• A Phlaming Phoenix@lemm.ee
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        The ICD-11 definition for delusion clearly defines religion, but then commits special pleading to excuse religious belief.

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      mental health treatment in america is to grab a gun, wave it at people then drown in your addiction of choice. This woman chose “religious conspiracy bullshit”

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    Georgia woman. It was a Georgia woman that crossed into Florida. WTH is up with that headline?

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    It’s so weird that they freaked out this much over just this Eclipse. There was an eclipse last year and I didn’t hear a peep from these people.

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    If you go on YouTube and look up videos of the eclipse yesterday, you’ll see a ton of videos about why the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world. Just pure and total insanity or people taking advantage of that insanity. You might be surprised but you probably won’t be because you know in your heart that we’re just that far gone now.

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      Yeah I was going to say this is what overpopulation looks like. Then I remembered the witch trials in the 1600s and thought there’s plenty more crazy shit people have done. There’s more people now and arguably less crazy shit. Stuff like this is always going to happen though, human condition. Still horrible, we’ve got lots of work to do as a species.

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      the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world

      I mean, we gotta mark the Beginning of the End somewhere, right? Might as well be during an eclipse.

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    In 1976, Larry Cohen made a film called “God Told Me To,” where random people commit murders in the name of God. The movie explains it as (spoiler alert) the influence of aliens, but apparently such a thing doesn’t actually need science fiction explanations.

    Edit: Also, we live in what was the path of totality in Indiana and watched the eclipse in a park. When we came home, my daughter saw a bunch of people in a church parking lot doing some post-eclipse bowing down in prayer (I missed it) and she thought it was hilarious.

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      It was the chemtrails. I have photographic proof of Chemtrails visibly crossing the eclipse. I know Joe Biden scheduled the eclipse so we all look up at the right time to be exposed to the mind control chemicals

      … is this really easier for some people to believe, than mental illness?

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        I had to explain to someone that the glasses are needed because you never stare at the sun no matter how dim it may seem. I’m not sure what they originally thought the glasses were for but I get the idea they thought the eclipse was giving of weird energy or powers…

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    There’s never people who God tells them to go cook really good food for the poor. Or maybe we just don’t hear about them because that’s not really news worthy.

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    “Troopers stopped the woman after she drove for about 16 miles (26 kilometers) and found her with an AR-15 rifle and 9mm handgun.”

    What was she thinking? You need two hands to shoot an AR-15…