• edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m 2 paragraphs in and I’m tapping out, I’m pretty sure I can feel my brain melting from the inside and I don’t wanna make a mess on my keyboard by reading further.

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      Obviously it means dock, as in where a ship moors, and ore, a common product on ships /s

      But unironocally, that’s probably exactly their reasoning…

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          Maybe he meant dock-oar. Like a contrived term for a rower of a boat, and just didn’t think to check the difference between ore and oar. Not that it’s any less stupid

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            Oh no, it’s better than that. Doctor sounds like Dock-ore and ore sounds like oar so everything related to giving birth is actually nautical themed, and this is the reason the US court system (which is all a naval court system by the way) has legal power over people.

            The Dock-Ore brings in the valuable ore/cargo (the baby, for the sane folks playing along at home) and takes blood samples from the sole of the baby’s feet (and sole sounds like soul, so they’re actually taking soul samples) so the US government can claim you as property and auction off your DNA.

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    Why are they so infatuated with this weirdo naval law thing they have going on? Like asking judges if they adjudicate under banner of a maritime vessel according to the Queen of Roxbury statute because otherwise their conveyance would be considered void by rite of Shaka when the walls fell. They just love maritime law for some reason.

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    You know how when you’re a teenager, you’re told you should “grow up and get a job”? Ever notice how “job” also refers to biblical texts that say at the end of your inevitable suffering, God will be with you, for he is just? Also worth noting: suffering is very close to surfing, i.e. travel via ocean, which is like a boat. Another big boat was the ark, pointing again! to the Bible. Remember when I said “grow up” earlier? That is probably because it is so close to “group”, which, with the other noted connotations, ties in with biblical stories = Bible Group. Because all of these messages come together when you are a teen, obviously we are talking about children’s Bible study. “Children’s” can be shortened to the word “chirruns”, aka “trains” so Trains Bible Study would be manufacturers instructions for freight trains, which could *also" mean “fraught trains”, because ghosts.

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    The fallacy, among others, they’re committing is called equivocation, by the way. They use a meaning of one word one minute and another the next, when it suits them to win the confrontation.

    This is why debate and talking don’t actually solve problems. People can and will just do stupid shit like this in bad faith to get you to acquiesce to them or stop challenging them.

    People like that need ass-beatings until they’re willing to conform to the dictionary’s definitions of words and the rules of debate.

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      The word is ent -omology. The root “ent” comes from the word “ant,” because we are all ants under god’s magnifying glass (a.k.a. “The ozone layer”), and “omology” comes from the secret chant from the knights Templar (the pope’s secret army boyz), and it roughly translates to “nana nana poo poo” because the Illuminati is so brazen that they hide clues and taunts everywhere, from word structure to the writing that appears on my bathroom mirror when I take a shower and the humidity (a.k.a. “Water air,” or “O2h2O,” commonly written as “uwu” by the pope’s online army boyz) makes the mirror taste good.

      it’s all connected

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    Have you ever thought about about words? Have you ever thought about how some words mean some thing, while other words mean a different thing?

    Words, man.

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    Something that I’d be interested in seeing:

    Get one of these sovereign citizens to gather up all of their official … “documents”. Next, stick them on a plane and drop them off on another continent, and then watch them throw their sovereign citizen weight around, and try to get back to the country where they refuse to cooperate with basic laws, rules and regulations.

    I definitely would like to see how a sovereign citizen’s homemade passport would go over in Uzbekistan, Zimbabwe, or Cambodia.

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      I believe the reason for that high rating is a form of selection bias maybe? Like if you go to IMDb you will see that live performances have a very high rating and I think is that you only gonna watch and rate if you are already fan of the band. In this case normal people are not gonna buy and read this book, only people who already agree with this nonsense.

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    The hospital thing is partly true, though meaningless when it comes to avoiding taxes or speeding tickets. They weren’t really a private army of the Vatican, though they did have knights and stuff. Extremely interesting fact: the Knights Hospitalier had a large (non-combat) air force for a minute due to technically being a country with no land. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1151832864494903296.html

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    You know, when I was a kid, I’d see crazy people in asylums on TV shows like the 3 Stooges just laughing it up, having a great time. I thought “man, it must be great to be crazy, look at all the fun they’re having, not a care in the world!” Now, as a ‘grown up’, I see mental illness everywhere, and those suffering from it like Trump supporters or flat earthers or sovereign citizens are so deeply angry and sad and lost, I almost feel bad for them. Almost.

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      Don’t forget all the other shitty things on display. Bad habits, anger problems, addiction, poverty, ostentatious wealth, authoritarianism…. You mentioned the 3 Stooges, and man that show was full of everything wrong. But that’s what made it funny. Everyone could see some of the same thing in their daily lives.