Post AzIdAZR4TqJhewmClE by BritishKoalaTea@social.coop
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(DIR) Post #AzIb8QN50j1T3jl5DE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-17T11:41:48Z
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I’ve joked before that it would be wise to declare it against my religion to view advertisements. But the more I think about it, the more I see the advantages of this idea. When something is framed as a matter of religious conviction, people tend not to question it — they might even go out of their way to accommodate it.1/
(DIR) Post #AzIbAO7iL5DofPVXCS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-17T11:42:08Z
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So imagine if we founded a new faith — call it Ad-Free Christianity — where viewing advertisements was explicitly forbidden by our creed. We could carve out a space free from ads, a sanctuary for our hearts and minds to be cleansed.Are you curious?2/2
(DIR) Post #AzIbPj5oepls2uvwm0 by JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange
2025-10-17T11:44:51Z
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Mysticism has to be a few hundred years old for it to be accepted and accommodated.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #AzIdAZR4TqJhewmClE by BritishKoalaTea@social.coop
2025-10-17T12:04:30Z
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@futurebird Sign me up, I'm in!
(DIR) Post #AzIewHKXCOiXMQ21vU by bloodripelives@federatedfandom.net
2025-10-17T12:24:19Z
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@futurebird I doubt you’d even need to make a up a new faith wholesale— you could make arguments for ads being implicated in idolatry, or maybe even usury, depending on your mood, and pull textual support at least from any of the Abrahamic religions…
(DIR) Post #AzIg7ltU0JlhI9QGvo by MissGayle@urbanists.social
2025-10-17T12:37:38Z
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@futurebird It's not really a stretch to say consumerism is a sin. It's bad stewardship of both the earth and of your finances.
(DIR) Post #AzIgI1cSOO36xWLegy by TimWardCam@c.im
2025-10-17T12:39:29Z
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@futurebird Which is in itself bonkers ... but that's not the point you're making, 😀
(DIR) Post #AzIh0iidVgTJN7YDXE by trurl@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-17T12:47:33Z
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@futurebird there was a so-so Russian movie in 2012 that tried to be about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branded_(2012_film)
(DIR) Post #AzIhXskrDZt63OP1RQ by tasket@mas.to
2025-10-17T12:53:34Z
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@futurebird I take issue with the oft-used far-right canard that only religious people are allowed to make value judgements or take action outside of "the market". Its pernicious.In that world view, anything that isn't based on greed or theology is labeled "ideology" which is a green-light term for the oligarch state to attack, and any relationship to science doesn't matter.
(DIR) Post #AzIkmLtRygr6LH0sue by cadellin@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-17T13:29:47Z
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@futurebird maybe tie advertising to the language about worshipping false idols?
(DIR) Post #AzInFOAWnS7ThnyUnQ by ezri@shitpost.trade
2025-10-17T13:57:22Z
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@futurebird for real though i've held this position unironically for a while nowadvertisements should be considered by christians as temptation to sin (i.e. to spend time and money to obtain material goods for yourself instead of helping those that society looks down upon, to be compromised by lust for money at the expense of your fellow man, etc)yknow, matthew 6:24 etc
(DIR) Post #AzIoOAv1WsaJAhTaTY by NickGates@friendsofdesoto.social
2025-10-17T14:10:15Z
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Vote @futurebird for ad-free pope
(DIR) Post #AzIpDWB2Fdfvs6RoqO by PizzaDemon@mastodon.online
2025-10-17T14:19:25Z
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@futurebird I'm usually pretty good at letting stupid ads just slide by (RAM truck's "Americans can do anything we want, except one thing: We just can't stop... being Americans")But a streamer has been serving a Michaels ad saying they're having a Halloween sale and everything is 60% off. In mid October they want me to believe this. It's fine if the ad is stupid but I get upset when it assumes I am stupid.
(DIR) Post #AzIqOEV6PaImBmVUzQ by Ralph@hear-me.social
2025-10-17T14:32:38Z
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@futurebird I used to say that I was religiously opposed to telemarketing, and it worked about 60% of the time. Now I just send them to voicemail.
(DIR) Post #AzIqe6I0hyVNM7wwCG by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-10-17T14:35:31Z
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@futurebird “But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.”
(DIR) Post #AzIrNyyYEWO9zdj4Lo by arisummerland@beige.party
2025-10-17T14:43:46Z
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@futurebird If we could roll into it protections against our data being sold to everybody's "873 partners", that might be a big selling point, too.
(DIR) Post #AzJIJAdEANHLSTgL7w by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-17T19:45:32Z
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Sins of the New Religion:1. Gross Advertising (this is to send more ads than you could personally respond to)2. To witness the gross advertising.3. To plot with enthusiasm to earn wealth without working (renting out, lending, or extorting for profit) 4. To rent or pay interest when it can plainly be avoidedNone of us is free of sin. repent etc etc (arguments about the ethics of subletting keep the elders up all night— )
(DIR) Post #AzJJ4cNgoQw18F2TMO by darkling@mstdn.social
2025-10-17T19:54:03Z
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@futurebird I guess that selling indulgences is right out?
(DIR) Post #AzJLaCpXXqhH3wFuyG by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-17T20:22:10Z
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@futurebird Not only curious, but I would like to sponsor your newslet-hurkk! [Raptured directly to ad hell.]
(DIR) Post #AzJUcmcqKTwoFJcXWS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-17T22:03:29Z
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@bob @lizzie hard dislike. merchants in my temple? wrecks the WHOLE vibe. Might as well go home.
(DIR) Post #AzJVfeJlm0UbIrd6Bc by lizzie@brain.worm.pink
2025-10-17T21:56:20.755240Z
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@futurebird “i believe in the holy spiritthe holy catholic churchthe communion of saintsthe forgiveness of sinsthe avoidance if advertisementsthe resurrection of the bodyand the life everlasting”
(DIR) Post #AzJVfg2TNHqSdnYJVI by kon@kokoro.garden
2025-10-17T22:15:03Z
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@lizzie @futurebird God grant me the serenity to accept the advertisements I cannot skip, courage to skip the advertisements I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
(DIR) Post #AzJWNIxMYW1NnGxvaS by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
2025-10-17T22:23:06Z
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@futurebird the ad-free part sounds good. not so much the christianity, but in the US I think it might be the most respected religion
(DIR) Post #AzJWRAhjBA7PMHUpXM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-17T22:23:51Z
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@amsomniac Just seemed like the best bandwagon to get the kind of action I want when I say "I can't use this because of the ads, this is against my religion."
(DIR) Post #AzJaCfiK0HZd0Q7DsG by koteisaev@mastodon.online
2025-10-17T23:06:00Z
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@futurebird Sadly there are situations when renting a room is single way to save own sanity so this `sin` is not so avoidable as it seems at first glance. So one of pillars of new religion would be solution for housing crisis. And another thing... using "Christianity" even in name cuts plenty of people away - from Muslims to Pagans & Animists. (I aware that this is said in US "Christianity-centric context", but...)
(DIR) Post #AzJdBk7YQtPKFMAOC8 by varx@cybersecurity.theater
2025-10-17T23:39:27Z
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@futurebird @amsomniac It would be pretty easy to derive a version of Buddhism that explicitly prohibits advertisements.Often, the marketing team at a company is internally called "Demand Generation" or similar. The idea is that not enough people *want* your product; the goal of demand gen is to *increase desire* for your product—convert people who were satisfied into people who are not!And according to Buddhism, which teaches that desire causes suffering, that's pretty fucking evil.
(DIR) Post #AzJvdRotrny0lqnktU by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-10-18T03:06:10Z
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@futurebird Not a religion, but a philosophy and personal belief I'm rather committed to: Advertisements everywhere makes the world a worse place. I will *never*, therefore, purchase any product or service for which I know is advertised if any alternative generic option exists.In practice, this doesn't really mean much these days since I quit listening to/watching commercial media a couple decades ago and don't know what ads exist these days.
(DIR) Post #AzKOFyTjgkafmS3s9I by M0CUV@mastodon.radio
2025-10-18T08:26:43Z
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@futurebird nice idea! I’ll go for Ad-Free Buddhism. Ads lead to craving, which leads to attachment, which continues the cycle of Samsara; an endless realm of suffering. An interesting framing, ads being against my religion. Not that I see it as a religion, but as you say, people don’t question my choice if framed that way!