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Sorry it's not actually from Facebook, but there didn't seem to be a better community for it.

I live in a neighborhood with a large elderly population, and we all got one of these in in the mail today. Looks like they're not just satisfied with recruiting people into the conspiracy theory cult from Facebook and YouTube anymore...

I could see a lot of people falling for this, thinking they've been out of the loop from not having the internet.

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[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100M copies... printed

With an endorsement like that, you can't go wrong!

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

But supplies are limited!

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol that’s what I came to say.

“We have so many of these things. PLEASE buy a few.”

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much 100 million copies of a book would cost. At least $100,000,000. But in all reality much more.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's Seventh Day Adventists trying to convert people. The Great Controversy was written by one of the co-founders of the religion.

This kind of thing isn't new. They're not "leaking" off of Facebook. This specific type of conversion literature has been around for a century.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Grew up in that cult. I can't remember what's in that particular book, but the Adventists do love them some Ellen White nonsense.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soon as I saw the lighthouse image I was like "Hmmm... sounds watchtowery."

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's the Jehovah's Witnesses publication. I used to get copies of it when waiting for the bus. There would be a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses passing them out. I'd throw them out later in the day.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

big "I'm just asking questions" energy

[–] aaa999@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

100 million printed but supplies are limited. look. are you sure

[–] Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should claim your free copy and post the highlights here. There will surely be enough crazy in it.

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking about it, but I can only imagine the amount of spam mail I'd get if I did.

[–] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There is a pdf on Google, 603 pages.

[–] toolCHAINZ@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First line reads like a bad movie trailer.

[–] tinyVoltron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Without light...

[–] cxg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got an entire copy in the mail! It was composted.

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Ah, that must be how a free book became a "bestseller."

[–] Boingboing@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Before Facebook they did not congregate online and amplify their own stupidity to previously unknown depths. Madness like this flyer takes me back to a simpler time when the village idiot was exactly this. A singular idiot with a handful of idiot hang arounds.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

As a mod this post is reasonable because I've seen all kinds of stuff like it on Facebook.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Weird. Those bullet points apply to the republicans lol

[–] SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No website or phone number?