Stupid hillbillies.


/ wait . . . Congolese Swedes?

When I was married, I had a nephew-in-law whose nickname was 'Demon'. He probably could have benefited from an exorcism...

UsikFark: maxx2112: Stupid hillbillies.


/ wait . . . Congolese Swedes?

I missed that part. If they're from the Congo I'm surprised they didn't outright kill her. People down there take what we would jokingly call evil every seriously. they'll kill you if you hit someone with you car, because you're probably a demon.

AIDS-related dementia

UsikFark: maxx2112: Stupid hillbillies.

/ wait . . . Congolese Swedes?

I missed that part. If they're from the Congo I'm surprised they didn't outright kill her. People down there take what we would jokingly call evil every seriously. they'll kill you if you hit someone with you car, because you're probably a penis-stealing demon.

FTFY

UsikFark: maxx2112: Stupid hillbillies.


/ wait . . . Congolese Swedes?

I missed that part. If they're from the Congo I'm surprised they didn't outright kill her. People down there take what we would jokingly call evil every seriously. they'll kill you if you hit someone with you car, because you're probably a demon.

Too bad we can't convince these people that an IQ in the double digits was a sure sign of demonic possession...

Psycat: Too bad we can't convince these people that an IQ in the double digits was a sure sign of demonic possession...

They're religious, a double digit IQ is almost a prerequisite.

Kali-Yuga: Psycat: Too bad we can't convince these people that an IQ in the double digits was a sure sign of demonic possession...

They're religious, a double digit IQ is almost a prerequisite.

If every religious nut around the world who believed in demonic possession were convinced that stupidity was a sure sign of possession of the grand demon, Stupefactus Maximus, and that the only way to counteract Stupefactus Maximus was to read books by Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World), and Bertrand Russell (Why I Am Not a Christian), it might be the magic bullet that rids the world of religious possession...

Here's her baby photo:

I wasn't going to use this picture, but then a strange feeling swept over me and I just had to do it...

What the Hell...

I've been told that exorcism is in the same field as multiple personality disorder. Treating people as possessed or as MPD reinforces the condition and basically rewards the undesired behavior.

That being said, IANA psychological therapist, so I don't know what the proper response is to such behavior. But I suspect treatment is mostly "treat them as the normal person" and "treat the alt as if it was the normal" until they stopped reaching for the alt.

I've read too much economics and I see a lot of psychological mumbo jumbo torn down to a reward structure. If you treat a condition by paying it more attention and the condition is essentially "attention whore" then you're rewarding the condition in traditional treatments. An economic aspect to human psychology is basically "suck it up" and is a rather rough method that doesn't approach genuine problems.

/I suspect I'm mildly manic-depressive
//But the swings aren't too dramatic

UsikFark: maxx2112: UsikFark: maxx2112: Stupid hillbillies.

/ wait . . . Congolese Swedes?

I missed that part. If they're from the Congo I'm surprised they didn't outright kill her. People down there take what we would jokingly call evil every seriously. they'll kill you if you hit someone with you car, because you're probably a penis-stealing demon.

FTFY

[sleevage.com image 500x663]

Funny, you never hear about the "Demons stole my penis" and "Gerbils tore my anus" editions of Man's Life.



Likes the cut of your jib

I don't want to believe that the African peoples are more succeptible to outside persuasion than anyone else, but the data shows otherwise.

It's not just animists, either. Here's a photo of the aftermath of the self-immolation of the Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, a splinter Catholic group. I was going to post it directly to Fark, but it's pretty sickening...

You've been warned.

Yeah, Africa is a pretty backwards place, which is ironic because apparently they've been around the longest. It's got to the point where they can't blame their problems on whitey any more which leaves the only conclusion that their culture is bad and they should feel bad.

I assumed it was a joke about someone taking a gun into an elementary school or something.

Apos: [profile.ak.fbcdn.net image 160x160]

Damn. The thread was pretty funny until you put up the pic of Emily Rose. Thanks for the nightmares!

The good thing about the Africa bashing posts is you can just read "religious" instead of "African" in your head.

Before reading the article I somehow knew that the couple in question were not actually from Sweden.

If you do not keep up your repayments to your exorcist, your home may be reposessed.

The parents actually applied for government welfare funding to take their daughter to Africa for an exorcism? Awesome stupidity.

UsikFark: maxx2112: UsikFark: maxx2112: Stupid hillbillies.

/ wait . . . Congolese Swedes?

I missed that part. If they're from the Congo I'm surprised they didn't outright kill her. People down there take what we would jokingly call evil every seriously. they'll kill you if you hit someone with you car, because you're probably a penis-stealing demon.

FTFY

[sleevage.com image 500x663]

Funny, you never hear about the "Demons stole my penis" and "Gerbils tore my anus" editions of Man's Life.

how about

Gyrfalcon: but where were they supposed to get better information?

Like Yemen or Pakistan or UAR or Iran or Iraq?
Or...Alabama?

What a witch might look like.

wildcardjack: I've read too much economics and I see a lot of psychological mumbo jumbo torn down to a reward structure. If you treat a condition by paying it more attention and the condition is essentially "attention whore" then you're rewarding the condition in traditional treatments. An economic aspect to human psychology is basically "suck it up" and is a rather rough method that doesn't approach genuine problems.

The problem is in this case backwards, syncretistic (christian and tribal) farking nonsense believing parents, not an unwell child.

/Well not unwell until these farkwits started in on her

Psycat: Kali-Yuga: Psycat: Too bad we can't convince these people that an IQ in the double digits was a sure sign of demonic possession...

They're religious, a double digit IQ is almost a prerequisite.

If every religious nut around the world who believed in demonic possession were convinced that stupidity was a sure sign of possession of the grand demon, Stupefactus Maximus, and that the only way to counteract Stupefactus Maximus was to read books by Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World), and Bertrand Russell (Why I Am Not a Christian), it might be the magic bullet that rids the world of religious possession...

Oh look, another snobby atheist who thinks their better than everyone else because of their beliefs.

Snapper Carr: Likes the cut of your jib

Good . . . it's the only jib I got, baby.

Psycat:

What The FARK?

Well hell. If you don't teach them to force out demons at a young age, when are you going to teach them.

Oh wait. You meant ex-er-cise

Never mind. I need to read the article first, I see

Richard C Stanford: Psycat: Kali-Yuga: Psycat: Too bad we can't convince these people that an IQ in the double digits was a sure sign of demonic possession...

They're religious, a double digit IQ is almost a prerequisite.

If every religious nut around the world who believed in demonic possession were convinced that stupidity was a sure sign of possession of the grand demon, Stupefactus Maximus, and that the only way to counteract Stupefactus Maximus was to read books by Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World), and Bertrand Russell (Why I Am Not a Christian), it might be the magic bullet that rids the world of religious possession...

Oh look, another snobby atheist who thinks their better than everyone else because of their beliefs.

Yup.

Then atheists wonder why people look down on them as arrogant and militant, when they're out trying to regard all people of faith (pretty much anybody but them) as mentally ill.

Yeah, keep farking that chicken, atheists. Telling people they are sick in the head for having religious faith is sure to win you converts to nihilistic atheism. Works about as well as the "you're all going to Hell!" works for various extremist Abrahamic faiths.

Never mind that modern Atheism has many of the trappings of a religion, they just refuse to acknowledge it.

They've got their texts that tell them what to think: The God Delusion et al. (like was cited by Psycat)

They've got charismatic and dogmatic leaders: Richard Dawkins is the most prominent now. Madeline Murray O'Hare was another one. Carl Sagan tried to put a nicer face on things.

They've got rituals: Unbaptism, including unbaptism by proxy (with Bill Maher performing the ritual on behalf of Mitt Romney's father Link).

They've got symbols: A number of them are out there, the "darwin fish" may be the most known on the internet, but there are several other symbols commonly associated with atheism including a letter A with a circle drawn around it. A GIS shows several common symbols.

They've got their dogma and doctrine: There is no God, no supernatural, no afterlife, just a vast meaningless universe of which we are nothing but a random accident to happen, with no purpose in life and no meaning. Also, anybody who disagrees with this and tries to assign any higher meaning to things is mentally ill and should be treated as such.

Yeah, they don't believe in God. It's still a religion. Not all religions have a "God" per-se. Some forms of Buddhism have no deity. Taoism isn't about a deity. They have made a religion out of saying they have no religion.

Atheists railing against dogmatic religions are like that Chappelle Show sketch about the black White Supremacist, they are just as dogmatic and ideological, they just refuse to acknowledge what they really are.

A true atheist, one who isn't dogmatic, doesn't believe, and doesn't care. It doesn't come up to him, he doesn't try to go around convincing others that they are mentally ill and must abandon religion to become Atheists. He doesn't try to incarcerate Priests, bulldoze Churches and forbid worship services with the expressed goal of the eradication of religion, like the League of Militant Atheists did in the 1920's and 1930's (Link)

I used to not mind atheists, but the jackasses I keep running into online are really making me think the couple of nice ones I've met in real-life are the exception and not the rule.

Psycat:

Umm, why is there a picture of lesbo-demon-mud-wrassiling? You know what, I don't want to know.

Honestly. I think a babylon 5 season 1 episode put it best.

You can find it on the WB channel's streaming website.

At the end, Sinclair introduced the ambassadors to the Earth's belief system. First was an Atheist he shook hands with. As the ambassadors shook hands with that one, Sinclair announced all the rest of the religions. There was a very long line as the credits came up.

Sorry, belief system. Not religion. I need to self edit.