hypothesis Supports Nuclear Power
      30 Genetically-Engineered Humans Have Already Been Born
      31 The Insurance Industry Wants to Genetically Test All Policy Holders
      32 Smoking Causes Problems Other Than Lung Cancer and Heart Disease
      33 Herds of Milk-Producing Cows Are Rife With Bovine Leukemia Virus
      34 Most Doctors Don't Know the Radiation Level of CAT Scans
      35 Medication Errors Kill Thousands Each Year
      36 Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 Annually
      37 Work Kills More People Than War
      38 The Suicide Rate IsHighest Among the Elderly
      39 For Low-Risk People, a Positive Result from an HIV Test Is Wrong Half the Time
      40 DNA Matching Is Not Infallible
      41 An FBI Expert Testified That Lie Detectors Are Worthless for Security Screening
      42 The Bayer Company Made Heroin
      43 LSD Has Been Used Successfully in Psychiatric Therapy
      44 Carl Sagan Was an Avid Pot-Smoker
      45 One of the Heroes of Black Hawk Down Is a Convicted Child Molester
      46 The Auto Industry Says That SUV Drivers Are Selfish and Insecure
      47 The Word "Squaw" Is Not a Derisive Term for the Vagina
      48 You Can Mail Letters for Little or No Cost
      49 Advertisers' Influence onthe News Media Is Widespread
      50 The World's Museums Contain Innumerable Fakes


      Here you go so you don't go through PDF hell!
    • Dumbledorito, on 12/08/2007, -0/+7I doubt #30 will affect the globe, as the technology required to give that level of fertility service to the entire world just isn't feasible. In other words, there'll always be places where those scraping out a living have kids the old fahshioned way.

      Which doesn't discount mass kidnapping by first and second world nations hungry for new kids, so we can still be depressed.
    • Rkocour, on 12/08/2007, -8/+2Thanks for the headlines but i believe he was making a reference to the idiocy of this document. In fact i hate it alot. Alot alot alot. I would even explain why if i hadn't done earlier throughout this posts. I'm just going to bury and go on. Have a nice day.
      • Gimpishi, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1What? Be buried and go on. Have a nice day.
      • EricSchC1, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1I take no one seriously who thinks they know more than anything written down anywhere if they can't spell "a lot".
    • Dylson, on 12/08/2007, -6/+4Mirror: http://baysideproducts.com/store/images/windsor_ch ...
    • Lennalf, on 12/08/2007, -1/+8In response to #30: Woah woah woah! What's so wrong with geneticists? It's not like "Mother Nature" is some benevolent entity that will always provide us with exactly what we need to thrive. If we want to ensure the survival of our species, we must become masters of our environment.

      Science: IT WORKS!
      • TDot1980, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4Ahem...

        it's

        Science: IT WORKS, BITCHES!
      • ErrorBorn, on 12/08/2007, -3/+2Science doesn't ALWAYS work. How do you think that huge gaping whole got in the ozone layer?
        There's usually a few unforeseen effects caused by science.
        • MacEnvy, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1No, chemicals being dumped into the atmosphere caused it. Science did fix it, however (or rather is in the process of fixing it).
    • Skooma714, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1"3. Many popes where nothing more than oppressive war lords."

      Duh, anyone whose played either of the Medieval Total War games as Christian faction for 10 minutes knows this already.
    • Bamborzled, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1A while ago, this aired on "The Hour", a show in Canada on the CBC. The segment was called "Disinformation: 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know". I'm not sure if it contained some of the more controversial things in that list, but it aired.
    • volonix, on 12/08/2007, -1/+116 Adolph Hitler's Blood Relatives Are Alive and Well in New York State

      yeah, but what about adolf hitler's?
    • tehbored, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1I think caponumen has read Brave New World a few too many times.
    • nathanaver, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1#30 is way overblown. It's obvious from this person's spelling and grammar that they are not very sophisticated so I wouldn't expect them to understand this but basically mitochondria contain very few genes, not even enough to sustain themselves, and most of the ones they do contain are highly conserved because they have to do with oxidative phosphorylation and the electron transport chain, two processes with no room for error. Also, with regard to the two aborted fetuses with Turner's syndrome: it is not widely known that about half of all pregnancies spontaneously abort and most of those are due to chromosomal abnormalities (about 2/3rds of those go undetected) so a 2 out of 17 failure rate is not bad at all. By chance alone you would predict about 1 in 4 detectable fetuses to spontaneously abort.
    • vervalsing, on 12/08/2007, -0/+330: Yep, sex should be going out of style any day now.
  • DeskFlyer, on 12/08/2007, -9/+181Holy 69 page document, Batman.
    • carnag3aus, on 12/08/2007, -8/+2Keep this man at 69.
    • betterth, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2Wow, i just read the whole thing too. Very interesting, at least.
  • ironicsans, on 12/08/2007, -22/+254Here's another one:

    51. PETA kills animals.
    • aamer, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2how is that?
      • kesin, on 12/08/2007, -4/+3People that argue that peta kills animals are complete idiots and probably have never dealt with dying or abused animals. Do you even know what PETA stands for?
        • terminal157, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2Do you even know who you're replying to?
          • xptoast, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1I cant believe my comment generated recurring statements.
        • Victorioso, on 12/09/2007, -0/+2Yep - P-eople E-ating T-asty A-nimals
    • xptoast, on 12/09/2007, -1/+8People Eating Tasty Animals - P.E.T.A.?
  • BlueSkyfish, on 12/08/2007, -10/+58252. Using a series of tools, you can easily convert a PDF document into HTML
    • iLEZ, on 12/08/2007, -3/+62A series of tubes you say?
    • Dylson, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4Where does one find these "tools" you speak of, good sir?
      • wattersm, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2Just about any computer.

        pdf2text works great.
    • SLockhart, on 12/08/2007, -1/+0Using a PDF reader you can save yourself some time.
    • tyywebb, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1The internet is not a big truck!
    • toxicredm, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1The sad thing is, it looks like it was done in HTML and converted to PDF.
  • RegalGSX, on 12/08/2007, -12/+24553. By using Google, you make a top 50 list of anything.
    • wonderbyrd, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1This isn't from google. It is a book that I own. I think it was on clearance at Barnes and Noble.
      I'm pretty sure the author wouldn't appreciate their material being put online for some asshole to take credit for.
  • Wittyfish, on 12/08/2007, -2/+81I loooooove knowing things I'm not supposed to know.
    • Chirp08, on 12/08/2007, -1/+8Then don't bother reading this
    • FredSpeaking, on 12/08/2007, -0/+12Correction:
      50 Things of Questionable Accuracy You're Not Supposed to Know but Probably Already Do
  • whatthefu, on 12/08/2007, -8/+234Holy ***** dude why the PDF?
  • Alix7, on 12/08/2007, -1/+62I want to nuke the left side of that page
    • Karmavs, on 12/08/2007, -2/+11Click 'View Fullscreen' next to the title & stop complaining
  • mpn401, on 12/08/2007, -30/+156PDF SUCKS DONKEY BALLS
    • iiBeLiEvE, on 12/08/2007, -2/+88I CAN TELL YOU DON'T LIKE PDFS BECAUSE YOU'RE SHOUTING.
      • dellis, on 12/08/2007, -0/+54I CAN'T HEAR EITHER ONE OF YOU. CAN YOU USE A LARGER FONT PLEASE?
      • shaelen, on 12/08/2007, -1/+42Thanks to you guys, my eyes are ringing.
      • VPurpmalkV, on 12/08/2007, -1/+25LOUD NOISES!!!
      • vornan19, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2**fingers in ears**
        LA LA LA LA I CAN"T HEAR ANY OF YOU! ;D
    • nakile, on 12/08/2007, -39/+12For those of us who use real operating systems, like Linux or Mac OS, they work great. Fast and responsive.
      • Makaveli604, on 12/08/2007, -9/+61And for those of us that have sex, PDFs are annoying and useless.
        • specialK16, on 12/08/2007, -1/+3Haha, this deserves a screenshot!
      • MaxPayne3476, on 12/08/2007, -3/+20Fast and responsive? More like intrusive and undesired

        :( Adobe can lick the sweat off the right side of my penis.
        • itsthebrod, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6How grossly obese must one be for their penis to sweat? Perhaps you can help me out with this endearing question?
      • Sabretou, on 12/08/2007, -1/+10No, nakile, this isn't where you preach Linux. :(
      • skywake, on 12/08/2007, -2/+11I run Linux and even I hate PDFs. They are better then some other text file formats (like say .doc for instance) and are good for large papers, lecture notes and such but for stuff like this they really do suck. Fast and responsive is the last thing on my mind when I hear "PDF".
      • Dylson, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6K just put your head down on your desk and don't say anything for a while.
      • CrookedAsterisk, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4And how was this particular "PDF" for you? Fast and responsive? Whoops, it's actually Flash.
    • omgwthlol, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6a little tip: Don't use adobe pdf reader
  • goingtoalpha, on 12/08/2007, -14/+6Ugh.
    They couldn't find a better translated version of the Bible to use in #1 than the KJV?
    Interesting, regardless.
    • goingtoalpha, on 12/08/2007, -7/+16Upon further inspection, buried for being a heaping pile of FUD.
      Also, obviously proof-read by a grade-school student.
      • ZenMojo, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4Naw, it's real alright.

        http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=2&cha ...
        • goingtoalpha, on 12/08/2007, -10/+4Well, i wasn't arguing #1. As a former Religious Studies major I'm well aware of the difference in "advertised" and "correct" commandments. I was referring more to the general article. My only qualm with #1 is that I absolutely loathe the King James translation. I'm a NRSV kinda guy.
          • bbhh, on 12/08/2007, -1/+7you know how many english scholars died so you could have the bible in english?
          • itsthebrod, on 12/08/2007, -3/+2Oh please. You're just bitter because you wasted a ***** of money and time studying the Bible. Seriously, what an utterly worthless major "religious studies" is.
    • amesolaire, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1More likely OCR-d (scanned and converted to text automatically). Probably that's why you see so many typos.
  • Rikkochet, on 12/08/2007, -6/+19254. By posting a top [anything] list on Digg, you can get to the front page.
    • fishbert, on 12/08/2007, -0/+12Not true... it apparently takes 4 tries. (judging from the URL)
    • fejy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4This also doesn't have anything to do with the Digg algorithm. A top list tends to get right to the point and provides ordered, easy to read information; thus more people are inclined to read/digg it.
    • AquaAdult, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2By adding a number in front of your comment you can get tons of diggs on the comment.
  • gemini8200, on 12/08/2007, -13/+2Meh, too much to read..
    • Dumbledorito, on 12/08/2007, -1/+455. Attention spans will shrink to sizes invisible to the naked eye.
    • Dylson, on 12/08/2007, -5/+1For those of us who dont mind reading a few short sentences, its very good, useful information to know. Lets try to use our brains shall we?
  • TheNatMan, on 12/08/2007, -14/+53God. I hate lists like this. They work because the majority "skeptical" people are only capable of one level of skepticism. Being critical of "expose" 's is not within most people's abilities.
    • LordEsoterica, on 12/08/2007, -2/+16I know. Half that stuff I knew and the other half didn't surprise me. For some stuff we're not supposed to know, this is pretty lame and frankly not earth shattering. Come back when "stiff we're not supposed to know" consists of things like transmuting lead into gold using common household devices for pennies a pound or how to build a cheap nuclear reactor in my back yard, or something else cool like that.
      • emmeron, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2Fair enough, but some of it could use a little more awareness. Too bad the people who really need that little more awareness are still using dial up.
      • perrydavid, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1What about the truth of it all? I could tell you how to transmute lead into gold using pennies, nail polish, some marbles and a vacuum cleaner, but it would be a lie. I thought that was what Nat was getting at. "Skeptical" people are skeptical of most things, but not skepticism itself.
  • illdourmum, on 12/08/2007, -17/+5i have this book!!!!


    its great
    • fishbert, on 12/08/2007, -3/+6I live for drugs.
      It's great

      (I'm the white rabbit)
      • chinolofus, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2dugg for thrill kill kult reference. unless you were quoting wherever the sample came from.
  • Insomniac33, on 12/08/2007, -28/+1055. Steal Underpants
    56. ?
    57. Profit!
  • Carsonauto, on 12/08/2007, -57/+1258. Jews did 9/11
    • solidus636, on 12/08/2007, -13/+25You're a ***** moron...Bush isn't Jewish...
    • abbasgadhia, on 12/08/2007, -3/+1"loose change" ... see it..
      • DarkPhoen1x, on 12/13/2007, -0/+1Loose change is horribly put together and mostly rumor. Zeitgeist on the other hand...watch that.
  • dallasdano, on 12/08/2007, -12/+6"We trip the light fantastic?" Please.
    Any good info was lost because of the suck-ass format.

    BURY!
    • clickwir, on 12/08/2007, -1/+3agreed. This pdf in a flash thing is stupid.
  • xXIrsotehkewlXx, on 12/08/2007, -11/+3Wow.
    I live WAY too close to number 9

    Like MINUTES.
    o_O
    I'm going to get friggin' cancer.
    damnit
    • heynoop, on 12/08/2007, -4/+1RTFA, they werent armed
    • D3koy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1No worries, they probably didn't blow up...they just fell...(I made sure, having been an NC resident myself)
  • Zique, on 12/08/2007, -14/+8Things I'm not supposed to know AND a credible source (read: not infowars)? Dugg!
  • mpn401, on 12/08/2007, -0/+20I never thought of the post office one. Just reverse the send and return addresses and send it without postage. It seems too good to be true.

    Undoubtedly, this is mail fraud, however.
    • truegodofwar, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9I actually did think of this. However, it doesn't make it legal.
    • D3koy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+5They mail it to the nearest address, and if it is the send address a letter is sent saying "Postage Due"...I used to do that....
    • awfulgrace, on 12/08/2007, -0/+15I would think that the reversing of the send and return addresses would only work if you were in the same zip code or city. I have a very hard time believing that the Post Office would return a letter to New Jersey that I dropped in a New York mailbox.
      • purzzzell, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3You hit the nail on the head.
        • shotgunefx, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I had that idea when I was like 10, only works local.

          Though last year, I dropped off a package to UPS, the next day, the UPS guy shows up at my door with... my package I just shipped, LOL.

          With all the automation, I have no idea how that one slipped through.
    • KarateMedia, on 12/08/2007, -0/+5This method was mentioned in one of William Poundstone's "Big Secrets" books (I think it was "Bigger Secrets," from 1985, but I'm too lazy to walk over to the bookshelf and check). I tried the "reverse the addresses" trick nearly twenty years ago and it didn't work. The letter simply ended up being deliver to me. Perhaps, like awfulgrace mentioned, it was because I put an out-of-state address in the return address field -- either way, the scam didn't work.
      • Blade2000, on 12/08/2007, -0/+0Great book. I bought that in the 80s and stil have it (and the follow up book he wrote).
    • libertao, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4That section is just filled with "how to commit mail fraud". What a stupid article.
      • itsthebrod, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6Yeah. Screwing with the post office is not advisable. Especially over a 40-something cent stamp versus the numerous federal laws that would be violated.
    • newbill123, on 12/08/2007, -2/+1The trick is to put both the address and return address to the person you want it delivered to. There is a natural gas company in my area which does this on the envelopes they include for you to mail your bill (whereas most others put a set of blanks in the upper left for you to fill out your return address). I've heard it described as a convenience for older bill payers: there's less to fill out and if you forget to put a stamp on the envelope it will still get to the gas company.

      A couple of caveats about this:
      First, don't put any postage on the envelope. No Postage is different from Insufficient Postage. Zero postage will go to the return address. Even a penny will go through but will require money from the recipient.

      Second, be prepared for a big delay. The return address will take a LOT longer to be arrive.

      You can get away with free postage on a letter, but I don't think it's worth the effort though.
      • ElAssoWipo, on 12/08/2007, -2/+2If the return adress is the same as the destination and there's no postage the letter is confiscated and destroyed after 7 years if nobody claims it. If someone claims it that person is investigated for mail fraud.
    • Blade2000, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Jesus. That is a trick as old as time! I did that 30+ years ago - hardly a new concept. However, it ususally does not work.
  • TDR25, on 12/08/2007, -5/+3Number 20 wasn't surprising considering they were on the front lines to get slaughtered.
    • actorboy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4You didn't read the article, did you?
  • JasonCox, on 12/08/2007, -6/+63PDF my ass, that's Flash.
    • DesignEx, on 12/08/2007, -1/+6It is a Flash web based PDF viewer
      • ProducedRaw, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4Next time it'll be a WebOS running an embedded javascript browser running the Flash PDF reader showing the PDF all in a Firefox window. Go Go Web 2.0!
  • LucasVB, on 12/08/2007, -5/+1251. This text is crap and longer than it needed to be.
  • KraftDinner101, on 12/08/2007, -8/+12Hello 2003, nice to see you again.
  • Pake, on 12/08/2007, -5/+16Maybe it's just me, but lots of this stuff is known and some of it's questionable. Such as:

    #20 is a well known fact that is taught in history classes all throughout the USA. #09 is questionable. #26 is also well know by most people. #31 is known. #32 is known. #34 doesn't matter, because it's up the the manufacturer to be certified. #36 is known, because not everyone reacts the same way to medication. #38 is questionable. #41 is questionable, research shows an 80%-90% accuracy rate. #42, #43, and #44 are well documented (especially #44, because Sagan admitted to it on a number of occasions). #46 is probably true. #49 is pretty obvious also.
    • Pake, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4For #09, it's more about questionable title than topic. Lots of people know about the accident, but wording it as "Dropped" normally means detonated. #38, I'm not entirely sure, because a lot of reports say veterans are the most likely to commit suicide.
      • petrodollar, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1"Veterans" and "the elderly" are not mutually exclusive categories.
    • xXIrsotehkewlXx, on 12/08/2007, -1/+3#9 is true
      I checked with friends in the area. Evidently, they teach it in school around here.
      • Pake, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I wrote the correction above as to what I meant. Some of the wording is just too questionable and others the topic themselves are questionable.
    • chilipeppers4u, on 12/08/2007, -0/+9# 34 (most doctors don't know the radiation levels of CAT scans) definately does matter. Many doctors send patients for CAT scans when they're not really necessary, when they could do other tests instead, and usually without checking to see how many scans the patient has had before. 1 scan gives you about 2-3 years worth of background radiation in less than a minute, and 2 or more scans in your lifetime significantly increases your chance of getting cataracts (I'm in grad school studying diagnostic imaging)
    • Sebguer, on 12/08/2007, -0/+038 is likely true, I just saw an article in the paper.
  • ZenMojo, on 12/08/2007, -4/+5Man, I love the real Ten Commandments. Although I'm not planning on stealing anything anytime soon, anyway.
  • wrathofg0d, on 12/08/2007, -9/+2I'm going to go ahead and assume atleast a quarter of this isn't true, but it was still extremely interesting to read nonetheless.
    • clickwir, on 12/08/2007, -9/+3Well it starts out with some bible babble.... the bible is a fictional work. So... that kind of makes all of #1 kinda stupid and pointless.
  • Genobawt, on 12/08/2007, -14/+2699. This document is misleading and causes unnecessary "fear" and/or "panic"
    100. You could ask an educated individual, such as a college professor, and they'd be able to enlighten you about many of these... "secrets"
  • origclubsoda, on 12/08/2007, -18/+5OK, I stopped at the first one "King James version of the bible" Thats the protestant versionof the bible. ITs not even the real bible. Every christian variation of the bible rewords things. The jew and muslims also follow the ten commandments and have ther own versions. The thing this idiotic author doesnt understand that the ten commandments are not written like the US law. Its the spirit of the commandment not the language. ie killing includes defamation. None of the versions of the ten commandments are wrong, they are simply the way one group chooses to interpret them.
    • rezist, on 12/08/2007, -4/+7right but your president loves that version. oh, actually every U.S. president that has lived out their respective term(s) has loved it.
      • fishbert, on 12/08/2007, -1/+3"... that has lived out their respective term(s)..."

        I see what you did there. =)
    • clickwir, on 12/08/2007, -10/+9"Every christian variation of the bible rewords things."
      Exactly.... which is proof enough that it's just made up. You can't take history and rewrite it and change history. For some people, something interesting happened about 2,008 years ago, but those stories have been so passed on and ***** up, it's not true any more.
      There was probably just some cool guy that people liked hanging around with, now through the stories and exaggerations... people call that guy a god. It's *****.
      • Victorioso, on 12/08/2007, -2/+2The testimony of the apostles is admissible evidence in a court of law- [ Simon Greenleaf Whittier] ...but I had a question for you to think on : If you are a person who is willing to die to learn the truth - if perhaps someday you do come face to face with the truth, how exactly would you recognize it ? If you say, " I just will", it makes you the absolute definition of truth, and therefore truth would be something merely subjective. Truth is *not* like that. Truth is true no matter if someone believes it or not. It never changes. If it did, it would no longer be true.

        You must be given an ability to recognise the truth when you see and hear it.
  • ragingbull13, on 12/08/2007, -2/+9lol i love these comments.
  • BigBallistix, on 12/08/2007, -5/+14#59: You can make cyanide from apple pips. Take that you pro-life, anti-euthanasia nobs.
    • Victorioso, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Yeah...and arsenic is actually found in the plants we eat. What was your point ? Why is some arsenic dangerous and some not ? I bet you are glad you werent terminated in your Momma's belly.
  • cheesejaguar, on 12/08/2007, -11/+43I read the first one and gave up. Anyone that is somewhat educated in theology will realize that the interpretation used of the Ten Commandments is crap. No where is the phrase "Ten Commandments" used in the Torah. Aseret Had'varim is the phrase used, meaning "Ten Words" or "Ten Statements". Had the Torah wanted to say Ten Commandments, it would have said "Aseret Mitzvot". This would explain why Exodus 20:2-17 does not use the phrase commandments, and also why the "real" Ten Commandments (as he argues) don't use the phrase.

    Further more, if you look into a Torah, you will clearly see how Exodus 20:2-17 stand out. The Torah is written in verse format, while these "Ten Commandments" are written out in some sort of bizarre and antiquated list format. They stand out, if you're scrolling through the Torah, you'd spot it a mile away, they look different than any other section of the Torah.

    Lastly, the second set of "Ten Commandments" that the author points to are indeed a set of 10 statements. They are commonly referred to something like... Ten Ritual Statements or something like that, I forget. But don't be fooled, when you say The Ten Commandments, you mean Exodus 20:2-17.
    • rezist, on 12/08/2007, -11/+5lord of the rings was a sick series too, c.s. lewis wrote some soul shaking verse also!
      • cheesejaguar, on 12/08/2007, -1/+7Not really looking to convince you, just looking to explain the reality. The author of that eBook read into it one way, and I read into it another. Regardless of the truthfulness of the book, or anything revolving around it, what the book says and what it does not say is a matter of fact... you can't just create things and claim the book says it. It would be like claiming that Page 353 of Two Towers clearly shows that Gandalf was actually a woman.
    • clickwir, on 12/08/2007, -17/+6More like anyone that thinks that far into theology should be shot. It's all *****.
      • goingtoalpha, on 12/08/2007, -3/+12Jut because its ***** doesn't mean its not fun/interesting to know.
        Should the entire breadth of literature throughout history be avoided because it is equally "*****"?
        Not to be contrary or argumentative (read: a dick), just stating. After all it is, if nothing else, the greatest story ever told.
      • bungoman, on 12/08/2007, -1/+5As much as I don't like religion/theology in general I think if you're going to make statements about a scripture that holds a LOT of sway over a LOT of people you ought to know what you're talking about.
      • VPurpmalkV, on 12/08/2007, -0/+13Look at me and my closed mind. I think the decisions you make are idiotic, even though I have no understanding of what those decisions you've made actually mean.

        C'mon man. You act like someone educating themselves on the religions of the world is a bad thing. It's ignorant people like you that add to the problem. I may not be religious, but there are definitely some good lessons to be learned from most of the religious and historical writings out there. Sadly, folks like you will never learn them.
        • coyote1284, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3I've hit bedrock and can't digg you up more.
        • EricSchC1, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1I'm not religious either but I couldn't agree with you more, VPurpmalkV. Dugg.
    • sbgunn, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3This is definitely garbage. I saw that it was already marked as possibly inaccurate, so I decided to find something on the list that I'd know about myself and see if it was correct. I'm a third year law student, so the items around #23-27 related to legal stuff caught my eye.
      First off, I'm always skeptical of anyone that makes legal claims without proper cites. When he discusses Robinson v. California, for example, he should have cited 370 US 660, or at least http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_v._Californi ... for those of you that don't have Westlaw accounts. That case, by the way, doesn't say you can't punish addict for using drugs, it says you can't punish addicts simply for being addicts. Similarly you can't arrest someone simply for "being a prostitute" but you can arrest someone for committing the act of prostitution. It's a distinction that this guy didn't seem to even attempt to understand. The other law-related points were similarly flawed. Buried, inaccurate.
      Why am I ranting about law-related things on digg instead of studying for my law school finals? ugh
    • Oryx, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2@cheesejaguar -- right you are! I couldn't stop laughing at the illiterate's complete misreading of the Bible, no matter what language you want it in.

      Assuming the rest of his list is just as bad, I stopped reading at that point. Dug, for extreme comedy value!

      ... anyone know where his sign is?
  • samfishercell, on 12/08/2007, -9/+30Did one of our commenters seriously say that Israel is "kind of" proof of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy?

    Good grief.
  • JeffS, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3What is with #11? We're really not supposed to know that? I thought it was common knowledge.
    • cheesejaguar, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Actually, I believe the war ended recently. But I don't blame the book, the war ended sometime in October of this year I believe. Probably just outdated.

      EDIT: Yup, I was right: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/North_and_South_Korea_ ...
    • Tyrghast, on 12/08/2007, -2/+1same here, and alot of those are *****, like number 9. and the cannibalism in virginia? Thats an assumption based off the lost colony of Roanoke.
      • sfackler, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6There were cases in Jamestown of settlers digging up dead bodies and eating them. I remember a quote of some guy killing his wife and eating her during the "Starving Time."
  • TheSmokingManX, on 12/08/2007, -1/+11I'd love to read this if it weren't an effin' flash file.
  • pfe001, on 12/08/2007, -3/+0Hey! Now that's not politically correct....
  • clickwir, on 12/08/2007, -25/+23Here's one more.... the bible is made up, so none of that explanation has any meaning.
    • cheesejaguar, on 12/08/2007, -13/+2Just as the constitution, and all laws in the United States were made up *shrug*. Just because it is not the word of G-d doesn't mean we should ignore the text that has shaped the face of this world.

      It is a very interesting story, with the majority of it being nice moral lessons. If you look into it any further than that, and I may even agree with you to some extent.
      • petrodollar, on 12/08/2007, -8/+8The Constitution doesn't perpetrate demonstrably false myths about the origin of the universe and mankind. The Constitution is not often cited to justify bigotry, religious intolerance, and general ignorance or reality. The Constitution doesn't tell me I'm going to burn for all eternity if I don't obey the commandments of some imaginary figure.
        • Rkocour, on 12/08/2007, -1/+4Are you sure? Cause i'm pretty damn sure that every major domestic terrorist, (not the current definition or insurrectionists unhappy with bush, but those who have within the country fought against their government for and ideal), have quoted the consitution. In the beginning it was a very open document, and even after the bill of rights, fighting in the name of constitution, many things were fought for, including slavery.

          In conclusion, don't blame a document, any document for people's choices. Everybody chooses, including you, *****.
      • fishbert, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2"G-d" ????
        • actorboy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2Some religions teach not to speak or write the name of God.
          • fishbert, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8... and a hyphen is supposed to trick a deity?
          • itsthebrod, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1@ fishbert

            You're forgetting how silly the Christian God is... Get this, he gets jealous if you start liking other idols more than him, and then he gets REALLY *****!
        • fishbert, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1.
    • fugazied, on 12/08/2007, -7/+4Now wait a tooting minute, as a porn loving gun loving american I have to stick up for the bible. It tells me that 15 yo black kids should get the chair yeeha!
    • jnosanov, on 12/08/2007, -0/+3Amen!
  • BlaenkDenum, on 12/08/2007, -3/+2All you guys bitching about it being PDF: It's actually an ebook. I didn't know it was now free (Unless someone posted it on scribd without permission), last time I saw it was on a torrent site.
  • BlinkSumGreen, on 12/08/2007, -1/+147... really?
  • crazzy88ss, on 12/08/2007, -1/+1isn't there a movie about #4?
  • isunktheship, on 12/08/2007, -7/+1951. Santa doesn't exist :(
    • alchemist27, on 12/08/2007, -3/+14yes he does.
    • Chirp08, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Dude i just watched a documentary about how Santa came to be this last night on TBS, they used stop animation dolls to protect everyones real identity...
    • JapaneseEconomy, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2He's a conglomerate of mega-corporations who use the holiday season as a means to increase 4Th quarter profits.
    • XMinusX, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1we'll he is based on a real person and to qoute south park he's more real then us becuse his spirit will live on even after we are dead.
    • cipherscribe, on 12/09/2007, -0/+1Thanks for ruining my Christmas this year asshole!
  • truegodofwar, on 12/08/2007, -19/+9Why all the hate for PDF? It runs as a frame inside my browser. It's fast and responsive.

    Oh whats that? You're using windows? why? I bet you have adobe acrobat too. Yep thats what I thought. It's nagging you to update it isn't it? Lolz.
    • VPurpmalkV, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4That would be funny if this wasn't Flash Paper, and not Acrobat.
  • edwarwl, on 12/08/2007, -0/+12I find it ironic that it's published by "The Disinformation Company Ltd."
    • Chirp08, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1I find it funny someone actually "designed" that layout and graphics and made note of it in the opening pages. I'd be embarrassed to have that piece of ***** tied to my name as a designer..
  • dumpling, on 12/08/2007, -3/+7From the references:
    "Then there's the biggie, the Post Office atomic secret that lets you mail letters for free. Say you're sending a letter to dear old mom. Simply put mom's address as the return address...The letter will be "returned" to her for insufficient postage."
    GENIUS.
    • Urusai, on 12/08/2007, -0/+6I've thought about that before, but I assumed that they simply wouldn't return to sender if the sender's address was outside of the receiving post office's area. I guess by the time the letter gets to the sorting facility they've lost track of that datum. Also, I should note that doing this kind of thing is most likely a federal felony.
      • wrzhydr, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Working in a mail room type environment, I've seen where people write on the envelope "Verizon Will Pay" and have no postage. We still get the mail.
    • Natolee, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1I've gotten a letter from someone who used that trick. But it was sent "insufficient postage", meaning I could pay for the postage and take it or I could have it sent back to the post office where the sender could pick it up and mail it right. Guess which one I did.
  • uziko, on 12/08/2007, -16/+12About #1
    The bible has very good principles and by following and believing them it will probably improve your life and make you happier. This is easily achieved by unintelligent gullible people.

    Unfortunately for the rest of us, if you actually read the bible and think about it logically, it becomes blatantly obvious that it's nothing more than a history of fairy tales written by primitive people that knew absolutely nothing about science and created stories to try to explain the world.

    However I do like the altered 10 commandments that people refer to, as they are still good principles to live by, so I don't mind them being posted in schools and government buildings.
    • petrodollar, on 12/08/2007, -5/+4Are you saying that, if not for the Bible, you would lie, cheat, steal, etc? I know plenty of people who manage to live decent lives without believing in a bunch of stone age myths. Conversely, plenty of Catholic priests somehow manage to end up raping little boys and Ted Faggard smoked meth with a male whore.
      • Rkocour, on 12/08/2007, -1/+8I think he is saying that, for most people the ideas presented are solid morals, he is not saying that without the bible everybody is bad. In fact i think your assumption is the more terrible one. You are letting assumption guide your action, people who don't criticize everything they ever here are idiots at some point. You are taking out of context that people with out bible are bad. He says nothing of the sort. He says its got good ideas, and then goes on to criticize people who take everything about it serious.

        My advice to you i guess is, READ. Read and think about what your reading, and then read it again.

        p.s. *****.
      • kodax, on 12/08/2007, -1/+2I would say you give the bible too much credit and not enogh credit at the same time. There are some fascinating historical correlations in the old testament that anthropologists have only recently confirmed. For instance, there is a list/history of how man became agricultural that corresponds with what archeologists today believe. However, many other ancient texts also provide similar historical insight and are valuable as a historical reference such as Gilgamesh and Iliad/Odyssey. The old testament no where near as ancient as these texts but is somehow still given some mystical significance even today. Like many of the very old writings of man, the OT is an attempt at recording into writing what had probably been passed down for generations through oral tradition. Oral tradition would pass on the kinds of information one would expect. A history of a people, important guidelines for survival, important technology.
    • nullenigma, on 12/08/2007, -2/+6"The bible has very good principles and by following and believing them it will probably improve your life and make you happier."

      Here's another person who hasn't read the bible seriously.
      • VPurpmalkV, on 12/08/2007, -3/+2Well then nullenigma, I recommend you go out and read it. If you're not looking for a higher power in a pile of paper and ink, you might actually learn something.
        • antitab, on 12/08/2007, -2/+1You misread him. He wasn't claiming to be someone who hasn't read the bible, he was pointing out that uziko clearly hasn't. The bible has more hateful, murderous, "morally repugnant" (by today's standards) material than it does touchy-feely good times.
        • nullenigma, on 12/10/2007, -0/+1Haha, reading the entire bible made me lose my faith. I'm just tired of apologists who go looking for worthwhile messages about life in 'holy' books when they aren't there.
    • tymme, on 12/08/2007, -0/+2Ten is way too many, anyway. http://www.geocities.com/bobmelzer/gc10cx.html
    • farboo, on 12/08/2007, -0/+0It's a little more than a bunch of fairy stories. There's a fair bit in there that is based on history, and has been confirmed (more or less) by archeology. There's also good poetry.
  • petrodollar, on 12/08/2007, -10/+451. George HW Bush diddles little boys.

    http://www.propagandamatrix.com/141003silence1.gif

    http://www.propagandamatrix.com/141003silence2.gif
  • Haidoken, on 12/08/2007, -0/+8love the jury rights. Didn't know some of those. Half of people's rights are buried under bureaucracy.
    • petrodollar, on 12/08/2007, -0/+0That's actually the dumbest entry in the list. Jury nullification != "judging the law." "The law" consists of two things: 1) legislation, 2) legal precedent. Just because a jury finds a murderer not guilty in the face of overwheliming evidence to the contrary does not change the legal definition of murder, nor does not set legal precedent. And judges have the option of entering a judgment notwithstanding the jury verdict.
      • clorby, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1actually, one of the most prevalent uses of jury nullification was during the civil rights era, where all-white juries would refuse to convict white defendants who killed black victims. personally, i tend to think that jury nullification, if widespread, would do far more harm than good (as in the cases stated above).
        • jeffiek, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1Actually jury nullification has done much to protect citizens against government, such as the case of John Peter Zenger.

          And your civil rights cases? go here:http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/history-jury-nul ...
          "Modern treatments of abolitionism praise these jury-nullification verdicts for the role they played in helping the anti-slavery cause "
  • uziko, on 12/08/2007, -0/+4about #3

    There either needs to be some serious checks and balances on the cia or it needs to be abolished they should not be able to get away with any crime let alone serious ones. Any criminal activity within our government needs to be dealt with harshly.
  • shawnanigans, on 12/08/2007, -2/+37First I saw "50 Things" and thought no way I'm reading all of them. Then I saw "You're not supposed to know" and I was in.
    • alex1015, on 12/08/2007, -0/+5That's good marketing right there
    • Blade2000, on 12/08/2007, -0/+0More accurate title would be 50 things that might be true and a bunch that are BS.
  • jhul, on 12/08/2007, -0/+0plaintext version:

    http://static.scribd.com/docs/kijsscgrkxk1s.txt
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