Catholic memes

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What do you guys think of a Catholic version of various memes?
 
Crescentinus said:
What do you guys think of a Catholic version of various memes?
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I don’t mind them as long as there’s nothing malicious about it. I am partial to pope cat though:
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zenith15 said:
WHat, exactly, is a meme?
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I think we need to distinguish between “meme” as an academic idea, and “meme” as a popular culture (often internet-based) phenomenon.

Here is a definition of meme, in the academic sense
A meme is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

An internet “meme” refers to something very different
An Internet memes is a piece of content or an idea that’s passed from person to person, changing and evolving along the way. A piece of content that is passed from person to person, but does not evolve or change during the transmission process is considered viral content
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

Internet memes may be based upon a photo or an illustration or video clip which are then doctored by various users to be funny. Be aware, though, that many of them can be offensive.

A popular website which tracks, investigates and chronicles internet memes is

Know Your Meme
knowyourmeme.com/
 
nordskoven said:
FAMOUS CAT LOVERS
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Some interesting quotes from the MSNBC article that’s linked at that site:
Currently one of the hottest selling tourist mementos in the city is a little cardinal hat for cats that goes for $15 in stores such as Barbiconi, which specializes in clergy robes and accessories. Mahony’s cats both have cardinal hats, gifts given to him during his recent trip to Rome.
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Pope Paul VI is said to have once dressed his cat in a feline version of cardinal robes.
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Needs Eastern Catholic versions, especially involving liturgical spoons. 😃
 
A meme is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.
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In that sense there’s no getting away from the Church.
In art, music, cinema, TV the Church provides instantly recognisable symbols, good bad & ugly.
Soul in distress = goes to church, lights candle.
Death on battlefield, Catholic chaplain giving last rites
Religious persecution = burning heretics, Inquisition
Anti-Christian = crucifix in urine, not old rugged cross in urine; Madonna made of elephant dung, not KJV of dung.
 
didymus said:
In that sense there’s no getting away from the Church.
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Western philosophy, and all of its children, are basically a construct of Holy Mother Church.

In that respect, even our detractors are driven by mutated Catholic memes, albeit many of them have mutated into pathogens. 😦
 
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