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This is one of my favorite illusions.

"A round roof of a garage changes its appearance to a corrugated roof when it is reflected in a mirror. The actual shape is neither round nor corrugated. This illusory solid was discovered by combining two observations. One is a mathematical observation that a single image does not covey depth information, and the other is a psychological observation that the human brains like right angles in interpreting an image. Indeed we are apt to interpret the edge curve of the roof as an intersection of a roof with a plane perpendicular to the axis of the roof."

This was a great discussion on science and faith.  I highly recommend it.

And now for something completely different.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKNr6rnIyec

How would you like to go to prison for self-defense?

Uncle Tom right?

Is racism over yet? You decide..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hx30zOi9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6FQtzTsZk

FYI...that there have been murderers before a murderer existed does not justify his murder. You propagate the hatred and racism of the past. You alone are responsible for it.

Jason Riley, author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwdJj8InkNc

"So the liberal-leaning Public Policy Polling outfit posed a revealing question to Mississippi Republicans in their latest survey: "Do you think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal?"

Shockingly, 46 percent of the state's GOP voters replied "illegal." 14 percent bizarrely responded "not sure." That means about 60 percent of these Southern Republicans are hearkening back to a time--1958 to be exact--when the American mainstream overwhelmingly looked down on people with different shades of skin getting married."----http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/nearly-h...be-illegal