[ SECRET POST #2555 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2555 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Attack on Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin]


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03.
[The Muppet Movie]


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04.
[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]


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05.
[Frozen]


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06.
[Once Upon a Time]


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07.
[Dissonance]


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08.
[Zooey Deschanel]


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09.
[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]


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10.
[Eona: The Last Dragoneye]














Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[dethtoll]

Yeah, my mom has a master's in education too. She's also very, very tinfoil hat.

Religion makes people dumber.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, not really. It just effects certain people that way.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[dethtoll]

Well, no argument there. It's just that "certain people" is to me a much larger percentage.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[(Anonymous)]

I can't quite agree there - but I've also been on the otherside of the fence and met a lot atheist who've spewed the crap the Duck Dynasty guy does [or, in particularly *lovely* memory, kicked someone out for being homosexual].

Stupid is as stupid does, regardless of religion [or the lack thereof.]

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[dethtoll]

Yeah, but I never said atheism made anyone any smarter, either. My point was that religion, due to an established dogma built on historical inequalities that have only compounded one another over the years with different variations per region (such as the concept of marrying young girls) and the maintenance thereof, operating on the human psychological pattern of adhering to religious tenets on a doctrinal basis because that's what they're comfortable with. (Cognitive dissonance is avoided at all costs due to a sort of psychological pain response -- if you touch your hand to a hot pan you'll recoil, and so do many religious people with cognitive dissonance.)

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[(Anonymous)]

"Can".

"can" make people dumber.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[dethtoll]

Okay.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, otherwise you're saying - without exception - everyone who believes in a religion has gotten dumber for it...Even, you know. The people who don't force it on anyone, don't use it to justify their hate or as a reason to take someone else's rights away.

Which ignores a lot of people who don't do those things.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[starphotographs]

I've also known some really daft/tinhatty people with master's degrees or higher.

Dumb people crop up everywhere, I think. Sometimes, they crop up in grad school.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I wouldn't say religion is the cause though. I'm pretty sure it doesn't say, "Hark, and all women be gold diggers when they reach their twentieth year. And so God spoketh to them and said, "Bitches be trippin', marry those girls when they're ripe for tha' pickin" in the bible. /I'm an Atheist, so, no dog in this fight.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[dethtoll]

No, but religion is a major tool of historical institutional inequality and views like that often have a basis (or an excuse) in religion.

Re: Duck Dynasty and underage girls

[(Anonymous)]

It might not, but it's not wholly unconnected with Duck Dynasty guy's mindset about social issues in general, either. Plenty of Christian sects use the Bible as justification for why women should be subservient to men. It's not a coincidence that Christian fundamentalism and feminism tends not to go hand in hand.