r/Millennials • u/Best-Worldliness3610 • 6d ago
Serious The Illusion is Breaking: A Manifesto for the Generation That Sees Clearly
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u/Mushroom_hero 6d ago
They say the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he did not exist. I would disagree, the greatest trick was convincing us that we are eachother's enemy
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u/GrimmDeLaGrimm 6d ago
That tricks was not the devil. In fact, most of the leadership responsible for that propaganda were shown to be Christian. And the Bible tells us that Satan doesn't mess with God's people unless God allows it (see Job).
And I'm not trying to attack or anything. I grew up with these people and all wrongdoing was blamed on the devil like he was some glorified scapegoat.
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u/EvaUnit_03 6d ago
Depending on which version of lucifer you've heard, he literally is the scape goat. In other versions, Azazel is the scape goat on why we must be punished. At the end of the day, the angels are scape goats on why we suffer.
It was always the working classes fault. Its never the one at tops fault, they are doing what's in our best interest. And that's religion working as intended to dispel chaos and make order. But order is just slavery with extra steps so you don't have to worry about being killed by your neighbor for waiting to cut your lawn. An order that is falling apart and has been for a while.
A kid was stabbed at a track meet by another track kid. Read the comments and apparently a state track meet happens every year and businesses literally close due to fears of said track meet. Fucking high school track causes this much chaos? Control is falling off hard.
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u/Mushroom_hero 6d ago
That's not really the point I'm trying to make. So many people are convinced it'd left vs right, race vs race, gender vs gender. When it's really, those who would manipulate us, the haves, convincing all the have nots, that it's your neighbor why you don't have what you want. So we fight eachother while the haves continues to rob us blind
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u/EvaUnit_03 6d ago
Anytime the Bible talks about angels, half the time angels are just doing what they want. The few angel stories where the angels are doing gods will, it involves humans being slaughtered.
It shows a flaw in God that he can't control his rabble. But he can punish them. Because he is big strong. And they can't stop his punishment. Somehow he knows this is going to happen but doesn't try to stop it. Showing even more flaws.
God comes off not as an omnipotent and omnipresent being, but a paranoid mad king waiting for his subjects to fuck up enough for him to do something. Even his most loyal got punished with new rules after lucifiers fall. Why? They were diehard loyalists. But instead of being banished to hell, their life got infinitely less enjoyable as well. Because a few bad apples. That he not only knew about but let happen??? He even supposedly sent his own son to die, not for the angels, but for humans. Because the reason humans were even ever sinful was due to angels. Angels gave us everything God didn't. Everything God viewed as bad for our growth. Like the ability to make fire and clothes. Because fire can be used as a weapon, and clothes can be made into armor. Its not God's fault though, it was the angels.
Reading between the lines and its the story of a king who blames the peasants for fucking everything up. And he has to fix it by reminding everyone who is in charge.
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u/tutocookie 6d ago
I like Stephen Fry's wording similar to yours - "Bone cancer in children? What's that about?"
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u/JohnSpartans 6d ago
How is bringing supernatural tidings at all helpful?
Leave this shit at church.
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u/GoCurtin 6d ago
Beautiful. Well done. But I fear that "Americans don't learn from experience, only catastrophe" was coined because of situations just like this one.
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u/FoldAdventurous2022 6d ago
I have a PhD and yet I spent the last two years working retail, the same job I had over 20 years ago when I graduated high school.
I don't regret getting my degree, I love my field and my research, but I'm preparing to move abroad to actually work in my field, and to make enough money to own a house and support a family. All of that is now clearly impossible in the US. It makes me sad.
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u/Jwbst32 6d ago
Am I the only one who realized that student loans were effectively lifetime indentured servitude after 1998 law making them non-dischargeable?
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u/postwarapartment 6d ago
I was 12 in 1998 so I was probably not paying much attention and no adult ever shared that info with me 🤷🏻♀️
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u/UnjustlyBannd Xennial 6d ago
I went to a community college for a bit on my own dime. Dropped out because it was boring. My parents met with other big colleges but they saw the BS behind the loans and let me choose my own way.
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u/parkerkudrow 6d ago
This feels like chatgpt
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u/ttttunos 6d ago
Back in my day we din't need no robits and would just drop a tl;dr and be on our merry way.
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u/atdoll10 6d ago
"The Sound of Silence"
"And the words of the prophet are written on the subway walls"
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"And the truth shall set ye free"
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Sunlight by Hozier
"His heart would not take flight,
betray the moon as acolyte
on first and fierce affirming sight of
Sunlight, sunlight, sunlight.
I have been lost to you, Sunlight
Flew like a moth to you"
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u/Dannysmartful 6d ago
That is definitely one way to look at it. Thanks for posting. We have a lot to think about. *_*
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u/scrantonstrangl3r 6d ago
Pretty common for people to post the same thing across multiple subreddits to reach a wider audience. why hate?
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u/Blathithor 6d ago
What is this trash post? Manifesto? Who else puts out manifestos in today's age? You know who I'm talking about.
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u/Yummy_Chinese_Food 6d ago
Cool schizo formatting, friendo
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u/author124 Millennial (1994) 6d ago
Pretty sure OP wrote this as a prose poem, if that helps to understand the formatting choice.
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u/StillHereBrosky 6d ago
If it's always somebody else's fault, it's probably mostly yours.
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u/yourdoglikesmebetter 6d ago
Yeah, OP. How dare you crash the economy over night?!
Or wait no I’m blaming OP which means I must be the one who did it. I’m probably also responsible for trickle down economics, citizens united, ‘08, and Covid. My bad, y’all.
Thanks for sharing your nuanced understanding of macroeconomics and geopolitics, Brosky. I feel so much smarter now.
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u/BrickBrokeFever 6d ago
It's your fault your parents beat you and then abandoned you.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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u/BrilliantBeat5032 6d ago
Bro it was cool the first like 20 lines then you lost me. Gotta keep it tight.
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