08-31-2012, 01:18 AM
An excellent example of Poe's Law
Well in case I misunderstand I'll add that to me I understand it as saying it's near impossible to tell between a parody or other fake with the real thing as the real thing is so ridiculous that it's impossible to parody in an obvious way.
Take that piece of paper. Is that for real? Entirely possible as a friend told me her mom said she was going to Hell for voting Democrat (and also against an antigay bill), another guy (Christian himself) said he had to leave his church because the preacher preached it was mandatory to vote Republican if you're a true Christian, and I was lured to a Baptist sermon in which the preacher (and real scumbag) explicitly said the only reason Obama was president was because America had become as godless as Sodom and Christians had a duty to take back society before God destroyed us, and thus you couldn't be a Christian and vote for Obama. So, I can believe that piece of paper.
OTOH, there are plenty of trolls, pranksters, hoaxers, and people doing honest parody who also create stuff like this for fun and slander (never understood the latter, I guess they're just too lazy to look up the legite reasons), so maybe this also isn't real.
But even that I don't know if it's real or not is tragic enough. :frown: (Btw, when I'm wrong it's usually because I'm not cynical enough!)
Well in case I misunderstand I'll add that to me I understand it as saying it's near impossible to tell between a parody or other fake with the real thing as the real thing is so ridiculous that it's impossible to parody in an obvious way.
Take that piece of paper. Is that for real? Entirely possible as a friend told me her mom said she was going to Hell for voting Democrat (and also against an antigay bill), another guy (Christian himself) said he had to leave his church because the preacher preached it was mandatory to vote Republican if you're a true Christian, and I was lured to a Baptist sermon in which the preacher (and real scumbag) explicitly said the only reason Obama was president was because America had become as godless as Sodom and Christians had a duty to take back society before God destroyed us, and thus you couldn't be a Christian and vote for Obama. So, I can believe that piece of paper.
OTOH, there are plenty of trolls, pranksters, hoaxers, and people doing honest parody who also create stuff like this for fun and slander (never understood the latter, I guess they're just too lazy to look up the legite reasons), so maybe this also isn't real.
But even that I don't know if it's real or not is tragic enough. :frown: (Btw, when I'm wrong it's usually because I'm not cynical enough!)
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