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sometimes when I’m bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium
Francium IS a stupid element. It has a half life of 22 minutes and barely exists at all, only naturally occurring as a product of the extremely rare alpha decay series ²³⁵U ➝ ²³¹Th ➝ ²³¹Pa (𝜷 decay) ➝ ²²⁷Ac ➝ ²²³Fr (1.38% chance). There’s less than a gram of it on earth at any given moment. It has no uses to anybody and it isn’t even the most reactive group 1A element due to relativistic effects fucking up its electron binding energies. Stupid substance.
If you somehow asked a genie to get you a gram of Francium in a sealed vial so you could do an experiment with it, the genie would just give it to you because the enormous amount of radioactivity it produces would instantly vaporize the sample and cook you alive. Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse
found the guy
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call his pussy british the way that I’m innit
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Okay honestly it didn’t hit me how funny the concept of Weird Al’s Even Worse album is until I found out they’d have gone on sale side by side.
“Hmmm, do I want Bad, or Even Worse?”
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If you give a man a fish, guess what he’s having for dinner that night. Yuuuuup. You guessed it.
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I said this a couple years ago (one year ago?) and most of the comments on tumblr actually did not know this, so to reiterate what you’re up against: a VERY mainstream belief among American Christian fundamentalists is that they are the only ones who experience love. They raise their kids to think that everyone “living in sin” (all other faiths, atheists, and LGBT people) goes through life sad and empty, falsely believing they know what love feels like, and will never know until they’re “saved.” It’s not as simple as them diminishing the humanity of others out of hate, but being deeply brainwashed to believe others are automatically mentally less human.
They are also very good at convincing new converts that they really are experiencing this “real” love for the “first time;” the same way members of all cults can become wholeheartedly convinced that they’re receiving psychic alien messages or communing with spirits. Cult conditioning is simply that powerful.The flip side of the redefinition of “love” is also that Christians genuinely believe they can “love” someone by calling them to repentance for their sinful lifestyle. They genuinely “love” their gay kids by not supporting their ~homosexual lifestyle~. They genuinely “love” people in foreign countries by continuing to send missionaries to
colonize“spread the gospel.” “Loving other people” gets twisted into “doing what you think is best for other people,” regardless of if it’s actually good for that person or if that person wants you to do that.Happiness get redefined too. As a child I was taught that while “people without the gospel” may claim to be happy, they couldn’t experience true happiness, because “true and lasting happiness” only came from the gospel. Other people could only experience temporary worldly pleasure, like the kind you get from buying something cool or riding a roller coaster (yes that was an actual thing that was said) or “indulging in sin,” but it would ultimately make them unhappy in the long run.
I was told that, since those people had never known the true happiness of the gospel, they mistook worldly pleasures as happiness, but in reality their lives were empty and less meaningful and deep down, they could sense something was “missing.” Also, apostates were all depressed and angry alcoholics who couldn’t be truly happy bc they’d rejected the gospel.
One of the techniques cults and high control groups use is redefining words to make the definitions suit their purposes. Love and happiness are just two words that get redefined this way.
there’s no hate like Christian love, but it also seems like there’s no missery like christian joy
It’s your friendly neighborhood cult survivor, here to add some context.
The joy that they’re speaking of is religious ecstasy, an altered mental state that produces an intense high, that is relatively easily brought on by social pressure. It is also possible to reach it with meditation, intense exercise, witnessing moving beauty or music, or even heat exhaustion.
That’s part of why evangelicals hate meditation and secular music. When you find out that a live performance of “Whiter Shade of Pale” gives you the same emotional hit that your speaking in tongues episode, that’s not good for the collection plate. Evangelical cults police pleasure and secular entertainment because a pleasure-starved audience is all the more hooked by that big emotional swell point in the sermon, and while there are many, many great artists inspired by religion, the cultural contributions of American Evangelical Christianity peaked with Bibleman and Stryper.
The admonishments against drug use are similarly motivated, because a lot of those induce the states associated with “spiritual experiences” and the rubes realizing that spiritual experiences come from chemicals and not spirits is bad for business. Even more embarrassing that the chemicals work every time while the frenzy is so hard to induce.
They have to make you miserable, because happy people wouldn’t need what they’re selling.
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