• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    8 days ago

    I looks like you’re using sect to just mean a generic group of people, while the other dude is going by the dictionary definiton that implies religious or philosophical ideology as the basis for the group.

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      8 days ago

      Yea, and the general one is completely fine. I said ‘sect’ and not ‘religion’ for a fucking reason.

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          8 days ago

          https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sect

          Look. Look at definition 3. It IS in the dictionary.

          Just because you think words have one meaning doesn’t mean all words have one meaning.

          Also the first sentence of wikipedia:

          A sect is a subgroup of religious, political, or philosophical belief system, typically emerging as an offshoot of a larger organization.

          Where in any of those definitions does it describe a sect as a “manipulation machine”?

          Holy fuck, did any of you damn children take any sociology classes?? This is fucking middleschool knowledge…

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              8 days ago

              Again, the definition I meant IS in the dictionary.

              I’m fine with clarifying, but this jouvenile obstinance to learning a new meaning of a word is just pathetic.

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                  8 days ago

                  This has already been clarified. You are wrong to take it that way. Period.

                  You are choosing to ignore the rest of the definitions. Why do you want to be such an uninformed moron?