Deep Thoughts: Blogroll Update: Audit update and some weirdness

Friday, March 20, 2009

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jamon · 838 weeks ago

Perhaps the Raving Theist is invoking Poe's law? Certainly reads that way to me.

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Mojoey 107p · 838 weeks ago

I know... I just don't know. It is hard to believe somebody can fall that far off the wagon.

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Eric · 838 weeks ago

Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon predicted this as early as July/2006
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2006/07/27/raving-at...
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/theoc...

Since I found the Raving Guy to be way less friendly then most Atheists, I am not that surprised.

Here is the freshly x-ian's explanation.
http://ravingatheist.com/2008/12/a-few-thoughts-a...

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Crystal D. · 838 weeks ago

I don't think it's Poe, it's too massive, and it's been too long. If anything, I'd say the person started out as a religious person, posed as an atheist, then 'converted' to prove it could happen. :) lol

Thanks for the shout out. It's fun to help, and I love to read other atheist blogs anyway, so it helps me see what's out there!

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Rose Schwartz 35p · 838 weeks ago

Crystal, you're on to something there (re: proving it could happen). That actually makes a lot of sense!

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Jack 119p · 838 weeks ago

Yeah, if Raving is doing a Poe, he's been at it for more than a year now.

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jamon · 838 weeks ago

You may be right. All the more proof of how absurd raving theism is ;)

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Rose Schwartz 35p · 838 weeks ago

Like we need another raving theist in the world? Isn't that the entire evangelical right and every minister, rabbi, priest, etc...? Seems a little played out. :)

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olly · 838 weeks ago

Wow, RA to RT makes me wanna do my own parody here -- maybe I'll start a site called 'Batshit Muslim' and then slowly convert to Scientology? Praise Allah, I mean, Praise Xenu.

Or I guess I could just stick to Atheism, but whatever.

-olly

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Rose Schwartz 35p · 838 weeks ago

LOL.

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mikespeir · 838 weeks ago

Just what we need, another raving theist! Now, along with Turkel/Holding, we have bookends!

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mikespeir · 838 weeks ago

BTW, Mojoey, whenever I come here my Norton Antivirus flags the site as a "suspicious web page." Either something's amiss here or Symantec's got your number.

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Mojoey 107p · 838 weeks ago

It's because I'm evil.

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mikespeir · 838 weeks ago

Well, of course you're evil. You're an atheist! But, then, you were evil before and this just started happening. Maybe it's me.... But, nah. I was evil before, too.

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Rose Schwartz 35p · 838 weeks ago

The Raving whatever came off rude to me. Back when I started my atheist blog (years ago) we swapped links and it was all cool...until he removed me without warning. Hey it happens, but that wasn't it. I was annoyed that he always seem to be pretentious and acted "holier than thou" (delicious pun!) I even wrote about it in '06: http://www.jewmanist.com/2006/09/raving-self-impo...
Woah...flashback!

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Mojoey 107p · 838 weeks ago

It is funny. I read his blog once and wrote him off as a nutter way back when he joined. This does not surprise me.

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Rose Schwartz 35p · 838 weeks ago

Lol...His site is still ravingatheist...so what? He's the Raving A Theist? Get a new domain at least and redirect. Jeebus.

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Crystal D. · 838 weeks ago

That's part of why I think it was a nut job religious person right from the start, and that they may have actually planned on this 'change'... I am no conspiracy theorist, but this is the best I can do.

Of course, if the person was irrational to begin with (it takes a while to realize that even though they probably should, atheism and rationality do not go hand in hand), then it's entirely possible they fell off the deep end and went back to religiosity.

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