Anatidaephobia is the fear of being watched by a duck. It exists. There is a page for it, at a reputable site.
A hilarious site that highlights the dangers of placing ads on a page based on the content of the page.
“We’ve got you under our wing” is a slogan hardly likely to inspire confidence in the fledgling anatidaephobic who is seeking to learn more about their condition on the internet. Especially accompanied by a beady eyed mascot with such a sinister beak.
Sometimes I click on online ads. They have to be really bad though. Sensationally bad. Like an ad on the Sydney Morning Herald website. In fact, it was on a Peter Fitzsimmons (an atheist) article about the canonisation of Mary McKillop (a Catholic) – so it was one of those juxtaposed ads for a fundamentalist Christian fringe. I’m happy to cost these people money by clicking their ad. This is what it looked like:
I clicked it. And I was disappointed to find that the one true church is a bunch of nutbag conspiracy theorists who think that any reference to the “kingdom of God” describes a literal, earthly kingdom.
Check out this awesome eisegesis (meaning: the process of misinterpreting a text in such a way that it introduces one’s own ideas, reading into the text.)…
Standing before Pontius Pilate on the night He was betrayed, Christ gave an important clue to understanding the kingdom: “My kingdom is not of this world [this present society]” (John 18:36). We will discover the details later of how God’s government will be established on earth.
If you want to unlock this mystery for yourself you can read the rest of their tripe here.
Something about this image just screams “credibility” to me…
