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Move over TESCREAL, R9PRESENTATIONALism is here. (archive.is)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Soyweiser@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah i was just doing the meme from king of the hill. If I go indepth, I would sneer at stuff like: "Because if TESCREALism really is a secularized religion, then… so what?"

For being a misrepresentation, it is secularized eschatological Christianity, not just a religion. Doesn't even represent the argument correctly. It is the rapture of the nerds, not the breaking of the Saṃsāra for nerds.

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@Soyweiser What is "king of the hill"? TV/cinema or some other visual entertainment?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago

It is a tv series yes, this is basically the clip from the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aOHQ-sMCps there is more context re the episode but it isn't that relevant. I should have just linked it initially. (I have since edited the first post with a link to the know your meme page which explains it).

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago

Animated series about an honest propane salesman from Texas trying to survive modernity.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"shirk" is an islamic term for idolatry/type of heresy, person who does that is called "mushirk"

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I was not aware.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i'm not reading all that so idk if it's used correctly in context, but more usual islamic term for infidel is "kafir" (spellings vary; there's no single romanization of arabic)

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago

Yeah I also dont know what is correct, because they used an odd term, specific to one religion, to which most people reading do not belong, or if they do do not experience that way, so their point is unclear. Like the rest of the text the attempt at sounding well read and learned actually impedes the message trying to convey. Cargo cult stuff. (Im assuming not LLM generated here).

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh duh, I remember that meme now. With the people getting on the bus wearing weird white robe outfits?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago

Yep