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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 6:20 am
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 8:14 am
I think this is relevant to the discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiOhSJtZQiU
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 8:25 am
She's probably atheist given her circle of friends and willingness to speak openly about taboos.
Why don't you just ask her? Finding an Email address isn't that hard these days.
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 12:32 pm
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I doubt she's looking for a real discussion....
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 1:31 pm
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Does it really matter if Amy is an atheist to you? Does it have any relationship to her body of work? You state your religious view as God; would it matter if Amy prayed to one of the millions of Gods that mankind has invented or if she is sensible and realizes that they are all a human construct and a sham?
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 3:17 pm
(March 4, 2015 at 12:32 pm)rasetsu Wrote: pohlerfan
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I doubt she's looking for a real discussion....
What I kind of wonder is what someone like this is psychologically getting out of drive-by posting a topic on a forum about something fairly obscure yet non-confrontational. The human mind is an amazing thing.
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 6:01 pm
(March 4, 2015 at 3:17 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: What I kind of wonder is what someone like this is psychologically getting out of drive-by posting a topic on a forum about something fairly obscure yet non-confrontational. The human mind is an amazing thing.
THAT'S the conversation here.
What is it about the internet that makes people do stuff like this? Is human interaction driven by need?
Devil's Advocate: this person could be a 12 year old who got a whim, right? Like, who better to ask than atheists?
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 9:24 pm
(March 4, 2015 at 6:01 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: (March 4, 2015 at 3:17 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: What I kind of wonder is what someone like this is psychologically getting out of drive-by posting a topic on a forum about something fairly obscure yet non-confrontational. The human mind is an amazing thing.
THAT'S the conversation here.
What is it about the internet that makes people do stuff like this? Is human interaction driven by need?
Devil's Advocate: this person could be a 12 year old who got a whim, right? Like, who better to ask than atheists?
Right, so for some reason this has sort of facinated me, so I google searched
poehlerfan and what do you know, the same person went to basically every Atheist forurm on the internet and asked the exact same question and never apparently replied to any of them. It seems like a lot of work to set up all those accounts and then not actually do anything. I don't really understand. Obviously the need for human interaction isn't it, since they aren't interacting. Nor is it exactly trolling, which I can understand to some degree. It's just bizzare.
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 11:15 pm
(March 4, 2015 at 9:24 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: (March 4, 2015 at 6:01 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: THAT'S the conversation here.
What is it about the internet that makes people do stuff like this? Is human interaction driven by need?
Devil's Advocate: this person could be a 12 year old who got a whim, right? Like, who better to ask than atheists?
Right, so for some reason this has sort of facinated me, so I google searched
poehlerfan and what do you know, the same person went to basically every Atheist forurm on the internet and asked the exact same question and never apparently replied to any of them. It seems like a lot of work to set up all those accounts and then not actually do anything. I don't really understand. Obviously the need for human interaction isn't it, since they aren't interacting. Nor is it exactly trolling, which I can understand to some degree. It's just bizzare.
Perhaps he really does want the answer to the question (because he's a fan and it matters to his fantasy about her) and really did think atheists would be likely to know. But he couldn't be bothered to engage. Rational, but rude. Can't tell you how many people ask question on how to sort of forums and then can't be bothered to engage, even to thank people for responding. Of course most people behave better. . .
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RE: Does anyone know if Amy Poehler has a religion or believes in God?
March 4, 2015 at 11:30 pm
Right, so maybe they are more interested in the response from the communities to the completely inane question?
Say I go to a random set of forums, (or all of them, ffs!), ask a completely random question, and then log out, lurk, and watch as we ponder the nature of our reality...
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