Apple triggers 'religious' reaction in fans' brains
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(CNN) -- Next time Grandma asks why you're going to the mall on Sunday morning instead of church, tell her you're going to Apple Chapel.
For Apple fans, the brand triggers a reaction in the brain that's not unlike that of religious devotees, according to a BBC documentary series that cites neurological research.
The neuroscientists ran a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test on an Apple fanatic and discovered that images of the technology company's gadgets lit up the same parts of the brain as images of a deity do for religious people, the report says.
The first episode of the documentary shows Apple employees "whipped up into some sort of crazy, evangelical frenzy" at the recent opening of an Apple store in London.
Observers and Apple critics have long accused fans of the tech company of taking their infatuation to an extreme.
People have gone to great lengths to prove their love of Apple with tattoos, bumper stickers and home shrines to outmoded Mac computers. Apple's cult-like following was highlighted in a 2009 documentary called "Macheads."
A blog, aptly titled Cult of Mac, wrote on Thursday about Oakland, California, resident Gary Allen's cross-country pilgrimage to Apple's first store in Virginia to celebrate the retail chain's 10th anniversary this week.
In speeches, Pope Benedict XVI has said technology consumption poses a threat to religion and the Roman Catholic church. The holy leader told a Palm Sunday crowd last month that technology cannot replace God.
However, apparently it may inspire god-like devotion.
Iphone 4 is racist!
It's like Operation Human Shield in South Park, blacks go first n get raped n smashed n clear da way them white folk.
Black Iphone 4 was only given so dat the white man could trash it and use it as toilet paper n then when the white version came out they were all assertive like
"dawg this is one of us"
Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion.
Even Apple knows that it's users are who can't make a difference between buttons xD
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This article shows what kind of scum Apple is.
Another reason never to buy Apple shit...
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson
chiv wrote:
thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.
Pope Benedict uses his Apple iPad 2 for first tweet to launch new Vatican website
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In a new video, Pope Benedict XVI uses his Apple iPad 2 to visit a new Vatican website. To launch the Vatican’s new news portal, news.va, Pope Benedict XVI sent his first tweet, “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.”
“It’s a way to celebrate his 60th ordination anniversary and also to keep up to date with technology,” explains Rome Reports.
The Pope’s iPad 2 includes a short video created by Rome Reports which highlights the story of his priestly vocation and also includes an interview with the Pope’s brother Georg Ratzinger, who is also a priest.
Apple and Christianity. The only two religions that get along.
Catholicism. Pope is catholic. Christians do not believe in the pope and hate him
I wonder how long it'll take for 'redtube' to show up while he searches for things.
For someone like him, i don't think he's been to the internet. oh how his life is going to change. Pope's twitter must be flooded with rohns replies... I sense a new storm brewing.
Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion.
Even Apple knows that it's users are who can't make a difference between buttons xD
Generalization
Lopin18 wrote:
I think you played too much Fallout 3, Pedo Perk acquired.
Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion.
Even Apple knows that it's users are who can't make a difference between buttons xD
Generalization
Isn't generalization the whole point of Apple? Grandmas don't want advanced features on their PCs, so we dumb ALL our PCs down
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GAWD-DAYUM!
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
Some noobcake on this forum once said that he replaced his normal forlder with DLC folder and his game wouldn't launch. When he checked, he saw that the old files were gone and only the DLC files where there. Well, now you can...
Now, when you attempt to move a folder to a location with another folder of the same name, your computer will ask if you’d rather merge the two together, rather than replace one with the other. Files are treated similarly: While you can’t obviously merge a file with another, your computer will ask if you’d like to keep both copies.
GAWD-DAYUM!
but, but ... MICROSOFT STEALS EVERYTHING FROM APPLE!!!
Now, when you attempt to move a folder to a location with another folder of the same name, your computer will ask if you’d rather merge the two together, rather than replace one with the other. Files are treated similarly: While you can’t obviously merge a file with another, your computer will ask if you’d like to keep both copies.
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who can't make a difference between buttons xD
