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Why is this site named Antipope?
- Procrastes 5mo agoI'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.
- neksn 5mo agoA Mandela effect is when it happens to a large group of people. I’m afraid you’re alone in this.
- tgrowazay 5mo agoOnly when large group of people die and have to be switched to another timeline via quantum immortality. This person died independently. Welcome to our timeline!
- shwaj 5mo agoNot on my timeline, this has been the name the whole time.
- h3t08 5mo agowhat does that even mean
- thenewwazoo 5mo ago"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."
- andyjohnson0 5mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory#Mandela_effect
- stavros 5mo agoThey retconned it as a typo for antipode in their headcanon.
- pessimizer 5mo agoIt 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.
- wlonkly 5mo agoYou mean a mandala effect. A lot of people thought it was Mandela Effect, but it's been the mandala effect all along.
- richardfey 5mo agoSome reference to Les Technopères by writer Alejandro Jodorowsky?
- pavlov 5mo agoCalling him a writer is somewhat underselling his talent. Jodorowsky was a world-class clown and mime (yes, really) before becoming an award-winning filmmaker, visual artist, and comic book writer.
- Mistletoe 5mo agoI just assumed he was against the pope and nonsense like that.
- mcmcmc 5mo agoWhich is a terrible assumption given an antipope is just a self-declared pope
- tialaramex 5mo agoCharlie explains why his site is named this, but the word "Antipope" does mean something already and it means specifically a person who says they are the Pope, but you recognise somebody else as Pope instead. It's thus sometimes unclear which people are "really" Antipopes until some time passes and you're like OK, Steve was an Antipope, the Roman Catholic Church still exists, the Pope is now this Dave guy, so his predecessor Geoff was also Pope, and Geoff's rival Steve's group died out, so Steve was an Antipope, even though for a few years my church said Steve was Pope, I now know that was wrong because God wouldn't let the One True Church vanish and once Steve died his whole church went back to Geoff.
- nephihaha 5mo agoI think it is a reference to the song by the Damned, but given Stross has lived in central Scotland for decades, you'd think he'd realise by now that it sounds more like someone from the Orange Order (Protestant supremacists) in these parts. There is historically a major issue with the Orange Order and Loyalists in the areas in and around Edinburgh and Glasgow, and they organise anti-Catholic marches in many working class communities as well as violence at football matches. I have met him and doubt this is what he is after, but it comes over like this.
- nephihaha 5mo agoCharles Stross has lived in Edinburgh for years and you would think by now that something like "Antipope" comes off as Protestant supremacist rather than secularist in central Scotland. One of his close friends has a similar background and she had antipope as part of her email back in the nineties when I was acquainted with her... It caused a lot of issues when she was emailing someone who was Catholic, because they thought it was some kind of Orange/loyalist account.
- ineedasername 5mo agoTypo when it was created.
- PeterWhittaker 5mo agoNot at all sure why this is downvoted, since this is essentially a five-word tl;dr of the article.
- nephihaha 5mo ago[flagged]
- jrochkind1 5mo agoWhy read the link when you can just make something up and put it on the internet?
- nephihaha 5mo agoWhat 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.)
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoYou know you could just read the linked page and it'll tell you exactly why it's called that, right?
- krapp 5mo agoWe don't do that here.
- nephihaha 5mo agoYou 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.
- ErroneousBosh 5mo agoI 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.
- darrenf 5mo agoDisappointed it isn’t to do with Robert Rankin. Oh well.
- Findecanor 5mo agoI'm disappointed that it isn't to do with Zlad! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxxhAS16vB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxxhAS16vB0>
- wormius 5mo agoLike the center of a cantelope...
- drcongo 5mo agoI'd always assumed it was. I loved that book.
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- jmercouris 5mo agoWhat does AutoPope mean though? The author glosses over this implying it means to pontificate- however- I have not seen this definition anywhere.
- AdamH12113 5mo agoAutomatic Pope, presumably. Offering pontifications (opinions) via technology (automated). “Pontiff” is another word for pope.
- hammock 5mo agoPontificate 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
- bombcar 5mo agoPontoon pontification - bridge building.
- beardyw 5mo ago"to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way" is I think the intention.
- hammock 5mo agoYes. I didn’t bother to mention that part, only the polysemous connection to pope.
- dfxm12 5mo agoAuto as in you get it automatically in your mailbox. No need to ask for it or otherwise seek it out. It's just sent to you. ETA: other meanings likely don't fit. It's not about self pontificating (well maybe only from Charlie's point of view), and the motorcar related to the Pope is already called the Popemobile.
- geor9e 5mo ago
- orliesaurus 5mo ago"Automatic pope." WAT
- once-in-a-while 5mo ago[dead]
- gerikson 5mo agoMaybe the drunken sysadmin had a more classical or historical education than most. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope