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[Gentlefish]

The connotations that priests good and witches evil, however, exists in stated media. However you wanna handle that.

[Max White]

Well if that is true maybe I should expose myself to more media than just Discworld books...

[ZetaX]

Or other than Harry Potter books. Or more generally, a lot of the stuff in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_witches .

[Helgoland]

Now I don't want to offend here, as an atheist I see pretty much all faiths on even footing. If you believe there is something sacred about pointed, wide brimmed hats then at least they are far more useful than that thing the pope wears, but still...
If I were saying believing that because in a video game a priest has certain mythical powers that doesn't mean in real life the christian church has special magical powers, nobody would bat an eye. It would be a sane and rational comment. So why is pointing out that there is a difference between witches in fictitious media and the beliefs of real life wiccans is offensive?

In real life there are not priests who run about healing people with glowing hands. It just doesn't happen, it is fictional, they don't exist, and you understand that I'm talking about a different thing to clergymen right? Well it is the same deal. Not all Witches are of the wiccan verity.

Ah, they don't have healing spells - but haven't you wondered why we have mass wine, incense, holy water and the eucharist? And that's not even considering the stuff our exorcists can do...

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Physically and mentally abuse people who should be in the care of a mental health professional?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Exactly, they're great at inflicting long-lasting debuffs.

[miauw62]

Him: Light takes 24 years to get here from Alpha Centauri
Me: But it's 4,3 lightyears away, shouldn't it take 4,3 years?
Him: No, I did the maths.

Cue me trying to explain to him why it takes 4,3 years for light to reach us from a place 4,3 lightyears away, and eventually being dismissed by "Jeez, why do you keep going on about this?"

Yeah, if I say "no, you're wrong, it works like this" and you say "no im right" I should just fuck off?

[MaximumZero]

Him: Light takes 24 years to get here from Alpha Centauri
Me: But it's 4,3 lightyears away, shouldn't it take 4,3 years?
Him: No, I did the maths.

Cue me trying to explain to him why it takes 4,3 years for light to reach us from a place 4,3 lightyears away, and eventually being dismissed by "Jeez, why do you keep going on about this?"

Yeah, if I say "no, you're wrong, it works like this" and you say "no im right" I should just fuck off?

Slap him. With a book. Preferably a math, science, physics, or astronomy book. Anything by Carl Sagan on Neil deGrasse Tyson would also be acceptable.

[miauw62]

He told this to me because we were doing some physics exercises about light and so and one of the exercises we had to make was about this (but that one we didn't have to make today, w/e).

[IronTomato]

What kinds of maths did he do? Everyone knows that the reason it's called a light year is because it takes a YEAR for LIGHT to travel that distance.

[Graknorke]

What kinds of maths did he do? Everyone knows that the reason it's called a light year is because it takes a YEAR for LIGHT to travel that distance.

Maybe he knows nothing about special relativity and thinks that we're moving apart at 6c?

[Sheb]

Maybe he think space is actually made of Germanium.

[Graknorke]

Although that does remind me, earlier today, on a whim, I did some quick calculations and worked out that between the Earth and the Sun there are about 6*10^24 hydrogen atoms (assuming one atom per cubic metre). That seems like way too large a number, even though it's not really that big considering.

[miauw62]

What kinds of maths did he do? Everyone knows that the reason it's called a light year is because it takes a YEAR for LIGHT to travel that distance.

He converted lightyears down to kilometres and then divided the amount of kilometers with c in km.

I tried to explain him that a lightyear is a lightyear because it's the distance light travles in a year, but he just vaguely said "we need time, not distance"

[LordSlowpoke]

Maybe he think space is actually made of Germanium.

with all the secret nazis in space it might as well