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Berlum

(7,044 posts)
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 11:06 AM Jul 2013

Why is Poo sold as the ultimate truth?

Scientific Materialism - aka 'poo' or 'poo poo' - is often sold via corporate propaganda as the ultimate infallible truth.

Why is this perverse Reality Distortion allowed to exist?

No doubt Poo Propagandists will jump right in to this thread to "claim" it's because they do have the ultimate "facts of the matter," and have The Way, The Light, and the Ultimate Truth.

The sheer arrogant folly of it all, how it amuses...

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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
3. Keeps people from reading about stuff like government spying on We the People
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:04 PM
Jul 2013

Not that it's against the law when the government does it or something.

Hey! I learned on DU that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is full of woo.

http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/1014365769#post35

edhopper

(33,584 posts)
5. And what,
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:17 PM
Jul 2013

pray tell, do you consider the truth that us poor, deluded fools who accept the scientific view of the Universe fail to see?

FSogol

(45,488 posts)
6. “It's fascinating to think that all around us there's an invisible world we can't even see. I'm
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:25 PM
Jul 2013

speaking, of course, of the World of the Invisible Scary Skeletons." - Jack Handy

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
13. You'll have to excuse the OP...
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 05:39 PM
Jul 2013

they were once banned for trying to convince us that chemtrails are real.

Though they're back under a new name, it doesn't seem they've changed their ways too much.

Sid

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
8. Maybe it has something to do with chemtrails poisoning their minds?
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 12:26 PM
Jul 2013

Or hawks spiraling out of control? I'm sure you'll figure it out.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
10. The "corporations" can stuff their "earth is round" propaganda where the sun don't shine!
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 01:12 PM
Jul 2013

I'll keep my stockpile of phlogiston in the basement in case of emergency. I'm not letting some Georgia Tech nerd tell me it doesn't exist.

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