DarkMetatron

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[–] DarkMetatron 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh no, I never said that they are only separable by time but that one is the predecessor or root of the other and that religions can spawn new cults of their own.

It can't only be time that transforms the one into the other, because otherwise we would have 100th of religions right now from all the sects and cults that have existed in the past.

[–] DarkMetatron 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not if "believe" from the followers is some kind of cosmic energy that powers the gods or defines their hierarchy, a pandimensional twitter subscription counter of sorts. In that case the last thing you want is to prove your existence as a god, because as soon as your existence is proven all believe will pop out of existence and will be replaced with knowledge of the existence.

Believe is only possible when the thing to believe in is vague and unknowable, you can't by definition ever believe in the existence of anything that you are sure of.

[–] DarkMetatron 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

At least both Christianity and Islamic religions started as cults and became religions. Christianity was even a sect of people believing in the coming of the end times, that's what the revelation in the new testament is for.

A sect or a cult is always the root of any new religion and often new sects or cults are the offspring of an older religion. Religion, cults and sects are as concepts interconnected.

[–] DarkMetatron 3 points 2 weeks ago

I had both but the teen drama sounding parts were less then the general but I have not yet played much further so not sure how it gets later on the game.

[–] DarkMetatron 1 points 2 weeks ago

In this day and age you don't need to own the game to be a able to experience the story and graphics and nearly everything else perfectly legal. Thousands of people are playing it on Twitch and YouTube and other streaming platforms.

[–] DarkMetatron 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It is a good game, from the four ratings I would align myself with the 77% from Steam.

My biggest critic so far, 12h in, would be that the language they use and the way they speak is way to modern for a fantasy game for my liking. It often makes it a bit hard to immerse into the game for me when they use 21th century words or concepts or mannerisms.

[–] DarkMetatron 1 points 2 weeks ago

And I use my filter bubble power just now and here I think. Have a nice rest of your life

[–] DarkMetatron 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh the app completely doesn't load on a unlocked bootloader, this is on a locked bootloader system where I just activated Developer Mode to show the message of the app. I know that I can deactivate it again 😜

Unfortunately I don't have a system with unlocked bootloader right now to show the message that comes up then.

Unfortunately I have to use the app to be a able to take card payments for my business.

[–] DarkMetatron 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I never said that they are a good thing, I say they are a natural occurrence, something that only can prevented by a very dystopian system.

Because people will always filter what they want to hear and consume, and with that create filter bubbles. If you went to church (regardless of the specific religion) you enter a filter bubble. If you talk with people on a rave you are in a completely different filter bubbles then in a country music bar. Filter bubbles are all around us and yes the Internet is, by its nature, a magnifying glass for this effect. But it inherent to the human nature not inherent to the Internet. So to prevent filter bubbles you would have to radically change the human nature.

[–] DarkMetatron 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I fear you misunderstood me. Fascist would be if choice would be forbidden, when everyone would have to always hear every side of every topic.

Even with newspapers and the like are filter bubbles possible. I am free to buy only the newspaper who writes the stories in the way I want to read them. There are left wing newspapers and right wing newspapers and stuff in between. And even with newspapers and broadcasts you are still free to only consume what you want to consume and block, by not buying or active ignoring, what you not want to see or hear. Things like cracker-barrel philosophy or Stammtischparolen where a thing long before the Internet.

Echo chambers are a normal part of being human, it exists in small (only between friends),huge (tribes/nations/cults/religions) and anything in between more or less as long as humans are able to communicate.

[–] DarkMetatron 6 points 2 weeks ago

That too, yes!

[–] DarkMetatron 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It is mostly payment options that are affected from it, for example the Zettle App by PayPal

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