Comments on: A Christian Perspective on the Japanese Earthquake

By: Luna_the_cat

Luna_the_cat — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:20:18 +0000

Unfortunately, it has now gotten into a YouTube response loop with people trolling the trollers and being in turn trolled by spoofers. >_< This confused me. I do hate humans sometimes anyway.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:18:06 +0000

Oh. Well, that would certainly have been interesting.

By: Luna_the_cat

Luna_the_cat — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:17:24 +0000

Huh, I retract my last statement. I was just corrected by someone who pointed me at a lot more sources. Nebbermind.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:15:57 +0000

Amazing you didn’t notice that?

You mean because she looks similar and has a similar voice and similar mannerisms, especially accounting for the fact that the hyper-religious one would have been in some sort of acting mode? No, I didn’t notice. But I’m willing to be convinced one way or another.

By: Luna_the_cat

Luna_the_cat — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:09:17 +0000

Uh, the girl who “admitted she was trolling” was not the same tamtampamela who made the original video. Amazing you didn’t notice that? Anyway, the “admitted she was trolling” girl has since tried to make it explicitly clear that she is not tamtamp.

Sadly, the girl in the original video is probably not trolling. She had an entire series of videos up from before the Japan earthquake which expressed very similar sentiments.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:54:17 +0000

OK, everybody, we’ve given Peter enough of a hard time!

By: Enoch

Enoch — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:39:40 +0000

Peter, let me tell you what is odd about your comment. I just read on Pharyngula about Utah making a “State Gun” symbol. That happened several days ago and was noted on Greg Ladens facebook feed. Over the last month I have noticed many times that Laden blogged something then two days later Pharyngula did. Dispatches from the Culture War blog notes news items a few days or even a week later than others on Science Blogs, all of the time.

Yet you have never noted this or complained. For an Internet copy you are not very good at what you do!

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:47:03 +0000

Thank you, George. That’s my reaction too. Isn’t there enough of this stuff without us making more?

By: george.w

george.w — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:54:28 +0000

I fell for it too, originally until word got out that she admitted she’s a Poe. Obvious satire is OK but Poes muddy the water. Plenty of horrible, real examples to choose from. YMMV…

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:47:32 +0000

Peter, you have an interesting view of how the Blogosphere operates. Good of that’s working for you. I am curious, though. If what I’ve done is “inexcusable” what is the punishment you wish me to suffer?

Emory, nicely done.

It was actually Julia that sent me this (about a week ago, but that version of the video was dissapeared on YouTube so I put it aside). She’ll be glad to hear it’s a Poe. Or Troll. Or whatever. Kinda had to be. It was too good. Bad good.