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[-] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago

That look is terrifying due to not being able to recognize any spark of humanity. I think the worm took something essential.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

He was born rich, the worm only took a few IQ points off the top

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't subscribe to the idea that wealth has anything to do with intelligence or lack thereof.

Wealth is just an insulator.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

It does make you evil, though. A few million dollars is like the One Ring, whispering in your ear every minute of every day.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

People like that, who almost universally profess Christian faith, should be attentive to the words of the early Church fathers on the intrinsically corrupting nature of wealth:

"The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor, even if they have acquired them honestly or inherited them legally."
— John Chrysostom

"You are not making a gift of your possession to the poor person. You are handing over to him what is his."
— Ambrose of Milan

"The property of the wealthy holds them in chains [...] which shackle their courage and choke their faith and hamper their judgment and throttle their souls. They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves."
—Cyprian

And for a direct Bible passage, it's hard to be more succinct than James.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That doesn't sound like 'Murican Jesus. Must be communism. /s

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'll need to take your word for it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Just get a loan from your father

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I took it to mean wealth affected his humanity and the wormn finished the job. The iq lose was minor in comparison.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Not IQ, but it certainly impacts empathy and perspective. Not to mention the influence of one's peer groups.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

IQ is the measure of whether someone is ready for preschool.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Insulation means one is not challenged. The brain and body learn from being challenged. If you haven't experienced difficulty first or second hand you haven't learned to relate to it. You literally cannot experience empathy on a meaningful level.

It's part of the wealth disease.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

i believe heroin killed off some of his worms.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The system always finds equilibrium

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

I'm not good with faces, but all these "right"-wing politicians have a sort of predatory look on them, a look of wanting to hurt others.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

I believe there’s truth to this

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