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Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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Bean Dad’s great great grandfather.Report
L’affaire déplorable du méprisable papa haricot would be the marquee exemplar of how graceless social media has made us that I would pick; alas not everyone is the same flavor of podcast geek that I am so perhaps this would not be something to which everyone could relate. (But it would dovetail nicely back to the thorny and as-yet-unresolved question of the Questionable Adequacy of Ken Jennings’ Apology.)
However, I think we’ve explored the topic well already recently (re: J.K.-Rowling-IP-derived-media-products-Rowling-didn’t-actually-participate-in and the Alloyed Motives Of MrBeast’s Charity). So I don’t really feel an imperative to write the essay. Sorry, folks.Report
To tie everything together in a nice little bow, there were a number of complaints about Buddy Christ 2023’s commercial during The Super Bowl that used Iscariot’s criticism:
Couldn’t you have used that money to help the poor?
Well, lemme tell ya: That criticism hits different after reading the criticisms of MrBeast.Report
Howso?
From my perspective spending that much money on evangelism is at best a waste, even (especially?) if it gains converts. Every penny of that well-but-very-delusionally-intentioned money would have been better spent on medical research (other good causes etc.).
But from a believer’s perspective, there are souls to be saved, souls in imminent and great peril. Evangelism is how those souls are saved from eternal damnation and hellfire. A few million dollars — temporary, ephemeral, inconsequential, earthly money — is a trivial price to pay in exchange.
And who the f[ish] am I to tell these people how to spend their money in the first place?Report
Eh. There are a lot of people out there with a hole in what they think is their soul and long for a community that they feel they ought to have.
“Hey, come to church” works for some small amount of people and googling something like “loneliness epidemic” will get you a bunch of weird articles that alternate between “young people are lonelier than ever” and a bunch of articles that link to this Cigna survey saying that Gen Z is lonelier than older generations are.
That’s really nuts because the younger generations are the ones that get forced into rooms with a couple dozen other people their own age (within a year, anyway) and that just pretty much stops happening after college.
So if you want to make friends and become part of a community… what do you do?
Well, don’t tell me. I’m part of one. The ones out there that don’t know? Well… here’s a commercial. Show up at church. We can get you started.
Lots of kinds of charity needed out there. Lots of needs being overlooked.
And there are a *LOT* of people out there who see stuff like “people trying to help other people” and get really, really pissed off about it.Report