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The Hazards of Belief

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    #2222
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Anyone who believes they can "cure cancer" clearly doesn't know what cancer is.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #2223
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,449 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Burly Mr Bentley, 36, said in one YouTube clip: ‘And I’m thinking why is the power of God not moving? And He said, “Because you haven’t kicked that woman in the face.” ‘And there is this older lady worshipping right in front of the platform and the Holy Spirit spoke to me. The gift of faith comes on me. He said, “Kick her in the face with your biker boot.” I inched closer and I went bam! And just as my boot made contact with her nose, she fell under the power of God.’

    F*ck me that's one of the funniest f*cking things I've ever read.... :D


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    #2224
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    robindch wrote: »
    From the drawer marked WTF?! comes this one about a tattooed preacher who 'cures' cancer by kicking people in the face.

    Ah now. **** you, seriously.


    I just spat hot tea out my nose and onto my screen.:(


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    #2225
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    The pope canonised facekicker. It's the only possible explanation.


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    #2226
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    You mean there was no need for me to have all that chemo induced vomiting and boob burning radiotherapy???? All I needed was a kick in the face by someone wearing biker boots?

    Barstard so called medical experts with their fancy loafers and kick backs from someone or other are hiding the truth from us all. All that is needed is a pair of biker boots and faith...!!! I already have the bloody biker boots like!!!


    I am so pissed off about this that I could win a round against Katie Taylor!!! :mad::mad::mad:


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    #2227
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    Is that treatment covered by your medical insurance?


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    #2228
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Underground Muslims.....
    Four members of a Muslim sect in the Russian region of Tatarstan have been charged with cruelty against children for allegedly keeping them underground.

    The sect's elderly leader, Faizrakhman Sattarov, who had declared himself a Muslim prophet, was charged with the crime of "arbitrariness".

    Police found 27 children and 38 adults living in catacomb-like cells, dug on
    eight levels under his home.
    According to the Russian website Islam News, Mr Sattarov, 83, declared himself an Islamic prophet in the mid-1960s after interpreting sparks from a trolleybus cable as a divine light from God.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19180554


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    #2229
    Hotblack Desiato
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    declared himself an Islamic prophet in the mid-1960s after interpreting sparks from a trolleybus cable as a divine light from God.

    As nutty religious signs go, that's really reaching...

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #2230
    muppeteer
    Registered Users Posts: 445 ✭✭muppeteer


    ninja900 wrote: »
    As nutty religious signs go, that's really reaching...
    Yes but voices in your head telling you to kick old ladies in the face is totally legit in comparison:). I wish those who hear voices from gods could for a moment see how stupid/deranged they look to the outside world.


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    #2231
    growler
    Registered Users Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭growler


    Nodin wrote: »
    The sect's elderly leader, Faizrakhman Sattarov, who had declared himself a Muslim prophet, was charged with the crime of "arbitrariness"

    Wondering what the punishment for "arbitrariness" is and how this made it into law, particularly in Russia ?


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    #2232
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    growler wrote: »
    Wondering what the punishment for "arbitrariness" is and how this made it into law, particularly in Russia ?

    "In some countries, a prohibition of arbitrariness is enshrined into the constitution. Article 9 of the Swiss Federal Constitution theoretically overrides even democratic decisions in prohibiting arbitrary government action.[5] The US Supreme Court has overturned laws for having "no rational basis." A recent study of the U.S. asylum system suggests that arbitrariness in decision-making might be the cause of large disparities in outcomes between different adjudicators, a phenomenon described as refugee roulette"
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrariness

    "Acting irrationaly" perhaps?


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    #2233
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    ninja900 wrote: »
    As nutty religious signs go, that's really reaching...

    it's the new and modern age version of a burning bush


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    #2234
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    bluewolf wrote: »
    it's the new and modern age version of a burning bush

    "It's a sign! A sign!"

    "No, mate. It's the 23a to Brunswick."


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    #2235
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    growler wrote: »
    Wondering what the punishment for "arbitrariness" is
    I hear its pretty arbitrary...

    :pac:


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    #2236
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Quatermain wrote: »
    http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars

    *Cries loudly.*

    Just spotted this now:
    "They have found large chambers in certain dinosaur skulls…The large skull chambers could have contained special chemical-producing glands. When the animal forced the chemicals out of its mouth or nose, these substances may have combined and produced fire and smoke."

    OR, now this might be crazy.... but perhaps the chambers is where the dinosaur's brains were kept...

    Also, notice how point 8 says fetuses were treated like slaves, but point 5 says slaves were treated well. Problem?


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    #2237
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Also, notice how point 8 says fetuses were treated like slaves, but point 5 says slaves were treated well. Problem?

    Back in my day, lazy was the fetus that couldn't turn out a perfect Chanel wallet!


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    #2238
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Quatermain wrote: »
    Back in my day, lazy was the fetus that couldn't turn out a perfect Chanel wallet!

    Now if they can't make 3 ipads an hour...well, you can guess the rest....


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    #2239
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,523 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It used to be only dem forrin' religions* dat were crazy. Now even Christianity has gone nuts....





    * because Catholicism is IRISH!!!11!!

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #2240
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    ninja900 wrote: »
    As nutty religious signs go, that's really reaching...

    To be fair, when you compare it to a "burning bush" it's considerably more sophisticated.

    just saying :)


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    #2241
    postitnote
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭postitnote


    He needs a good kick in the face.

    In fact maybe we should start up our own Face Kicking Ministry. Do you have to ask people first or is "getting a sign from god" enough? (Looks for trolleybus...)


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    #2242
    Northclare
    Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Northclare


    That burning bush could have been a cotinus behind a cotoneaster with some other flowering shrubs giving a flamboyant display,with some messer speaking the word.


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    #2243
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Well y'know, bush fires aren't exactly uncommon in arid landscapes. Neither are hallucinations brought on by dehydration.


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    #2244
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    Given that the Oracle at Delphi gave her predictions sitting on a tripod stool with smoke billowing from beneath her skirt, the idea of speaking to a burning bush is a pretty common one...


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    #2245
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Quatermain wrote: »
    Given that the Oracle at Delphi gave her predictions sitting on a tripod stool with smoke billowing from beneath her skirt, the idea of speaking to a burning bush is a pretty common one...

    Burning Bushes seem very common or garden...
    A study prepared by Monash University reveals that 90 Victorians went to hospital last year with waxing injuries, the Herald Sun reports.


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    #2246
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Burning Bushes seem very common or garden...

    "But this is Horace Mapplethorn's Patent Loin Linament!"

    "Genuine snake oil, is all! Now hush while we lock you into this nearby asylum!"

    Gotta love the Victorians. Particularly their genuine believe that blowing tobacco smoke into the rectum was an effective means of resuscitating the drowned. Utter hilarity.


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    #2247
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    [...] 90 Victorians went to hospital last year with waxing injuries [...]
    What's the opposite of a caption competition? ...when you have the caption and you're looking for a cartoon to go with it?


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    #2248
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Quatermain wrote: »
    Gotta love the Victorians. Particularly their genuine believe that blowing tobacco smoke into the rectum was an effective means of resuscitating the drowned. Utter hilarity.

    It makes you wonder just what kind of mind decided to first try that...
    "I know what we should do!!!"


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    #2249
    Quatermain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 243 ✭✭Quatermain


    Galvasean wrote: »
    It makes you wonder just what kind of mind decided to first try that...
    "I know what we should do!!!"

    Swiftly followed by: "Which concludes the case for the defence, m'lud".

    Also, obligatory awesomeness.

    A Simple Explanation


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    #2250
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Galvasean wrote: »
    It makes you wonder just what kind of mind decided to first try that...
    "I know what we should do!!!"

    It does take scientific enquiry to a whole different level


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    #2251
    Northclare
    Closed Accounts Posts: 724 ✭✭✭Northclare


    There's varieties of plants which spontaneously combust in high temperatures due to their oil content


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