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Birb Katter posted:He spent all those years earning the title Doctor, it would be rude not to address him correctly. Kids these days, no loving manners. I now wish there were Chinese knockoffs called "Beats by Mr. Dre".
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I just mean the Dr. part. I don't think they've ever been called anything other than "Beats by Dre" Well you kids might not have respect for it, but when a man earns his degree, you should honor him with the appropriate title.
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 Why didn't God tell you the lottery numbers, huh, KIM?
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How could one predict that there will be someone dying in a bunch of really old people some time in the next 5 years if not divinely instructed?
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Nuebot posted:I think that's just a brand name headphones thing. I was given a pair of bose sound cancelling headphones and the person who gave them to me made a huge deal about how bose was the best. The sound cancelling poo poo wore off and broke in less than a year so I could just hear people a room away talking through them. It didn't take long for the cord to gently caress up and the left ear to go out unless I was sitting like an owl too. I never seem to run into this kind of issue if I'm using a cheap rear end pair of headphones. That's the opposite of what I said. He got the Pumps in late 1989 or early 1990 and they lasted until 2015.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:And now for actual content: I feel like this is the person who says "Oh my Gods" at every opportunity and waits expectantly for someone to question why they added the plural. Nobody ever asks, and the years of frustration at not being able to explain how special they are built up and caused them to write that status update.
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I admit to not being informed about that whole area of belief systems but isnt Wicca and revivals of ancient pagan religions (e.g. worshipping Greek or Norse gods in a modern context) different things?
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RagnarokAngel posted:I admit to not being informed about that whole area of belief systems but isnt Wicca and revivals of ancient pagan religions (e.g. worshipping Greek or Norse gods in a modern context) different things? Yes.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:And now for actual content: Tell her that her appropriation of multiple cultural heritages is evil.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I admit to not being informed about that whole area of belief systems but isnt Wicca and revivals of ancient pagan religions (e.g. worshipping Greek or Norse gods in a modern context) different things? Correct, Wicca is modern religion that's less than a century old that largely draws from Crowley and the like. Also the various pagan religions aren't all compatible just because they're grouped together as pagan, since that basically just means "any non-Abrahimic religion". There are so many conflicting stories about the origins of the world and the gods, different ideas of divine realms, different ways those gods interact with the world, etc that they just can't all be true at the same time. I love reading about the history of religion, so new agers and conspiracy nuts blending the many rich, diverse religions that people across the world and throughout history have followed into a bland, tasteless mush of "I just don't like Christianity, so I'm gonna mangle everything that's not Christianity until it supports my beliefs" drives me up the wall.
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I occasionally see people claiming that the gods are symbolically linked to humanity's subconscious or something similar, or that they venerate them as symbols of something else. I always feel bad about finding those weird so I limit myself to looking at the pretty "aestetics" imageset and Google the one that particurly catch my eye.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Correct, Wicca is modern religion that's less than a century old that largely draws from Crowley and the like. I read the Vampire the Masquerade rulebook ama.
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Decrepus posted:I read the Vampire the Masquerade rulebook ama. Why?
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Getting onto something less political, I see things like this getting shared all the time on from my cousin's boyfriend This one's pretty tame but a lot of them are very strongly 'can't live with em" man vs woman type posts (primarily where the man is annoyed with the woman) and I never understood them. I've never really gotten the "battle of the sexes" bullshit that I seem to see everywhere. I've worked in a hardware store for years and the sheer number of times I've heard men complain about their wives or girlfriends is astounding. There's this ad I hate that always plays on one of the display tvs that's basically this man who repeatedly lies to his wife so he can play with his tools in the garage. Why is advertising a dysfunctional marriage a way to get people to buy a table saw or drill? I'm only in my late twenties and never been married but I have been in long term relationships where it was close enough and I just don't get it.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I occasionally see people claiming that the gods are symbolically linked to humanity's subconscious or something similar, or that they venerate them as symbols of something else. I always feel bad about finding those weird so I limit myself to looking at the pretty "aestetics" imageset and Google the one that particurly catch my eye. Eh, that's not too far off from something like Hinduism, really. There's not literally a goddess with four arms living up in the clouds, showering people with gold coins. You're praying to the iconic representation of prosperity, or wisdom, or whatever.
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Garrand posted:Getting onto something less political, I see things like this getting shared all the time on from my cousin's boyfriend Pretty sure the marriage sucks line of thought comes from the old days, when once you got married you were stuck, and getting a divorce was enough to kill your career, cost you your kids, etc. The fact that divorce has become more accepted has led to people being much happier as a result, since you don't feel trapped in a loveless relationship anymore.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I admit to not being informed about that whole area of belief systems but isnt Wicca and revivals of ancient pagan religions (e.g. worshipping Greek or Norse gods in a modern context) different things? Yeah, but a lot of wiccans practice a fusion of actual wicca and paganism. Old Celtic religions/symbiology are really popular, but some people include gods from multiple ancient religions in the same practice. Idk man wicca gets fuckin weird
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Captain Candyblood posted:Idk man wicca gets fuckin weird iirc Wiccan rituals involve getting naked and having someone whip the poo poo out of you until you suffer blood loss I doubt most of them are that hardcore though
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Garrand posted:Getting onto something less political, I see things like this getting shared all the time on from my cousin's boyfriend It bothers me that they got "you're" right, but couldn't get "channel" right.
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Thin Privilege posted:It bothers me that they got "you're" right, but couldn't get "channel" right. I can't think of a funny joke involving Chanel No. 5 but I want the record to show that I tried.
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Kiebland posted:
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Lord Chumley posted:and what does this mean for america? A New Day is arising
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Fashionable Jorts posted:I feel like this is the person who says "Oh my Gods" at every opportunity and waits expectantly for someone to question why they added the plural. Nobody ever asks, and the years of frustration at not being able to explain how special they are built up and caused them to write that status update. I see "Oh your god!" (Bender from Futurama quote) on occasion, and recently an "Oh my science!" out in the wild. Uggghh.
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Lord Chumley posted:and what does this mean for america? I just want you to know you've made my (new)day.
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loving trump won the primary in my state last night. everyone on my fb feed is upset about it. and it's drawing out who his actual supporters are, and how clueless they really are about the guy too. This guy (and others) politely try and set this little old conservative lady straight but in spite of everything shown to her she just resorts to "lol I'm too old for this I'm going to bed glad this is AMERICA and I can believe whatever I want god bless  "   
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Scarf posted:loving trump won the primary in my state last night. everyone on my fb feed is upset about it. and it's drawing out who his actual supporters are, and how clueless they really are about the guy too. This guy (and others) politely try and set this little old conservative lady straight but in spite of everything shown to her she just resorts to "lol I'm too old for this I'm going to bed glad this is AMERICA and I can believe whatever I want god bless Still more rational and polite than 95% of political discussions on Facebook
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Aesop Poprock posted:Still more rational and polite than 95% of political discussions on Facebook Agreed. I just hate the whole "oh you young people don't know anything" -> gets informed -> "oh well this is America I can believe whatever I want, god bless" poo poo.
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Scarf posted:Agreed. I just hate the whole "oh you young people don't know anything" -> gets informed -> "oh well this is America I can believe whatever I want, god bless" poo poo. It's not just old people. It's a thing all our stupid brains do. At least she didn't go all psycho and ranty which is how those convos on facebook usually go down. Aesop Poprock posted:Still more rational and polite than 95% of political discussions on Facebook Exactly. It's the most benign discussion of Trump on fb that I've seen. Still IOSM, though. Here's something vaguely related and may or may not count as IOSMism: Exploring Confirmation Bias: Trump VS Putin VS Hitler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zhmyLtbpu4
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Mister Adequate posted:Well you kids might not have respect for it, but when a man earns his degree, you should honor him with the appropriate title. He didn't spend eight years in school to be called Mister Dre, thank you very much.  That said, I don't think John Cena has even a Master's in Thuganomics.
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mng posted:I see "Oh your god!" (Bender from Futurama quote) on occasion, and recently an "Oh my science!" out in the wild. Uggghh. I knew a guy who unironically said "oh my Tesla!" He was basically the avatar of Reddit though, down to an old man hat and ponies.
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Wasn't Tesla basically some kind of proto tech sperg in RL anyway? Like he had a few good ideas and the rest was whackadoodle nonsense that somehow turned him into some kind of tech Jesus to people?
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Panfilo posted:Wasn't Tesla basically some kind of proto tech sperg in RL anyway? Like he had a few good ideas and the rest was whackadoodle nonsense that somehow turned him into some kind of tech Jesus to people? Nerds like an underdog, and that jock Edison ruined him.
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Panfilo posted:Wasn't Tesla basically some kind of proto tech sperg in RL anyway? Like he had a few good ideas and the rest was whackadoodle nonsense that somehow turned him into some kind of tech Jesus to people? iirc, quite a bit of Tesla's whackadoodle nonsense turned out to be correct, they just lacked the scientific underpinnings to test it out. He was in fact a genius who just lived before his time. Dude was undeniably batshit crazy, tho. It helped that Edison actively worked to drive him even more insane.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Correct, Wicca is modern religion that's less than a century old that largely draws from Crowley and the like. It's mostly rooted in the extremely Orientalist fad traditions of rich white Europeans from the late 1800's. Theosophy, Spiritualism, Fourth way, etc.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:It's mostly rooted in the extremely Orientalist fad traditions of rich white Europeans from the late 1800's. Theosophy, Spiritualism, Fourth way, etc. Basically. And that whole rabbit hole is pretty interesting as Lon as you don't take it very seriously
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RFC2324 posted:iirc, quite a bit of Tesla's whackadoodle nonsense turned out to be correct, they just lacked the scientific underpinnings to test it out. He was in fact a genius who just lived before his time. Makes sense to me. "Sane" sometimes just means your thoughts are agreeable to the status quo. Inventors sometimes gotta be crazy to make weird-rear end connections. I mean, imagine if someone hadn't considered "do we really need to eat and poop?" and just ate and pooped; we'd still be eating and pooping to this day
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I read a long time ago that tesla also had a massive phobia of hair, and died a virgin because of it. It also took him a really like time to eat, each bite had to be similar in volume or weight. Protogoon checks out.
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