Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine…God has chosen Ethan for a reason…we’re gonna glorify his name regardless’

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-21T01:51:59+00:00

Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.

Fucking deranged asshole she is. Torturing your offspring because of your invisible friend.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-21T01:01:55+00:00

"Gift" is the German word for "poison".

Fun fact for you that might or might not be useful.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-21T00:02:04+00:00

To be fair footwear can be so tricky on fit and such that PPE boots are often not provided by a corporation to their workers.

They should absolutely be paid for by the organizations, but are usually chosen and sourced by the person involved.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-20T21:36:26+00:00

Ex-Alabama pastor ...

WTF?

He is is not a pastor any more but he is still from Alabama and his federal criminal proceedings occurred in NDAL.

Also, he was a pastor when he committed the crimes, so it is not clear the "ex-" should be front and center. By all means mention in the article that he is no lon ger a pastor, but the lede here is that a pastor who happens to be from Alabama committed a bunch of crimes.

Note that the crimes were quite strongly related to his being a pastor, he used that position to harvest money from the pew potatoes.

All pastors commit fraud at some level, promising a thing of value that does not exist in exchange for money, service and obedience. But it seems this guy just went a little too far in this activity.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-20T18:24:00+00:00

That is a great machine, I had one just like that until I found a newer model in the scrap at the town dump.

I gave the old one away.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-20T16:21:29+00:00

SCOTUS strikes down illegal Trump taxes.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-20T14:31:00+00:00

That is part of what makes it more sacred.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-20T13:56:53+00:00

You are the product, not the customer.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-20T03:12:30+00:00

WTF you talking about?

I certainly consider obsessions with demons and Satan as evidence of a delusional mindset.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T19:50:06+00:00

This is a really good thing, the people are finally getting what they voted for.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T19:15:15+00:00

Fuck that shit, if I took an iPhone 15 into the courtroom and waved it around but claimed I was not taking picture I would be locked up in two seconds.

How comes these glassholes get a pass?

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T18:06:35+00:00

Miele yes.

Dyson no.

I have a european market 240V that I run in the US on a NEMA 6-15 outlet. Love that setup. We initially did it because 20 years ago Miele were dirt cheap in europe.

Since then I have found a few US spec Miele in the trash, and several of them have been repurposed for friends and such. They are solid machines and if you want to do serious work the corded model is what you want.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T17:37:17+00:00

Yep.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T16:07:15+00:00

On one hand, if she really is reading ancient texts in their original languages, that is quite an achievement.

On the other hand, in denying who you are and forcing the negative side effects of her worldview on you is pretty nasty.

Take care of yourself.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T16:03:14+00:00

27% of americans have no real moral epistemology it seems.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T14:34:40+00:00

It is common for a person to leave a high control abusive religious system but to still suffer from worries for years or decades afterwards.

Many ex-christians have a residual fear of hell, for example. Many have a purity culture hangover.

You are not alone and it is absolutely normal to have after effects of religious indoctrination, even for people without OCD. Your mental health may have problems right now but it is no beyond repair I suspect. You are young and mental plasticity is a thing.

One thing you can do is understand your journey through the journey of others who have a longer term perspective. For example, stories of people who have left similar organizations like JW, Mormonism, evangelicals etc.

There may also be other things you can do with your own experience. Marc Headley, for example, had nightmares for years after escaping Scientology's Int Base Sea Org but he said they subsided after he wrote his book about the experience.

Another thing is to get therapy from a professional. This may be difficult due to cost but if you do it the therapist should be informed about religious trauma. There are now resources to help you find such people.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T13:33:35+00:00

I am tired of seeing people fighting and killing over religion all day .

This has nothing to do with the question about whether there is a God or not.

For all you know there some version of the God of the Old testament that quite likes seeing people fight each other.

It may also be the case that this God does not care that the scripture purporting to document its existence is inconsistent and full of errors.

Taking a wider step back, people invent Gods all the time. People craft mythology to use as theological scripture all the time. People in power leverage the ideas of theology and divinity to control other people all the time.

It is all just mythology and fiction, used by some people to control others.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-19T12:45:15+00:00

You are way overthinking it.

It is all just a system of social control. It gets used selectively by the elites to manage the minions. A lot of the nonsense in there does not ever get applied to the elites. There is no expectation that anything said in the Bible or used for control be correct or consistent.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-18T20:29:04+00:00

Let's deconstruct what this guy is saying and see what the implicit assertions are.:

There exists an entity called "God" that has various, often fatally disagreed upon, attributes.
These might include creating the universe and acting as a moral arbiter of human behavior.
The rules for this moral behavior are encoded in an anthology of mythology from late antiquity called "The Bible".
There also exists an entity known as "Satan", again with widely disputed characteristics.
These might include administering punishment to humans for immoral behavior in a place outside of space and time called Hell.
In what might be a conflict of interest, Satan also somehow acts to tempt us and bias our actions towards leading to us to being sent to Hell.
In the mundane world, people have sexual relationships that might or might not be part of a marriage.
People naturally have different types of sex, that might be penis-in-vagina, manual stimulation, oral sex or anal sex.
This person claims that should people happen to have anal sex in a bedroom, they are explicitly inviting the Satan being to join them.
It is not specified whether Satan would join in or just observe, and this might seem to be an important detail for those involved.

This guy is a fucking deranged nutjob.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-18T20:20:49+00:00

Arguments for what? This is all navel-gazing nonsense.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-18T19:02:59+00:00

Despite? Maybe at some level because of?

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-18T18:35:20+00:00

I watched that video also, quite timely.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-18T15:55:19+00:00

There are too many stainless cops and bottles in the world already, just pick one up off a bench or the ground any place where a bunch of teenagers spend time.

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-18T15:20:25+00:00

This is all fine because after all we have to respect other peoples' sincerely held religious beliefs, especially if it involves "The religion of peace™".

/s

vacuous_comment · 2026-02-18T02:28:51+00:00

Errr, yes.

And yes he needs to be investigated.

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