Bizarre things my mind conjures up

[Fake Messiah]

Babies are getting freaky

One day, my housemate saw her god-daughter spot a butterfly fluttering outside the window. Her tiny toddler hand reached out, and her thumb and forefinger made a sort of pincer movement. At first my housemate was baffled, but then she realised. Her god-daughter was trying to zoom in on the butterfly.

This kid couldn’t feed herself, and yet had mastered a digital zooming motion? She thought the window, or reality itself, was a big screen? At the time, I remember a feeling of dread creeping over me – a sense that something terrifying was coming our way. I suddenly realised the human race was breeding and raising iPad kids.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93k8kv/i...evelopment

[The Grand Nudger]

OP's a bot.

[SeniorCitizen]

A woman with whom I was having a relationship insisted that I accompany her to an inaugural meeting of an American Christian group. It was in a very large church that was no longer being used by locals. Hundreds of people were there. They began with a demonstration of healing. A man in a wheelchair was wheeled in. The healer began sternly ordering Satan to leave him .. and he immediately began shaking and ... within seconds ... was on his feet ... dancing. People in the congregation began calling out:"Praise the Lord! A miracle!". The atmosphere became "electric" ... with people calling out that they had been healed of "poor eyesight", "arthritis", etc. These people were members of this Christian group. When things calmed down everybody sat down ... and collection pouches were passed around. The person next to me ... who was a member of the church ... put in £40 ... and thrust the pouch at me, whilst giving me a "challenging" look (I just passed it on). A preacher appeared on the stage and said: "We know that Jesus knew a lot about the Old Testament". There was a murmur of approval. He followed up with: "Of course he did. He wrote it". There was a louder murmur of approval. It went on like this for quite a while. Afterwards most people seemed to be happy with what was going on ... including the woman I was with. I quietly said something critical to her about what was going on. She flared up and, in aloud voice, said: "You're EVIL!" ... causing lots of people to glare at HER. She took me back to her place and I spent the night there. Now ... I'm not "unskilled" with women ... but I couldn't get her "going".

Some time later I was outside a Starbucks with her trying to persuade her to give up trying to be a Christian when she suddenly, angrily, said: "I want you to rape me!" Causing people at a nearby table to look around.

In case you're wondering ... no I didn't.

At the church I'd noticed that a lot of the women seemed to be "aroused". They seemed to be attracted to men who claimed to be able to perform "miracles".

[arewethereyet]

Bullshit

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Projection. Mom decided what the kid was doing.

[no one]

Someone should tell the nurses to limit your "magic interwebs machine" time. 

PS
You should keep your sessions with your mental health practitioner private.

[Ravenshire]

Why do I sense a "miraculous conversion" in OP's future?!?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Why do I sense a "miraculous conversion" in OP's future?!?

Lying for Jesus isn't a sin.

[Thumpalumpacus]

[SeniorCitizen]

I have a young Iraqi friend (who is not religious). His mother is a Shia, and practices her religion  ... his father is an out and out Communist. I've met his parents ... and they obviously have a loving relationship, despite his father saying things like (in her presence): "Mohammed was a schizophrenic". She apparently doesn't get upset about him saying things like this.

I was friendly with a young Saudi woman who came here with her husband, who was a wealthy businessman. Shortly after they arrived she told him that she'd never believed in Islam. He divorced her immediately. When I met her she was living in a refugee hostel ... but happy to have her freedom. During a conversation I had with her her phone rang. After finishing the call she grinned at me and said: "They think I'm mad". It was someone from her family.

She showed me pictures of her wedding ... there was no doubt that she'd been married to someone with wealth. She'd planned her "escape" from Islam by marrying a man who would take her with him when he came here on business.

In the 70s I lived in a large squat in London. There was two Muslim girls there, from Algeria and Egypt ... and two Jewish girls. from Yemen and South Africa.

I was also acquainted with a man who was a senior member of the staff at the Egyptian Embassy. I actually had a talk with him at the Embassy ... with people coming in and out and acting very subservient towards him: "This goes on all day" he said ... with a grin on his face.

He was an atheist: "Islam is a terrible religion".