"R U TRIGGERED" and all its subvariants were radioactive toxic waste and turned a valid and important psychological concept into bullying vector that for a time had nearly universal acceptance.

I still see vestiges of "le epic bacon" out there but it's mostly confined to aging :grillman: types and some :up-yours-woke-moralists: cultists and a few contrarian carninist edgelords that want to "trigger the vegans." Yes I know all of the above have a lot of overlap.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This might provoke some people, but I feel like if you cannot understand people of faith or whatever you want to call it you have a deficit of empathy of some kind. Like, people must place their faith in something and I think it's a very damaging consequence of this to cauterize so many impressionable people to the idea of believing in something. You also see this with like South Park Nihilism and (dare I say it) the lack of sincerity in general in media. Not to get all DFW on a website that budded off a fan subreddit of an irony-poisoned podcast.

    Also; not to offend atheists in general or whatever, I mean people who are malicious to religious people/people of faith. I feel like I was clear but you never know.

    • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I understood this for the first time only when I was an adult and my grandfather died and we had to do a bunch of ceremonies at the cremation. It make people feel better. And having something to do made me feel better ( I had a specific role and had to start the fire for example). Earlier in my life I just didn't get it.

      like if there are so many religions why am I supposed to be a Hindu specifically

    • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I can not respect an ideology that says I deserve infinite torture. I can sympathize with those who are brainwashed or just there for community and tradition, same way I can sympathize with people who fall for neo Nazi propaganda. But no respect

    • MoneyIsTheDeepState [comrade/them,he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I spent some time hanging around Christianity trauma groups, and they had a strong non-ideological contingent :zizek-fuck:

      It's a real problem, and I'm saying that as someone opposed to Christianity. Sure, let the Reddit Atheists and the Evangelicals fight, but we shouldn't forget they'd both have voted to put Muslims in England and the US into concentration camps