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1. Personal Failure on March 9th, 2009 8:35 pm

   I'm hoping that (a) Poe's Law applies and that (b) those 10 people voting for demons and witches (in concert, working separately?) are people like me who would just have to go for the craziest answer, due to some psychological malfunction.

   Please tell me I'm right.

2. nullifidian on March 9th, 2009 8:49 pm

   I really really wish I could. All the evidence points to the contrary, and we all know what wishful thinking leads to.

3. BruceH on March 9th, 2009 11:15 pm

   Personally, I voted for the "witches and demons" option because I'd like that goon (to use your word) to look as silly as possible.

4. nullifidian on March 9th, 2009 11:21 pm

   Fair enough. :-)

   As it happens, I don't think anything you could vote on (or write) would be any additional reason to conclude that Dr Goon could be any more ridiculous than the idiocy he himself espouses for the world to see, although I'm sure that, deep down, he appreciates the sentiment (as long as you don't masquerade as a demon voice in his head). ;-)

5. BruceH on March 10th, 2009 12:24 am

   Point taken.

   Although… if I were able to masquerade as a demon voice in his head, you can bet I'd be telling him some seriously funny shit.

6. BruceH on March 10th, 2009 12:51 am

   Hoo-boy, this Garvan is seriously mentally ill. As in clinically-diagnosed-insane. There is some good news, however. The good doctor is back on his meds and now realizes his demons and angels are but figments of his illness.

   Oh, and true to form, his fundie pastor has been feeding his illness. Christian morality, my ass.

   So, yeah, this guy is a serious loon who believes in some wacky crap but, in light of his illness, I take back my comments as being in poor taste. I hope he will one day recover enough to live a stable, productive life.

7. garic on March 10th, 2009 12:53 pm

   I'm far from convinced this blog isn't all a big piss-take.Take a look at the list of things he liked; along with Jesus and "Bible, Church and Godly Things", he lists dead pigeons, CCTV and amateur espionage, time travel, and exploding things.

   That, along with the posts about demons and pills sounds a bit to me like someone trying quite hard to sound like a mentally ill person writing a blog. In fact, it sounds quite a lot like an atheist would-be comedian trying to sound like a mentally ill religious nut.

   I may be wrong of course, but I don't think so.

8. Honjii on March 11th, 2009 11:12 pm

   I had a hard time voting with only those two options available, I kept reloading the page sure a third option, or am I just an idiot, would appear, but alas…

9. Neuroskeptic on March 13th, 2009 9:40 am

   It's a piss take if you ask me. But a pretty good one.

10. Laurie on March 15th, 2009 12:12 am

    Help… what is a "piss take"? Sorry – I'm a yank, not familiar with all your crazy Brit slang. Except what I hear on BBC America… :)

11. nullifidian on March 15th, 2009 12:35 am

    A "piss take" is a parody, from the expression "taking the piss" (or, more politely, "extracting the urine") meaning to comically abuse or ridicule, especially stupidity (for which I have an entire (and probably overused) tag).

    I'm not sure what you get to see on BBC America. I hope it it's not constant Eastender repeats (or should I say "re-runs"). :-)

12. Laurie on March 15th, 2009 12:56 am

    Thanks! Now I don't feel bad about not watching Eastenders… I like the Office with Ricky Gervais, and of course Monty Python is a classic. Probably none of the good stuff. Like when I was in France in '84 and everyone thought I would be a fan of Dallas and Dynasty. Vomit.

13. FrodoSaves on March 15th, 2009 6:37 am

    I too intended to vote for the "witches and devils" option, but by the time I tried the poll had closed. Obviously M. Garvanian was disappointed with the results, since "witches, wizards and witchcraft" make the list of things he doesn't like along with "famous ginger women" and "foreign relations". Presumably that last one means the in-laws of his mail order Russian bride.

14. Booster on March 16th, 2009 9:38 pm

    I think he is a poe – he has a whole split persona thing going on and there are references to his "mental health" issues. No one can be this batshit insane.

15. Crystal D. on March 20th, 2009 3:12 pm

    Witches! It makes sense now that SO many fundagelicals and religionuts don't understand magnetism, and other facts of science.

16. Marion_Delgado on April 12th, 2009 11:06 pm

    By taking the radical position that you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that magnetism comes always from purely mechanical causes always inside a magnet, and not from use of witchcraft or presence of demons, both of which are proven in research to have one key sign be magnetism changes, you are bringing the science of magnetism itself into disrepute.

    Instead of shooting yourselves in the foot, why not blog the controversy?