Comments on: Benjamin Stove is GM!

By: thoughtographer

thoughtographer — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:35:56 +0000

FWIW, at first glance, GM = “Genetically Modfied” to a lot of people. I drive a GM marque vehicle.

P.S. - How can I follow THAT guy?!

By: Mark S

Mark S — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:37:37 +0000

I guess if I were to ever ask Tim Boucher a truly honest and sincere question; Or if I were to have the luxory of meeting such an extraordinary man face to face, and have the ability to relinquish this hot burning question from my mind… To at least pretend for that moment, that this question was of great sincerity and importance and to get a response of equal candor to the question; That is if Tim Boucher, If you were told by a group of extremely powerful, unprecedently high influential men that you were in fact “The Antichrist, then what would you do?” How would you act upon that very real token of power? Would that in truth be your honest burning desire come true? Would you then be thinking about how great it would be to dump this stupid blog and actually create a real power legionhood in the real world, to initiate a worldwide human following and finally put an end to this Archonic Christian hell that has pervaded throughout the millenia? Would that fulfill your darkest wishes and deepest desires that you have dreamt about, endlessly ever since you always knew that Christianity was a lie?… If you had that power, if it were one day given to you, would you then wonder if you could make everything you’ve ever dreamt of come true, to actually change the world and make it happen?… To destroy Christianity and finally make your dark burning hatred for Christ himself real and your hatred for everything remotely related to Christianity become a reality? Would you act upon that token of power if you had it? Or would you just remain happy and content with it being just a plain wish, to rant out about it from time to time at your comfort and leisure in the safety of online blogworld?

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:26:44 +0000

Nah, give the blogs about two days to all claim they didnâ€™t fall for itâ€¦

Yeah exactly. It rewards you either way. Either you say, “I figured out the mystery!” or you get to say “I knew it all along.” Or you get to just go along for the ride and see what’s what. By debunking it, you still promote it, which I’ve probably inadvertently done for them as well. It’s sort of like somebody comes into your house and shits in the living room. If you don’t notice it, it’s going to stink. If you do notice it, you’re gonna clean it up. It forces a response.

Couple links on it:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=227097
http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2006-04-04/marshall-altreality

By: justdrew

justdrew — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:48:08 +0000

this wasn’t viral marketing so much as bacterial marketing.

By: justdrew

justdrew — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:47:20 +0000

yep, even worse than I feared. What a slimy ad campaign, hope this doesn’t catch on.

By: haeresis

haeresis — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:22:03 +0000

Nah, give the blogs about two days to all claimt hey didn’t fall for it…

By: Zeno Izen

Zeno Izen — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:10:05 +0000

“as people become a little more jaded and stop fallling for this stuff.”

Which is like, what, five minutes from now?

By: Jennifer Emick

Jennifer Emick — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:27:52 +0000

About as stupid as I expected. I wouldn’t exactly call this “viral,” as it was patently obvious that it had money behind it. I imagiune this tactic will burn itself out soon enough, as people become a little more jaded and stop fallling for this stuff.

By: james

james — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:17:19 +0000

MAD Magazine used to run this feature about how junk mailers using different sorts of tactics to ensure that people open their letters. Very funny stuff. This reminds me of that feature: there was always something provocative on the face of the letter, and then when opened they would have it tie in with some god-awful advert for something useless.

One example that springs to mind is one letter where it says in bold letters on the front “IF YOU ARE SICKENED BY IMAGES OF HARDCORE PORNOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC SEXUAL ACTIVITY THEN PLEASE DO NOT OPEN”. Then, the letter enclosed states “The speed with which you opened this letter shows that you are a sinner in need of assistence. At Holy Church Cathderal, we offer…”

By: Zeno Izen

Zeno Izen — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:34:00 +0000

“Does it mean that GM is the incarnation of an ancient Egyptian god and theyâ€™re going to eventually slaughted us and harvest our bones to power infernal machines? Who the hell knows.”

Maybe our ancient gods are corporations from the future that went back in time to manipulate history so that they could accumulate power and evolve into gods. And since we see them in their transitional phase, it’s not a pretty sight, like if we were in a cocoon while a caterpillar changed into a butterfly.