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I'm also not allowed to forget about Coca-Cola. Or Taylor Swift. Or Meta. Or the sun.
And you should be allowed to forget about the first three because advertising is another awful mind virus.
I really wouldn't be surprised if we eventually got a study saying 'Advertising is as bad for your mental health as cigarettes are for your physical health.'
Are you not mad at the sun's PR team?
No, we have to worship the sun. If we don't worship the sun, it won't rise out of the underworld every morning.
What if I don't want it to rise? It hurts my eyes.
What are you, some kind of Mictlantecuhtli-lover?
I don't even know why we bother sacrificing prisoners on the top of the pyramid by cutting out their hears with an obsidian blade when there are people like you around.
You've made a fatal mistake, only a mole man wouldn't want the sun to rise. Back to Subterranea with you, take him away boys.
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I can't wait for lightweight AR glasses and ADBlock for real life.
Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.
-- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
yes, but instead of just peril, it blocked bullshit.
BANKSY:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
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Or the sun
You've waited your whole life for this moment.
I’m not a Bills fan but boy was I cheering them on yesterday just so we wouldn’t have to see her in the stands every 2 minutes.
"Look at this famous person. Ain't she famous?"
"Right you are, Ken, now back to watching the dystopia unfolding before our eyes..."
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And here you are talking about it and making the rest of us think about it.
Do you know another way to discuss this problem? And it is a problem. Sometimes you do have to bring something up to talk about how it's brought up as a brainwashing method.
Just lump all of the religions in under the umbrella of freedom from religion.
I'd love freedom from religion, but people keep trying to force it on me so, clearly they can't handle that much freedom.
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What does “it’s giving cult” mean? Like it’s a cult around giving?
"It's giving [X]" -> it's giving [X] vibes -> it is giving the perception of [X]
Like this:
Gen Z is giving cringe.
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Cults are just non-mainstream religions
In a cult, the people running it know it's bullshit. In a religion, all the people running it who knew it was bullshit are long dead.
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Is that a US-specific problem?
Speaking for myself, I can always go away, signal I'm not interested, or talk about it if I'm in the mood. It's not much different from any other topic from my point of view.
I also think the prevalence of religion in society is a pretty good reason to be somewhat familiar with the topic, even if you don't subscribe.
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Why are atheists so obnoxious about it?
Dude, I wasn’t until you (not you OP; the royal you) brought it into my living room. Since you didn’t leave me alone about it for fucking decades and you decided to knock on the door of my house about it, fuck you. Now I’m annoyed.
I was fine letting you believe what you want, until you made it impossible to ignore you, even at my own front door. How would you feel if I knocked on your door asking you to accept satan or Darwin or whatever you think I believe? You’d fucking riot if I had teachers send their kids home with satanist pamphlets, yet I’m supposed to be fine when you sent my kindergartener home from school with bible study pamphlets.
Do you know how fucking hard it was to avoid you brainwashing my child in America? Every weekend retreat was secretly Christian. Everything from the Boy Scouts to many civic organisations offering weekend outings. I had no choice because sleepovers became indoctrination events, but cry as you will, I never had any influence over your kids. I wouldn’t, because your kid’s beliefs were your choice, not mine. I’d never even have considered a stealth Sunday morning church field trip after a sleepover – what even is that?!? Fuck everyone who does that.
Sorry, I’m still salty that I had to spend nearly two decades fending off attempts at indoctrinating my child when I was trying hard to make things his decision, not mine.
So kindly fuck off. (/end rant)
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