I am hating this dystopia

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[–]rubberbiscuit 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (19 children)

As a child of the 1970s, you're not wrong. Blessed to have been a kid back then, and I hate what is happening to America. While you blame your generation, and certainly there is blame there, I feel like my generation let you down as well. My generation is quick to divorce, settles for cheap, poor products and experiences, and allowed corporations to buy everything up and out and act like demons.

I do think you can escape to some extent. Move to as small a town as possible. Turn off media as much as possible. Hang out with people from church as much as possible. Live in a little bit of a bubble. If that doesn't work, yeah, vengeance seems like plan b.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (18 children)

Religious people are disgustingly stupid.

[–]HenryGeorgeOfficial 4 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 5 fun -  (8 children)

If only there were secular churches. Like built around fishing or something.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

In the UK we call them "pubs".

[–]HenryGeorgeOfficial 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can I go alone and not drink?

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The state is the church of the left.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

We are unfortunately forced to attend services. They then use the 'number of attendees' to boost their popularity. 'See everybody loves us! They keep right on coming!' when it's secretly mandatory.

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Then make like Abraham and destroy the false idols.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They did this with Windows 8 by bricking XP computers in April 2013 in a bad update then forced Windows 8 without users permission to make their computer be like a phone. They then used that to boost their numbers to show how many 'devices' installed Windows 8. After enough complaints they finally fixed the 8 shit by adding a down arrow that lets you remove a bunch of crap you don't want and added drivers but by that time so many hated 8 that MS went with 10 when they should've just had 8.1 and leave it at that. 10 wounded up being a whole new ball of wax that pretty much ended what was left of the independent software industry outside of digital download.

[–]binaryblob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Those are called associations.

(I am already rate limited by just replying to a bunch of people. How hard can it fucking be to have a place where I can just reply to ten people in 15 minutes?)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your living in one right now!

[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Like Isaac Newton?

[–]HenryGeorgeOfficial 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is easier to be religious than not. Firstly, to quote Bukowski, those who preach god need god. Which is to say that the people who believe god are those who find it comforting. This is similar to how people who use whores find it comforting. Secondly, it comes with political, business, and social advantages. Which is to say, that saying "I love god and god loves me" on live television, meeting business partners at church, and getting a lot of social credit for putting $5 in the tithe basket every week are easily interpreted as acts of selfishness.

Religion is not a selfless act. I pray on a mountain, in a field, or by a stream, to a non-religious god called nature. I can't say I believe people who pray in front of others are praying at all. I understand the value of the social aspect, but I despise the hypocrisy, dishonesty, and self-righteousness of organized religion.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Participating in organized religion is an act of aggression.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We can't ask anymore whether he was actually religious. I know a lot of people that just do the routine out of social considerations.

Just because someone writes down that he is religious, doesn't mean he actually believed that bullshit. Also, perhaps he was just indoctrinated. Adding to that that calculus is easy compared to modern calculi, and finally, compared to a theoretical intelligence, all of humanity that has ever lived is stupid. So, it just depends on what your point of view is.

Arguably everything any human has ever come up with is trivial from a theoretical perspective. This is something that is difficult to accept for most people that tried hard at "studying" something in university or whatever. Fundamentally, humans are really nothing special.

[–]jamesK_3rd 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ah the religious atheist showed up... With the obligatory "religious people are dumb, you must worship the state like us enlightened folks, there can be no other."

I knew you'd get here, just didn't know it'd take you this long for that comment.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't say it the way he did, that seems rude to me, but it does strike me as a bit ... Odd to worship a man made religion. I like the Bible, it's an interesting book. Have several versions. I like Biblical history. But the religions themselves hardly strike me as divine, they strike me as something men invented.

Not that there aren't benefits to it, networking, peace of mind, fellowship...

I lost faith when I noticed our church took in about a million bucks a week, but did fuck all for the community. That's not Godly, that's a business.

[–]Airbus320 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lgbtp? Yeah

[–]Heter0ph0be4Life 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Flagged for antisemitism.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Define 'religious people'. Sounds like to me you are the one with a problem and don't want to hear about Jesus's salvation. He is ultimately our emergency door out.