from Facebook, my example:

Ignosticism

11/21/2011 8:33:22 PM

Is it hipster to say both your political and religious views are Discworld? Probably just way nerdy, right? /Terry Pratchett

My hipster friend who says he likes to beat hipsters up put sub genius as his religion.

11/21/2011 8:39:27 PM

I hated hipsters before it became mainstream.

11/21/2011 10:13:13 PM

I thought this was some made up shit but its real

Krallum and i approved this message.

11/21/2011 10:23:59 PM

mine says "tide comes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication"

11/21/2011 10:40:26 PM

Mine are black metal / white devil

I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

11/21/2011 10:48:54 PM

I personally hate the title "stay at home mom" under occupation

11/21/2011 10:50:22 PM

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"Mine are black metal / white devil"

Some of these are just comical not actually hipster.

Hipster beliefs are those that the person would mostly abandon at the point that other people understand what they are.

11/21/2011 11:30:49 PM

Obviously I posted mine because I'm a hipster

I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

11/21/2011 11:31:38 PM

Existentialist absurdist

11/21/2011 11:39:23 PM

Williamsburg Hispanic Lutheran church

lolomg

11/21/2011 11:41:55 PM

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"mine says "tide comes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication""

Tides vary considerably in both time and height.

11/22/2011 2:01:21 AM

papa bear disagrees

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/370183/january-06-2011/bill-o-reilly-proves-god-s-existence---neil-degrasse-tyson

11/22/2011 2:41:20 AM

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"Krallum and i approved this message."

Krallum multiple personality disorder exposed?

11/22/2011 2:55:41 AM

11/22/2011 4:41:41 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism


...wishes you a Happy Easter.

Filled with media of the Easter Bunny, shared with disregard for copyright.

4/8/2012 11:43:27 PM

Can you honestly be a hipster and still use facebook?

That shit's mainstream, yo.

4/8/2012 11:55:46 PM

I deleted mine.

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on April 8, 2012 at 11:56 PM. Reason : more importantly, i probably had facebook before any of you fucks]

4/8/2012 11:56:45 PM

having a facebook page is like having an asshole

4/8/2012 11:57:16 PM

nevermind

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on April 9, 2012 at 12:00 AM. Reason : nevermind]

4/8/2012 11:58:00 PM

I have two assholes

4/8/2012 11:58:08 PM

Political views: dont vote

4/9/2012 2:29:49 AM

^dont vote if you aint goin to vote correctly

4/9/2012 7:34:45 AM

calling a concept "hipster" is just anti-intellectualism imo

[Edited on April 9, 2012 at 8:49 AM. Reason : most of the time]

4/9/2012 8:45:20 AM

"I worshipped the Flying Spaghetti Monster before it was al dente" - That's not from Facebook, I just made it up after reading the thread title but not the first post

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"more importantly, i probably had facebook before any of you fucks"

I had Facebook the month NC State students were allowed to get Facebook

[Edited on April 9, 2012 at 9:33 AM. Reason : ]

4/9/2012 9:30:38 AM

^^ the desire to be into something before it's cool doesn't strike me as particularly intelligent.

Reason being that the popularity of something doesn't directly imply its merit. Even if there was a correlation there (there's no causation in the case of theological views, because people paying attention to it won't make it better like Wikipedia), between popularity and merit, it would seem to be irrational to follow something because of its unpopularity. More to the point - preempting the popularity of something really doesn't matter.

So maybe you were into Christianity before the resurrection. Don't matter, Jesus died for the sins of yuppies too.

4/9/2012 9:38:49 AM

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"^^ the desire to be into something before it's cool doesn't strike me as particularly intelligent."

existentialism, absurdism, and ignosticism have all been around for over half a century.

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"preempting the popularity of something really doesn't matter."

yes it does. this is how knowledge spreads. your interpretation of "desire to be into something before it's cool" could just as easily be "desire to interject a thought into to the public sphere"

4/9/2012 9:48:53 AM

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"existentialism, absurdism, and ignosticism have all been around for over half a century. "

So have hipsters.


[Edited on April 9, 2012 at 9:54 AM. Reason : l]

4/9/2012 9:53:48 AM

Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus...hipster scum

4/9/2012 9:56:36 AM

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"yes it does. this is how knowledge spreads. your interpretation of "desire to be into something before it's cool" could just as easily be "desire to interject a thought into to the public sphere""

It would be fine if that were the case, but normally it's more along the lines of "desire to have interests outside the public sphere, then rejecting and abandoning those interests when they become interjected into the public sphere"

People who introduce others to new ideas in a genuine attempt to spread those ideas, rather than to impress others with their byzantine knowledge of the obscure, aren't hipsters.

4/9/2012 9:59:17 AM

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"It would be fine if that were the case, but normally it's more along the lines of "desire to have interests outside the public sphere, then rejecting and abandoning those interests when they become interjected into the public sphere" People who introduce others to new ideas in a genuine attempt to spread those ideas, rather than to impress others with their byzantine knowledge of the obscure, aren't hipsters."

That's cool, but lot of people flat out dismiss abstract ideas as hipster, or pretentious, regardless of how they're presented.

4/9/2012 10:03:37 AM

Judas was a hipster.



shit's too mainstream now

[Edited on April 9, 2012 at 10:05 AM. Reason : ]

4/9/2012 10:03:42 AM

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"existentialism, absurdism, and ignosticism have all been around for over half a century."

It's interesting that atheism has basically been around since forever. So did people just "figure out" that the absence of faith precludes absolute non-belief around 1900? No matter what we debate among ourselves, the fundamental fabric of the universe, as well as the paradox of existence won't change. Thus correctness should have an absolute measuring stick.

But apparently absurdism is happening these days.



It would appear, however, that none of these can hold a candle to the recent-ness of spirituality.



For such a distinct rise, I can't help but wonder if the word is applied in an entirely different way now than it used to be. Interesting that this trend wasn't even around in the 60s.

4/9/2012 10:21:14 AM

Let's just get more clear definitions:
Hipster = gaytard
Political = Criminal
Religious = Bullshit

4/9/2012 10:53:19 AM

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"It's interesting that atheism has basically been around since forever. So did people just "figure out" that the absence of faith precludes absolute non-belief around 1900? No matter what we debate among ourselves, the fundamental fabric of the universe, as well as the paradox of existence won't change. Thus correctness should have an absolute measuring stick."

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here. Are you saying that philosophical endeavors are pointless, because, ultimately, the universe is what it is? I don't even know where start.

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"But apparently absurdism is happening these days."

It's been on a steady rise since its inception. It's not like it was mentioned on Oprah and all of a sudden everyone is buying up copies of The Stranger.

[Edited on April 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM. Reason : although that would be awesome]

4/9/2012 11:22:45 AM

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"I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here. Are you saying that philosophical endeavors are pointless, because, ultimately, the universe is what it is? I don't even know where start."

Aside from actual physical cosmology (which isn't invoked in the arguments for any of the spiritual views), the evidence for religion has basically been the same. So what is it we've been advancing? Why was atheism not self-obvious to Aristotle?

But aside from that, religious views really aren't views, they're just identity, and someone using a title to evidence themselves as different and misunderstood is the same as being Christian because you grew up in a Christian church, in that it's identity.

In the end, we're just accidental scum on a blue marble floating in space.

4/9/2012 1:10:25 PM

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"Aside from actual physical cosmology (which isn't invoked in the arguments for any of the spiritual views), the evidence for religion has basically been the same. So what is it we've been advancing?"

We were talking about absurdism, existentialism, and ignosticism, none of which are inherently atheistic. Not sure why you made the jump to atheism.

To answer your question, though, we've advanced the argument against religion.

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"Why was atheism not self-obvious to Aristotle?"

The same reason why any school of thought was not self-evident. It hadn't been seriously thought about or defined.

4/9/2012 1:33:04 PM