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[–]AutumnEmber 8 points9 points ago

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That's incredibly disturbing...

[–]Tachyx 2 points3 points ago

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How effective is stereoscopic vision when the eyes are arranged vertically?

[–]plantsaretheorigin 5 points6 points ago

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But look at what the atheists did to this guy.

[–]noisyturtle[S] 6 points7 points ago

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I hear he sucks dick

[–]Da-Focker 8 points9 points ago

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I hear it doesn't matter what he sucks, that he should still have the same marriage rights as any other bakery product.

[–]runujhkj 2 points3 points ago

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But then we'd ALL be able to marry our toasters!!

[–]-Guest 2 points3 points ago

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Can someone explain the picture? I'm not sure if I understand it.. It's a kid who is being forced to believe the bible?

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points ago

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There's a couple messages, both related.

The most obvious one, to me, is that the child is completely unaware that the adults are about to do whatever they do. He trusts his dad, unaware that they're about to modify him to their idea of what he should be.

The second is that their heads are pressed between the pages of books, and their eyeballs aligned vertically instead of horizontally. They are, quite literally, narrow minded, and about to impose that same state onto their child.

[–]Violentlamb 0 points1 point ago

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yep, the others are blinded by it and now they are forcing their ignorance on their child.

[–]noisyturtle[S] 0 points1 point ago

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The title of the picture is Indoctrination if that helps.

[–]80espiay 1 point2 points ago

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inb4coraline

[–]William_Shpieley 2 points3 points ago

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Is there any subtext in it? because to me it seems pretty much straightforward, one-dimensional and obvious, "Oooh, scary-eyed indoctrination"

[–]WeaponsGradeHumanity 1 point2 points ago

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This one gets posted a lot but it's still eloquent as heck.

I have it saved as 'bookends'.

[–]SnoppDoog 0 points1 point ago

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This reminds me of Silent Hill.

[–]Riliusmaximius -1 points0 points ago

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Lol, remind anyone else of headcrabs?