RE: Greetings Hellbound Heathens...
March 10, 2012 at 7:23 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2012 at 7:31 pm by Cyberman.)
(March 10, 2012 at 5:17 pm)One King Wrote: I'm new to this - what is a POE?
I'll field this one, if I may, but you really are going to have to lay off the preaching at us. I'm being serious now. Basically, if what you want to post contains anything along the lines of telling us how to live, how to think, what to believe, or threats of punishment for not doing any of that stuff, you're preaching and it will not be tolerated for long.
Anyway, the term Poe refers to what's known as Poe's Law. It's often incorrectly applied, which I find annoying, but roughly it states that it is impossible to tell the difference between a preachy holier-than-thou fundamentalist person who truly believes in all that stuff and one who is pretending to be such a person for the purposes of parody or mockery. More casually, the term has become simply a label for someone pretending to be a fundy. Any use?
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.'
