TheRealTayler 32 points 3 years ago

Organized religion

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mr_sifl 15 points 3 years ago

This one always blows my mind. Like eeing people thanking God for their achievements instead of saying they earned them. Whenever I talk to someone my age (I'm 40) or younger and they go to church regularly I just can't relate.

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necrxfagivs 7 points 3 years ago

The other day I saw a priest younger than me (I'm in my twenties) and it really shocked me.

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kabukimeow 1 point 3 years ago

It's not necessarily that deep, there's a lot of expressions. Sometimes you just say "thank god" and it's just thanking your luck. Or at work if stuff goes wrong we say that "the gods of technology are mad at us" but it's not a literal thing of course.

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mr_sifl 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah and I say stuff like that too. I'm talking like athletes and people specifically saying they did well because it's what God wanted. Like how self centered is that? Yeah God wanted you to get third in a marathon but fuck all the people that die for no good reason.

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kabukimeow 2 points 3 years ago

Oh I see, I guess I've never noticed that happening

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nightscout 9 points 3 years ago

Came here to say exactly this. I never understand why some religions are actively referred to as a cult, but mainstream ones are not. They are ALL a cult. Every single one of them.

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A_A 1 point 3 years ago

Because lucid people are afraid to speak up about this, especially after Muhammad caricatures problems.

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vita_man 31 points 3 years ago

What the Republican party has become

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CascadeDismayed 28 points 3 years ago

Competitive Sports.

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V4uban 10 points 3 years ago

Definitely. Impact of competition on health of professional athletes is largely underestimated

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CascadeDismayed 9 points 3 years ago

My Dad has worked in Sport as a Sound Engineer for 40 years and he tells me on the regular that competitive Sport is a cult that enshrines capitalism because there must always be winners and losers.

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malcyon 20 points 3 years ago

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troglodyte_mignon 7 points 3 years ago

Oh my god, I’ve just watched that video... How can that exist ? It’s so, so wrong.

They have their own lingo. You can’t say the word “problem”.

A thing that I’ve noticed where I live (France) is that many journalists tend to say “défi” (= challenge) as a euphemism for “problème” (= problem). For example, in a newspaper article, they’ll often talk of the “challenge” of climate change, or the “challenge” of overtourism, or the “challenge” of an ageing population, rather than calling these things problems. It’s infuriating.

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malcyon 2 points 3 years ago

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V4uban 3 points 3 years ago

Interesting, didn't know it was that bad

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malcyon 2 points 3 years ago

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Cameli_Hostis 2 points 3 years ago

I was a Walmart "associate" during college (Walmart calls you an "associate" because I think it's illegal to treat actual employees as poorly as they do). I worked evenings during the week (Tuesday and Wednesday off) and days on the weekend. So I would work until 11 on Friday nights, and have to be back into work at 6am Saturday morning.

It never, ever failed that the store manager would be there on Friday night and force everyone to do that damn cheer. There were maybe 2 "associates" that liked doing the cheer. Everybody else hated them, and hated the cheer. I hated having to redo the cheer because someone wasn't enthusiastic enough, or loud enough, or didn't dip low enough when they shook their butt. I just worked 7 hours after a day of classes, I have to be back here in 7 more hours, let me go home and take a nap please. No, do it again, Mike wasn't smiling and laughing.

I detested that job. My first job at 16 was picking up roadkill and cutting grass around guard-rails on the highway. I was treated better at that job than I ever was at Walmart. To this day, 30 years later, I won't go into a Walmart. I would rather drive 40 minutes to the next town than shop at the Walmart in town.

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BigPapaE 2 points 3 years ago