It’s a half-joke, or a half-sarcastic joke—I hold such humor in the highest regard and describe it as hyper-cynicism, from my own garbling of this. http://www.snpp.com/other/special/philosophy.html Basically, the poster is mostly joking, as given away by the last two sentences, but he wouldn’t have made the post if he didn’t think elements of truth behind it existed.
the poster is mostly joking, as given away by the last two sentences, but he wouldn’t have made the post if he didn’t think elements of truth behind it existed.
I understand that, but the “joke” was basically that the original post was a conspiracy to make this site more accepting of religion and ban discussion of it, when the post doesn’t suggest anything like that; quite the opposite, in fact.
It’s a half-joke, or a half-sarcastic joke—I hold such humor in the highest regard and describe it as hyper-cynicism, from my own garbling of this. http://www.snpp.com/other/special/philosophy.html Basically, the poster is mostly joking, as given away by the last two sentences, but he wouldn’t have made the post if he didn’t think elements of truth behind it existed.
I understand that, but the “joke” was basically that the original post was a conspiracy to make this site more accepting of religion and ban discussion of it, when the post doesn’t suggest anything like that; quite the opposite, in fact.
It works at many levels.