As I recall, there was a Pit thread spawned by the original GD thread. I don’t have the link but it might not be too difficult to find.
Isn’t jet lag great? I have time to do all kinds of things like finding this!
Ilsa Lund’s comment on p. 13 (!) of the thread* about the Walmart-heir-cum-Messiah is priceless: “No wonder they have everyday low prices!”
What a load of bollocks, though. And isn’t it strange that, yet again, when someone picks on someone else to be saviour of the world, it just happens to be someone who, to be associated with, raises the status of the rumour-monger? Never just some unfashionable kid from, say, next door. Perhaps it affords the nearest thing to self-selection that one can get.
- And yes I read the whole thing.
Don’t forget about Stan Marsh
Never heard of him. And not much interested in finding out. Dealing with one nutter is enough…
If you’re gonna read the thread he linked to, just skip to page 13. That’s where the identity is revealed and the fun begins.
No, even then he doesn’t reveal the identity.
You must be talking about a different thread about the topic where he reveals the identity and everyone jokes about it- that’s not the one linked to; the one linked to is the one where he strings everybody along for a long time until ending w/ a vague description. WHERE IS THIS THREAD I WANT?! Sorry, just wanted to make the question stand out ;).
To clarify, I want the thread where he reveals the identity completely and everybody jokes about it.
I met a guy once who thought he was Jesus. He had mental problems (duh). He started coming to church activities in the congregation of single college students I belonged to at the time, just every so often, and at one point cornered me and talked a lot about money (though not about his secret identity; that came out later). He was very fixated on wealth. A roommate of mine tried to talk him out of his delusion, which struck me as rather pointless. Then one day he went to a car dealership and tried to buy a fancy car and put it on our pastor’s bill, because he was Jesus. That was interesting.
Not wanting to poo on your parade, but that sounds kinda common-or-garden by comparision!
That’s great, but we’re talking about the identity of the Messiah ;).
So roger thornhill, can you help me w/ a link to the thread where Polycarp finally revealed the name?
And what’s interesting is, that no one ever mentioned it later on, not even as a joke- not even this past summer when John Walton died in the plane crash, when jokes were made and a reference would have fit well (was this part of God’s plan?)
If anything, this show’s the Dope’s power of respect for long-time members (plus it’s kind of a personal topic, I guess; sex w/ sheep, OTOH :D…)
Andrew, I think what MIGHT have happened here is that the said thread (or perhaps a post or posts) got disappeared. It is indeed in p 13 of the thread linked to by haj that Ilsa Lund makes the joke that can only be referring to Walmart - “No wonder they have everyday low prices!”
Way back when, when Poly was a newbie, he’s still referring – albeit obliquely (some things never change) – to this Walmart messianic nonsense. At least, that’s what I take it do be (the titillating references to ‘major family crisis’, ‘dirty laundry’, ‘money’ , ‘intervention’ and being ‘burnt’ suggest we’re in the same ballpark).
Just this one result for search for polycarp and walmart, btw.
That post you link to was made years before the 2003 claim to the messiah- it wasn’t a reference, it’s actually a humorous look at Poly’s pre-messianic references to WalMart :D. For instance, he says then:
He had no idea how much more interest he’d have later on ;).
No, Poly’s been saving this up ‘for years’ (see bolded part below):
Full text of post (only for the stout of heart) here.
- In his reflections on the Republic, Karl Popper (The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol I) notes how Plato gives, before his description of the discovery of justice, a ‘lengthy preface’ (Plato’s own words). Popper notes the use of such lengthy prefaces as ‘an ingenious attempt to prepare the reader for the “discovery of justice” by making him believe that here is an argument going on when in reality he is only faced with a display of dramatic devices, designed to soothe his critical faculties’.
Popper also has some interesting things to say about mysticism and irrationalism. Here’s one (From OSE, Vol II): ‘As opposed to the intellectual irresponsibility of a mysticism which escapes into dreams and of an oracular philosophy which escapes into verbiage, modern science enforces upon our intellect the discipline of practical tests.’
This would be the only Reality TV I would watch. And it would even be funnier if it was done with the dubbing like Most Extreme Elimination.
" Up next we have Stan who when he isn’t changing water into wine is a patent attorney in Philly."
This isn’t the Pit, roger, so personal insults are right out. Please don’t do this again.
As for the thread: this may have started out as a legitimate, non-Polycarp-centric thread, but it didn’t stay that way. If you all want to dissect another poster’s previous comments/beliefs like this, you need to do so in the Pit. And, quite frankly, you should be polite enough to let him know what you’re doing.
This thread is closed.