Sweden: Piracy Is Not A Religion
- Thread starter Earnest Cavalli
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Well, those dedicated to the religion do spend hours in supplication to their altar, in a prayer-giving pose. They commune with each other and with their spirits, whom you cannot hear from, talk to, or see without the proper channels and connections, they have leaders, heroes, and followers, men and women among the many who are willing to spread the word, and unbelievers, who would challenge their beliefs and decry them as wrong, so that their way of one-product-one-person should always be so. They even have a form of wrongdoing within the structure of the religion, in that those who would leech without seeding are abusing the system, taking it ways that it was never meant to go, for selfish reasons rather than spreading the faith to as many as possible.
What makes them any different from any other religion, any other theist movement? They are the mimic of every religion, on the basis that these are the tenants that make up a religion. Fascinating, really. The deities of P2P filesharing, of Stumble, of Reddit--these are not the gods of our fathers, but a new group of deities for us. Perhaps we will spin tales to our children of the fall of Meme, the almighty Imgur, or of the Heroic Mod who single-hammeredly cleansed the forum of the terrible Trolls, making the chat safe for all! This is just another, as there has been from the beginnings of our time, a changing of the guard.
What makes them any different from any other religion, any other theist movement? They are the mimic of every religion, on the basis that these are the tenants that make up a religion. Fascinating, really. The deities of P2P filesharing, of Stumble, of Reddit--these are not the gods of our fathers, but a new group of deities for us. Perhaps we will spin tales to our children of the fall of Meme, the almighty Imgur, or of the Heroic Mod who single-hammeredly cleansed the forum of the terrible Trolls, making the chat safe for all! This is just another, as there has been from the beginnings of our time, a changing of the guard.
Is it intellectually credible?
Is it existentially satisfying?
If the answer is anything other than yes and yes, then there is no point in believing such a thing.
Is it existentially satisfying?
If the answer is anything other than yes and yes, then there is no point in believing such a thing.
Why the ruse why not just come out and say you worship the gods of trolling and be done with it. Clearly expending this much energy on a bad joke means that you have a fanatical devotion to your trolling so why not?
Here's a reason Sweden can deny you: Your religious core is an illegal act. If murder were a ceremony in a religion you can bet the police would be frowning on that religion, the same here. The government is not going to official recognize a religion that violates secular law. That would wind-up as an enormous loophole in legal control since anyone could do anything by filling forms to create a new religion around it.
(On a side note: Fuck you pirates. I want to make a living off of coding not work for charity because assholes stole my work or made my job profit-less. Fuck your disrespect of personal property and ownership. You can have your opinions on piracy, but I'm going to express mine too: No.)
Here's a reason Sweden can deny you: Your religious core is an illegal act. If murder were a ceremony in a religion you can bet the police would be frowning on that religion, the same here. The government is not going to official recognize a religion that violates secular law. That would wind-up as an enormous loophole in legal control since anyone could do anything by filling forms to create a new religion around it.
(On a side note: Fuck you pirates. I want to make a living off of coding not work for charity because assholes stole my work or made my job profit-less. Fuck your disrespect of personal property and ownership. You can have your opinions on piracy, but I'm going to express mine too: No.)
