CBEB’s

For most people, Denyse O’Leary’s mantra, “Buy my book!” is something of a joke. I was surprised to discover a person who not only has bought her book, but recommends others do the same. Have you ever wondered what kind of person - other than masochistic tard miners like me - actually reads Denyse O’Leary? Ladies and gentlemen, meet The Urban Mystic. The Urban Mystic is a man who knows what Denyse O’Leary is all about:

… she is very sympathetic toward mysticism…

To the Urban Mystic, no woo is bad woo.

The Urban Mystic is angry. He knows Intelligent Design is woo, so he can’t understand why the folks at UD would dare to make fun of his woo. Here’s what he has to say:

The face on Mars is not an optical illusion. The Mars Global Surveyor satellite took over 120,000 photographs and the one “debunking” the face was the only one out of the hundreds of thousands of photographs to get sent through five filters that distorted the picture beyond all recognition. When the photo is corrected for to remove the damaging effects of the filters (an attempt at restoring the original) there is striking evidence of intelligence behind the structure there.
[CBEB’s note: this was also left in the comments at the UD thread - Urban Mystic knows enough about UD to make backups of his comments]

Urban Mystic uses the word “debunking” like FtK uses the word “DARWINISM”. In the world of woo, rigorous examination of the evidence is a Bad Thing.

Take a look around Urban Mystic’s AOL journal and you’ll find all sorts of delicious woo. The Christmas miracle in which a gnat is brought back to life through the power of prayer. More “face on mars” woo. And in a surprising turn, some “waterboarding is not torture” woo.

Shame on me for subscribing to the stereotype of the contemporary mystic as one who frequents coffee shops, sipping soy lattes, while discussing saving the whales and visualizing world peace. The Urban Mystic shatters that stereotype to pieces. With all his rhetoric about materialism and the “atheist libocrat media”, I’ve come to the conclusion that Urban Mystic is the bastard lovechild of Denyse O’Leary and DaveScot.

UPDATE: Welcome readers of Uncommon Descent… all five of you! Denyse O’Leary did you a real disservice by linking to this post. Try these instead:

• Uncommon Descent: ass-raping the rotting corpse of irony
• Putting your fingers in your ears and saying “la la la la” might work, too
• Denyse O’Leary Writes. The Baby Jesus Cries.
• Denyse O’Leary’s prediction comes true… sorta
• Denyse O’Leary, like, really hates science

UPDATE II: My official response to Denyse’s horseshit: It’s official: I’m an enemy of Intelligent Design.