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Why is this site named Antipope?

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Re: Why is this site named Antipope?

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Pontificate in its original sense literally means to perform the duties of a pope or priest (a pontiff). The auto part I guess because it’s email? That part is shakier

"to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way" is I think the intention.

Yes. I didn’t bother to mention that part, only the polysemous connection to pope.

Re: Why is this site named Antipope?

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Not on my timeline, this has been the name the whole time.

what does that even mean

It means you were only interested in apartheid when it was on TV a lot, you completely missed the ending (and all news involving South Africa for the next 30 years), then you get all mystical about it because you think you're psychic. "I'm not dumb, actually reality changed..."

Meanwhile, a bunch of other people who also don't pay attention to world events refer to this woman's ignorance as if it means something because the name that the psychic made up to describe it sounds scientifiky.

Re: Why is this site named Antipope?

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Why read the link when you can just make something up and put it on the internet?

What would be the point of making up such a story? There isn't one. I live in the same neck of the woods as Charles Stross and see him around occasionally, as well as a few folk that know him. I'm not sure what the big deal with that is? I used to run into Ken MacLeod too sometimes, who is/was a friend of Stross', and in my view a more enjoyable writer. (I've never got into Stross' novels.)

Re: Why is this site named Antipope?

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You know you could just read the linked page and it'll tell you exactly why it's called that, right?

You know that I used to know one of his close friends and she had Antipope in her email address? Kind of worth mentioning. I never got on with her particularly and her email caused an incident I remember VERY well.

I didn't know that but I think we know the same person, and I remember the incident.

All I'll say is it's a good job they didn't live in South Lanarkshire.

Re: Why is this site named Antipope?

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I'm having a Mandela Effect moment. I could have sworn it was a typo for "antipode" instead, but that must be a false memory I picked up somewhere.

You mean a mandala effect. A lot of people thought it was Mandela Effect, but it's been the mandala effect all along.
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