“Curious? Yes I’d like to know… I’ll sit back and wait for the master to explain”
Glad to oblige!
“So far I laid out a reasoned logical point by point …”
No you didnt. you misunderstood the law, as you sort of realized in your follow up post.
You originally said “The written word contains no inflection, so without outside markers, one about know if someone is being serious or sarcastic.”
which is of course nonsense, as you correctly realized later. Sadly, though instead of taking that opportunity t rethink your mistaken understanding , you doubled down on your wrong interpretation.
The quote is not about words or language. That is not at all the subject of the law. The law is about people.
As Yeserbius correctly understood. “@joseph is the personification of Poe’s law. Most people here can’t tell that he’s trolling in 99% of his comments.” In other words Joseph ie a person, is an example of Poe’s law, its not his writing that is the example.
For example take his recent post “Women’s suffrage must end” Does he really believe that? There is no real way to know, some take him very seriously, some assume he is joking.
Who is right? There is no way to know. NOT because their is a chisaron in language (which as you ve pointed out 1. isnt true, and 2. wouldnt be a chiddush at all. But because there are people with such crazy ideas out there that no matter how extreme he gets, we still couldnt be certain if he was being serious or not.
Undo cheirem derabeinu gershom?
Be allowed to hit your wife?
Be allowed to keep your wife imprisoned in your home
Be allowed to feed her just enough to survive ?
Who knows if he actually believes this stuff, furthermore, he may not even have SAID all these examples, but many would believe me if I said he did
He could get as extreme as possible combining all the above, into one post (as i I believe men should be allowed to marry multiple wives keeping them all locked up at home feeding them the bare minimum amount to eat) and many would STILL believe he believes that
Again, not because of a chissaron in “the written word” in fact it can equally apply in real life if joseph said these things.
“Your response has been ”I guess your too stupid to understand. ””
I double checked my post, I’m not sure where I said (or even implied ) that .
But lets focus on one misunderstood line at a time