jsteele wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s the only place you can go where the institution wants you to be a better person.
Maybe if you are cynical, you may believe that the Church is trying to control you or take your money, but there are many instances where that is not true. However, for everything else in modern life, it absolutely is overtly true. DCUM doesn’t care about you or want you to have a better life. Jeff created and maintains this website because he wants the ad revenue. Same with the music you listen to, the restaurants you go to, the movies you watch, Instagram, Tiktok, etc. They aren’t trying to make you better or make your life better. They don’t even pretend to care about your happiness or your family. With the exception of public school (maybe), every other major institution openly wants to control you and/or take your money. At the very least, the church puts on a veneer of wanting you to be happy and lead a better life.
I am not sure why you dragged me into this discussion but DCUM was created as a mailing list that never ran a single advertisement during its entire existence. We started and operated it because we it was fun and we benefitted from the advice provided on the list. The website was started when the mailing list became too big for managing the traffic and for the first years it didn't have advertisements either. But running a website like this takes money and advertisements were the easiest way to get revenue. There are a lot of things I could do that would earn more money if money was my main concern.
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