A user with what I believe to be a cribbed e-mail address posted the following comment on my lament that Dr. Randal Rauser beat me to debunking the “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” nonsense:

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This is a textbook example of talking without actually communicating anything in particular.  It’s wordy, and it doesn’t really say anything.

He left two other comments (also marked as spam) that asked legitimate questions.  I was about to clear them when I read that.  Wow.

Just for fun, it wasn’t his “first submit.”  I’ve seen that e-mail address used before, and even sent him an e-mail prior to this about unrelated topics.  In any event, he has a lot to learn about “content,” as he has no content in that paragraph.  I read it five times and I can’t figure out just what it actually says!

Maybe it was randomly generated.  Why not?  A paper made at that link made it into a peer reviewed conference.

On this article, I received a comment that was obviously spam:

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My first thought was, If only I had a dollar for each time you came to josiahconcept.org! Then I realized that the e-mail address was complete nonsense. So I checked the blog that the comment linked to. I don’t know much about SEO, but I figure that just randomly stringing hot button search engine phrases together in a way that doesn’t make sense wouldn’t qualify as actual SEO writing. A sample:

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Can anyone figure out what that meant? That’s a head scratcher. And it goes on for three more paragraphs!

Changing languages for one sentence mid-paragraph probably isn’t the mark of writing par excellence. Just a thought.

This got caught in my spam filter. I actually want it to be true. In my ministry, I really don’t get many compliments. This is the last article anyone complimented, and that would have been 15 months ago!

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If it’s true, then the speaker is not a native English speaker, which makes sense since his e-mail address was from Germany. But, in the end, I think it’s spam since you could attach this to any post that anyone has ever made ever and it would fit. Nothing specific there.

By the way, if you’re reading Mike (Geocreationist), the “laudable topic” he’s referring to was your website.

This may be an extremely ironic bit of spam caught by by my intrepid spam filter:

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I may have teared up a little bit right there. Oh, and just in case you were wondering, he linked to his “similar site.” Diamonds, theology; po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

In my last highlight post of the interesting comment spam that I get, I mused that I should just add a category for comment spam. So I said to myself that I will add that category if I get one more comment spam that’s worth highlighting. You will note that I have done that, under “Humor.”

This comment was to appear in my essay on prayer, which is also the most popular essay over at God is NOT Imaginary.

Sage Vyasa could not get the peace because he revised the theoretical message of God and did not memorize the practical aspect of it. He got perfect peace when Bhagavatam was composed in which the practical aspect was described. Gopikas practiced the message of Gita in Toto. The devotion to God should be one way traffic. Krishna married Radha secretly (Gandharva) and left her along with other Gopikas after enjoying them for two years in Rasaleela. No girl will tolerate her husband enjoying other women with her knowledge. The love of Radha to Krishna was not affected by such bad behavior of Krishna. Krishna increased the power of dosage of the test. Krishna left Radha and Gopikas, went to Dwaraka and married 16000 girls. Dwaraka was like a foreign country crossing the sea. If this is the case of the marriage of today, the girl fights against the groom with the help of the courts and women associations. But the behavior of Radha and Gopikas towards Krishna was unimaginable.

The user who posted this was called “Travel Deals to Paris.” That pretty much screams “Spamer!” doesn’t it?

My spam folder has become an endless source of amusement.

This essay on the Jesus Tomb Documentary (from March 2007) generated the following comment:

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2 days ago I received a message from 972-284-0600 / 9722840600 and was convinced the the person calling was a scammer.

I decided to complain to the the number and went nuts.

Anyway, I feel like such a fool Gulf Coast Western -an oil corporation- was calling me back to approve my job application – apparently I got the job!

I think I’m soooo fired!!!!???

Question. What does that have to do with anything I wrote in the essay?

The following comment was attached to my “A Few Things Atheists Need to Know About Christians” post, but was caught (with good reason) in my spam folder:

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It came from someone who named himself “online matchmaking” and listed a lesser-known Christian singles website as his homepage. Advertisement, anyone?

I mean, seriously: “diametrically contradicted,”  “I’m still pondering on the opposite points of view,” and “modern-day democracy and the marketplace of ideas online?” Who talks like that?