Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

The only thing I remember from my dream last night is, just before I woke up, I was saying, "People are complicated. Like, take Jesus for example. He hung out with prostitutes and thieves. But he also helped a rich man's camel pass through the eye of a needle, so we celebrate the good things he did and try to forget that 'hanging out with prostitutes and thieves' thing with empathy."

Now I really want to remember the rest of it, because I can't figure out how I ended up saying that.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

But he also helped a rich man's camel pass through the eye of a needle

Getting a camel to do anything is a miracle.

 

[Scribe]

People are complicated

True. Society even more so. The games we play get us to look at things like this, ask questions, and apply some of that back to reality. Unfortunately...

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I just don't understand taking a commercial product so personally.

 

[payn]

I just don't understand taking a commercial product so personally.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Just make sure to open your own cans when you're at his house.

 

[dragoner]

Someone had to say it

 

[payn]

Someone had to say it

You know I was only aiming for a new coke joke, and grabbed that gif. In my mind, it was the Ray Charles ad, but I had the wrooooong one baby.

 

[Scribe]

I just don't understand taking a commercial product so personally.

Well you see first, you form an unhealthy, borderline mentally ill attachment to something. A game, concept, ideology, whatever.

Then, you either defend it as it forms the core of your Identity, or you attack it because what you identified with has changed, and now that change is apparently a reflection upon your morality, thanks to modern online discourse of the terminally online.

And the result is all around us, ramping up an ever increasingly unhinged level of hyperbolic 'discussion', othering, and bad faith and the death of critical thought.