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This. Just because someone disagrees and doesn't think Apple products are horrible, that Apple is evil, that Apple is doomed, etc doesn't mean we need to be saved or insulted. We have a different opinion. Thats all.
It's like the (normally) racist DA supporter that insult anyone that votes for the ANC. They are automatically sheep, uneducated etc. (Note that this is DA supporters, not DA members). Not just people with a dissenting opinion
falcon786
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Mac fan?Its showing. I mean you laughed at something that missed its own punch line.Those people he used in his analogy are spreading something specific aka Christianity while here I'm not spreading anything specific.I'm not pro android,ios,windows.bb or anything when its comes to tech I'm as neutral as possible.
falcon786
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I haven't seen a single poster here saying Apple products are horrible,is that what you read when someone has something even slightly negative to say about Apple products.
Like me and bevonk feel ios needs a refresh,did you read that as us saying Apple products are horrible?
Maybe thats why you're so defensive.Nobody said Apple is horrible.
Crowley
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Some cult characteristics
1) The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment. - Steve Jobs anyone?
2) The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members. - Suggest iPhone 5 as a new phone
3) The group is preoccupied with making money. - Apple
4) Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished. - BeVonk! questioning Apple
5)Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s). - iTunes
6) The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission from leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so forth). - iOS
7) The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the leader is considered the Messiah or an avatar; the group and/or the leader has a special mission to save humanity). - Too easy
8) The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society. - Lots of examples on the forums
9)The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream denominations). - Jobs again
10) The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining the group (for example: collecting money for bogus charities). - Getting locked in to Apples's walled garden of delights
11) Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members. - Cult of mac forums
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Obama uses a blackberry,you must really really respect BB enough to use it then because I mean its the best if Obama uses it.
That was sarcasm btw,but you get my point.
Mike Lazaridis from RIM??? Of course I respect him. He is one of the titans of the tech industry!!!
I haven't seen a single poster here saying Apple products are horrible,is that what you read when someone has something even slightly negative to say about Apple products.
Like me and bevonk feel ios needs a refresh,did you read that as us saying Apple products are horrible?
Maybe thats why you're so defensive.Nobody said Apple is horrible.
Nope. If somebody defends an Apple position (Closed eco system, iOS not changing, suing Samsung, etc) then we are iSheep according to the ad-hominem atacking trolls that prowl every Apple related thread
cerebus
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You're not pro punctuation for that matter.
Steve Jobs has been dead for a while now.
falcon786
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And yet he is the one that lead to Rim falling behind by not innovating enough and today they are on the brink.SEE EVEN HE ISN'T BEYOND CRITICISM AND NEITHER IS THE CREATOR OF THAT BLOG.Settled then.
Still calling people trolls while crying ad-hominem, ad-hominem.Besides the fact that its ironic theres also the part where nobody is listening anymore because your crying is becoming annoying.Keep what little respect you have left and stop already.
Trying to post while running a company can be pretty hit and miss,sorry about that...but in any event my bb need not be overly formal if you did not understand something I posted I'll be glad to repeat it for you.
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Crowley
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Only in reality.
cerebus
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Well you descended to idiotic shouting pretty quickly. Composure, son.
sand_man
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Amazing the adulation as well as notoriety he acquired while alive. Equally amazing the large number of folk out there who continue to obsess over him despite him being deceased for almost a year and a half!!
Anyway we now have the cult of iFatmamA - I foam at the mouth at mention of Apple.
falcon786
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Meant to bold that lol typo.
cerebus
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And amazingly it has all the trademark characteristics of a bona fide cult.
And yet he is the one that lead to Rim falling behind by not innovating enough and today they are on the brink.SEE EVEN HE ISN'T BEYOND CRITICISM AND NEITHER IS THE CREATOR OF THAT BLOG.Settled then.
Still calling people trolls while crying ad-hominem, ad-hominem.Besides the fact that its ironic theres also the part where nobody is listening anymore because your crying is becoming annoying.Keep what little respect you have left and stop already.
Trying to post while running a company can be pretty hit and miss,sorry about that...but in any event my bb need not be overly formal if you did not understand something I posted I'll be glad to repeat it for you.
No one is beyond criticism. Stop pretending that I said that.
But because of their achievements, their opinions and thoughts are highly valued, and criticism should be reasoned and rational. Calling them "stupid" and "iSheep" without addressing the argument, makes you look like a 5 year old saying "you're a stupid head"
falcon786
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Well he acted like an isheep what more is there to address?I cant go into detail of every single thing that points out an isheep in time you just know them as they type.If you like the cool aid then carry on dude.
But don't expect me to drink that same cool aid from that dude.
cerebus
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Point of fact is, I've rarely seen you address actual points made.
falcon786
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like?
If you feel I've been skirting around some point then please do point it out to me,I normally either agree or disagree.
sand_man
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I find it quite ironic and a little hypocritical that the very forumites accusing the Apple users of exhibiting cult like behavior are the very same forumites that are the 1st to have their say in just about every Apple thread on this site.
BeVonk, Crowley and falcon786 your obsession with all things Apple supersedes, by the power of 10, anything I've seen from the supposed Apple fanboys on this forum.
In fact I'm so convinced of your obsessions that I guarantee you not only will all 3 of you not be able to resist commenting on my post but I would also like to challenge the 3 of you, as part of your healing process, to abstain from posting anything in any Apple related thread, on this forum, for the next 2 weeks (baby steps).
I don't want a retort or excuses or vindication of why you still are or want to post, just cold turkey, abstention, silence on all matters Apple.
That and that alone will prove to me that you are not as obsessed, if not more so, than any other Apple fanboy currently commenting on this forum.
BeVonk, Crowley and falcon786 your obsession with all things Apple supersedes, by the power of 10, anything I've seen from the supposed Apple fanboys on this forum.
In fact I'm so convinced of your obsessions that I guarantee you not only will all 3 of you not be able to resist commenting on my post but I would also like to challenge the 3 of you, as part of your healing process, to abstain from posting anything in any Apple related thread, on this forum, for the next 2 weeks (baby steps).
I don't want a retort or excuses or vindication of why you still are or want to post, just cold turkey, abstention, silence on all matters Apple.
That and that alone will prove to me that you are not as obsessed, if not more so, than any other Apple fanboy currently commenting on this forum.