Conservative Christians Freaking Out After "Yoga Miracle"

[drunkenshoe]

LOL.  I look at my writing, and see mistakes all over the place, and I wince too.  I keep thinking, "I know better than that.  Why to I write shit like that?"  It's been corrected now, but in my previous post, I wrote your, when I should have written you're.  That's something that is taught to 6th graders.  I know the rules, but I make that mistake all the time.  And a proof read doesn't reveal that stuff, unless I put what I've written aside for a day.  If I look at it right away, I just read right over the mistakes.  My mind knows what I mean, so I guess I make the corrections in my head, and I end up thinking what I wrote was just fine.

Lately, I've noticed a new bad habit of mine.  When I'm composing a thought, if I stop to think about how to phrase the next thing, I end up putting in an unnecessary comma just because I paused while typing.  How the Hell did I invent that rule?  I dunno.

But that's not about being bad at the language. English is not pronounced as it is written. Some words pronounced very similar, some used the same way in different meanings.  My mother language is pronounced as it is written. Turkish is also an agglutinative language. When you were a child, you had to learn your mother language all over again when you started to read and write. I didn't. When I was learnig English, I have learned it both ways, consciously. And although I do mistakes like that, generally people who speak English as a second language do those kind of mistakes less than natives.

Probably you are putting the comma to mark the pause. It makes sense to me for some reason though. I am terrible at punctuation. I don't pay attention,  because it distracts me from what I writing.

[stromboli]

I'm being totally serious when I say you communicate as well as anyone on here, even those with English as a first language. That speaks to your intelligence as much as your learning.

[Solitary]

I couldn't agree more. I am a dunce in my writing and hadn't written a thing since junior college until I got on the forums, and being a little dyslexic doesn't help. I can only type with one finger and can't watch what I type which makes it even worse.    Solitary 

[Givemeareason]

I posted this article because it highlights to me the obvious stupidity of it, because they are making claims solely for the purpose of creating a reason for their existence. It is all made up Bullshit to frighten people into belief.

I think you have hit the nail on the head.  What is happening is that religious leaders are seeing the ever increasing threat that knowledge represents to them.  And what they are doing is dragging their flocks to ever more deeper levels of entrenchment to keep them ignorant.  So as christian membership declines we should be doing all we can to help christians so they don't flock into some new flock even crazier than the one they are in.

[Solitary]

SmOff Like this flock? SmOn A fine post by you, you old fart.  Solitary

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Glad to It doesn't help that I am an absent minded person generally.

But Shoe my dear you have possibly the most sexy voice of anyone from AF.. Anyone who says different must die!
Just don't tell Sylvia I said so..I don't want to have my testicles removed in my sleep..