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Conservative rival to wikipedia

Discussion in 'Alley of Dangerous Angles' started by Cúchulainn, Mar 2, 2007.

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    Not ignorant...just, uh...'special'...like their minds exist on a different plane than the rest of ours.

    We should give them credit though because they are able to completely shut their minds off to reality, and that in itself is an impressive mental feat...I guess...
     
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    Sure. They probably wouldn't acknowledge the credit though. :p
     
    The Magister, Mar 19, 2007
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    @Chickenisgood: I haven't checked enough articles to know, but if it's true we have a rather amazing leap of mental logic: to protest the secular and unamerican wikipedia, you write your own articles using said wikipedia as one of the main sources.

    Is there a conservapedia for the Middle East? It would be fun if they would compare notes. Believers of the world, unite! :D
     
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    The two examples I base my statement on were "Vagina" and "Sex". Both topics that would be prone to editing in a vulgar and inappropriate manner. Take your hateful attitude somewhere else please.

    Returning to the examples I sited, they are trying to disconnect their site from obscenity or vulgarity. The site is designed to reflect their view of reality. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it wrong.
     
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    Completely ignoring history and scientific theory makes it wrong, though.
     
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    I notice that they have locked out such dangerous words as "Vagina" (half the population has one), "Penis" (the other half of the population has one), and "Sex" (by far most of the population wouldn't exist except for this).

    However, they do have a long treatise on Homosexuality, a topic that is far more controversial and just as difficult to police.
     
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    Article on chickens:

    Apparantly their homeschool 'education' isn't doing what it should. You can't tell me that they couldn't improve the fluency of this at all. The bolded part was of course added by me and is another one of this sites gems.
     
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    Well, chicken can survive without their heads, true, but that's really rare, and only happens if you were to remove the head with really great precision. The record for a headless chicken living was ten years or so.
    But that being said, there are plenty of other creatures, like a cockroach for example, that can survive without their heads for some time.

    Now, don't get me wrong, it's still very stupid, the whole article is. The wording is horrible, and it seems that it was written by someone in five minutes (probably was, I wouldn't be surprised.)

    I happened to wander there and came upon an article of "Shogun." It was, as they stated their articles to be, very "educational." Just look at it! :rolleyes:

    "Ruler of Japan from the Minamoto clan."
     
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    I love how the first thing they have to say about Cuba is that they 'relied on slavery longer than any other nation or colony in the Western Hemisphere.'

    Damn those American hating commies! How dare they have slaves in the 1870s!

    LoLLerskates *HUGZ* :rolleyes:
     
    Aikanaro, Apr 6, 2007
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    The wikipedia entries for "vagina" and "sex" are actually very tasteful. Given that these are subjects that most human beings will, at some point, need to understand, refusing to carry them in a scholarly reference is more then a little silly.
     
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    Suggested debate topics for Conservapedia

    1. is cretinism a required prerequisite for the ability to embrace creationism as a given fact?

    2. given that humans are a topographical doughnut(australian english spelling sorry) how do we achieve the cream filling if we dont have a penis or a vagina?

    3. is LIFE INTIMIDATING ART the divine inspiration of Scared Art (as opposed to sacred art)?

    [ April 14, 2007, 03:49: Message edited by: kin hell ]
     
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