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Stupidity in my hometown
March 7, 2011 at 1:07 pm
My hometown paper has an article about a family who wants to take their ill 12 year old daughter to Lourdes! Apparently, the girl has some form of hepatitis that will necessitate a liver transplant by the time she's 20. So how does her family plan to treat this disease? They're going to take the kid to Lourdes hoping the waters will provide a miracle cure!
Twits.
But the worst part is that they want other people to pay for this trip! There will be a pancake breakfast where the proceeds will be used to fund this stupidity! Instead of using the money to cover the cost of a future liver transplant, these dopes will travel to France and bathe their daughter in "magic" water!
I feel sorry for the kid. I'm sure the parents have the girl all excited about traveling to Lourdes and possibly receiving a miracle cure. I can only imagine her disappointment when the miracle doesn't happen. These dopes might as well have a witch doctor dance around the kid and shake a rattle. It would be equally effective.
You can view the article here:
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/artic...r-girl--12
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RE: Stupidity in my hometown
March 7, 2011 at 5:08 pm
(March 7, 2011 at 3:59 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: I was unaware that there were sacred rivers in Christianity. I thought that was a mostly Hindu idea, like the Ganges river...well, you learn something new everyday.
What gets me is that people flock to this destination like they have free hookers. Roughly FIVE MILLION people visit this "shrine" every year! Many of them looking for a cure! But look at the odds! There have been 67 "confirmed" cases of a "miracle cure" at Lourdes. Approximately 200 MILLION people have been dipped in the "healing" waters. This is a success rate of .0000335%, or roughly one in THREE MILLION! You have better odds of hitting the jackpot on a scratch-off ticket!
Imagine that you have some disease and the doctor offers a treatment option. He tells you that you must fly to France to receive this treatment, which will cost thousands of dollars for airfare, hotel, food, etc... but the treatment itself is free and painless! Sounds good, right? Then you ask the doctor about the success rate of this treatment. He tells you about one person in three million receives a complete cure.
Would you even bother to go get this treatment? Your odds of dying in a plane crash or auto accident on the way to (or from) the treatment facility are much greater than the odds that the treatment will work. Not to mention, with one chance in 3 million, how do they know it is the TREATMENT that is the cure?
And yet, the deluded dimbulbs flock by the thousands. Must be nice to be a hotel owner there.
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RE: Stupidity in my hometown
March 7, 2011 at 5:19 pm
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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RE: Stupidity in my hometown
March 7, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Notice to all Catholics on this board:
I sell bottles of water from Nestlé…uh, I mean Lourdes for only $120 (or two for $200). Please PM me if you want the details on ordering!
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RE: Stupidity in my hometown
March 7, 2011 at 7:33 pm
How totally sad. I feel so sorry for the poor kid.
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RE: Stupidity in my hometown
March 8, 2011 at 4:48 am
Yup...only the religious can be so heartlessly cruel. Oh and stoopid!!
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