why do people become shills etc?

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[–]panel30[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

If you're not doing anything against anyone here then that's fine, people will figure it out, it's ok. I'm not trying to claim you are I just don't want to be taken for a ride either, y'know? Everyone here can surely relate to that for goodness sakes

What you said about "true believers" not needing to be compensated because they just believe in the cause makes sense. I've done it. It's a good way to put it. People have used that term in the context of cults too.

I know I put "religion" in OP as a category so maybe it was natural to mention Christians. Islam or another religion could have been the example. If it was just an honest comment then this is what I mean about the casual anti-christian thing. People don't tend to talk this way about Islam or Orthodox Judaism or whatever other kinds of things, it's usually Christians people talk about this way. I don't really like this. Certainly Christianity should be open to criticism like anything, but for people in a culture where it's something that's from their culture to morally guide them, it's not healthy to try to turn them away especially from the good parts.

"True believer" in this context I guess did sound a little negative, "one who's finally seen the light" or "enlightened" or "savvy enough to not have gotten vaxxed" would eg sound a bit more positive.

If you didn't mean anything by it don't worry, you're entitled to your opinion, you don't need to sugar coat it or state it differently than you think it, it's fine. I've enjoyed a lot of your posts. If you're not being nice and do have an agenda well that's ok too you can maybe work on being nicer to others as you're able to.

Idk what to think man. People have to draw their own conclusions right? It's confusing enough out there? You can talk to who you want on here I wouldn't want you to do something you don't want to do. I have enjoyed talking to you on here either way, you've shared helpful and interesting stuff.

I have to be free to make up my own mind about things as best I can, same as anyone, same as you? If you're just honestly sharing your opinion about things you're definitely not doing anything wrong. It's not strange that people would occasionally be concerned about alterior motives of one another on a site like this, that's not doing anything wrong either.

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"True believer" in this context I guess did sound a little negative, "one who's finally seen the light" or "enlightened" or "savvy enough to not have gotten vaxxed" would eg sound a bit more positive.

My honest intent was for it to be purely neutral and mean literally 'someone who truly believes'. I didn't use those other words because I didn't want to be seen as taking a side or stance on anyones particular system of beliefs because it didn't seem relevant to the discussion and I wanted to avoid sidetracking it with ideological debate.

I apologize for getting a little upset but its kind of irritating to post comments and read weird accusations about being a Jew

[–]panel30[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's nice of you to clarify and I'm sorry if I misread it. And I'm sorry to do anything to promote anger, I would hope that's not my intent for anyone on here regardless of what they're doing, and if it is, it's probably just me having a bad day or something. I like stuff different people say on here and not everyone is nice to each other so I guess that puts me in a weird spot sometimes.

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

Just fyi, /u/hongkongphooey is anything but neutral when it comes to believing in a god.

She has ground my stones into a powder while declaring her endless love and devotion to Lucifer Satan, so maybe take that into consideration when discussing religion with her.

[–]panel30[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

thank you for taking the time to add some context.

however considering that this is a new account and that your post history includes a significant number of non-serious posts, maybe some receipts are in order? It's hard for me to tell whether you're being serious here or not.