negativ
30th August 2007, 08:19 AM
While "multitasking" (read: multishirking) at work today, I happened to watch Richard Dawkins' TED talk, "Queerer Than We Can Suppose" (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/98) (which has nothing to do with Ted Haggard or The Village People), in which the good professor made mention of one Major General Albert "Bert" N. Stubblebine III (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubblebine) and his attempt to walk through a wall.
I would like to say that my BS Detector was immediately set off, but unfortunately my BS Detector has apparently been permanently damaged by prolonged exposure to 9/11 CT lunatics.
I'm glad to learn that a condition similar to mine has been recognized and a name has been given to the tendency to fall into a similar mental trap: Poe's Law (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe's+Law). We need something similar for the CT subculture.
No matter how bizarre, outrageous, or just plain idiotic a parody of a conspiracy theorist may seem, there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody, having seen similar ideas promoted in utmost sincerity by actual conspiracy theorists.
What would you call that?
Anyway, Major General Albert Stubblebine III strikes me as something entirely too "Dr. Strangelove-esque" to be real. The sirname itself seems improbably goofy, although I'm not entirely sure why. The Wikipedia entry reinforces my suspicion further still.
Stubblebine appeared in the 2006 documentary "One Nation Under Siege" where he states that a Boeing 757 airplane could not have crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
He also appears to be inordinately concerned with international food labeling practice and vitamin supplements, leading me to speculate that he's worried about the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Is this a fictional character, or he really some kind of deviated pre-vert?
I would like to say that my BS Detector was immediately set off, but unfortunately my BS Detector has apparently been permanently damaged by prolonged exposure to 9/11 CT lunatics.
I'm glad to learn that a condition similar to mine has been recognized and a name has been given to the tendency to fall into a similar mental trap: Poe's Law (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poe's+Law). We need something similar for the CT subculture.
No matter how bizarre, outrageous, or just plain idiotic a parody of a conspiracy theorist may seem, there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody, having seen similar ideas promoted in utmost sincerity by actual conspiracy theorists.
What would you call that?
Anyway, Major General Albert Stubblebine III strikes me as something entirely too "Dr. Strangelove-esque" to be real. The sirname itself seems improbably goofy, although I'm not entirely sure why. The Wikipedia entry reinforces my suspicion further still.
Stubblebine appeared in the 2006 documentary "One Nation Under Siege" where he states that a Boeing 757 airplane could not have crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
He also appears to be inordinately concerned with international food labeling practice and vitamin supplements, leading me to speculate that he's worried about the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Is this a fictional character, or he really some kind of deviated pre-vert?