The stupid, it burns.
Mar. 5th, 2014 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselking
The seller has changed the description. It now says "Tengwar", not "Arabic", although you can still see the reviews mentioning the previous description. And they still think it says The Lord's Prayer.
Aggressive stupidity: It's a way of life.
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Date: 2014-03-05 10:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-05 10:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-05 10:39 pm (UTC)Slow clap to whoever's running that game.
Or, the seller just noticed that the review page took on a life of its own and it's generating sales, Three Wolf Moon style, and is laughing all the way to the bank. Judging by the seller's collection of skull and freemasonry rings, I don't know if his devotion to the lord's prayer is anything more than retail-oriented.
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Date: 2014-03-05 10:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-05 11:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 12:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 12:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 01:19 am (UTC)I suspect the seller, being someone who preys on the gullibility of fundies and is thus dishonest, is himself a fundie, and thus both gullible and not very bright.
And he figured, how awesome a WITNESSING TOOL would it be if he had it available in HEATHEN languages, not just God's own language, the English that Jesus spoke.
So, since he didn't speak anything but King James English, he called his ring supplier in China and said "hey, can you make 'em with Arabic?"
The supplier thought about it for about one second before saying "SURE!" and, being a supplier of cheap goods to a not-very-bright customer who doesn't read Arabic, figured he could either find an Arabic translator and pay him and make a new ring production line, or just take the premade inscription off the One Ring knockoffs he's already making and tell the seller it's an Arabic version of the Lord's Prayer. Since the second is cheaper and no additional work, and his customer is gullible and ignorant, he goes with that.
And it takes until someone with the kind of "wordly" knowledge that fundies despise for anyone to notice.
And, as is common for fundies when confronted with evidence that they've been fooled not just by a con but by a very *stupid* con, he's doubled down, and is claiming that okay, he got the script wrong, but the TEXT is still true and that's why HE'S smart and YOU'RE a fool.
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Date: 2014-03-06 02:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 07:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-06 08:50 am (UTC)One might say that the text is mystically transsubstantiated into the Lord's Prayer upon wearing, merely remaining something else in its worldly accidents such as the shape of the engraving and... well, every other imaginable element of appearance and physical property. Then again, one might argue that this is silly, but that the Lord's Prayer is nonetheless objectively "in, with, and under the forms" of the ring despite appearances otherwise, making it symbolically okay to wear it as if it were literally the Lord's Prayer.
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Date: 2014-03-06 10:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-03-10 01:09 am (UTC)And yet, even now, that item is being sold as a "Lord's Prayer" ring.