So today I drove five hours to see the eclipse, had a tire blow out, didn't see the eclipse because of thick clouds, and got stuck in traffic for hours on the way back. (I'm still not home.) But at least I haven't been shot by maniac, yet.
Any updates? It's been 8 minutes, you're starting to worry me.
RIP ArbitraryValue. Do you guys remember how excited he was about the eclipse there at the end? It's all he could talk about. That's what I'll remember most.
I'll miss him too, the eclipse lovin bastard.
If only we could have done something.
You didn't? I upvoted his last comment.
Upvote and F in the comments. I loved Arbitrary Value as much as I love any other random commenter.
I remember when he blew a maniac in traffic who shot a thick cloud on his back for hours that he didn't get to see because of the eclipse. He never made it home because he was too tired.
God told her to because of the eclipse
When the Creator tells you to do something like that, you want to get it in writing just in case the judge has a different theological take on the matter.
Is it legally admissible if its on some gold plates that only I can read?
After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
--Genesis 22:1-2
Ya, Yahweh is a bit of a dick.
If you liked "Florida Man", you're gonna love "Florida Woman"
We put the Wo in Man!
Thank God we have laws to keep guns out of the hands of obvious crazy people.
There is no mental health treatment in our society.
I have come to believe that blind faith is a socially accepted mental illness.
The ICD-11 definition for delusion clearly defines religion, but then commits special pleading to excuse religious belief.
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"
Georgia woman. It was a Georgia woman that crossed into Florida. WTH is up with that headline?
She knew where she belonged
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.
Maybe because last year they didn't have Marjorie Taylor-Greene tell them that earthquakes and eclipse are a warning from god?
2017 was all "Look at the science! Isn't this cool!"
But then THAT path only brushed the Bible Belt...
I think it's because giant singing and man-eating plants are a real concern.
Not a Florida woman. Georgia woman. Georgia is exporting their crazy to Florida.
this is a lie by Big Florida!
(/s)
If God told her to then it should be legal.
No one can prove God didn't tell her to go on a shooting spree.
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.
This is why I literally groaned when I read another post on lemmy about LLMs using YouTube to learn from...
Ffs do we want these things to be unhinged conspiracy theorist Nazi replicators? I can't think of a worse data set to use than YouTube.... Maybe 4chan, but I don't doubt that's already been scraped.
Organised religion is a cancer of the mind.
Those of us who grew up without it literally can’t imagine scenarios like this, though I’ve heard disturbing things from people who seem otherwise sane that make me understand what drives some to do these things. When you’ve internalised fables of good vs evil and that’s how you define reality, it’s a small step to think you have to commit atrocities to save the innocent. You don’t have to have a very divergent mentality to convince yourself of this.
We will all be better off when the vast majority of people give up these fables and begin to live in the real world.
friend, just reading the headline - this isn't organized religion at work, this is psychosis. she could have said the Care Bears told her to do it - same thing.
Ehh I dunno... I'm as atheist as anyone with an IQ above 60, but I think religion is just a convenient scapegoat for mental illness here. I'm pretty sure someone who shoots strangers on the highway would have done it in a world without religion too, and they would say it's a different mystical force that made them do it. I don't think Christianity actually moved this person to do this.
Take a society with no mental health assistance and then pepper it with tons of religious fervor. It's a recipe for disaster.
I'm in the middle of the first episode of the third season of the podcast Long Shadow. This one is going to be about mass shootings. Looks like they haven't added it to their website yet, but both of the prior seasons were excellent so I expect this to be more of the same.
I mean … if I wasn’t already avoiding that shithole state …
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.
"I fell to my knees in that Aldi parking lot" is a popular meme on instagram currently, due to a sighting of Christians welcoming the end times in an Aldi parking lot.
I wasn't paying attention was some Alex Jones type telling people to do this last week?
Apparently a lot of people on tiktok thought the eclipse was the rapture
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