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OrByte

OrByte

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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Conservatives are having a bad case of cognitive dissonance right now. They have the one and only truth and it has f@cked them in the behind. They are proud individualists and egotists whose ideology is there to pump their heads up but the War in Iraq has flattened them like a train wreak. What do you do with all that hubris and ego when the world demonstrates every day that everything you believe and all your instincts are completely up side down. Delusions can only be maintained by more delusions. When the wolves of reality howl, the sheep pack close together. BAH BAH BAH, I don't hear any wolves. You?
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My goodness Moonbeam are you trying to make me feel sorry for them?

cuz it worked :(

:p
 
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JungleMan1

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Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Frankly, the "Conservapedia" smacks a little too strongly of young college Republicans trying to "think outside the box." Like starting a white college fund, or playing hide-and-seek-the-illegal-immigrant, or whatever nonsense passes for a cheap political stunt these days.
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Well, if a white college fund is a "cheap political stunt", why is a black college fund any different? Discrimination is discrimination. Are you saying blacks can have black-only funds but whites cannot have whites-only funds? Personally I disagree with both, and nobody should be discriminated against on basis of color. Not for a job, not for a school, not for a scholarship. That's what MLK wanted for this country.

I do agree though, and if anyone actually takes time to look at the site (when it isn't down), you'll see that it really has very little substance or bias in either direction, simply because there is nothing on it.
 
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Craig234

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Originally posted by: JungleMan1
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Frankly, the "Conservapedia" smacks a little too strongly of young college Republicans trying to "think outside the box." Like starting a white college fund, or playing hide-and-seek-the-illegal-immigrant, or whatever nonsense passes for a cheap political stunt these days.
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Well, if a white college fund is a "cheap political stunt", why is a black college fund any different? Discrimination is discrimination. Are you saying blacks can have black-only funds but whites cannot have whites-only funds? Personally I disagree with both, and nobody should be discriminated against on basis of color. Not for a job, not for a school, not for a scholarship. That's what MLK wanted for this country.

I do agree though, and if anyone actually takes time to look at the site (when it isn't down), you'll see that it really has very little substance or bias in either direction, simply because there is nothing on it.
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Because the history is that a group of people who are black were discriminated against terrible for 300 years in this country, *and it had extreme effects at leaving their black descendants at a disadvantage to this day*, between black families not gaining in wealth and education generation to generation like whites did. People who express your view typically confuse the purpose of undoing some of the lingering effects of the discrimination, with the idea of 'paying a fine' to those who were the direct victims.

Of course, the latter can't be done, so you think there's no point to it and go around talking as if the black people are not at all at a disadvantage, so helping is wrong.

There are lingering cultural effects, as well, from 300 years of being treated like that, which largely ended only in the 1960's, 40 years ago.

The history is not one of whites being discriminated against by blacks for 300 years and now being affected by that. That's why it's different to have a black college fund.
 
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Moonbeam

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Originally posted by: OrByte
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Conservatives are having a bad case of cognitive dissonance right now. They have the one and only truth and it has f@cked them in the behind. They are proud individualists and egotists whose ideology is there to pump their heads up but the War in Iraq has flattened them like a train wreak. What do you do with all that hubris and ego when the world demonstrates every day that everything you believe and all your instincts are completely up side down. Delusions can only be maintained by more delusions. When the wolves of reality howl, the sheep pack close together. BAH BAH BAH, I don't hear any wolves. You?
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My goodness Moonbeam are you trying to make me feel sorry for them?

cuz it worked :(

:p
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They do deserve much pathos but I can't remember the more common word for that.
 
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Lifer
Jun 3, 2002
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Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Conservatives are having a bad case of cognitive dissonance right now. They have the one and only truth and it has f@cked them in the behind. They are proud individualists and egotists whose ideology is there to pump their heads up but the War in Iraq has flattened them like a train wreak. What do you do with all that hubris and ego when the world demonstrates every day that everything you believe and all your instincts are completely up side down. Delusions can only be maintained by more delusions. When the wolves of reality howl, the sheep pack close together. BAH BAH BAH, I don't hear any wolves. You?
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Nice use of the term cognitive dissonance. Though in this case, this particular group of nutty far right-wingers that have started this joke of an online encyclopedia won't do anything to address the contradiction in their thinking, which is the psychological cure for people suffering from cognitive dissonance. They will continue to be deluded until the old, warped conservatism finally dies, with them, and the new conservatism emerges.

Funnily enough, this actually reminds me of that new right-wing version of the Daily Show on Fox that was released recently, something called the 1/2 Hour News or something? Watched 5 minutes of it and was dying of laughter at how bad it was. And it's not like you can't make a right-wing version of the Daily Show, it could be done with the right actors and writers, albeit hard to find.
 
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Screech

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Jesus article is entertaining, albeit short. A snippet:

"The name Jesus is simply the name "Joshua" translated first into Greek, then English. In Christian discourse, the name Jesus almost always refers specifically to Jesus of Nazareth, believed by Christian followers to be God's dad, who came to earth as a human c 2 AD. However, God has recently revealed on His blog that Jesus is actually His nephew, not His son."
 
GroundedSailor

GroundedSailor

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Originally posted by: catnap1972
Originally posted by: sandorski
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
And still! No entry for "vagina."

http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:Search?search=vagina&go=Go

WTF?!
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They don't do rumours(OMG anti-American speeeling!!) and as far as they know, the "vagina" is a rumour.
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Being that many of them have likely never seen one they have no confirmation it exists :D
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Well, they've had one around their necks at least once!!:D


 
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Smartazz

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I never knew wikipedia was considered a legitimate source. I mean you wouldn't use it for a term paper.
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I have yet to find a false fact on wikipedia. The only vandalism I ever see is once in a while someone writes "Jack is an @sshole" or something along those lines.
 
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Smartazz

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Originally posted by: Oxaqata
These articles look to have been written by 13yr olds =_=
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Not necessarily 13 year olds, but they def. sound like a 13 year old.
 
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cheesehead

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Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I never knew wikipedia was considered a legitimate source. I mean you wouldn't use it for a term paper.
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My organic chemistry professor (who graduated from Berkeley) distributes notes to our class that were printed from Wikipedia. But, they are mainly just facts regarding characteristics of certain elements and organic compounds.
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I presume he's careful to use a copy from a point in time when the article was not hacked.
 
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Smartazz

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Originally posted by: Cheesehead
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I never knew wikipedia was considered a legitimate source. I mean you wouldn't use it for a term paper.
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My organic chemistry professor (who graduated from Berkeley) distributes notes to our class that were printed from Wikipedia. But, they are mainly just facts regarding characteristics of certain elements and organic compounds.
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I presume he's careful to use a copy from a point in time when the article was not hacked.
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Even Wikipedia recommends that they're not used as a primary source, btw take a look at this in depth article.

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fskimospy

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Okay, first of all nobody should be using wikipedia (or ANY encyclopedia) as a source for a paper if they are out of middle school. And nobody should be using Conservapedia for anything other then printing pages for decorative toilet paper. Any site that is attempting to create a collection of knowledge that is biased on purpose... has created a joke of a source.

It's amazing how many things in this world are apparently in the clutches of the All Powerful Liberals. So we have the Liberal News Media, the Liberal TV industrly, The Liberal Movie Industry, The Liberal Education System, The Liberal Scientists, and now The Liberal Internet. You know, considering how conservatives believe they represent the majority of this country (or at least 50%, right?), they apparently are huge slackers because the liberals somehow control everything. (they have even insidiously taken over an encyclopedia that anyone on earth can edit.) The choices here seem to be that either

A.) Liberals have somehow infiltrated and taken over our country and are holding good god fearing American's down with their volvo driving, latte' drinking tyranny... or maybe B.) That as my mom said, if you have a problem with one thing... that thing is probably at fault. If you have a problem with everything, maybe it's a fault with you.

Ah well, Stephen Colbert said two amazing things about this, first of all... everyone is entitled to their own facts, and secondly... we all know that reality has a well known liberal bias.
 
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