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RE: I was lost but now Im found
December 12, 2014 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2014 at 1:52 pm by downbeatplumb.)
An Poe is someone pretending to be what they are not.
An atheist pretending to be a fundamentalist Christian would be a poe.
Why this is fun I don't know.
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RE: I was lost but now Im found
December 12, 2014 at 2:23 pm
(December 12, 2014 at 1:46 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I have a question: does poe = sock puppet? I'm used to hearing the second term referring to a second/alt forum account created by a regular in order to humorously troll a forum, but not the first.
It's a reference to Poe's Law, which states that a parody of an extremist or fundamentalist position cannot be differentiated from the real thing.
"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."
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RE: I was lost but now Im found
December 12, 2014 at 6:37 pm
i saw the light last night it was so majestic and beautiful and i stared into it thinking i had seen god.
but i quickly dumped the assertion because i felt a cold breeze and i had to blink a few times as i was staring
into the fridge dazed out of my mind hungry.
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RE: I was lost but now Im found
December 12, 2014 at 6:49 pm
I get the same feeling when I see a bottle of Franziskaner beer
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Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
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RE: I was lost but now Im found
December 13, 2014 at 8:31 am
(December 12, 2014 at 9:35 pm)Elskidor Wrote: I'm an atheist poe. I pretend to be an atheist, but I'm a die hard Jesus lover.
I'm a deep cover atheist poe. I'm an atheist pretending to be a xtian pretending to be an atheist. I get a lot of headaches.
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.'