why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

sucks to your asp art

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This is called money bags.

i assume money bays is an approximate translation of the original chinese feng shui term

balls, you better kick the ass of whoever keeps posting that picture of the The Biggest Yankee of All Time to your facebox.

ha, that one's definitely appeared here before. Yeah, October doesn't have five Mondays this year, so they totally missed out on chinese feng shui money bags.
Aside from everything else, the idea that it would take 823 years between each time that happens is obviously false. Unless they're using some ancient Chinese calendar where 2012 is 823 years after 2007.

Hrm, well, I suppose they're not necessarily saying it ONLY happens every 823 years. But never mind that, cuz it WASN'T true in 1189! I highly suspect this thing isn't accurate!

(but it Can't hurt so I did it :))

Can't hurt

There are only 14 possible calendars any given year can fit to. Seven of those are for leap-years.

So if you've got some wacky October where there are five Mondays, five Tuesdays and five Wednesdays (in other words, halloween is on a Wednesday), then guess what. That combo has happened in 2007, 2001, 1990, 1979, 1973, 1962 and will happen again in 2018. Fill your hands with money bags!

Oh, I see. It happened last year too, but it was a leap year. Just like it did in 1984.

so a Facebook macro has LIED to us?

it reminds me of these weird numerology/evangelical tracts i would find occasionally. which reminds me i had some baptist actually hand me a chick tract a couple of weeks ago, it was as if bigfoot had walked up and tapped me on the shoulder.

I found some sort of Jack Chick imitation pamphlet today ... in my doctor's waiting room!

It was weird, the first page had text that looked like it hand been hand-lettered. The second page's copy was just some standard computer font. I couldn't tell if the artist got lazy or if the Page 2 message was specifically typed for my behalf.

the only Chick tract I ever saw in the wild was left in a convenience store restroom in a Kansas City suburb

"leaving a Chick tract" = haven't heard it described that way before, but I'm going to use that one from now on

could become the new "Santorum" w/ a lil elbow grease

you can't rob me of the magic of finding this hilarious evangelical pamphlet with your shit jokes

found a chick tract in the gutter a few months ago. i picked it up but no idea what happened to it; lost in the car likely

you ever say something something Santorum with elbow grease something again, i'm flag banning you.

Someone leaves chick tract "A Love Story" underneath all the windshield wipers at my park and ride every Valentine's.

when i was like 19 an older woman picked only me out of an entire crowded train car to give a chick tract to. she held a bunch of them out in a fan so i just picked one randomly; she got off the train and then ran back on to give me one that i guess she had picked out specifically for me. wish i could remember which one it was cuz that would make a good punchline for this boring story

Lately I've been thinking that "cuccinelli" should become a euphemism for something.

Getting chick tracts for Halloween was the worst and happened quite often when I was a kid

lol, this is a recent one apparently

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wite ppl

Is the real hater Satan?

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brb getting YESTERDAY IS DEAD tattooed on my neck in Gothic font.

YESTERDAY IS DEAD
TOMORROW MIGHT BE ABORTED

it's just a bastardized Kris Kristofferson lyric

^ getting that tattooed in script under the first tattoo.

'the people' don't say "beggars can't be choicey". NO ONE says that

rong thred doh

WHOOAAAAH OH WHERE DO YOU GO
WHEN YOU DON'T WANT NO-ONE TO KNOW
WHOOOOHOOOO TOLD TOMORROW
TUESDAY'S DEAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgbu_P7b_WY

Of all the fake people who could have said that, why choose Groucho Marx? Even bob would have been less incongruous.

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it is helpful to think that way sometimes tbf even though i can't do it. i'm no sure why dr. steve maraboli was redirected to a haunted forest though.

http://www.stevemaraboli.com/Steve_Maraboli_Pinterest.jpg

a watermark that reads "watermark", what genius

there is perhaps no quicker way to convince me that you are a dick than by telling me that everything happens for a reason.

i've known people who really need to cling to these sorts of inspirational phrases in order to get through the day. they have always bothered me because they are dishonest but i wonder if the world isn't better because they exist. i say this after arguing with my friend about whether suicide barriers on bridges are worth it if they make the bridges look shitty

There are probably better things they could do than cling to these phrases

Because I think the dishonesty of the phrases lies in how they only ever tell 'half the story', always either 'Put up with it!' or 'Move on out!', but never 'Think about whether it would be better to put up with this, or to move on out, and perhaps come up with a synthesis of the two - that pays close attention to the specifics of your problem'.

yeah but i think of these things as like CBT-lite for people who 1.) aren't very imaginative and 2.) don't have access to real therapy. i'm pretty sure they are popular because they are designed to supplant the poisonous, self-defeating thoughts they picked up in childhood or whatever.

you are right: they are not very helpful because they give false hope and people are only able, i'll bet, to half-believe them anyway. i was just saying that i can't look at these types of things except as symptoms of un-articulated desperation

Absolutely

I think the makers 'n' sharers of these macros fall somewhere on a spectrum between people who get a positive buzz out of them and want to share that (this is not innocent bcz see above, but is not done with bad intentions) and the people who are actual hustlers giving lectures about this stuff/getting thousands of people to sign up to groups using this stuff as bait and then selling the group to an advertising company

there is perhaps no quicker way to convince me that you are a dick than by telling me that everything happens for a reason.

Listen, I'm sorry about your kid. At least the shooter turned the gun on himself, right? Everything happens for a reason. You're welcome.

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