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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 2 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 2 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] 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] 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 2 days ago

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

[-] [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

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Maybe a little bit of plague as a treat.

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

Not until you finish your measles.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Measles in the womb, as God intended!

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

We just had measles last week!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

chickenpox, rubella, mumps all can cause orchitis, leading to infertility in adult men(not sterility), also these viruses are much more severe in adults.

tetanus(aka cause lockjaw, but the most severe form would be contractions so strong you break your own bones)

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

I mean, there's some real merits to bloodletting right?

BRING FORTH THE LEACHES!

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

I mean, there was a dude with some blood disorder who wasn't aware he had an issue because he routinely donated to blood banks.

The treatment for his condition was literally blood letting as we understand it. He only found out about the issue after he "retired" from donating blood because he was getting older.

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

So Google says that sweating sickness may've been Hantavirus. Sounds horrific.

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

Hanta still exists, and within the US.

At least when I worked in Yellowstone in 2012, we were told that rodents and their droppings were considered bio hazards. Not the sweep it up kind, the contact the officials kind.

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