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Blackula69 posted:selling false hope to people like John Edward (or Edwards for that matter) Is pretty shameful but you can't knock the hustle yes you can gently caress him and gently caress you
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anyone whos dumb enough to think theres an afterlife and ghosts and that you can talk to them if you pay a guy money deserves to have it taken.
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Shaggar posted:anyone whos dumb enough to think theres an afterlife and ghosts and that you can talk to them if you pay a guy money deserves to have it taken. internet_athiests.txt
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Dr. Honked posted:how about a version of that but the music is not on the cd's at all, there's just stickers on the cd's with qr codes that are read by a phone that sits in a dock nearby. the qr code opens the spotify page for that album or whatever. i don't know how spotify works.
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i fuckin' wish ghosts were real, that would be rad as hell
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Nomnom Cookie posted:Modulo the smug he's right tho no, he isn't people don't act rationally when it comes to death, and they especially don't act rationally when it comes to the death of their loved ones. taking advantage of that irrationality for personal gain is ethically abhorrent because you are literally profiting from human emotional suffering you might be able to ethically justify selling people harmless magic geegaws that they can use to reinforce their own private delusions (which includes $50,000 audio cables), but that talking-to-the-dead-for-money poo poo is on the same level as selling somebody fake antibiotics. you've got somebody desperate for help and in response you're actively harming them to line your own pockets
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is it harming them if u tell them their dead relative is at peace and everything is ok. asking for a friend
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Heresiarch posted:no, he isn't theres dudes who do the psychic stuff and try to convince people to take real solutions to things actually. i think thats p ok because lord knows a regular psychic wont tell them anything useful and they'll keep seeking them out regardless.
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Milkie Galore posted:is it harming them if u tell them their dead relative is at peace and everything is ok. asking for a friend the first part is a truism: everybody who is dead is at peace the second is a lie: the relative who asked the question is obviously not okay or they wouldn't be asking those kinds of questions. they need a different kind of help and telling them that I just spoke to their dead husband and he says that he loves her and is with Jesus now does not actually loving address any problems that this poor woman obviously has. she's just going to take that horrible trauma and bury it somewhere because a perceived authority figure told her "everything is ok", and therefore whatever she must feel must be wrong, her fault somehow i hate these people more than you can imagine
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Feb 27, 2013 06:29
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id like john edwards or someone like him once, just once look someone straight in the eye and tell them your mother is burning in hell forever and there's nothing you can do about it
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um if my loved ones died i'd be real distraught but i wouldn't immediately become a moron and throw my money at magical undead crystals. if you do that you were an idiot beforehand and i guess i understand your argument but its really tough to pity that sort of behavior unless you straight up have a mental illness like schizophrenia
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Socracheese posted:um if my loved ones died i'd be real distraught but i wouldn't immediately become a moron and throw my money at magical undead crystals. if you do that you were an idiot beforehand and i guess i understand your argument but its really tough to pity that sort of behavior unless you straight up have a mental illness like schizophrenia i guarantee that there's somebody out there who's smarter than you (or me for that matter). your argument suggests that you would not complain if that person actively harmed you for their own personal gain, because of a failure of your own judgement it's not really any different from getting assaulted physically for your wallet because your assailant was stronger than you. preying on the intellectually weak is ethically exactly the same, it's just that the latter is considered a feature of capitalism and therefore most people on the internet have grown up with it as normal behavior
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Socracheese posted:um if my loved ones died i'd be real distraught but i wouldn't immediately become a moron and throw my money at magical undead crystals. if you do that you were an idiot beforehand and i guess i understand your argument but its really tough to pity that sort of behavior unless you straight up have a mental illness like schizophrenia hard to pity people whose family died? i'm not going to do it but I can understand why it makes them weird
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Socracheese posted:um if my loved ones died i'd be real distraught but i wouldn't immediately become a moron and throw my money at magical undead crystals. if you do that you were an idiot beforehand and i guess i understand your argument but its really tough to pity that sort of behavior unless you straight up have a mental illness like schizophrenia a silly post
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Heresiarch posted:no, he isn't these people had those delusions before their loved ones died. its not anywhere close to selling fake anti-biotics. its selling faith to the faithful.
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Feb 27, 2013 15:08
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Shaggar posted:these people had those delusions before their loved ones died. its not anywhere close to selling fake anti-biotics. its selling faith to the faithful. being really good at selling snake oil doesn't make it a noble profession
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Feb 27, 2013 19:39
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Some serious victim blaming here. Always punish the wicked. Like satan: he always punishing the wicked.
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Feb 27, 2013 20:43
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how exactly is taking advantage of idiots unethical the whole contact the dead thing i kinda see but selling chunks of plexiglass as 'aura refinement prisms' seems like the only ones would buy are those who want to get taken for a ride anyway
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Feb 27, 2013 20:58
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be somebody or be somebodys fool
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you loving idiots
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look, it was obvious that i pissed in a bottle, added some cocaine, and made up all that stuff about it being a vitalizing testicle rub that cures cancer. the only people who would buy that are going to be taken for a ride anyway.
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anyway, as i was saying, simply succuss your mixture until the water takes on the memory of the Oil of Python (which has been found to alleviate tooth-worm, rot of vigor, and malodorous digitation),
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welcome to the republican party
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duTrieux. posted:anyway, as i was saying, simply succuss your mixture until the water takes on the memory of the Oil of Python (which has been found to alleviate tooth-worm, rot of vigor, and malodorous digitation), can I use oil of php instead?
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Feb 27, 2013 21:17
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Feb 27, 2013 21:18
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duTrieux. posted:tooth-worm,
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Feb 27, 2013 21:23
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but really, blaming the victim because they lack perfect information is just dumb rational actor austrian economics, gj ayn
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ok i agree that selling dumb poo poo to idiots is unethical but if we're gonna ban everything that falls under this category we'd have to ban literally about 1/3 of all items sold
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Socracheese posted:ok i agree that selling dumb poo poo to idiots is unethical but if we're gonna ban everything that falls under this category we'd have to ban literally about 1/3 of all items sold how is that a bad thing lets do it
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Feb 27, 2013 21:47
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smash capitalism
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Feb 27, 2013 21:49
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selling dumb poo poo to idiots transfers wealth away from idiots which is a good thing.
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but it transfers them to assholes which is a bad thing
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the only assholes are the idiots who let themselves get fleeced
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Feb 27, 2013 22:03
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Shaggar posted:selling dumb poo poo to idiots transfers wealth away from idiots which is a good thing. yeah and think of all the value my advanced crystal r&d would have on the astrology community at large
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Feb 27, 2013 22:06
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Shaggar posted:the only assholes are the idiots who let themselves get fleeced theyre only idiots because bigger assholes destroyed the school systems
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yeah teachers are assholes
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shaggarjectovism
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atlas shagged
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