Where do these words come from and how did they get their meanings?
Quack (and quackery): http://www.authentichistory.com/1898-1913/2-progressivism/8-quackery/index.html, http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/curiousq.htm, http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-qua1.htm
Moron: http://listverse.com/2007/08/28/10-slang-words-and-phrases-explained, http://voices.yahoo.com/origin-word-moron-eugenics-racism-henry-474052.html, http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8632, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=moron, http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8632
Dummy: Some might instantly think that this wasn’t even worth mentioning because the meaning would be so obvious: a wooden dummy being the meaning behind calling someone a dummy, which is what I thought, but wanting to give full coverage of common insults, and curious if anyone looked deep into the word, found out I was wrong (and forgot the word “dumb” in the King James version of the Bible I realized when reading the second website linked to the second link), http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/dummy, http://www.dailywritingtips.com/numskulls-noodles-and-nincompoops, http://www.innovateus.net/innopedia/what-meaning-nincompoop
Imbecile: http://web.archive.org/web/20100718113934/http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/disability/further/negative.html, http://clir.pacscl.org/2011/01/10/idiots-imbeciles-and-morons http://www.omg-facts.com/view/Facts/6513
By the way: while looking up these words, I ended up on Codelphia.com due to Google having an outdated lookup for the word “kook”, and while looking for the now gone definition, saw the word libertine defined on top. I learned, with some deduction of my own, that it used to mean a person who was freed from Roman slavery, but later freethinkers (often associated with atheists) started referred to themselves as such, and then Christians associated the word libertine with those who were immoral/without morals, and then though maybe that that was where the word “liberal” may have come from. I came across this interesting site on the meaning of “freedom” while doing research to see if I was right. Was my guess right?…
[There is an update to this story, the experiment has been repeated and succeeded again click here to read about it]
Faster than light? CERN findings bewilder scientists
By Eryn Brown and Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Physicists at the lab near Geneva say they’ve observed subatomic particles moving faster than the speed of light. If confirmed, it would defy Einstein — and upend our understanding of physics.
The globe of the CERN laboratory shines outside Geneva. A team of experimental physicists there says it has recorded neutrinos traveling 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Albert Einstein had the idea. A century of observations have backed it up. It’s one of the cornerstones of physics: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light.
But now a team of experimental physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, says that one exotic particle possibly can.
The scientists reached their conclusion after sending streams of tiny, subatomic particles called neutrinos hurtling from an accelerator at CERN outside Geneva to a detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, about 450 miles away.
The neutrinos seemed to get there too soon — 60 nanoseconds too soon, give or take — than they should if they’d been traveling at the speed of light.
That slight edge, if it holds up under scrutiny, has enormous implications for our understanding of the laws of nature, physicists said – More here
“Basically, all of special relativity would be wrong,” said Drexel University physics professor Dave Goldberg, referring to Einstein’s 1905 theory establishing that light travels at a constant speed, regardless of how fast an observer is traveling, and that nothing in the universe can go faster than it. – More here
Yesteday night on Coast to Coast, the host, the awful Ian Punnett, a false Christian, decided to let loose again with his heart and mind to let millions of people know what he was thinking, and right away, spoiled th plot of the very popular TV series, Lost, which I had been hard at work trying to watch. After having spent many weeks trying, I was very disappointed to hear him give the main point away, especially since I’ve been waiting a very long time to watch something original. Ian Punnet, you are a careless, self righteous idiot, jerk, hypocrite, and snorting moron. Ian is so stupid such a stupid fake Christian, that he confidently stated, that the KJV Bible is not a good translation, and that the Bible no where forbids homosexuality, and yet he proudly allows himself to be used as and considered to be a teacher and scholar of the Bible, because, wow: he graduated from a seminary, as if any and every one was good.
A few minutes ago a C2C AM host, George Noory, cut off a guest caller when she was in the middle of giving a fascinating story about her Ouija board experience, when she was at the point of saying what happened to a friend of her whom she used the o. board with, who had a deep cut in her hand bandaged over. She said her cut friend finally told some friends, but not her, why she had the cut, and that “dark figures were following her” and then George cut in and said not to play with Ouija boards and immediately went to another caller, and that caller didn’t ask George why he cut the previous one off, but joyfully said he would listen to George and not play with Ouija boards. I’ve heard George twice and once a few days ago, say that callers didn’t want to hear his opinions but what his guests have to say, why then did he do such a stupid disgusting thing? The caller hadn’t even been for long. Ian Punnet never would have done that and would have had the caller send him the rest of the story or wait till after a commercial break. George is truly a sickening jerk. I hope the caller who told that story will contact me and tell me the rest of it.
Right now John Michael Greer is being interviewed by George Noory on Coast Coast. John is an idiot, and George is an idiot for not rebuking this idiotic babbler who is after our money.
I can tell that George is disappointed with and hates this guy, and I rarely hear George express disgust with a guest – George asked John if he believed that all UFO sightings reported were disinformation (and earlier John the Idiot said that you couldn’t even use science to study the UFO phenomenon because everyone was lying about it even if they didn’t know it) and John said he was more interested in it as a debunking-cultural phenomenon, or something nonsensical like that. Did I mention that John is a high druid? Yet more evidence that pagans are anti-scientific, and that it sure as Hell was not pagans that have been speeding the world along scientifically, and yet this idiot John dares to tell us on Coast to Coast that we humans overestimate our ability to be able to travel through space because of our scientific achievements. Hey John the Moron, message for you: IDIOTS LIKE YOU HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS, IDIOTS LIKE YOU HINDER THEM AND HAVE BEEN DOING SO SINCE SATAN, YOUR DAD, STARTED BABBLING HIS STUPIDITY. You’re an underestimating thief and liar who uses cliche babble against real science while pretending to promote real science (anti-Christian big bang and evolution nonsense) to make yourself appear to legitimately love the truth, and to hide your insecurities about how stupid you are, and to decieve everyone into following your magical stupidity so that you can have your way with them.
Here’s a sad description from Wikipedia about John the Pseudo-Scientific Druid:
John Michael Greer (b. 1962) is an author, historian of ideas, Hermeticist and Druid who resides in Ashland, Oregon Ashland, Oregon. He currently serves as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America Ancient Order of Druids in America, a position he has held since 2002.
John, in his attempt to sound wise, claims that no one can prove a negative. Hey John, if no one can prove a negative, than how do you know that that statement is true? Can you prove that no one can prove a negative? No, but I just proved you can. But have fun claiming that no one can prove that there is no Earth where moon sized ants lounge in Central Park talking about Madonna’s past life as a cybernetic anteater on crack, oh archdruid.