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Hey, it works for the Mechanicus. Now, toll the great bell once: with push of button engage piston and pump.
I love in Steel Tread there's a blood sacrifice ritual for basically restarting the tank engine.
Highly heretical, but it works.
Storm of Steel, i think it was? Where the iron warriors assault the gene seed planet. The guardsman has to chant the Hymn of Firing or whatever its called, but he doesnt know what that is.
So he gets frustrated, starts shouting FIRE YOU DAMN THING! and smashes a button with his fist. And lo and behold, the machine spirit listens.
The imperial infantrymans uplifting primer has all the prayers at the end.
Though that strategy reminds me of Black Bess from Battlefield One; "She likes it when you swear".
We had a C-level executive who wanted our site to be as feature-rich as Amazon because they're the leader in e-commerce.
He wanted us to disregard actual customer requests to insert Amazon's features into our e-comm platform.
Umm, our product is niched down. We will never have "Earth's biggest selection" or whatever. Our store customers don't want anything distracting users from placing items in the cart and checking out.
We also use this term in engineering if people just copy things that may work to some extend without knowing why.
This makes me sad. They were just wanting some stuff to fall from the sky like they had seen. They couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working for them.
Little did they know that the true magic ritual to cause US military supplies to be dropped on the island was to sink the USS Arizona
But that's exactly the same as for any other religion!
Same bs, but since it's routed in culture most people don't realise it.
At least their religion has some basis in reality, even if they got the details wrong.
That's the point, they literally saw gifts coming from heaven and some people riding chariots of fire flying through the skies, that religion is the only real one so far
The gods must be crazy!
True that.
You've just reminded me i've got a lottery ticket to check...
Religion has been compared watching a rabbit run into a tree stump and break its neck… then spending the rest of your life looking at the stump waiting for it to happen again.
It's a great example of the fallacious conclusion that when two things happen one after another, the first must have caused the second."Post hoc ergo propter hoc"
Another could be rain dances.
Son, I am disappoint… that you didn’t link a certain clip from The West Wing where Bartlet explains post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Therefore - [here it is] (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HL_vHDjG5Wk).
Never watched the show. Even wikipedia links to that episode :)
>This article is about the informal fallacy. For the West Wing episode, see Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc (The West Wing). For other uses, see Post hoc.
Man, we didn't deserve a show that good.
Every time I rewatch an episode I'm just stunned at how good it was.
With the rain dance one there is some speculation that the dust being kicked up and thrown in the air during the dances actually could cause an increased chance of rain to fall, under the right conditions.
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I did stumble upon this during my quick Google search: https://ultraphyte.com/2012/01/08/rain-dance-makes-rain/
It says that it's actually microbes, not dust, that is responsible for rain forming. Something I've never heard of before.
That article says that bacteria may be the source of nucleation to form rain, absolutely nothing about whether a rain dance and kick ground-born bacteria/particles the needed 6,500 feet (1.2 miles) into the air to interact with rain clouds.
Use your brain
Came here to suggest the same! Christopher Moore is one of my faves.
Blessed are the dumbfucks
The craziest one has to be the Prince Philip Movement, where they believed that Prince Philip was divine.
Its to do with them seeing the amount of respect that was shown to Queen Elizabeth II, so therefore her husband must be even more powerful so they deified him.
Happy John Frum Day. May your cargo be plentiful!
Here's some photos of the religion of John Frum (plus a relevant book excerpt).
THE CONCH HAS SPOKEN
There is a cult to prince Philip as well
For those downvoting, it's true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_movement
When he died apparently the diety-ship transferred to Charles
Have you seen the documentary where they visited Prince Phillip at Buckingham Palace? Fascinating stuff.
no but i had read about the visits.
Sounds like after the mourning period of the Queen they are moving on to Charles.
This has to be my favorite obscure fact! They would go all out too, they’d make fully decked out mock runways, complete with mock airplanes out of straw, a landing strip, and even mock air traffic control towers with torches mimicking the lights. They would build them as high up as they reasonably could. They would also ritually perform drill instructions with wooden mock guns! If I remember correctly the whole religion started from the abrupt arrival of U.S troops, who shared some of their canned food with the locals, they viewed it as literal mana from heaven!! The craziest thing is that this was going on in the 70’s (and I believe to a lesser extent still to this day!)
This is such an obscure, bizarre, and captivating topic, I’d highly recommend watching a YouTube video on the subject!
Video on cargo cults:
A great example of why they follow the Prime Directive in Star Trek
That was a fun rabbit hole to go down
Check out the book dream island. Talks about them, and is a fun story.
Never underestimate the power of free Spam
For anyone that wants to see a more modern and relatable example, remember r/wallstreetbets after GME spiked?
It wasn't even general interest in stock trading, just GME that was the magic ticket. All that had to happen was the scenario be recreated. Then somehow AME theatres became the magic ticket.
Now I dont know what water ritual is popular these days, but nowadays they sacrifice money instead of blood.
hodl hodl hodl
(Saying that in the mirror 3 times, takes you to the moon)
This is all you need to know about religion.
Say what you will about cargo cults, but what's the last thing you got from Abrahamic god?
A happy marriage?
Giving sky man credit for what you did yourself.
Sky man provides rules, boundaries and guidance.
I’ve don’t know if you met humans. But we’re pretty awful without outside forces.
No more ridiculous than any other religion. At least the cargo drops were real... compared to Jesus coming back lol.
I learned about cargo cults from An old time pulp fiction book, and is crazy in how under rated it is.
Dream Park.
Check it out.
"old time pulp fiction book"? Cheers, I read that when it was published! And I only just read the last in the series - 'The Moon Maze Game'.
Oh, I don’t think I knew about that one.
No, I only found out about it a couple of weeks ago despite it being published in 2011.
You really should read Island of the Sequined Love Nun. No seriously. Go now.
Was going to say the same. It was my introduction to Christopher Moore 25 years ago and have read everything of his since. It’s hilarious
I know that others in the thread have said the same, but it bears repeating. Every time I read some post about Cargo Cults, I answer the same way lol.
There is a fun side quest in Borderlands regarding this
GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! GUNS!
Must pray to metal bird.
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One guy built himself a "refrigerator," and kept opening the door hoping to find beer inside.
Cargo Cult was the theme for Burning Man a few years ago, fun stuff
REALLY fascinating stuff. Humans love to add meaning to the senselessness of life... it's an adorable habit.
Life is a pattern of persisting. Persisting is directly improved by having a more accurate model of one's surroundings. An accurate model of the environment is developed by developing and improving patterns.
It's the reason we're alive today, and why we've developed intelligence.
ugh, don't these islanders know that they're worshiping evil colonialism?
That is one bad Wikipedia article
I wonder if anyone, as a joke, flew a plane over their villages, dropping gift packages.
Adeptus Mechanicus confirmed.
“Bobby, do the airdrop dance, I am sure it will work this time!”
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Here 8n North America, we call this Christmas.
We set up a tree and hope that a magical old man brings us stuff.
The USA is a cargo cult.
Except we actually have cargo.
Except never enough
You saying consumerism is like alcoholism? One drink is too many, two is fine, three isn’t enough?
So, basically capitalism.
Elaborate
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The term is reused in modern management principles and refers to ritualistic actions in companies that are useless but just adhered to 'tradition' or because 'someone says'.