Originally Posted by
Foolmewunz
Well, we're some snarky bastages, that's for sure, but there's method to our madness (some of us). Essentially, one of my mantras is "Ridicule is a perfectly reasonable response to the ridiculous."
In short, off-colour, irrelevant, or sacreligious comments get people's attention. If it makes them laugh, hopefully it's not just at our cleverness, but actual laughing-at-the-woos. Satire, sarcasm, and mockery are acceptable debating tools when you're dealing with glib, fast-talking slicksters who want to suck people's bank accounts dry.
And, at present, this is just a blatant MLM scam product. But given its free reign, I can see it being added to the list of actually harmful woo medical treatments out there. "Here, grandma, no need to go to that expensive dialysis treatment, Timmy will just wave Teh Stick over your back and you'll be fine. See? Doesn't that feel better? Grandma? Grandma? Someone call 911!!!"
Thanks for the references to our forums, but really we're just humble folks like yourselves. We've just found a home away from home with fellow skeptics/sceptics. We put on our pants one leg at a time just like you. (Well, except Akhenaten... he wears one of those Yul Brynner skirt-loincloth things, but the less said about that, the better.)
I'm off to Swellness Training. Len's bound to accept my challenge for the debate any day now, and I've got to be ready.
By the way, in all that madness that is the legendary Amega Scam thread over on the JREF Forums, there is definitely method to our madness. As your very own Live&Learn has pointed out, a Google of "Amega Wand" now gets you to that thread in the third position, ahead of the bunch of videos, even! A Google of Debunk Amega Wand puts that thread at Number 1. And a Google of Amega Wand Debunk puts it at second. Anyone looking for information is going to have the word SCAM staring them in the face. (Of course, this will attract some of the lower-lifes in MLM, not naming any names mind you..... but they are looking for a good scam, after all.)
Keep up the good work. I'm going to stroll around the place a bit. If any of you feel that we're a little intimidating, Good! It's Working! Bwahaha! Er, uh,... actually.... We aren't. There are whole bunches of areas made for getting your feet wet. How off-putting can "How You Like Your Hot Dogs" actually be?
P.S. More in your own area of expertise, I'm sure you'd be interested to know that that Swedish dude (or "dude who posts from Sweden") who's made a career of defending Amway (David something? I can't recall) is over there under the name of IceRat. He's actually settled in and is posting other than on Amway. Even mercenaries are human, it seems. I figure some of you may have crossed swords with him. And let's face it, he's Len's role model.
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