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Zanchief wrote:Harrison wrote:I'm not dead
Fucker never listens to me. That's it, I'm an atheist.
Tikker wrote:Gypsiyee wrote:Telling Arlos he doesn't understand Christianity is like telling Harrison he doesn't understand how to be a douche. .
haha
oh shit
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
According to our source, the Church is arguing that such attacks on their physical plant and website constitute "illegal interference with business."
Harrison wrote:They're not officially a religion yet to my knowledge, but they're trying.
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
Gypsiyee wrote:Telling Arlos he doesn't understand Christianity is like telling Harrison he doesn't understand how to be a douche.
Arlos wrote:Part of it is the tactics that they use to recruit new people. They're pretty much straight out of the Brainwashing for Dummies handbook.
Cults have all sorts of ways of getting devoted members. The Moonies have them, the Hare Krishnas have them too.
That Doomsday cult in Japan had them too, and they released Sarin nerve gas into the Tokyo subways to try and bring about the end of the world.
People apparently thought there was so much to Jim Jones' teachings that hundreds of people lived in gulag-like conditions in the jungle in south america just because he told them to, and then later committed mass suicide, including parents deliberately feeding their kids cyanide-laced kool-aid because he commanded it.
How about that cult that all offed themselves to deliver their spirits up to the UFO that was hiding behind the Hale Bopp comet?
Really, for a lot of people, they've felt disconnected and ostracized much of their lives. This is even worse now that our communities are getting so fragmented. A lot of these cults become a surrogate family, with those people getting told, sometimes for the first time, that they're important and that they belong. If you've been alone all your life, and suddenly a whole group of people are telling you they want you to be part of their group with them, and that what they're doing is trying to help you... That can be pretty powerful stuff.
-Arlos
PS. Yes, they're officially a religion in the US, and are thus tax exempt. I believe that happened in the 70s.
leah wrote:i am forever grateful to my gym teacher for drilling that skill into me during drivers' ed
leah wrote:isn't the only difference the length? i feel like it would take too long to smoke something that long, ha.
Harrison wrote:Because you have to be some special level of fucking retarded to believe in any of that. I'm fairly sure you'd fit right in.
Arlos wrote:Odd spiritual beliefs are one thing, (hell, my own would be considered odd by a large portion of the populace), but shady and criminal temporal activities including fraud, theft and extortion are an entirely separate kettle of fish.
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