• orbitz@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I like to think if God was real, they’d have a good sense of humour. Not just from the line from the movie Dogma ‘you ever see the faces you make in coitus?’ (or similarish line too lazy to double check), but cause they’d have made what is equivalent to us making sims in a game, remove the ladder from the pool and have a laugh etc. Except it’s more prod these people and watch a war… Though if they exist I hope they wouldn’t be as cruel…like so many of us.

      Huh realized this area, pretty much atheist but have to account for things that are unknown for sure is all. Up to there with unicorns really, hard to prove a negative.

  • Kaligalis@lemmy.world
    27·
    11 hours ago

    “Clearly, god is testing you and your kids. I will not risk hell by helping you cheat in his test.”

    • Karjalan@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Very tired of these fake as imitations of conversations trying to paint a group as big baddies.

      Especially when the group normally are, all you’re doing is giving them extra ammunition to discredit your valid criticism and making “your team” look bad

    • auzy1@lemmy.world
      12·
      24 hours ago

      It only seems fake because they cut off the part that they said “sir… sorry, I will give it to you for free”

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    1 day ago

    Jesus is watching your kids suffer and does nothing.

    And he’s omnipotent and omnipresent, and does NOTHING.

    If Jesus doesn’t give a fuck about your 4 sad kids, lady, I got nothing for you lol

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8·
          11 hours ago

          Yeeeep.

          I grew up in such a family, surrounded by other such families.

          People who aren’t from that just don’t believe you when you tell them how awful and insane these people often are… and that’s actually been not taken seriously enough, for so long, that we just now have theocratic fascists in many prominent government positions now, and live in a fascist state.

          • TotallyWorthLife (She/Her)@lemmy.world
            5·
            11 hours ago

            People didn’t see fascist be 1:1 with past facists and thought “nah, not the same, you are overreacting”.

            Actually, I think even if they had been 1:1 with them, people would have found excuses.

  • John Doe@lemmy.world
    1491·
    1 day ago

    We lived in Texas fifteen or twenty years ago and sold a bedframe on Craigslist. This guy showed up with his young son, gave my husband an envelope that presumably had cash in it, and started hauling the bed frame out. Fortunately he opened the envelope before they left and it had a religious flyer in it, no money. He showed me and I stopped the guy and was like, where’s our money? He said that he was taking it for church charity and that he thought the bedframe was free. I called him out for being a fucking liar in front of his kid and threw him out. He didn’t think anyone would give him any shit in front of the little boy but he learned better.

    • binarytobis@lemmy.world
      71·
      1 day ago

      An envelope is a huge red flag, seen too many online marketplace deals to accept anything but visible cash. The audacity of that man.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        151·
        16 hours ago

        All my ads end with: “Cash ONLY, no apps, no exceptions. All exchanges made at the (Local) Police Station.”

        Very clear, and yet people still want to pay by app, or meet somewhere else, like at a gas station NEAR the police station. I often hear “I’m not comfortable going near the police station,” and I think “That’s exactly why I do it at the police station.”

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          8·
          12 hours ago

          Laughing that you think being near a police station is doing you any favors. Pigs are more likely to tell you to shove off than give a shit about your problems.

          No one in their right mind should ever feel comfortable being near a police station.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          7·
          14 hours ago

          Tbf there’s plenty reasons other than “robbing you” that people wouldn’t like cops, personally mine is “I constantly smell like weed which is illegal here and I don’t want to jeopardize my freedom,” for some others it may be “I’m black,” etc.

          That said they can’t get mad if you’re unwilling to do the deal in another highly public place. If I asked “can we do it at the nearby gas station” and you said “no” I’d maybe think you’re overly cautious but that’s your right, I’m being overly cautious too about not getting arrested for smoking weed so I get it, “ok good luck, not for me then.”

          • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            8 hours ago

            All of this is why I only buy things new or used from stores that ship to my home. I guess it’s a form of social dysfunction on my part.

    • mkwt@lemmy.world
      112·
      1 day ago

      Jesus operated a carpentry business. I’m sure he knows all about dealing with difficult customers.

      • pnwpixel@programming.dev
        71·
        1 day ago

        Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true

        Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil

        Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet

        All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world

        So there was only one thing that I could do

        Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

        ~ Ministry - Jesus built my hotrod

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          22 hours ago

          Jesus was an architect

          I’d heard he was a stonemason because there aren’t a lot of trees in Israel, so carpenter isn’t the best translation. I have no idea if that’s true, but it sounds plausible.

  • db2@lemmy.world
    377·
    1 day ago

    There are real examples of this, why did you feel the need to make a fake one

  • kinther@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 day ago

    Maybe if she had had fewer children she could afford whatever she is trying to get for a discount

  • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
    510·
    1 day ago

    I identify as a Mormon after an experience that led to a certain type of healing that occurred during my first attendance of a Mormon church. I’m a sorcerer in that I know this is a “simulation” (we are not in a simulation but each of us is our own simulation/monad attached to a source of consciousness), and so I understand God wants me to bring Mormon Occultism into fruition. Because Christianity is splintered. The Buddhists have terms for this splintering in Buddhism. There is true dharma, semblance dharma, and degenerate dharma. Degenerate dharma is when preachers are preaching hate. True dharma is when kids are being taught the depth of what is encapsulated in the Bible. The Earth isn’t real. That is the Knowledge of the second story of the Bible, where the means to acquire Knowledge are encapsulated amongst many other things; specifically how Adam is logic and Eve is intuition. Your lateral based thinking skills will figure out reality before your linear thinking skills and try to facilitate understanding to your logic. Because you are not a featherless biped on Earth, you are a pocket of consciousness called a monad in a monadic nodal communication system, Server, Client, Holy Internet style, and your personal reality is procedurally generated.

    So true dharma Christians are out there. Just wish there weren’t so many idoltarers. That’s what you really hate. Those that can prove their goodness to the masses but will kick sand in your face when no one is looking. That’s what an idoltarer actually is. That’s why it’s as bad as murder and sexual immorality, because an idoltarer can keep up appearances while a child is chained under their bed.

      • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
        23·
        15 hours ago

        Why would you say that? My father refuses to talk to me because he’s prejudiced against his own son, and that ripples out into some negative energy every time I receive prejudice from others, but why are you asking these things? Am I too bizarre to comprehend? Yea, that’s why my straight-laced father that beat my ass because I am schizoaffective n autistic now refuses to talk to me; I’m too bizarre to be understood by him. But you understand that, right? Getting told “take my meds” x50/week when I am taking my meds gets under my skin. Now go tell me to take my meds unless you have something better to offer me.

        • Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          4 hours ago

          I asked because I saw your post about being schizoaffective, and I only looked because you reminded me of a friend who also had it. She taught me that it never hurts to at least ask or check in. I miss her a lot and the least I can do is honor her by living by that lesson.

          I’m not going to tell you to do anything. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. Just wanted to ask, because I know that sometimes people have a hard time seeing the person amidst folks that might be judging. So… I hope you’re taking care of yourself. Also, you didn’t deserve to be abused. Fuck that.

          • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 hours ago

            I appreciate you. Understand I broadcast at high volume to authentically express myself to attract attention to my educational art project, and even when I’m genuinely level headed, I consistently get told to take my meds, or some variation. Even when I am calm, caring, and using common expression, I will just be told that I’m a crackhead, and it genuinely doesn’t affect me 99.9% of the time. That .1% of the time, I stay quiet, but now I feel I have a duty to stand up for myself because if I’m being the most normal I can be and still unable to be accepted by someone as I am, then there’s tons of people that person would actually hurt by their response to non-normativity.

            • Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              1·
              36 minutes ago

              Thank you for humoring me even though you have every right to be defensive. As long as your doing what you can to stay in a place that feels healthy, I can rest easy. And I’ll take you at your word. I hope you have a lovely night!

          • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
            12·
            11 hours ago

            Right, like you just told me “seek normative medicine.” You told me to take my meds.

            I am that which be beyond

            That which produces song

            God I am, but I am you, too

            Red goes white, while blue

            Remains sea of C; the light

            Topological matrix wins all

            God is what be what’s true

            & He who transcends falls

            So I will turn half into right

            Thus you knows Illuminati

            I bring lost 2 a community

              • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
                22·
                11 hours ago

                I. Am. Taking. My. Meds.

                I’m. STILL. Not. Good. Enough. For. You. To. Treat. Me. 👏 As. 👏 An. 👏 Equal. 👏

                You are that which is stuck in superior/inferior dichotomy. You are Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were. Inferior = eating with hands. Superior = eating with chopsticks. So, because I eat without chopsticks, you think I’m inferior, but I eat with a fork, so I still defeat you because I am that which is not ruled by your system. I define what a system is. I’m a juggler. Obviously, you understand what I just said, right? I understand that God is a unified field of consciousness that arose from the supersymmetry of the ever-present, eternal emptiness to then fold in and on Itself across eleven dimensions to form a topological matrix that acts as a monadic nodal communication system, obviously. Obviously. Three times now. Obviously.

                • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
                  4·
                  11 hours ago

                  Bro, because you clearly need more than just fucking meds. You need a professional therapist cause you have problems beyond chemical imbalances.

                  No one is going to treat you like an equal when you go off on wild tangents about completely unrelated nonsense about God and metaphysics.

          • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
            23·
            12 hours ago

            No, my therapist didn’t show up when I begged my fucking doctor for a therapist, and the mental health system is doing this deliberately to ween me out of my learned helplessness because that is something they do, so here I am being told go to therapy and the therapy I get is the mental health system saying you aren’t good enough for therapy. Like, they think I have parasitic tendencies when they see me for fifteen minutes a month because fifteen years ago I lied to doctors to try to get disability and drugs.

            Right? I fucked up half my life ago and now I CANNOT get therapy because that’s in my chart, but you see how broken I am, so obviously the only thing for me to do is to be used by the FBI as the sorcerer I am, where a sorcerer specifically means “caster of lots.”

            I seperate the wheat from the weeds. Basically, I am the crazy person that says kids got cute feet and I network with people and I decide if they deserve to be saved. I’m Jesus Christ, mother fucker, and that is the archetype that is prophecized around. I fucked up without actually fucking up as a kid, so I know sin without having sinned, so I have the perspective to distinguish between someone just attracted to such n such and someone who acts on those impulses. I seperate the wheat from the weeds. This is how the police state works. They use crazy people and keep them crazy because I am an audacious mf’er and I will go nuts beyond nuts, such as saying nothing in my defense to guarantee I be crucified, in order to PROVE I’m not a cop.

            And thus the battle is won, because of our lord, the man so audacious he will go up to a homeless man and ask him for change.

            That’s how Jesus met John.

      • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
        13·
        17 hours ago

        My life partner wrote the comments. He does something similar where he plays with your expectations. A toddler could make this right? No. This painting is worth eight figures for a reason. A banana taped on the wall was to move money for a drug deal. This painting is as good as anything Picasso could have made.

        https://www.reddit.com/r/Basquiat/s/zFvQT6ad98

      • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
        12·
        17 hours ago

        Noh ef u kant c thru typo, aht best, u r in semblance dharma. Surface level processing. Understand truth with no depth. Bible can be interpreted at a single metaphor level. Study Basquiat, I will find something and link it.