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> No one forces this phone on them If by "them" you mean religious community as a whole, this statement is true. If by "them" you mean actual users, this stat
by helge9210 5y ago
> No one forces this phone on them
If by "them" you mean religious community as a whole, this statement is true.
If by "them" you mean actual users, this statement is a lie
This kind of devices are forced on users by community leaders as a method of limiting access to independent information.
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- lozenge 5y agoIf the (admittedly dramatised) TV shows are to be believed, half of them also have non-kosher phones on the sly. Religion is part pretence. (edit: word)
- TheFreim 5y ago> Religion is part performance Yeah...? Religious people want to build a society which fit there view of how things should be, of course they "perform" actions which reinforce it. Literally everybody, every single person, does this.
- neartheplain 5y ago"Shtisel", my favorite show of this genre, just released its third season on Netflix. Seems like every ultra-Orthodox character in the show had a flip phone. I didn't get the impression that the phones were prohibited, though. Either way, great show that I highly recommend.
- lornaGal 5y agoIndeed, forced through indoctrination at young age. Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Give us a child till he’s 7 and we’ll have him for life. -- St. Ignatius / Jesuit saying. He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. - ...