{"id":9218,"date":"2011-05-08T00:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T04:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2011-05-07T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T13:35:19","slug":"can-you-tell-the-difference-between-apple-fans-and-cult-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/08\/can-you-tell-the-difference-between-apple-fans-and-cult-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you tell the difference between Apple fans and cult members?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing comparison from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/227033\/article.html#tk.nl_tnx_t_topstory\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PC World<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Some tech fanboys and fangirls become so lost in the technology of their choice that it becomes a big part of their identity. Cult members do something similar, only with a spiritual belief system or philisophical concept.<\/p>\n<p>Covering tech for as long as we have (and reading our message boards), we can&#8217;t help but notice that tech fanboys and girls sometimes talk like those people who wear purple capes and Nike tennis shoes, or who drink the grape Kool-Aid and then go to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>To make the point, we&#8217;ve assembled here a group of quotes, some of which are from tech fan boys and fan girls while others are from real cult members. Can you tell the difference? We&#8217;ll give you the answers at the bottom of the page. Good luck (you&#8217;ll need it)!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amusing comparison from PC World: Some tech fanboys and fangirls become so lost in the technology of their choice that it becomes a big part of their identity. Cult members do something similar, only with a spiritual belief system or philisophical concept. Covering tech for as long as we have (and reading our message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,11,15],"tags":[675,160],"class_list":["post-9218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-religion","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2oG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9219,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions\/9219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}