As for myself, I can’t believe this is real, it’s just too… out there. I can remember hearing the bitten apple theory before though.
OTOH, it reminded of a time, in the mid-90’s when I was installing UNIX boxes as part of a migration for the company I worked for. At one location, the manager was a very nice, and very fundametally thiestic man. Although circumspect about his beliefs, he made no secret of them either, a policy I could agree on and we worked together pleasantly enough. After business was concluded for the day, I began the data migration to the new server as he watched closely and i expalined what was heppening(he was a PC buff as well, and wanted to find out more about this new system). Everything was going fine until the kernel load and rc scripts, at which point he was watching the console and saw several daemons posting start messages, and promptly wigged.
After much expanation, I got him calmed down enough to allow me to compelte the job, but I do distinctly recall running chmod a+rw on a file instead of numerics…
[SUB] And for the Mac owners who are worried for their soul, I got some old T/S1000’s here, garunteed deamon and Darwin free.[/SUB]
It smells of Landover, frankly. I looked at their anti-Landover page again – they’re complaining about the wrong things. They’re too smart not to get the joke, and they’d be complaining about the ridicule and not the blasphemy. Besides, it’s just the sort of thing they’d do.
I followed one of the ad links at the bottom of the page and discovered a site that sells sandals . Not bad, you say? One of these sandals has the word “Jesus” on the sole, and the other has “Loves You”. There’s another site selling Bibleman action figures. :eek:
I have the feeling this is legit. If there’s one thing I’ve noticed about someone who’s fanatical about anything, it’s that there is no such thing as “too over the top”. We can parody them, but we’ll never equal them for pure crazy.
I’d have figured parody until so many posters voiced their concern that it was real. A web search of “richard paley” and/or “fellowship university” comes up with only the site we’ve been reading.
What school has a “related” web site, but no home page?
Why can I find just about any teaching assistant at most colleges, but can’t find their department head anywhere but here?
I use a Mac and a PC (often simultaneously) at home, and prefer a Mac for schoolwork/work. I can function in a Linux/Unix environment, and I’ve used a SparcStation (Briefly).
Yep, parody. A very thorough one; I was whooshed bigtime for awhile. I suspect the darwin-platypus-devil mascot site is part of the joke.
One of the pages has some porn ads at the bottom with this heading:
Please support our website by visiting the following good Christian businesses
Other tipoffs:
Objections to occult practices at Halloween: “things such as ‘bobbing for apples’, which is really a symbolic re-enactment of the Fall.” Nobody believes that. Surely.
This caption: “Bazooka Jesus”, one of the many quality Christian evangelical candies available commercially.
On hiding bible tracts inside candy wrappers: "These work great because they give the child what they expect from Halloween - sweet candy - while also providing them with a dose of Christ. " This is Simpsonesque.
On dressing up as Bible characters to witness to trick-or-treaters at your door:
The mind boggles.
This is just weird:
Over the top:
[my bolding]
From the game theory article: “Homosexuality is a zero-sum game as well since one man plus another man equals zero children.” Uh-huh.
From the section on Pascal’s Wager:
From the Mall section, on the evils thereof:
And finally, a typo: “Positive values represent gains, and negitive ones losses.” Case closed.
Yeah, that’s what I thought… it was the whole reason I got Microsoft products in the first place. I mean, who the hell would want to use a pussy Heavenly computer, anyway?!?
But if Mac’s are the epitome of evil, and Linux is the epitome of good, I guess that leaves Microsoft somewhere in purgatory… I can live with that.
Evidently they’re not to familiar with the idea of access rights in Unix. “chmod” isn’t exactly a “secret code” and if you really want to unlock them fully, you’d better use chmod 777.
If this is a joke, it’s as completely deadpan and flawlessly executed as the “Why Cats Paint” book that came out a few years ago. I’d be almost more willing to believe that it’s an actual fundamentalist nutcase site that was whooshed when someone submitted that parody article to them.
<obligatory MS zing>
So Apple users are going to hell, eh? Well, it’s better than being a PC user, because they’re already there.
<\obligatory MS zing>
Several members have email addresses with non-existent domain names.
Kyle Goldman’s (that’s one scary looking kid) website is titled hands_off_lb. He is also a former fan of the person behind the Landover site.
“Diamond” Jack Holgroth is a member of NACGT (National Association of Creationist Game Theoreticians?), which doesn’t exist. There is an NACGT, but it’s for career and guidance counselors in the UK. He also solved the Fisherman’s Quandary game theory problem. This supposed problem doesn’t seem to exist.
Timothy Allmon will give a 10% discount on tax preparation services to anyone willing to convert on the spot
Fred “Skeet” Hoskins is a member of the Christian Youth band named Zounds! There was a little known punkish group named Zounds, but they weren’t exactly Christian oriented. He was also appointed Abstinence Czar.
Except for here and in other cites that link to here, there is no reference to Mt. Fellowship Baptist church, nor to Fellowship University.
There are plenty more small things that give it away, but it is very well done.
The funniest thing about the whole parody is the fact that they are being quoted and referenced by several other sites, some atheistic and some fundie oriented.
This site was discussed here before, but I think it got lost in the big crash. IIRC the consensus was that it was a parody. What clinched it for me (and I can’t find the particular page anymore) was the article about the purple teddy bear they were selling until someone realized purple was a color associated with homosexuality. So they changed it to a rainbow-striped teddy bear instead.
I’ve seen some speculation on slashdot (I think) that the truepath.com site contains all genuine Christian sites - except for this one, which was subtle enough to slip in with the others. Even that “porn” site link masonite mentioned is really a “trap” for those who would give in to temptation.
[sub]hmm… athiest, mac os x user… it’s a wonder I’m not in hell already…[/sub]
