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[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 168 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This reads like some very iffy fan fiction.

[–] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NO WEIRDOS, BEARDOES, OR WOMEN, ONLY STRONG, HOT, MUSCULAR, DTF MEN.

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right? Apparently hallucinating in a coma that Jesus's manly body is the only reality will get you on Fix News.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

only if it's the right jesus. my sil hallucinated a different jesus and never got a book written about her. was pissed off about it until the day she died. i kept telling her she needed to write it herself, but nope! too much work.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 128 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Religion is a mental illness

[–] inari@piefed.zip 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'd say it's a reaction to mental illness. An attempt by people to try to get a handle on something. If you look at religious people, they tend to all be a little off.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago

It’s a broad range of problems they try to fill.

Alcoholism, various mental illnesses, loneliness, and desperation get new ones in. But I think the most problematic are the ones there for life and because the whole community is there. Or for political reasons.

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[–] notabot@piefed.social 120 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Gabe Poirot was riding an electric skateboard at around 30 miles per hour without a helmet in October 2021 when he hit a small bump in the road and flipped backwards, landing directly on his head.

The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury.

It's kind of tragic how badly a TBI can mess up someone's life, especially at such a young age.

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Riding an electric skateboard without a helmet is already a sign of imbecility; he just added hallucinations to his mental deficiency.

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 39 points 1 month ago

I read that quickly and just thought 30km/h is fairly fast on a skateboard, but 30mph is just stupid fast.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 54 points 1 month ago

Severe brain damage and religion. You can't name a more iconic duo.

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[–] CoconutLove@lemmy.today 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fox News interviews brain damaged man suffering from delusions

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ah, if Jesus was born in the stable, makes sense he grew up as a horse. Or perhaps as a camel, trying to go through the eye of a needle.

[–] meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Think he actually had visions of Jesus as a glistening stud, but didn't want to say that?

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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The bigger story is that Fox put this guy on air and acted like there was some legitimacy to it. The guy himself at least has an excuse for acting brain dead. What's the excuse for the viewers?

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gabe added that ‘in America, Jesus has been misrepresented. And there are so many cultural things that present him as if he’s some tolerant guy.’

There is your answer right there. They know their credulous audience and they have their message to push.

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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

What's the excuse for the viewers?

They have watched enough Fox to achieve a similar effect.

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Huh, guess the Koreans are the ones with the correct depiction then. Go figure.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury.

Fox News is like, "brain damage?! Bring him on!!"

Seriously, how dumb are Americans? It astounds me daily for some reason. How convenient that "heaven" is just like that fantasy novel that you've internalized and convinced yourself is actual history? I'll file this with the people that have conversations with god

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Good thing he took a picture...

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[–] fedikitty@piefed.social 25 points 1 month ago

Well somebody is suppressing their sexuality.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Erm, what the yaoi fanfic?

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gabe added that ‘in America, Jesus has been misrepresented. And there are so many cultural things that present him as if he’s some tolerant guy.’

🤦

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My dude, it's written down. There's an actual book. But this is America, so he very likely can't read.

Also note my surprised face that the entire account is vaguely homoerotic. Yet again, repressed sexuality seems to be at play here.

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[–] PNW_Doug@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Hats off to the headline writer. I lol’d

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Sounds homoerotic, but OK.

Maybe "heaven" was spending 18 days with a Latin American lover called Jesus.

[–] whiteblacula@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury

Sounds about right

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago

Goddamn even The Onion can't do shit this stupid, and they're actively trying. Fox News is like a well funded version of those little magazines at the checkout line that talk about aliens and the anti-aging miracles of an uncooked eggyolk and beef tallow only diet.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

USA?

guy with mental illness having hallucinations is taken seriously

USA

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My mom for a while believed a TV evangelist for a while, I'll always remember his shit name. Jesse Duplanis. Told everyone he went to heaven and met Jesus on a deathbed experience before being "sent back to preach the good book". Of course it was the abundance gospel of he just happened to have a private jet and multiple mansions.

My gullible naive mother sent him money when she was most destitute thinking he knew how to make things better. At one point it was a full tithe, 10% of her income. I hope he rots in the ground.

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[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then jesus put his 2ft horse cock in his mouth so he could swallow the sins of man.

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[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If I tell anyone that I spent time with Jesus they wouldn't believe me.

Why do they believe this guy??? What's he got??? Souvenirs?

[–] OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

A traumatic brain injury

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mentally ill man says gay shit on fox news. Just another day at fox.

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jules: You read the Bible, Brett?

Brett: Yes.

Jules: Well, there's this passage I got memorized, sorta fits the occasion. Ezekiel 23:20:

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 weeks ago

Then he woke up on sticky sheets.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“Liar claims lies”

Fixed the headline, it’s no longer news

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Why did he get a platform lol

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Was never much of a Ford fan, so…. This is disappointing. Was really hoping he would be a Camaro, or even an import.

[–] nanometer1625@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 month ago

He must be Dothraki. He met "the stallion who mounts the world".

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 11 points 1 month ago

I bet he can also describe in detail how hung the Mustang was.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

When I went to heaven it was all hookers and blacjack

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unironically this account makes just as much sense as every stupid religion on this planet.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much cum would he need to swallow to taste the testosterone?

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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Will you guys just admit you wanna get railed by white Jesus? It's fine. He's a very attractive if historically inaccurate man.

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