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  • This is the point of view that I’ve had since elementary school after a game of “Telephone”.

    If you can’t put 6 people in a line, whisper something to the first, and have the same thing come from the last, what are the chances any of those books contain any original text? Especially when you have sycophantic rulers like Orange Hitler looking to bilk the masses and trying to rule the world.

    Religion is a tool of fear and control to keep the population where you want them. It is broadly and repeatedly used to justify the absolute worst actions in humanity. Religion is the fuel that makes individuals hate entire countries of people they have never met.




  • The result of trying to suppress information which has the opposite effect of spreading the information further.

    I.E. A celebrity sees a picture of themselves on the internet that they don’t like. Instead of ignoring it, they actively try to suppress it which only serves to bring more attention to it, thus exposing it to far more people than would have seen it had it been ignored.








  • SPRUNT@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    2 months ago

    I think you and u/deur are talking about 2 different levels of control, similar to the difference between weather and climate.

    I control when I get up in the morning, I control what job I sell out or stay at, etc., etc. But I have no control over the wildfire/tornado/hurricane/flood/landslide that takes out my house. I don’t have control over the mass shooter/suicide bomber/terrorist attack that takes me out. I don’t have control over a government insistent on destroying foreign relations and weakening the spending power of my dollar.

    Individuals have control on a micro scale. The larger the scale gets, the less control one has. The only real control we have is how we react to the world around us.

















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