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Can we learn from our past mistakes and avoid going down those paths again?
Apr 7, 2024 5:16 PM
DidItForScience
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Can we learn from our past mistakes and avoid going down those paths again?
LaffertyDanie1
People having fun and enjoying things? That's a sin - Evangelicals
cactuskid1956
Never forget Priests fondling young alter boys for decades
illogicbomb
Marilyn Manson's marketing team at their finest
Lassannn
thespaceneedle
Can we? No. Are things getting better? Also no.
DidItForScience
I think we can, will we? Haha... No.
Iaimtomisbehave
Apparently we can't learn shit! Book burning in Tennessee 2022:
svon1
i miss the good old times https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxGp9qGMKEILX_AhHj_dU4oshz4GhzTLQO
hetherweaversmagic
That kid on the left knows this is bullshit
cactuskid1956
He went Ozzy Osborne instead lol
greenercloud
Cmon kids everyone join along burn what you bought.
whiterabbit1322
It's interesting how these people mind anyone and everyones business but their own. I suppose an unearned feeling of moral supperiority, and justification through a set of rules written thousands of years ago do give you a right to judge anyone without having to expand your own thoughts - how convenient and in no way dangerous/inaccurate.
madcatii
WheresThatTorgo
So exactly what path did we not avoid? This fringe part of a religion got some publicity and then most people went on with their lives and appreciated the hell out of the Beatles. Did this 'Start the Fire' as Billy J claimed he didn't start? Did it burn down a forest? Oh, so next time we should arrest groups like this before it even happens...
TektronixTDS360
As we all know, their efforts were successful and the Beatles never went on to do anything of consequence
gorgeousninja
They were successful in that John Lennon’s was murdered by a dumb f*ck enraged by his entirely accurate comments about Jesus that caused the riots in the first place.
CrispyNougat
Who are the Beatles?
CatWithASD
C'mon, guess who.
gtollie
Beatles .. 🎼🎤“All you need it Love” Christian Right in the 60s : The hell you do !
jesuisgur
I had a US friend who was into classic rock. Yet he'd never hear 'Imagine'. I guess 'Imagine there is no religion' is not very popular on the radio in the US, hey ?
gtollie
Technically not the Beatles .. but I think “Imagine” was / is quite popular in the US. Don’t really hear it much on the radio these days.. I think it may have been overplayed and now it’s like stairway to heaven. I don’t hear that on the radio anymore either although it’s probably one of the most popular and recognizable Led Zeppelin songs 🤷♀️
therealalansmithee
Same folks that burned comic books in the ‘50s
Detacheddavid
That didn't work out as expected, did it?
KleptoKea
Maybe you Americans should read your history books instead of burning and banning them.
MatePotate
See how they downvote you for talking about something that they actually did/do? Soon they're gonna say this counts as "CRT" and ban you from half their states.
WillemHellfire
Most of us know our history and don't burn books on the subject. But, I can't speak for the rest of us that do.
LitheXD
I'd be really offended if I knew how to read. /s
pr3viso
Idiots. Those original LPs are worth good money now
DidItForScience
I guess they helped that along by making them a little more rare.
quikfist
somethingcleverisuspect
If only. The phrase history repeats, exists for a reason sadly. If we did learn from mistakes, that would be a Utopia indeed
Blimjoe
Step 1: go buy a Beatles album.
Step 2: go to the cult meeting.
Step 3: burn said album whilst proclaiming that you will never support the Beatles by buying their albums
Msdee83
SineClone
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
SheepySleepySmuggler
So not go after the Beetles and target Alice Cooper or heavy metal or rock or.... or video games or books or.....or Mr Potato Head or Barbie or...? (I briefly considered a complete list but the character limit and my patience would be quickly exhausted)
DidItForScience
Though Alice Cooper is a Christian and always played it pretty clean.
Ghostwish
Learn from our past mistakes? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA No.
svon1
well not everything in the past was wrong https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxGp9qGMKEILX_AhHj_dU4oshz4GhzTLQO
WarpHype
No one is going to click your link. Stop spamming it.
lastmanonearthbutidroppedmyglasses
modus0
Best we can do is watch other people repeat them.
ShuannaRetPallyWoW
Not likely. There's been 'moral' outrage about: Lazy youth (300 BC or thereabout; Aristotle had a few choice words about teens), then fast forward, skipping witches and all that. Then Comics (1950's), Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Beatles (1960's), equal rights & hippies (1960's-70's), rental videos (1980's), computer games (1980's-late 90's), internet (ongoing) and finally pen & paper roleplaying games (1990's to present). Then the millenium bug (2000) and the woke move (2020, ongoing).
darkbacon
There were complaints about D&D when I was in high school (class of 1982). I still have my Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide from then. :-)
ShuannaRetPallyWoW
My teacher formed small study groups, pick any topic to study, around that period of time. So me as a GM and 4 other guys made a D&D group. She checked on our group now and then when we laughed too loud and just told us to go on. Well ... Someone told the principal. He was not amused. Thus ended my best day of high school. The group continued ofc, outside school. Best campaign lasted 3 years. Then, college and all that stuff so the group fell apart. Dangit it was some good times :)
CaliforniaCornucopiaVegetableJubilee
Don't forget pinball!
malkavian3str
Movies (1920'a)
ShuannaRetPallyWoW
Ah yes, and also cars in the 1910's, and bicycles in the 1890's, and women in trousers in 1880's, and tall buildings in the 1850's. 'Experts warn' probably got a grumbled "hear hear" at the breakfast table.
3ifish
Witches again in the 1980's, 1990's, 2000's. Who am I kidding, witches never get old.
Gogoglovitch
And in all these cases, it's been the right-wing or otherwise reactionaries and conservatives doing the cancelling. It's always just fine to them until the left joins in...
xn1992
His full quote from Evening Standard “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
akmck
Proof of the adage, "If the truth hurts, it probably should". Problem is, zealots don't much care for truth.
GBMaker
"More popular than Jesus" is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview. This did not sit well with...
gtollie
Oasis In the 90s “We’re going to be bigger than The Beatles” .. rhat did not sit well
gtollie
With the Beatles community 😜
GBMaker
... the Christian community.
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
svon1
Diocletian did nothing wrong https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxGp9qGMKEILX_AhHj_dU4oshz4GhzTLQO
DidItForScience
I mean he persecuted Christians based on his own twisted religious interpretations.
svon1
not Christians, radicals.He handed out bread and let everyone sacrifice a crumb of bread. Anyone who did this was given a certificated that said "not a christian" and anybody labeling these people as Christians would commit a crime, slander, so some more religiously strict people, just bribed the guards to get the certificate and the ones who got killed, that were the radicals, you know the Trump is the 2nd Jesus crowd... but i guess Republicans are not the only ones who struggle to read books
DidItForScience
It sounds like he killed everyone that was labeled a Christian but gave Christians an out to pretend they aren't Christians.
svon1
yes ...yes he did .... i mean the Christians were a terrorist group, more or less ..... they literally set Temples on fire (wrong gods) and starting book burning's, (hence why Concrete could not be made in Europe for a Millennia)... so this was a clever way to figure out, who of them were the assholes .... he even ignored the Soldiers who accepted the bribes... and yes the Radicals did set the Imperial Palace on fire afterwards ....twice ... and a lot of temples and Library's