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Tom Cruise is SO Toast: L.A. Times Frontpage Article (Page 3)
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Originally Posted by Kevin
We all have a void to fill.
How do you know that?
We can choose to fill it with what we wish. Anything can be our religion. Be it actual religion, or be it computers, or "owning things"
So if you really want to get that deep into it, being "really into computers" is like Scientology too.
I am trying to see how a computer could be a religion. Maybe you mean that people doing adoration to a totem in the shape of a PC and developping rituals of passage, of submission and a set of values attributed to that PC be entertained?
Yes.
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
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Originally Posted by Pendergast
How do you know that?
Because people run around with their heads cut off looking for something to "fill"
I am trying to see how a computer could be a religion. Maybe you mean that people doing adoration to a totem in the shape of a PC and developping rituals of passage, of submission and a set of values attributed to that PC be entertained?
Yes.
Whatever draws them comfort. People finds "salvation" wherever it suits them.
In a church, on the internet, in the field.
Same thing.
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Hmmm...
You are giving me an idea.
The Church of Kevinology.
How about that?
Entrance fee: a handshake for starters, then an arm, a leg, etc and the head afterwards.
Hmm? How about that?
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.”
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Pender is that part of the whole "Bananinaanatard" attempts?
If Scientology can be a religion how you explained it, so can most anything else.
Including computers and the interweb.
You are acting like I am arguing or disagreeing with you. I am not. I agree with you 100%
I think anything that anyone fills that void with becomes their "religion"
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Originally Posted by Pendergast
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Originally Posted by Kevin
We all have a void to fill.
How do you know that?
Well I'm hungry. So he's right on my account.
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I want to watch some movies that I just can't bring myself to. Like the new "War of the Worlds," and the upcoming MI3. But that maniac who stars in them will get something out of it, so I'm not going to.
A friend killed herself in postpartum depression, and since this idiot seems to think it's nonexistent, I just cannot support him. He can be a Scientologist all he wants, get Katie knocked up and smug about it, and everything else, but he's a danger to the whole world if he gets even one person to believe his crap about postpartum depression...
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Originally Posted by Kevin
I think anything that anyone fills that void with becomes their "religion"
Scientology is a more dangerous and destructive way to fill that void than your run-of-the-mill Major World Religion, though. I really don't think we need to be making excuses for these people.
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Originally Posted by ghporter
I want to watch some movies that I just can't bring myself to. Like the new "War of the Worlds,"...
You're not missing much.
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"My friend, there are two kinds of people in this world:
those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig."
-Clint in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
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