'Overwhelmingly non-religious'
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Ideology not only comforts people in distress, it provides a motive for blindly ignoring its own consequences.
Modern day ideology doesn't come much stronger than the one that convinces people that the banks are too big to fail, and therefore the should get their hands on massive handouts from the taxpayer.
That's real ideoligy. The other stuff is just wishful thinking, like buying a lottery ticket.
In other words, it's not the believing which is important, but what one believes.
Modern day ideology doesn't come much stronger than the one that convinces people that the banks are too big to fail, and therefore the should get their hands on massive handouts from the taxpayer.
That's real ideoligy. The other stuff is just wishful thinking, like buying a lottery ticket.
In other words, it's not the believing which is important, but what one believes.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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I don't think facebook and twitter are comparable to religious faith. For one thing, the latter is essentially about the pie in the sky when you die. Social media are essentially about frittering the time away here on earth.Crumple wrote:Religion is a voodoo life support system for a society, the delusions that make life tenable and give folks with nothing to talk about something to talk about. It is the witch doctors hut, and his influence in the village. Things like facebook and twitter etc have made traditional religion less relevant, replacing the old delusions with new and essentially copying all the functions of religion from artificial community to being a cash cow for the IT priesthood well vetted in the sacred HTML, but these new social media have not been tested in deep historic time and we are one solar flare or stock market meltdown from a return to the old ways...that worked exactly the same, though few see it all for the circus it is.
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The world wide web is a jungle, but Facebook will keep you safe from all that immorality by watching over you and your neighbours watching over you too and their neighbours. It's medieval if you think about it.Hermit wrote:I don't think facebook and twitter are comparable to religious faith. For one thing, the latter is essentially about the pie in the sky when you die. Social media are essentially about frittering the time away here on earth.Crumple wrote:Religion is a voodoo life support system for a society, the delusions that make life tenable and give folks with nothing to talk about something to talk about. It is the witch doctors hut, and his influence in the village. Things like facebook and twitter etc have made traditional religion less relevant, replacing the old delusions with new and essentially copying all the functions of religion from artificial community to being a cash cow for the IT priesthood well vetted in the sacred HTML, but these new social media have not been tested in deep historic time and we are one solar flare or stock market meltdown from a return to the old ways...that worked exactly the same, though few see it all for the circus it is.
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I got used to your incoherence quite some time ago, but the immensity of irrelevance you extrude due to your lack of comprehension is occasionally breathtaking. This is one of the occasions.Crumple wrote:The world wide web is a jungle, but Facebook will keep you safe from all that immorality by watching over you and your neighbours watching over you too and their neighbours. It's medieval if you think about it.Hermit wrote:I don't think facebook and twitter are comparable to religious faith. For one thing, the latter is essentially about the pie in the sky when you die. Social media are essentially about frittering the time away here on earth.Crumple wrote:Religion is a voodoo life support system for a society, the delusions that make life tenable and give folks with nothing to talk about something to talk about. It is the witch doctors hut, and his influence in the village. Things like facebook and twitter etc have made traditional religion less relevant, replacing the old delusions with new and essentially copying all the functions of religion from artificial community to being a cash cow for the IT priesthood well vetted in the sacred HTML, but these new social media have not been tested in deep historic time and we are one solar flare or stock market meltdown from a return to the old ways...that worked exactly the same, though few see it all for the circus it is.
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FaceBook and Twitter are as a good a drug as any religion.
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Many Facebook addicts in denial. A 'like' is 'prayer' and the entire thing is nothing except Catholicism, same ol' shit. And I'm the heretic for talking outside their box.Scot Dutchy wrote:FaceBook and Twitter are as a good a drug as any religion.
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Apparently a 'like' is has good as a fix. People have committed suicide because of the lack of likes.
Social media addiction is a bigger problem than you think
Social media addiction is a bigger problem than you think
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That's why I never, hardly ever, give a 'like' thinking about the power to depress a entire people.Scot Dutchy wrote:Apparently a 'like' is has good as a fix. People have committed suicide because of the lack of likes.
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Crumple wrote: That's why I never, hardly ever, give a 'like' thinking about the power to depress a entire people.
While there is a market for shit, there will be assholes to supply it.
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I'd just like to express my support for Hermit's intake of breath above and agree with him too.
Religion and social media have little or no actual connection in reality. Social media do not require faith in supernatural beings. If people kill themselves because they don't get 'likes' that is not a religious matter either.
For fucks sake is reason simply absent as a resource for some people?
Religion and social media have little or no actual connection in reality. Social media do not require faith in supernatural beings. If people kill themselves because they don't get 'likes' that is not a religious matter either.
For fucks sake is reason simply absent as a resource for some people?
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if common sense was that common, a lot of stupid things would simply never happen.
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Svartalf wrote:if common sense was that common, a lot of stupid things would simply never happen.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Social media is destroying so much. If there was a cocaine epidemic as large as the social media epidemic it would be banned.
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What exactly is it destroying? I'm in touch with family at the other end of the country, childhood friends I have reunited with after decades - people I would never have seen or been in touch with again. Ratz is social media - and at its height i was a spectacular thing to behold.
Sure kids go over the top and are developing some pretty weird habits but they always did - its just happening faster..on the way to the ultimate merging with out robot overlords! (OK ignore that last part)
Sure kids go over the top and are developing some pretty weird habits but they always did - its just happening faster..on the way to the ultimate merging with out robot overlords! (OK ignore that last part)
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