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[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago

This is how you feel on acid as well😁

[-] starik@lemmy.zip 143 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 82 points 6 days ago

Oh, that's how people believe in astrology.

[-] yakko@feddit.uk 66 points 6 days ago

That and the Protestant work ethic

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

Hey, now, it trickles down frequently. I wish it wouldn't make that weird unzipping sound beforehand, though.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago

To be honest, the most fucked-up part of that joke is that I understood it.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 24 points 6 days ago
[-] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 6 days ago

For some people they're the same thing.

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

They are the same thing

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Pfffft. Typical Virgo response.

/s for those that need it.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 24 points 6 days ago

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,

[-] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 6 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

“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

[-] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

In summary: Genocide.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] possumparty 7 points 5 days ago

Yeah my parents tried to teach me religion and conservativism and that didn't work.

[-] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The easiest way to become an atheist is to study religion.

[-] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

Didn't work for me.

[-] saimen@feddit.org 25 points 6 days ago

I would see it the other way around. It explains their often sudden and unexpected tantrums.

[-] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

as someone with autism and autistic meltdowns I have a lot of empathy for toddlers and small children. Some parts of my brain just haven't grown up like the others.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 6 days ago

A toddler doesn't know what not being on earth means, so

[-] pir8t0x@ani.social 1 points 5 days ago

Back when I was a toddler, I used to think that every area or locality we live in is a country

[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago

Hihi, my son was similar until about a year ago

Every thing we had to travel to he thought was another country or something

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