[USMA:30671] Re: Stupid anti-metric poem

[David King]

The idea that imperial units came from God is rather ridiculous. The 
ancient Israelites did not use imperial units, although the early 
Christian Church would have perhaps used the Roman imperial system as it 
was the commonly used and dominant system in the world at that time, at 
least in the Roman Empire. Today metric is the dominant system, and I 
believe that God would want us to use the dominant system, just as we 
have the Bible today in modern English and do not have to learn ancient 
Hebrew and Greek to understand it, so we should not have to use ancient 
measurement units in our daily lives just because something similar was 
once used in the Bible.

The whole thing about pyramidology I know little about, but it sounds 
very ungodly to me -- it was the ungodly Egyptians who built pyramids, 
and the ancient Israelites who were rescued from Egypt, and the Bible 
refers to Egypt as a sinful place.

Thus I cannot see any reason why God would want His people to use 
imperial units in the modern age. But He would have wanted them used 
before metric was invented back in the Middle Ages.

If we revert back to imperial measures, then why not revert back to old 
English, old currency, get rid of all the modern things of society like 
cars, planes, computers, electricity, and free speech, and go back to 
the days of old when no one had freedoms except the very rich, and 
everything measured in imperial. Is this what anti-metric people really 
want? I doubt it, but they probably want the modern world, or least the 
benefits and comforts of it, but without the thing that makes it so 
good. The imperial system is totally inadequate for scientific use in 
regards to the technology of today, so those who want imperial should 
really be shunning all modern technology otherwise they are hypocrites.

David King

Han Maenen wrote:
James,
I know that other poem, it was from the 19th century. It was connected with
Pyramidology, which claimed that Imperial and US units were given by God.
A Prod is an insulting term for Protestant. Another insult used in Northern
Ireland is Taig. A Taig is a Roman Catholic.
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It's bigoted poetry, too.  I don't know what a "Prod" is, but the term
   

"Mick" is considered a nasty anti-Irish slur in the US.
 

At least some of the old anti-metric verse was creative.  One of the
   

better ones I remember goes like this:
 

Then down with every metric scheme taught by the foreign school!
We'll worship still our fathers' God, and keep our fathers' rule!
A perfect inch, a perfect pound will still on Earth be found,
When time shall come unto an end, and Gabriel's trumpet sound!
--  Jason
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Here is the whole stupid junk. Apart from the anti-metric nonsense, how
     

can
   

he claim that the English language is in danger? English is assaulting
language after language and it is spreading all over the world.
He even wants to go back to LSD money, what kind of a dinosaur is this
Manderson?
Han