Poe's Law
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Revision as of 18:48, 22 June 2008
Poe's Law relates to fundamentalism, and the difficulty of identifying actual parodies of it. Generally, it suggests that it's hard to tell fake fundamentalism from the real thing, since they both sound equally ridiculous.
The Law states:
“”Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.[1]
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It was originally created by Christianforums.com user Nathan Poe.[2]
Here, Check This Out, Pretty GoodHave you seen my site? AMAZING,
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Real-life examples
- One Conservapedia editor, for some degree of time, explained transitional forms as genetic hybrids created by Noah's super technologically advanced peers.
- Conservapedia was, and still is, rife with such examples. For example this entry which remained for some time, and explained how exploding volcanoes in the Mt Ararat region were responsible for distributing animals after the flood.
- Blogs 4 Brownback [3] seemed to really be an ultra-conservative Christian website - it even took us in.
- Meanwhile, Answers in Genesis [4] is, as far as is presently known, serious business.
- Now that you've had some practice, here's another test - is this a parody or not? (Warning: sometimes NSFW)
Still unknown
In mid 2008 Users of Rationalwiki were puzzling over whether this site was a a parody or not
Known parodies
We out them here!
- Baptists for Brownback now known as Republican Faith Chat ("Conservative Christians ONLY. Liberals, Atheists Not Welcomed.")
- Shelley the Republican - obviously psrodt - or is it?
Obversion
Since the identifying problem actually runs in both directions, Poe's Law could also be stated as "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, a parody of Fundamentalism is often indistinguishable from the real thing". That is, the parody can be mistaken for the real thing and the real thing can be mistaken for parody.