We get email: From the “just helping out” file
Yes, I know, you do wonder if some of these are fake. But you know how the internet is. It takes all kinds. Anyway, it’s good to have someone handling the tough research.
hi fellow atheists
I have discovered why the Jews were persecuted and still are over time , Its because the tenants of aten ism were passed on to them from akhenaten or someone close to him. The catholic church is practising atenism Christianity is atenism. Wikipedia states that aten translates as the disk. Soho calls the suns corona the disk of the sun so it’s the aten and for very good reason. I have throughorly researched this and I am highly intelligent as my uncle was a detective in charge of detectives that were set up to deal with juivinile crime in north Brisbane Australia and he was very successful. Please take me seriously. I have written a book and reserve all rights but this is not about the book as I will get it published in good time and and I reserve the rights to the content. Google The Lost Connection. I have to go to work now.
Don’t work too hard!
Jasper of Maine:
June 25th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
I hate that. It’s not like he’s having a live conversation with us. You can go, come back, go, and come back again, and finally finish the email all without telling us.
Sorry, the dog is barking into a vortex, so I have to depart now.
annabucci:
June 25th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Please take e seriously. Pretty please!
michaelbuchheim:
June 25th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Please take me seriously. I wrote a book!
It’s about how serious I am and why running sentences and poor grammar are good indicators of intelligence of which I have a lot. My Aunt was a successful witch smeller and a part time lawyer. Thought I’ll just throw that out there. I may mention her in my book, which is mine and I wrote and whose content belongs to me also. But this is not about the book. This is about my theory on the Brontosaurus.
-Miss Anne Elk
Bernard:
June 25th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Bloody Hell! Another semi-literate feral from our “Deep North” pleading to to taken seriously. Where does one begin to even try to answer something so disconnected as this? Or was this posted just to give us a laugh?
Tim:
June 25th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
Ok, I had to Google it, and to my surprise it wasn’t the top ranked site. Heck, I couldn’t even find it. Well, I admit I only checked the first two search pages, then I said screw it.
some bastard on the net:
June 25th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
*snort*Sure.*giggle*Definitely.*snerk*
jdon:
June 25th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
I have to assume it’s a Poe ’cause I googled The Lost Connection and all I got was websites about the TV show Lost, some DJ’s musical effort, network connection problems, a Prometheus article…
m6wg4bxw:
June 25th, 2012 at 10:41 pm
So I tried some of my own google-fu on this. I searched for “the lost connection” + “atenism.” This FTB page was the first result. But interestingly, the third result is a page on a site called http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au. The page is untitled (in the caption bar), but apparently called “Bible Characters in Egyptian History”[1] More interesting, that page links to a page titled “The Lost Connection.”[2] Maybe this is what our helpful fellow atheist wants us to see.
[1]http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/world/faith/penta_bible_characters.htm
[2]http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/world/faith/Tut_Jesus.htm
Steve:
June 26th, 2012 at 1:08 am
The Jews should have evicted those tenants of Atenism…
mikespeir:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:32 am
LOL! A little humor to get the day off to a good start.
Twiggy120:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:46 am
Why is it only stupid or poorly educated people say “I am highly intelligent” or something similar? He’s intelligent because his uncle was a detective, I’m a race-car driver because my Dad drives a Taxi.
Ron Lapworth:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:03 am
It’s a pity he hadn’t ‘throughorly researched’ spelling.
Daemon6:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:26 am
Well, he said he’s highly intelligent so I think we should take him seriously.
Daemon6:
June 26th, 2012 at 4:28 am
Are you sure that’s fair? Were they paying their rent on time?
Hmm, maybe we should check the Renter’s Agreement..
Anyone know who the landlord is?
John Kruger:
June 26th, 2012 at 6:55 am
Deliberate lack of punctuation is a fairly common technique to “dumb down” an e-mail when creating a fake. Smells fishy to me. The explicit request to be taken seriously is also weird (well, since you asked so nicely, I guess I will take you seriously). Saying you are intelligent but using bad punctuation is also pretty funny, funny enough that it seems an unlikely accident.
I don’t think this is real, but such is the problem of Poe’s law.
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant):
June 26th, 2012 at 8:09 am
No, you fools – he really is highly intelligent, with such a unique and incisive writing style that it is trivial to determine who wrote it.
He has to run everything he writes through a sophisticated algorithm that translates it through French, Spanish, Esperanto, and Klingon, then Russian, BASIC, Canadian English, Black Oroogu, and finally Real English again.
All this so the Atenist Secret Masters can’t work out who the troublemaker giving out their secrets must be!
Brilliant!
Roger:
June 26th, 2012 at 8:48 am
I call Bullpoe.
hexidecima:
June 26th, 2012 at 9:11 am
It’s a shame that this “very intelligent” person (by osmosis it seems) will be so disappointed that his “new” idea is not new at all and his dreams of having any rights to its content are long gone.
Felipe:
June 26th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Now, now, that’s silly enough as it is. Move along.
F:
June 26th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Never had the chance. Atenism was evicted as soon as Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten died, whereupon he himself was removed from recorded history. We are somewhat lucky we even know he existed at all.
His son even changed his name so as not to be associated with Atenism. You’ve probably heard of him. Our short form for both of his names is Tut.
Daemon6:
June 26th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Inorite!
I’m glad he also made the effort to dumb it down for all of the neanderthals he was trying to reach. We need all the help we can get!
MarkB:
June 26th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Sooooo…
If the Jews were handed the tenets of Atenism, and the Catholic Church practices Atenism…
The Jews were persecuted because they were copy-cats?
Arancaytar:
June 26th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
Whoever wrote that is clearly wise in the ways of cubic time. Give him Dr. Ray’s number.
Paul Newcomb:
June 26th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
I personally think this guy is highly intelligent. So intelligent in fact that most people are unable to understand his highly intellectual version of the english language.
It may seem improper to you simply because you’re….well…a dimwit and his wording is just lightyears ahead of what you are capable of….
As far as his credentials go, I hardly see what the issue is. I mean seriously! His dad was a detective in charge of other detectives in charge of juveniles (which has absolutely nothing to do with his argument), and therefore he might as well also be a detective……. capable of being in charge of other detectives…who are…in charge of juveniles….or something….
And what part of “throughorly researched” don’t you people understand! For God’s sake, he even googled it and stumbled upon wikipedia! If that’s not intellectual research I don’t know what is!
Balstrome:
June 26th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
You people are evil, he is a special child of jesus and allah.
Mary2:
June 27th, 2012 at 4:49 am
I’m with you. I smell a Poe. People who really believe they have the answers don’t ask to be taken seriously – they assume they will because the truth is self-evident.
1415dr:
June 27th, 2012 at 7:58 am
Well, in his defense… hold on a minute I’ve got to switch out the laundry.
Timberwoof:
June 27th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Another semi-literate feral from our “Deep North” pleading to to taken seriously.
Is he one of the guys who tried to prevent Daylight Savings Time because the extra hour of sunlight would bleach the curtains?
Paddy:
June 27th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
ROFL!!!
NUDE0007:
June 27th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
I believe him! I am intelligent because my dad was a janitor and we once lived next to a school where hundreds of students went to learn. my mom was a cleaning lady for 8 years, but only in a grade school. I am sure people living next to power lines never have to recharge their iphones, even when travelling. I’m sorry I am spelling this so correctly, I’ll try harder.
Aten means disk and Egypt was know n as the birthplace of Christianity. They called him King Disco and they had lots of parties with Donna Summer, who is the goddess of that season. Donna means “cool” which explains another song by Bananarama. Bananarama means long firm yellow god, which plays nicely with Aten, the disk shaped god.
I am smart, so you know I’m right.
Roscopicotrain:
June 27th, 2012 at 9:39 pm
this is awesome!! ^^^^
a miasma of incandescent plasma:
June 28th, 2012 at 10:08 am
You have demonstrated your high intelligence, but since you didn’t ask nicely for me to take you seriously I won’t. Aten doesn’t stop you from saying the magic word!
TerranRich:
June 28th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
I think you guys are being too… hold on, gotta return to 2036 in my pickup truck time machine, be back in a decade…
GenErik:
June 28th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
I love the credentials. “I am highly intelligent as my uncle was a detective in charge of detectives”
oh yea? Well my uncle was a detective in charge of your uncle who was a detective in charge of other detectives.
So who’s the intelligent one now?
jeffxenobuilder:
June 29th, 2012 at 11:33 am
Oh My God, who is not my God, and I don’t believe in, but that was spot on!