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Religion is the opiate of the masses.

>> No.10992230

>>10992224
so?

>> No.10992237
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10992237

>>10992224
>Religion is the opiate of the masses.

>> No.10992242
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10992242

Peterson is the Nietzsche of today

>> No.10992246

>>10992224
ok but what is the opiate of the patrician

>> No.10992250

Never has a quote been more heavily misunderstood. I blame Lenin.

>> No.10992255

>>10992224
Opiates is the religion of the masses.

>> No.10992256

>>10992246
truth

>> No.10992259

>>10992246
opium

>> No.10992265

>>10992246
>what do you use for opiates if you have the money for opiates
opiates

>> No.10992267

I am now an atheist

thank you Marx!

>> No.10992275

>>10992267
sexual perverts are excluded from the party. take your gay masochistic statue defacing cute ass to the national socialists

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10992648

Opiates are the religion of the enlightened few

>> No.10992653

Weed is the opiate for the masses

>> No.10992671

>>10992224
Masses are the religion of opiates.

>> No.10992686

>>10992224
>Opiates are the opiates of the masses

>> No.10992687

Politics is the opiate of the masses.

>> No.10992703

Electronic screens are the opiate of the masses.

>> No.10992711

>>10992686
not for the masses, though

>> No.10992717

>>10992687
spbp, religion was the opiate of the masses.

>> No.10992724

Why the fuck would the masses need opiates lmao their brain functions are already flatlined, they are basically comatose on corn syrup and diet coke

>> No.10992729

>>10992711
middle america's pretty massive

>> No.10992746

>>10992729
not comparable with the effects of religion

>> No.10993390

>>10992224
Perhaps I've misjudged opiates.

>> No.10993435

>>10992246
Literally opiates (heroin, morphine, percocets, valium, etc)

>> No.10993657

>>10992224
Vengeance is the opiate of the uncivilized

>> No.10993671

>>10993435
but literally only plebs use that.

>> No.10993676

>>10992224
And opiates make people feel good. Why is this a bad thing? Unless your philosophical position is that suffering is preferable to pleasure.

>> No.10993681

>>10993676
>And opiates make people feel good. Why is this a bad thing?
you can't be serious

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>>10992224
Opium provides you with illusion so that you may cope with reality.
Religion provides you with reality so that you may cope with illusion.

>> No.10993725

>>10992255
>tfw this is more or less true

>> No.10993733

>>10993681
WHO ELSE /ASCETIC/ HERE
I LIKE FLAGELLATING MY OWN BODY BOTH LITERALLY AND METAPHORICALLY AND THEN GO ON 4CHAN AND BRAG ABOUT IT
ATHEIST BTFO
HEDONISTS BTFO
AH AH AH AH! PRAISE JESUS!

>> No.10993736

>>10993676
This is so Reddit even Reddit wouldn't go there.

>> No.10993756

>>10993733
Opiates actually seriously harm you, friend. I would reply in an equal manner to yours but I feel it would be irresponsible not to tell you this, since it seems you genuinely don't know.

>> No.10993757

>>10993733
yeah because there is no room between being a monk and a junkie

>> No.10994280

>>10992259
This but unironically. Just read this shit from an opium dream:
>I was stared at, hooted at, grinned at, chattered at, by monkeys, by parroquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas, and was fixed for centuries at the summit or in secret rooms: I was the idol; I was the priest; I was worshipped; I was sacrificed. I fled from the wrath of Brama through all the forests of Asia: Vishnu hated me: Seeva laid wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris: I had done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphynxes, in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.

>> No.10994335

>>10992224
That's sorta right except now the religion is consumerist scientism, and it's not and never was purposeful distraction but rather one religion/area of thought causing the other to go out of focus

>> No.10994339

>>10994280
Weird how his dream was so alliterative

>> No.10994344

>>10992259
Opiates suck dick, as do all downers. I don't want to be tired and numbed out, I want energy and motivation. If I wanted to sleep all day and do nothing I could just stop taking stims and be sober.

>> No.10994349

>>10994344
opiates are for people who are naturally wired

>> No.10994362

>>10994349
Or are unnaturally addicted to Amphetamines

>> No.10994366

>>10993757
There’s room between them but it’s more like a sliding screen door on a slippery slope.

>> No.10994371

>>10992224
Literally anything can become the "opiate of the masses--" nationalism, cultural identity, media, political demagoguery, social media, video games, anime-- it isn't exclusive to theology. The dullest meme spooked up by Marx.

>> No.10994375

>>10993676
Opiates make you feel so good they make being sober feel bad, then you build up tolerance and you have to take more and more opiates and being sober feels worse and worse, then you overdose and die. No one does recreational heroin.

>> No.10994383

>>10994366
better to be a monk than a hedonist in that case

>> No.10994394

>>10994344
This. Coke, LSD, amphetamines, nicotine, et al are all patrician tier psychotropics.