Conservapedia - Because Reality Has a Liberal Bias!

[CptStern]

Damn those crazy Rethuglicans ruining a perfectly good wikipedia. They always vandalize what they don't agree with.

But my vote is that those aren't Rethuglican vandals. It's more the likes of you than anyone else. So, tell me, do you think Muslimwikipedia.com is pathetic, too?

no but I think you're pathetic; any opportunity to spin in some islamophobia ...muslimwikipedia is a wiki on muslim faith; there are no other topics ..conservapedia is supposed to be a conservative alternative to wikipedia

 

[Jintor]

Damn those crazy Rethuglicans ruining a perfectly good wikipedia. They always vandalize what they don't agree with.

But my vote is that those aren't Rethuglican vandals. It's more the likes of you than anyone else. So, tell me, do you think Muslimwikipedia.com is pathetic, too?

Uh, you need a account even to EDIT. What the hell. It's the freaking Conservatives doing this to themselves, poisoning their own minds and hearts with their 'truth'.

It's their wikiality. So you can GTFO.

 

[99.vikram]

I'm SO using this for my next Environmental Studies project

EDIT: In what way is it a wiki if it's members only?

 

[The Monkey]

WTF is wrong with their servers? Most of the time I can't load the site at all and when I can it takes forever. They can't have that much traffic...

 

[Walter]

oh and Walter try to stay on topic ..i dont want this thread to derail into another thread on religion

But i did, i did!

Conservapedia, Commandments:

lol, nicely put :thumbs:

 

[dream431ca]

Some people need to be shot :|

 

[Nemesis6]

no but I think you're pathetic; any opportunity to spin in some islamophobia ...muslimwikipedia is a wiki on muslim faith; there are no other topics ..conservapedia is supposed to be a conservative alternative to wikipedia

Wow. An insult and hypocracy. That's great, man.

 

[99.vikram]

Stern is right. muslimwikipedia is a site about Islam, but Conservapedia is a site on everything from a fundamentalist Christian viewpoint.

 

[Tagaziel]

Wow. An insult and hypocracy. That's great, man.

Hypocracy! The rule of needles! Beware the coming of Lord Vaccination! Bow down to his pointy end!

D8

It's written hypocrisy, but don't tell anyone.

 

[Jintor]

Wow. An insult and hypocracy. That's great, man.

I admit I did not know of Muslimopedia's existance, but really, it's got nothing on Conservapedia. It'd be like bringing up Uncyclopedia.

 

[tehsolace]

I'm just thankful that wiki is unbiased and full of unopinionated facts.

Edit: Just to note, that wasn't a sarcastic statement. I literally am thankful that I can count on wiki to be unbiased.

 

[CptStern]

I'm just thankful that wiki is unbiased and full of unopinionated facts.

in comparison to what? conservapedia? no one is disputing that wiki like any community site may be filled with biased/opinionated articles ..the difference with conservapedia is that it's ALL biased ..but still I dont see how pointing a finger at wikipedia all of the sudden validates Conservapedia ..that's just crazy talk

Wow. An insult and hypocracy. That's great, man.

it's true ..you're like all those anti-semites that blame everything on jews except in your case you scapegoat muslims

..anyways, you picked one word out of my statement and focused on that alone ..how about you reply to the whole post and not just cherry pick bits and pieces?


lol @ Lord Vaccination

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

in comparison to what? conservapedia? no one is disputing that wiki like any community site may be filled with biased/opinionated articles ..the difference with conservapedia is that it's ALL biased ..but still I dont see how pointing a finger at wikipedia all of the sudden validates Conservapedia ..that's just crazy talk

I know it wasn't directed at me, but I think he was joking (I hope)

 

[ríomhaire]

Haha. My browser refuses to load the website.

 

[Tyguy]

im just gonna come in and say hi

 

[tehsolace]

in comparison to what? conservapedia? no one is disputing that wiki like any community site may be filled with biased/opinionated articles ..the difference with conservapedia is that it's ALL biased ..but still I dont see how pointing a finger at wikipedia all of the sudden validates Conservapedia ..that's just crazy talk

I wasn't being sarcastic. I literally am thankful that wiki is a reliable resource full of unbiased and unopinionated facts that I can rely on. Its sites like conservapedia that shame the concept of an encyclopedia by labeling biased articles as "trustworthy resources."

 

[CptStern]

alright fair enough, my fault for misunderstanding you

 

[Sulkdodds]

It never works for me. I must have a subversive IP.

 

[Nemesis6]

it's true ..you're like all those anti-semites that blame everything on jews except in your case you scapegoat muslims

I'm like...? How do you know what I'm like? You don't know me. Anyway, if I were to use that kind of logic, I could say that you're like all Liberals who blame everything on the Jews and scapegoat the Jewish Worldwide Zionist Conpiracy.

That's a stereotype, man. Not all Conservatives are radical Christians, not all Liberals are "truthers", and not all Muslims are terrorists. It's easy to make things that black & white and then color them with your own opinion.

Calling me a racist and insulting me doesn't correct or justify your flawed assumptions about Conservatives and/or the Right spectrum of politics.

Muslim Wikipedia, a Wikipedia purely about Islam? Wrong. It deals with "Islamic subjects", and it's therefore just as abusable as Conervative Wikipedia is to extremists. So you pick: Are they both retarded or is one retarded and the other OK?

 

[tehsolace]

the site takes FOREVER to load (and even then i only get part of the page). its probably being DOSed

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Let's compare and contrast to see exactly how retarded these two websites are, instead of just using a default "BLARG ISLAM IS EQUALLY BAD" reactionism.

Atheism

Muslimwiki says:
"The Muslim Wikipedia is an Islam related Project and as such we do not endorse the propagation of other Faiths. The purpose of the Other Religions sections is to approach other religions from a 'comparison with Islam' angle.
We must also remember that attacks on other peoples faiths invite attacks on Islam our prophets and Allah, and that Allah will hold us accountable for these attacks."

Calling it a faith is pretty stupid, as is the whole tolerance attitude. Overall, although stupid, it's pretty standard religious stuff. These are the only two paragraphs that refer to atheism.

Conservawiki says:
"Viewed as a simple philosophical framework of "no god exists", atheism can provide no logical basis for any moral standard. Some atheists reject normal social conventions and live their lives according to the rule that "anything goes". Many feel this has led to a large rise in crime[1], drug use, pre-marital sex, teenage pregnancy,[2] pedophilia[3] and bestiality."

That's just one of numerous paragraphs of baseless lies and horrible slander towards one sixth of the earth's population.

Loser: conservawiki.

Why does the site exist?

Muslimwiki:
"MuslimWikipedia has a NPOV policy [...]
[T]he MuslimWikipedia is to present Islam, its History, its people, its tenets, its faith, its ideas in a POSITIVE light, and hence negative views of Islam are against the Muslim Wikipedias policies.
We as a Muslim Community are here to present Islam using all the technologies at are disposal."

Well obviously they aren't really NPOV if they only include positive things about the religion, but they are upfront about making a website devoted entirely to supporting moderate islam.
Again, whether or not their religion actually makes sense, this is typical non-extreme behaviour for any faith.

Conservawiki:
"Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American. On Wikipedia, many of the dates are provided in the anti-Christian "C.E." instead of "A.D.", which Conservapedia uses. Christianity receives no credit for the great advances and discoveries it inspired, such as those of the Renaissance. Wikipedia often uses foreign spelling of words, even though most English speaking users are American. Look up "Most Favored Nation" on Wikipedia and it automatically converts the spelling to the British spelling "Most Favoured Nation", even there there are far more American than British users. Look up "Division of labor" on Wikipedia and it automatically converts to the British spelling "Division of labour," then insists on the British spelling for "specialization" also.[3]. Enter "Hapsburg" (the European ruling family) and Wikipedia automatically changes the spelling to Habsburg, even though the American spelling has always been "Hapsburg". Within entries British spellings appear in the silliest of places, even when the topic is American. Conservapedia favors American spellings of words."

This is basically a humongous conspiracy theory, laden with more baseless attacks on a faceless liberal conspiracy.

Loser: conservawiki


I couldn't find any articles on muslimwiki full of bile equivalent to that which conservapedia directs at scientists and democrats.
So, since scientists and democrats hate jesus and america according to conservawiki, I decided to go straight to the source.

Muslimwiki's article on "islam in the united states" contains absolutely nothing controversial, except for a one-sentence unsourced claim about evidence that muslim explorers reached the new world before columbus did.
I hadn't heard that one before, but even if false, it's just one sentence.
Jesus is called a "prophet" and, otherwise, his article is blank.

Conservawiki, as you might have noted from the first post, is BATSHIT INSANE.

Loser: conservawiki.


That's three strikes right there.
So why is stern absolutely right about your dumb attitude?

The answer is that he actually looked at the website he's criticising, instead of just going off on a rant about how a moderate islamic website is evil but islamic things are only evil if they are extremist like the evil website isn't so that he could accuse someone of hypocrisy while simultaneously using the most convoluted self-contradictory argument ever to hit the politics forum in the last few hours.

I'd make more blatant comparisons between the sites, but conservawiki's website is totally broken. I can't access it at all.

 

[CptStern]

I'm like...? How do you know what I'm like? You don't know me.

you are as you present yourself

Anyway, if I were to use that kind of logic, I could say that you're like all Liberals who blame everything on the Jews and scapegoat the Jewish Worldwide Zionist Conpiracy.

except I dont use jews as scapegoats, where did you ever get that idea from?..are you confusing me with some other HL2.net member again?

That's a stereotype, man. Not all Conservatives are radical Christians, not all Liberals are "truthers", and not all Muslims are terrorists. It's easy to make things that black & white and then color them with your own opinion.

oooooohkay, havenoideawhatthehellyou'retalkingaboutasitpertainstothisthread but whatevah ...and what the hell is a "truther"?

Calling me a racist and insulting me doesn't correct or justify your flawed assumptions about Conservatives and/or the Right spectrum of politics.

this is the part where I ask you what the hell are you talking about?

Muslim Wikipedia, a Wikipedia purely about Islam? Wrong. It deals with "Islamic subjects", and it's therefore just as abusable as Conervative Wikipedia is to extremists. So you pick: Are they both retarded or is one retarded and the other OK?

nice try chappy but no cigar, not even close ..

MuslimWikipedia: ...encyclopedia on Islamic Subjects and the MuslimWorld from the Muslim perspective

http://muslimwikipedia.com/mw/index.php/Main_Page

Conservapedia has over 3,800 educational, clean and concise entries on historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics

Tired of the LIBERAL BIAS every time you search on Google and a Wikipedia page appears? Now it's time for the Conservatives to get our voice out on the internet!

http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:About

I guess the best way to test their context is to actually use each service ..ok lets search the word "evolution"


oh loook muslimmedia search found 0 articles

http://muslimwikipedia.com/mw/index.php/Special:Search?search=evolution


oh looook .....well this would work better if conservapedia actually WORKED like it's supposed to but never fear I found a few quotes from conservapedia to illustrate my point:

"Sir Isaac Newton was one of the inventors of calculus and the propsed the theory of gravity (It should be noted that gravity, like evolution, is just a theory and has never been proven to be true). He was a Devout Christian whose discoveries were inspired by God.

On the Scopes Trial: "Hollywood has little regard for the truth. Its movie version Inherit the Wind changed everyone's name, thereby preventing libel suits, and changed the facts in order to ridicule religious belief. Thanks to Bryan's victory in the Scopes trial, Tennessee voters have been educated without oppressive evolution theory for 75 years. [boy an entire state of dum-dums] Free from the liberal indoctrination, Tennessee voted against native son Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election - probably the only time a candidate has lost the Presidency due to losing his home state. If Tennessee had a high level of belief in evolution comparable to that of East Germany, then you can bet Gore would have won his state and the Presidency

edit: dam Mecha beat me to it, nice job btw :thumbs:

 

[Mechagodzilla]

For the record, Muslimwiki makes absolutely no insane rants about Al Gore, evolution, Isaac newton or liberal media bias.

However, I did find one NPOV bit where a contributer wrote a brief note about his opinion that "tolerance" as in "isn't it great that muslims are so tolerant" is a patronizing buzzword that implies a suppressed rage, instead of a acting as a compliment.

...


I'd also like to know what a "truther" is. I've never heard that term used before.

Edit:
Apparently it's a derogatory(?) term for 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
I just call them "stupid" or "clarky".

I don't really think you can define insanity as leftist, even as a straw man.

 

[tehsolace]

come on man... "truther"... its what all the emo kids say these days.

"the man is such a truther tryin to bring me down"


...


yea i have no idea either.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Urbandictionary: One who rejects the accepted explanation of the events of 9/11. Truthers generally believe the U.S. government committed the acts of terrorism against itself.

 

[tehsolace]

LOL.

wow people still believe that?

 

[Mechagodzilla]

LOL.

wow people still believe that?

People complain that the religion threads are "bad", but they're ignoring when the bi-hourly conspiracy threads were still being shat out, before the moddies cracked down.
We still get them on occasion.

Clarky posted a new one just days ago.

 

[staticprimer]

I can't get the page to load. They must be blocking my LIBERAL UNIVERSITY internet connection.

 

[jondy]

QFT, I can't get to it at all. Damn liberal fiber-optics.

 

[DaMaN]

the site takes FOREVER to load (and even then i only get part of the page). its probably being DOSed

Heh, that's what I was thinking...

 

[CptStern]

lol someone entered this into conservapedia, since the site is too slow I'll just paste it in:



Pacific Northwest Arboreal Octopus

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are Amphibian, spending only their earliest life stages and mating seasons in their aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and their well designed skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming dried out for prolonged periods of time


Facts:

Armspan: 2-2.5 ft
Habitat: Temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest
Diet: Insects, snails, frogs, occasionaly small mammals.
Colour: Mottled Greenish Brown, but may changes color based on moods

Psychology
An intelligent and inquisitive being (it has the largest brain-to-body ratio for any mollusc), the tree octopus explores its arboreal world by both touch and sight. Adaptations designed for the three dimensional environment have been put to good use in the spatially complex maze of the coniferous Olympic rainforests. Being well designed for the challenges and richness of this environment means that the tree octopus shows very advanced behavioral attributes.[2]

Reaching out with one of her eight arms, each covered in sensitive suckers, a tree octopus might grab a branch to pull herself along in a form of locomotion called tentaculation; or she might be preparing to strike at an insect or small vertebrate, such as a frog or steal an egg from a bird's nest; or she might even be examining some object that caught her fancy, instinctively desiring to manipulate it with her dexterous limbs (actually closer to "sensory organs" more than mere "limbs",) in order to better know it


Physiology
Tree octopuses have complex and well designed eyes, almost comparable to humans. Besides allowing them to see their prey and environment, it helps them in inter-octopus relations. Although they are not social animals like us, they display to one another their emotions through their ability to change the color of their skin: red indicates rage; white, fear; while they normally maintain a mottled brown tone to blend in with the background.

The reproductive cycle of the tree octopus is still linked to its roots in the waters of the Puget Sound from where it is thought to have originated. Every year, in Spring, tree octopuses leave their homes in the Olympic National Forest and migrate towards the shore and, eventually, their spawning grounds in Hood Canal. There, they congregate and find mates. After the male has deposited his sperm, he returns to the forests, leaving the female to find an aquatic lair in which to attach her strands of egg-clusters. The female will guard and care for her eggs until they hatch, refusing even to eat, often dying from her selflessness. The young will spend the first month or so floating through Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet, and as far as North Puget Sound before eventually moving out of the water and beginning their adult lives


Why It's Endangered
Although the tree octopus is not officially listed on the Endangered Species List, its numbers are at a critically low level for its breeding needs. The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and perrigrine falcon. The few that make it to the Canal are further hampered in their reproduction by the growing problem of pollution from farming and residential run-off. Unless immediate action is taken to protect this species and its habitat, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus will be but a memory.

The possibility of Pacific Northwest tree octopus extinction is not an unwarranted fear. Other tree octopus species -- including the Douglas octopus and the red-ringed madrona sucker -- were once abundant throughout the Cascadia region, but have since gone extinct because of threats similar to those faced by paxarbolis, as well as overharvesting by the now-illegal tree octopus trade



Conservapedia editor's remarks:

[Note by Admin: Although liberal blogs are sending people to this entry, none of them seem to realize that this entry appears to be a parody of environmentalists. For example, read the above sentence again: "Unless immediate action is taken to protect this species and its habitat, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus will be but a memory."--Aschlafly 15:06, 27 February 2007

http://www.conservapedia.com/Pacific_Northwest_Arboreal_Octopus

 

[Absinthe]

Obviously "endangered" is a fake word created by the Liberal Shadow Council.

Aren't parodies usually a little more obvious in their approach?

 

[CptStern]

I guess he tried to pass it off as real and didnt want it taken off ...I mean he almost had me convinced, but then I recovered from the kick to the head and saw that it was a sham