Comments on: Germans love facts

By: Florian

Florian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:46:40 +0000

The Bible is not the Truth! You learn that at every school in Germany - it is symbolic!

But hey, 50% of the Schools in America don’t teach the evolution theory - you think that is good?

By: coogie

coogie — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:15:30 +0000

@Michel:
You’re stating that fact doesn’t necessarily mean truth. Now, that’s bullsh*t.
Per definition a fact is a concept whose truth can be proved.
There is, in fact, no truth that’s not fact. Everything else is nothing but believe, and that’s especially true for religions.
Of course people just love to establish their beliefs as facts but people are usually a bit inaccurate with the truth. I’d say that’s a fact but of course it’d be hard for me to prove, right?

By: Leander

Leander — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:10:18 +0000

Es sind Wissenschaftler auf den Banknoten, weil sie etwas geleistet haben. Leider hat sich das mit der Einführung des Euro geändert, aber Kunstepochen sind immer noch besser als irgendwelche Politiker.

By: seml

seml — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:18:21 +0000

Hey, I believe in the Bible and like being katholic (you guess right, I am Bavarian), but the fact is : THE BIBLE IS NOT THE F*%$ LAW

By: frank N. stein

frank N. stein — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:48:36 +0000

so very true… all these stupid facts… why can’t we just all lean back and enjoy the feeling of knowing everything already because we know what to believe :D… why can’t we just have more fox-news and truthiness (bless you colbert )

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:58:33 +0000

germans love facts, thats a point!
we love them because its a pleasure to know something and its also a great experience if you are able to tell a fact to others who did not know about it yet…
aaand: by reading your blog - I recognized that you also do not seem to be aversed to use facts (e.g. germans eat 1.7times faster, or work exactly 86% the time that americans do)
to put it in a nutshell: facts are great - thats a fact

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:01:55 +0000

Having lived here as an Ami ex-pat since before the first Gulf War I will say that the Dutch are brutally honest and Germans are selectively frank. The difference lies in whether the honestly will result in any form of confrontation or discomfort. The Dutch don’t care and will speak their minds. Germans will avoid doing so if being brutally honest will do either. They won’t dance around the issue like the British, they will just pretend it’s not there. It’s amazing to watch, really.

By: Es zieht

Es zieht — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:48:03 +0000

Germans treasure their own anti-facts as much as any other people. Where some Americans have ‘intelligent design,’ plenty of Germans cling to the myth that cold air causes colds. (German readers: colds are caused by germs.) For some reason, Germans believe it is the neck that is especially vulnerable to this cold-causing cold air; therefore a scarf is essential. Going outside with wet hair is also an invitation for a cold, according to Germans. A German friend of mine, when I challenged his cold-air theory of colds, responded with a defense that could have come from an American defending creationism: Well, it’s hard to ignore what your mother told you.

By: truell

truell — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:09:03 +0000

You wrote:

“German TV, in contrast, is filled with […] documentaries that painfully detail the banalities of the lives of people who herd goats or make cheese somewhere in the Alps.”

I’m sorry, but your arrogant look onto people that are less industrialized than yourselve shows a weak spot of your character. Apparently believing in the christian god or bible does not seem to help.

I may not believe in the bible and your christian god, but I do not talk in that way about people of these culture. These people do have a great life in simplicity that has proven to its stability for generations, without destroying the environment that they are living in. Your statement just shows how much you understand about the live expectation that your kind of living probably has.

Ah, sorry for bothering, don’t even think about that and keep on enjoying your mundane life.

By: kingair_six

kingair_six — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:53:44 +0000

hm, interesting view. I agree to the extend that we really LOVE facts, but wth is wrong with that? basing your views on mere intention (such as all arguments are concerning intelligent design) does not make much sense either, and simply using input that already is streamlined for what you like does not improve your pov either. the point about the bible is true, though, why should we believe in it? see what it helps some of the Americans from the biblebelt? Natural design is one of the most despicable mistakes of the twentiest century and it doesn’t come from wikipedia;)