A religion is just a meme that people take seriously.

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In the original Dawkins sense of the word, this is explicitly so. Strictly speaking, memes are just ideas that use us to replicate. A worldview is an idea. Pogrom ergo sum, so to speak.

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  • DiggyDiggyMole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There is a neat video from CGP Grey that discusses the infectious transmission of thoughts: Achoo!

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  • Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought so, wasn’t sure, was about to double check and then figured some wise soul in the comments would know. And here we are.

    First time I ever encountered the word meme was in regards to religion.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the original Dawkins sense, it’s a memeplex.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      nice one

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  More like a fiction tale that people take seriously. But also, maybe a meme in the original meaning of the word, before it became funny internet pictures

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  • loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had both Dawkin’s definition and internet memes in mind as I wrote this, since I don’t think they’re so different in the end. A meme (even in the modern sense) doesn’t have to be a funny image: In can be a practice, like rickrolling; a text like copypastas, a story -true or fictional, like “operation baja-blast” or creepypastas. Some combine several of these things, like the meme “loss.jpg” contains the comic’s story, it’s pannels, and the behaviour of hiding the loss symbol or finding it. All of these things are also what religions are made off!

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    • TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Internet memes are Dawkins memes, you don’t have to think they’re not different when that’s the case.

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• perviouslyiner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Peas be upon him.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bro so is lemmygrad.

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• whataboutshutup@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A state-provided headcanon of a fanfiction?

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  • Pandantic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Religious sects are just factions with differing headcannons about their religious text’s characters.

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    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’ve gotta read Hindu mythology.

      Literally just a bunch of village priests trying to out Marvel Hero each other on power levels.

      Things… may have gotten a bit out of hand…

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    religion isn’t state-provided lol

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    • swab148@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on where you live tbh

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