What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Something I've suspected for a while, but it's nice to know it's all but confirmed: Michael "To Train Up a Child" Pearl has zero empathy.





Honestly, if your wife is saying this (and I'm quoting him quoting her):

“In the last 48 hours I haven’t slept more than two hours undisturbed. My feet have 20 or more tiny holes in them because you wouldn’t let me take an extra five minutes to unpack my tennis shoes. My shoulder is sore from trying to carry thirty pounds of crabs for hours (they didn’t weight that much.) My hand is burned from trying to stuff a fighting crab into a kettle of boiling water, which seems very much like torturing the poor thing, AND, all the while you lay in a state of repose. Due to lack of sleep and sun, my eyes feel like they are full of sand. I have had little to eat. I am female, for crying out loud. I just want to sleep without you pawing on me. Besides, I have body parts I didn’t even know existed until now and they are killing me….so what is wrong with me??? I’m the weaker vessel, remember? It’s in the Bible, chapter one, verse one….or somewhere.”

And your response is "Women, amirite?", it's very hard to reconcile that with any actual capacity for empathy.

Also, I figure I may as well say this: even though I find the idea of a woman going barefoot everywhere to be sexy, her being in pain because her feet can't handle the terrain is decidedly not.

Another point later in the video, apparently, cell phone radiation causes autism, cell phones were introduced in 1995, and, since autism diagnoses have spiked since then, one causes the other. Even though I was born in 1989, and am still autistic (and still was before then). Also, here's a clip from a 1989 episode of Saved by the Bell that in no way undermines his claim that cell phones were introduced in 1995 (they wouldn't have been common, and Zack, a teenager, having one would have seemed absurd, but the technology had been on the market for six years by this point).