• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    14 hours 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

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    18 hours 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.

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      18 hours 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.

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        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.”

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          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.”

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      20 hours ago

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

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        19 hours 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.world
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          9 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.

  • Impractical_Island@lemmy.world
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    11 hours 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.

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        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.

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        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.

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    12 hours ago

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

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    21 hours ago

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

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    20 hours ago

    No idea what the context of this chat log is even supposed to be.

    I’ll say, doing the “your life choices” line immediately poisons any sympathy I’m supposed to have for OP.

    But that whole thing reads like rage bait.