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| Eva Destruction |
 Wed 17th March 2010, 5:32pm
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I think I may have discovered the most batshit-crazy argument I've ever seen on Wikipedia. I have read this top-to-bottom three times and it still doesn't make the slightest sense to me at any point. But they're obviously all very upset about something. If I read it correctly, the significance of goldfish in Iranian culture.
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| Ottava |
Wed 17th March 2010, 5:36pm
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QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Wed 17th March 2010, 5:32pm)  I think I may have discovered the most batshit-crazy argument I've ever seen on Wikipedia. I have read this top-to-bottom three times and it still doesn't make the slightest sense to me at any point. But they're obviously all very upset about something. If I read it correctly, the significance of goldfish in Iranian culture. Obviously, there are no fish in the desert.  |
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| Eva Destruction |
Wed 17th March 2010, 5:45pm
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QUOTE(Ottava @ Wed 17th March 2010, 5:36pm) Obviously, there are no fish in the desert. Ezekiel 29:5 |
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| Milton Roe |
Wed 17th March 2010, 7:09pm
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QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Wed 17th March 2010, 10:32am) I think I may have discovered the most batshit-crazy argument I've ever seen on Wikipedia. I have read this top-to-bottom three times and it still doesn't make the slightest sense to me at any point. But they're obviously all very upset about something. If I read it correctly, the significance of goldfish in Iranian culture. The article is about the Persian new year festival meal Nowruz. It says goldfish are sacred to Zoroastrians. One guy wants to use as evidence, an article that mentions a painting which can't be older than 1909, due to the photo on the wall of some guy who wasn't king before then. This makes no impression on the insane editor Xashaiar (T-C-L-K-R-D) . The cite for the statement that "goldfish are important to Zoroastrianism" merely makes mention of this 20th century drawing and says the goldfish shown THERE is apparently symbolical of the actual fish that IS important to the religion, the Kara Māhi (black fish) which is apparently something else entirely, since goldfish (a type of golden Chinese carp) are a late addition to Europe (17th century) and even later to Iran (19th century). This is explained to the insane editor and it makes no impression, except to cause him to fulmanate about Khomeni and changing history. Ah, Wikipedia.  |
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| Somey |
Wed 17th March 2010, 7:37pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=350385575
QUOTE(User:BehnamFarid @ 17:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)) I am not answerable to you, or to anyone else! ... This is a talk page, not a bullying playground!!! That pretty much sums up the nature of the general mass delusion that is WP, doesn't it? |
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| Eva Destruction |
Wed 17th March 2010, 8:17pm
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QUOTE(Somey @ Wed 17th March 2010, 7:37pm) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=350385575 QUOTE(User:BehnamFarid @ 17:28, 17 March 2010 (UTC)) I am not answerable to you, or to anyone else! ... This is a talk page, not a bullying playground!!! That pretty much sums up the nature of the general mass delusion that is WP, doesn't it? Nothing will ever beat "This is a community, not a crazy den of pigs". Although "drop this line of ringworm snot right now please" comes close. |
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| Ottava |
Thu 18th March 2010, 2:27pm
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QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Wed 17th March 2010, 5:45pm) QUOTE(Ottava @ Wed 17th March 2010, 5:36pm) Obviously, there are no fish in the desert. Ezekiel 29:5 Haha.  I would really love to know how you found such an obscure line. |
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| A Horse With No Name |
Thu 18th March 2010, 2:29pm
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QUOTE(Ottava @ Thu 18th March 2010, 10:27am) I would really love to know how you found such an obscure line. Matthew 7:7  |
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| Ottava |
Thu 18th March 2010, 2:39pm
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QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Thu 18th March 2010, 2:29pm) QUOTE(Ottava @ Thu 18th March 2010, 10:27am) I would really love to know how you found such an obscure line. Matthew 7:7 That would only be true if I do get an answer. : P |
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| GlassBeadGame |
Thu 18th March 2010, 2:58pm
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QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Thu 18th March 2010, 8:29am) QUOTE(Ottava @ Thu 18th March 2010, 10:27am) I would really love to know how you found such an obscure line. Matthew 7:7 Bible fans have been way ahead in searchable text, first with huge dead tree "concordances" and early on in computer and then online. The only thing I know of that remotely rivals them are the old West Publishing and Shepard's searchable "key indexes" of legal topics, authority, cases. |
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| Jon Awbrey |
Thu 18th March 2010, 3:14pm
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QUOTE(Ottava @ Wed 17th March 2010, 1:36pm) Obviously, there are no fish in the desert. Unless you look up, Wiki-Poisson — But we're in the Age of Aquarius now, rubes. — Also Sprach 0* |
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| CharlotteWebb |
Thu 18th March 2010, 3:15pm
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QUOTE(Ottava @ Wed 17th March 2010, 5:36pm) Obviously, there are no fish in the desert. But there are plants and birds and rocks and things, not to mention sand and hills and, umm… rings. |
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| MookieZ |
Thu 18th March 2010, 3:40pm
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QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Wed 17th March 2010, 4:17pm) Nothing will ever beat "This is a community, not a crazy den of pigs". Although "drop this line of ringworm snot right now please" comes close. Ahh... My favorite wikipedian. Where have ye gone, Smith Jones (T-C-L-K-R-D) ? |
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