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[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 192 points 10 months ago

WHY ARE YOU POSTING THIS ON MY FEED I DO NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR INTENT I DO NOT HAVE AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY WITH YOU

[-] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

WITH PREJUDICE

[-] black_rain@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Are my eyes being detained or are they free to read on? Are my eyes being detained or are they free to read on? Are my eyes being detained or are they free to read on?

[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

This comment made me break your car window on reflex.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago
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[-] andrewth09@lemmy.world 97 points 10 months ago
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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago

They even titled it "word magic" lol.

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

It's appropriate since they believe that words are magic and as long as they say the right words, the "spell" will be cast and they will become immune to laws.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I do not ~~understand~~ stand under!

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

That’s probably the most sane part about It.

I think they are saying that those Words where chosen specifically because they can subconsciously affect the words users perceptions.

Not magic nor a conspiracy but there is psychological truth that different words with identical meaning can effect us differently.

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago

Or you know, from the old (and current) French "Parent", which itself came from the Latin "Parentem". But I guess making a quick search isn't as fun as making shit up.

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

Nah man, that doesn't sound right. See "pair rent" is much more believable. Everyone knows that these conspiracy things always need to rhyme or sound similar or have the same letters but rearranged. Not be the same word in another language, that's just bunk.

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago
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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago

Just in case anyone is curious-

parent (n.)

early 15c. (late 12c. as a surname), "a mother or father; a forebear, ancestor," from Old French parent "father, parent, relative, kin" (11c.) and directly from Latin parentem (nominative parens) "father or mother, ancestor," noun use of present participle of parire "bring forth, give birth to, produce," from PIE root *pere- (1) "to produce, bring forth." Began to replace native elder after c. 1500. also from early 15c.

BIG GOVERNMENT has apparently been planning this since feudalism.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The Magna Carta is unconstitutional!

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[-] vala@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fake etymology conspiracy theories (aka "word magic") are one of my biggest pet peeves.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Same people who think that a winamp visualization is actually "seeing the music".

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[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

I refuse to believe that whoever put this to print did so earnestly. Surely they at least must've known this was bullshit they were peddling to make a quick buck off some gullible rubes.

[-] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I've known a couple schizophrenic dudes that got into numerology while they were struggling. This text sounds exactly like that.

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

There's no information on the Internet about the author, Pao Chung. Probably just a scammer.

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

You know it’s funny. I keep trying to wrap my head around their beliefs; and then I hit the crazy wall and realize that there is nothing sane anywhere in there.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

I invite you to enjoy Munecats documentary on the movement across the world.

The absolute best person reviewing the work of the absolute worst people.

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[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

yes because the us government would OBVIOUSLY put in a hint in their wording if they really wanted to do that. just a little easter egg for us to discover

[-] Dieterlan@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

It's not the government doing it though. It's the secret cabal of "Dark Magicians" who secretly control the government, using the secret, 100% literal, magic of words.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 32 points 10 months ago

This made me think about when you hear about someone who has a really high genius level IQ in the 180s or whatever; statistically, there must be someone somewhere who has an IQ as far below the average of 100 than the genius IQ is over it.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's not necessarily how averages work. 80, 80, 80, 80, 100, 180.

The average is 100, but there is no "counterpart" to the 180 at the end.

EDIT: note that my sample size is way to small to perfectly describe the human population, and ~~variance~~ distribution is also impossible to represent with a sample size of 6. Obviously there ARE people way below 80 IQ; I'm just saying you can't say for sure that there must be a person around 20IQ just because one with 180 exists.

[-] sus@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

technically, IQ is by definition normally distributed with 100 as the center. But by the definition there would only be about 500 people in the world with an IQ of 20 or lower, so it breaks down because of the amount of people in an unrecoverable coma and such

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Also I'm pretty sure an IQ of at little as 20 would probably be impossible to measure.

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[-] falsem@kbin.social 28 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure this author is a paranoid schizophrenic or something. Most of these guys are just dumb and gullible - this one is just kind of sad.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago

"birth/berth"

They call it that as a trick to subject babies to the regulatory structures that govern ships, which essentially says that the government can commandeer you whenever they deem necessary. Oh you think you have rights? Well in the eyes of the law, you're just another skiff with a bad attitude.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

It's possible you circled the *least *bonkers part of the page.

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
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[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

God, I should just trip balls, write a book while I'm doing it, and sell it to these whackjobs.

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[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago

They have printed literature?

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago
[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Wow. A lot of talk about magic in there. Way more wiccan hippy than right wing sovcit but I guess you go far enough down the rabbit hole and they converge.

Pdf also seemed to make my CPU spike like crazy, wonder what else is embedded in there... Probably not magic

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[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Ok I was saying they thought the law was magic and they just needed to find the right incantation as a diving joke but it looks like that's actually true

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[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Have none of these people ever heard of etymology?

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 43 points 10 months ago

Have you ever wondered why they like to use the word etymology to describe the study of words and their origins? The word etymology sound similar to the words "A tamale, gee!," which means "A tamale you're excited about." When your pair rents signed your birth certificate, they agreed that you're a tamale.

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

No thanks, I don't like ants

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[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago

The most sensible thing in that book is the legal disclaimer at the front.

[-] palitu@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Holy shit....

Just started to read it...

Holy shit

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 11 points 10 months ago

Sovcit means sovereign citizen for anyone else who is confused

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Laugh all you want - I'm now worth $700 million as the majority shareholder in my birth certificate.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

This mofo never had any “loco parentis” at school then

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

DELETE ALL PICTURES OF RON!

[-] dipshit@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I feel for them in a way because they didn’t consent to being born. Like the rest of us. Oh well.

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