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Their minds are wet cement, and you can write whatever you want into it. Teach them some supernatural BS at that age, and they will believe it for the rest of their lives.
Oh, that's how people believe in astrology.
That and the Protestant work ethic
Hey, now, it trickles down frequently. I wish it wouldn't make that weird unzipping sound beforehand, though.
To be honest, the most fucked-up part of that joke is that I understood it.
And religion
For some people they're the same thing.
They are the same thing
Pfffft. Typical Virgo response.
/s for those that need it.
Astrology, in particular, is a wet noodly mass of confirmation bias.
We read that something is supposed to happen or someone is supposed to behave a certain way, and test it repeatedly every day. All the no-matches fade away with short term memory but all the matches get saved to long-term memory and cause us to add weight where there is none. I suspect there are one or two components of this in gambling.
The quote you are looking for is "Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man." This saying is attributed to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order,
They applied that same logic to Indian Residential Schools in Canada ... but they weren't trying to grow men ... they just wanted to get rid of the Indian inside the Indian.
“Kill the Indian, and Save the Man”: Capt. Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans Beginning in 1887, the federal government attempted to “Americanize” Native Americans, largely through the education of Native youth. By 1900 thousands of Native Americans were studying at almost 150 boarding schools around the United States. The U.S. Training and Industrial School founded in 1879 at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, was the model for most of these schools. Boarding schools like Carlisle provided vocational and manual training and sought to systematically strip away tribal culture. They insisted that students drop their Indian names, forbade the speaking of native languages, and cut off their long hair. Not surprisingly, such schools often met fierce resistance from Native American parents and youth. But the schools also fostered a sense of shared Indian identity that transcended tribal boundaries. The following excerpt (from a paper read by Carlisle founder Capt. Richard H. Pratt at an 1892 convention) spotlights Pratt’s pragmatic and frequently brutal methods for “civilizing” the “savages,” including his analogies to the education and “civilizing” of African
Reminds me of how proud I am to remember one of my uncles.
Some of my dad's family went to St Anne's Residential School in Fort Albany in northern Ontario in the 1950s ... it's famous as a very brutal institution that did terrible things. Dad had one older brother who was famous for being thrown out of the school and told to not return. He was very rebellious and constantly fought with everyone the entire time he was there. He was regularly beaten and punished when he was smaller and younger but he never stopped fighting back. He was a naturally strong and built young boy. When he turned 12, he was built like a full grown man and was known to punch out and beat any of the priests and brothers. They couldn't handle him at one point, sent him home and just told him not to return.
My cousins in that family are some of the toughest, strongest most brutal people I know. I'm glad I'm related to them because anyone who ever crossed them on the street didn't do so good.
In summary: Genocide.
Well, Jesuits were the child fucking colonialist spearhead of Catholicism in south Asia and parts of Latin America to further destroy local cultures and complete the cultural side of genocides. So, that tracks.
Yeah my parents tried to teach me religion and conservativism and that didn't work.
The easiest way to become an atheist is to study religion.
Didn't work for me.