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An internet-based religion based on the belief that file sharing is a sacred virtue which must remain protected. It was given recognition by the Swedish government in January 2012. It was founded by a philosophy student, Isak Gerson. [47] Matrixism, or The Path of the One A new religious movement inspired by the 1999 movie The Matrix. It ...
The Truth Really Can Be Far Stranger Than Fiction. This AskReddit thread-inspired piece takes a look at various events that popped up throughout history that involved such strange behavior and ...
The descriptions of these events have elements of truth, and the "big lie" generalizations merge and eventually supplant the public's accurate perception of the underlying events. After World War I the German stab in the back explanation of the cause of their defeat became a justification for Nazi re-militarization and revanchism.
2012 phenomenon – a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or otherwise transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar and as such, festivities to commemorate the date took place on 21 December 2012 in countries where the Maya civilization had formerly ...
A religion based on the worship of the phallus. Space opera in Scientology: L. Ron Hubbard's history of the universe, including alien Invader Forces, "little orange-colored bombs that would talk" and brainwashing episodes in "a railway carriage quite like a British railway coach with compartments". Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case
A 2013 study that utilized a biological motion perception task discovered a "relation between illusory pattern perception and supernatural and paranormal beliefs and suggest that paranormal beliefs are strongly related to agency detection biases". [41] A 2014 study discovered that schizophrenic patients have more belief in psi than healthy ...
"Viruses of the Mind" is an essay by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, first published in the book Dennett and His Critics: Demystifying Mind (1993). Dawkins originally wrote the essay in 1991 and delivered it as a Voltaire Lecture on 6 November 1992 at the Conway Hall Humanist Centre.
Image credits: yasirrauf09 #3 Scooby Doo Takes Place In An Economic Depression. This is why there are so many run down amusement parks and mills, all the businesses are closed.