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Dawud Offline
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Poe?
April 25, 2013 at 9:31 pm (This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 9:32 pm by Dawud.)
Right geeks!

What's a Poe?
Got it!
Love it!
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RE: Poe?
April 25, 2013 at 9:33 pm (This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 9:34 pm by Faith No More.)
Someone pretending to be religious in an absurd manner in order to mock that religion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Poe?
April 25, 2013 at 9:33 pm
Convo is great round here!
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RE: Poe?
April 25, 2013 at 9:33 pm
It's a reference to Poe's Law. It states that attempts to parody extremism do not seem any different from actual extremism. Thus, a person who is trying to jokingly imitate an extremist cannot be told apart from the extremist that he is mimicking.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Poe?
April 25, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Hmmmm... Dawud = Dragonetti? Look at their avatars! Devil
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RE: Poe?
April 25, 2013 at 9:55 pm
Nah - I'm not Dragonetti

I'll research Dragonetti then explain to you precisely how I'm more handsome, intelligent and funny...
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RE: Poe?
April 25, 2013 at 10:01 pm
A Poe is a parody that might be mistaken for the real thing.
"You don't need facts when you got Jesus." -Pastor Deacon Fred, Landover Baptist Church

™: True Christian is a Trademark of the Landover Baptist Church. I have no affiliation with this fine group of True Christians ™ because I can't afford their tithing requirements but would like to be. Maybe someday the Lord will bless me with enough riches that I am able to. 

And for the lovers of Poe, here's your winking smiley:  Wink
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RE: Poe?
April 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm
Like when I asked if I could give myself Kudos...!
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RE: Poe?
April 26, 2013 at 3:05 pm
(April 26, 2013 at 3:03 pm)Dawud Wrote: Like when I asked if I could give myself Kudos...!

No, narcissistic is the word for that.
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RE: Poe?
April 26, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Ain't he that guy who wrote that "Nevermore" thingy?Tongue
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana

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