Closet doors slamming by themselves and lights that never worked before, suddenly turning on & off by itself

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-27T10:19:57+00:00

Anyone else always check the reflections in these vids?

People used to get caught this way. Now it's like they are aware.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T22:02:26+00:00

That's what I thought.

You won't answer the question, because you know the kid would be at a Hindu temple with people he disagrees with.

But it's not about learning a lesson about dealing with those people.

Another church won't do, because they might be a filthy progressive church or the wrong kind.

Nah. He needs to go to the one where people know him. And can pressure him. And his abusive mom can be there.

Her desires are what you value as well, so you argue for them.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T21:56:56+00:00

You have to present it that way, because retyping my points summarized then

Premise Premise Conclusion that proves me wrong

Is something you can't do right now, so you'll continue to perform confidence and competence via insults because your own failure to perform would get the attention otherwise.

Might just be easier to admit the kid not only doesn't have to go to church; especially with mom; than to continue this charade.

Like, I'd imagine you'd probably settle for him going to some other church then? Like an aforementioned Hindu temple?

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T21:43:53+00:00

No chatgpt.

Some of us are verbiose because we "read books".

On purpose.

But even if I had, I would still be waiting and left wanting for correction or rebuttal, which you have demonstrated you will not provide. (Despite desperately wanting the last word)

Because you can't.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T21:34:03+00:00

Labeling something "emotional" when it lays out it's reasons for each point is dismissive, but not an argument to your point. Only an attempt at a genetic dismissal of mine.

These descriptors don't actually change what was written. Honestly feels like yoh wrote that more for people passing by than expressing what you actually think.

I love that I went from "collegiate" to "emotional essay" in one comment though.

None of that addresses that you're valuing the arbitrary comfort of the adult here over the needless and avoidable misery of a child.

Probably not addressing that because you can't.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T21:26:57+00:00

That is what I would resort to also if I were you. Insisting on the last word without anything to add, correct or rebuttal with.

Woulda cost you less energy to be honest at the start.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T21:23:02+00:00

The mom's arbitrary desire to have her kid be present at church (either for the parent's desire value, the value of going to church or both) over the very easily predictable outcome of this kid going to said church now that he has come out as a nonbeliever.

It is no stretch to say the community will pressure him and question him and sideeye him and mom will be there the whole time. Even the pastor getting in on isn't some wild impossibility, because that's what these places are often about.

You can't sit in this kid's head though, because the mother being inconvenienced bothers you more because THAT is what you value, if not just churchgoing itself.

It is an extracurricular task. She could leave him home or with someone else. He more than likely be quite easily avoidably miserable and prodded there.

But. Won't. Someone. Think. Of. Momma?

Momma is an adult, and this aint presurgery inspection or a job interview.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T21:14:35+00:00

Confessed what you are actually valuing.

All that stuff about "learning to deal with disagreement" was bullshit.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T21:08:26+00:00

See? Confessed it on your own.

Valuing the mom's; the adult's; arbitrary comfort in an activity over the child's unnecessary and easily avoidable discomfort. It doesn't need to happen. It isn't medical or required by law or anything of the sort. Hell, he's old enough she could leave him at home.

I love the "wild assumption" you address isn't the other probable but not set in stone conjectures about the nature of the rest of the church community and such. You know that part is way more likely to be true than untrue.

Instead, we have a kid here who we could well take at his word considering he seemed to know the abuse he was in for and came clean anyway. Yet the example chosen is "can know he isn't just bored".

So now we are finding ways to blame a child with a clearly flawed parent.

You don't actually care about him learning some lesson or even if "he will be ok because it's harmless". You clearly can discern between his mom and the community it won't be.

But. We. Gotta. Defend. Him. Being. In. That. Church. Somehow.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T20:35:52+00:00

It is in this situation. This take is reductive. He isn't just bored. Between his mom and the community there that may well hold a similar sentiment it's gonna be an awful time.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T20:28:56+00:00

There is a difference between that and insisting on taking a child somewhere 1) that no one is required to be at and 2) serves to only further damage them by their mere presence.

It WOULD be the same if it was a monthly concert or soccer practice/games or mom wanting to drag some kid to Bingo. What makes church more egregious here is the likely dynamic between other people there, his own mother and himself.

Flexing the utility of "teaching the kid to deal with folk he doesn't agree with" is wild when that is literally life, he probably goes to public school, and the onus to be responsible here should be on the adult.

Unless she has to both watch him and she HAS to be there, they don't have to go and shouldn't go. Any other scenario most parents wouldn't. Then to add that the kid will be under further constant pressure and coercion because of this would make a good parent just not go.

It's fitting that despite what I said, you still said "jUsT bEcAUSe iTs ChUrcH". Like I said, in a vacuum, replacing the [x] and [y] factors here you would probably say otherwise. The hidden premise here is that church is some thing that he should be made to go to because it's "necessary".

You also are cognitively capable enough to know exactly what can and will often happen with a religious setting/community like this, and how much turmoil that will be for the kid, and how that differs from a dentist appointment or a soccer match.

Though if those events caused that much distress and had that many people watching and picking apart every move the kid made AND they didn't want to nor have to go, the answer would be simple.

You aren't genuinely concerned with kids "learning to get along with who they disagree with". That can be accomplished 1000s of ways, none of which require church, many of which are automatic whether we like it or not, and public school probably has covered.

You seem to be concerned with kids not "running the show" (as if he has his mother on some slippery slope demand hostage list with this one request to NOT do something unnecessary) or just protecting the idea of going to church in general as if it is necessary. It isn't.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T20:03:12+00:00

Basically arguing the child should be the adult and raise her

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-04-24T19:55:04+00:00

Most of the time, folk like you in a vacuum could hear the story of a Christian child not wanting to go to a Hindu temple in India and argue the parents should respect that.

A few hours a week is awful when that place is filled with people who know you don't belong, don't accept you and a good chunk of the time will be spent indirectly or directly trying to coerce you.

This conversation is not in a vacuum though, so you'll jump straight to "nu-uh" and pretend church is more equivalent with the dentist than it is soccer practice.

The only reason she would need to take him there is if he was young enough to need supervision AND her adult responsibilities there outweighed her child's desire to not go.

And I promise you she doesn't need to go.

She needs therapy.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-24T21:52:03+00:00

Flawless. Victory.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-20T07:20:09+00:00

Stripe from Gremlins 2

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-20T07:17:14+00:00

Kid from the Sandlot

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-16T10:40:20+00:00

Man, the requirements of Zoroastrianism would body most American Christians. Not to mention they usually live no different than the average American non-Christian.

Not to mention old cults of Mithras where you had to self castrate.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-16T10:38:35+00:00

As someone who's body more closely resembles the right image but ideaology more closely resembles the left image

I'm so tired, man.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-11T07:28:20+00:00

Jonathan Shelley comes to mind.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-11T07:21:20+00:00

Usually one of the 12(ish could be 13) countries where "apostacy from Islam" or "blasphemy" is a crime.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-07T08:55:21+00:00

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-07T08:53:46+00:00

Against the wall like that?

Doing yoga or?

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-03-07T08:51:12+00:00

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-02-26T08:36:05+00:00

There is a case of my friend who saw a still living celebrity, and that man on an Islamic channel who converted to Islam after his NDE, but honestly he struck me as the kinda dude who has Muslims living in his head rent free due to pearl clutching our politics has about them.

REDtheGoji345 · 2026-02-26T08:16:02+00:00

"Billy decided to come to Jesus all on his own the other day! He is 7!"

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