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In reply to the discussion: Dad used Bible to justify sex with daughter [View all]struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)10. My point: (1) he's a manipulative fellow and (2) he's been sent away
If he thought his neighbors would believe the tea leaves told him to do it, he would have read messages from tea leaves to them; if he thought his neighbors would believe he had to do this because of the warranty on his refrigerator, he would have carefully explained some crazy-ass interpretation of the warranty on his refrigerator to them all
He picked an easily manipulated woman as his wife because he likes to manipulate people, so she went along with his bull
It seems the larger society decided not to go along with his bull and sent him away
If he thinks his cellmates will believe the cockroaches are telling him what to do, he'll be passing along messages from the cockroaches to them all
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Yes, Trotsky, I rigged some tin-cans to wires and attached them to strategic points
struggle4progress
Sep 2012
#12
75% of S Africa is Christian: that didn't keep them from putting him away
struggle4progress
Sep 2012
#32
It's all about what you want to pick and choose are the parts to be taken literally.
trotsky
Sep 2012
#34
No, not an indictment of all relgion. But it shows that humans do horribly human things...
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#13
Funny, everywhere I go I see a roomful of human, impefect, and often humbled people.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#19