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What is a Poe?

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What is a Poe?
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What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Been reading this all over the forum? What is a Poe please?
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Someone miss-representing their true position....an atheist posting as a christian is one example.



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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 12:30 pm
...which comes from Poe's law, which states that a sincere expression of fundamentalism is indistinguishable from a parody of it.
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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Google: Poe's Law
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 12:34 pm
I had never heard of it until coming here, but it's just another type of troll.
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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 12:43 pm
Well, a troll for the purposes of parody, if we're being literal.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 6:58 pm
(June 21, 2014 at 12:34 pm)Elskidor Wrote: I had never heard of it until coming here, but it's just another type of troll.

Not that there is anything wrong with doing it to the fundies . . .


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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 7:11 pm
An American writer with a pathological fear of ravens.

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 7:40 pm
A person of education.
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RE: What is a Poe?
June 21, 2014 at 7:51 pm
(June 21, 2014 at 7:40 pm)Heywood Wrote: A person of education.

*indulgent chuckle*

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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