XKCD: It's more than a comic

Fun fact: The human brain is incapable of acting randomly. It is literally impossible to pick five random words: if you picked them, they aint random (unless you used dice and a dictionary, of course).

I bet they always feared that day would come.

EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS WROOOOONG!!!

That Bunsen burners line is totally true.

Any chem major can tell you that.

The second to last one is real. It comes up on Science Friday on NPR every couple weeks.

They are all real except the last one.

Actually the last one could be true.

But only if there's an endothermic reaction afoot. That's the realm of spooky chemistry.

Spooky chemistry is the best branch.

Footprints

As a Catholic who has held the little story of "Footprints" close to his heart for inspiration and encouragement, this one made me give a hearty chuckle.

edited 9th Sep '15 8:20:22 AM by Insano

I've never heard that story

edited 9th Sep '15 9:20:58 AM by Xopher001

Really? It's pretty well-known. Also how would Jesus sink in quicksand, He walked on sand and water.

Alright, I may have heard it, but it sounds pretty corny

You weren't raised Christian, were you? It's nowhere near the higher end of the corny scale.

Actually I was

Well there's egg on my face now.

I'm a Christian, and the footsteps in the sand story/poem is cheesy. Not to mention that shouldn't the single footprints be plainly different than your own?

*shrug* Depends on how good your tracking skills are, I'd think. I suspect that most people would have a hard time picking out which set of footprints was their own other than placing their foot in it. Unless, of course, you're wearing shoes, but who does that on the beach?

I'm personally fond of the version with the line of "and those trenches in the sand are where I had to drag you for a bit" although the version where the revelation is that Jesus can fly was cute too.

edited 9th Sep '15 11:51:27 AM by FuzzyBoots

I feel like the Bible would be much more appealing with the addition of ducklings.

If anything, the Jesus carry footprints should be way deep.

I had never heard of that footprint story, either. (I was raised a Christian, but in a very lax and sort of everyone-goes-to-church-only-on-Christmas-and-for-weddings kind of way, as is typical of Finnish Lutherans. Of course I lost my faith very early on, or perhaps never even really had it to begin with.)

I think it's pretty much a staple of a particularly narmy community of Christians. I was raised Xian too, and even I find it sappy.

"And that long blood stain over there? Let's not talk about that..."

Eh, I already had my phase. Now I just find it kind of endearing.

You would think a person could tell if they 1) were being physically carried, or at least that 2) they didn't have their feet in the sand anymore.

Even within the poem, the footprints in the sand are a metaphor. The speaker has a dream wherein the whole of eir life so far is depicted as a path walked along the beach. Ey only finds out that the one-set parts are when Jesus was carrying because ey castigates Jesus for apparently abandoning em during what ey recognizes to be the most trying times in eir life.