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and saying that rich people don't go to Heaven.

Indeed, this is the one the Americhristian cult of "supply-side Jesus" really doesn't like. LOL

Obtaining significant wealth seems to generally coincide in prioritizing it, at the expense of the love for one's Creator or fellow human being, and ultimately one's own soul.

beating bankers and money-lenders,

In the interest of accuracy: He "drove out" bankers and money lenders selling sacrificial animals and such, who turned His Father's house into a disgraceful shrine to money, but He's not recorded directly inflicting violence upon them.

This is a crucially important detail given Christ's Sermon on the Mount, among other examples, where He stresses forgiving one's enemies:

A Jesus Christ complex would be refreshing. A leader who would deny earthly pleasures, command their followers to love thy neighbor, feed the hungry, uplift the sick and poor, give long sermons about mercy and forgiving your enemies, and would be seen personally breaking bread with the unhoused and lawyers alike?

That'd freak everybody out for sure.

Sorry, maybe I didn't articulate that very well. Thanks for pointing that out. (Sites like this tend to favor short punchy responses lol)

I didn't mean like "haha lol rofl lulz" funny, but I appreciated how succinctly they pointed out the logical ridiculousness, the sheer morbid absurdity, of such a forum existing in the first place, and asked the question: "Well if what they're encouraging is so great, why haven't they done it themselves?" Which, logically, would likely end the forum itself.

It's like a self-defeating concept. It shouldn't be able to exist by its own definition.

Laying that out got a guilty chuckle out of me because it's such a bizarrely awful thing to exist and it was so simple a thought process to show how little sense it makes.

I only wish it was so obviously absurd to anybody who would dare to seek "community" there, but when people are beat down that much, it must be easy to miss the signs.

So absolutely, this is serious business and it really begs the question as to the motives of the people running it. Doubtful they're benevolent in the slightest. "Three tiny serial killers in a trenchcoat" feels pretty likely.

It's darkness through and through, and should be handled with utmost care and tact. I highly doubt anybody receives any actual "care" from this community, and would imagine its legacy is massive irreparable harm.

At worst, it's crowdsourced murder via psychology without any accountability on behalf of the perpetrators, when the victims could have possibly been led to better lives with the right intervention.

That's a terrifying thought.

But yeah, I didn't mean to make light of anything. I only saw humor as a useful tool in cutting through the lies of the concept.

"I'd ~~buy~~ subscribe to THAT for a DOLLAR!"

This is the kind of darkly humorous deep-thought that keeps me coming back to the Internet.

EDIT: Sorry, no, I don't find this funny in itself, I meant I found it "funny" how the commenter above so simply and concisely destroyed the concept of such an awful thing, by pointing out the sheer absurdity of its logical conclusion. Proving it shouldn't exist by its own definition. Longer explanation below if it helps.

But in short, I hope nobody is visiting this "community", when they could / should be receiving compassionate professional care and support in this world that's already got enough darkness without them leaving it before their time. :(

I used to love those Kairosoft simulator games. They get a little samey after a while but you get the whole game which is cool

Remember PDAs? The only games that things had were mineswipper, solitaire, chess, sudoku among others.

Space Trader and Dope Wars, all the way. Still worth playing today! You can emulate it on Archive.org or there's Android ports for Space Trader. Still a fun game. :D

That's a pretty good point, and I agree. It was "This is a weird and sinister mystery!" and that's pretty much it.

I hope it at least builds some attention momentum for others with maybe more assets or connections at their disposal to hone in on what's really going on here and bring it to light.

It probably sounds a little weird, but while I was sitting at the safety of my "occupy a desk until someone asks questions" job that sapped my soul, I often would research places I really, really wouldn't want to be.

In a weird way I find this "Dark tourism behind a screen" to be a bit fascinating in a "safe danger " kind of way.

Reading the state department's notices on some countries really puts in perspective. They're like "Don't go here without an armored vehicle, armed security detail, and most preferably a good friggin reason. Even still, have a next of kin lined up and ransom plans."

Edit: also "Oh yeah, if everything goes bad off embassy grounds (if there even is one) our ability to intervene is limited. Don't expect direct support to come save you."

Like. Damn.

I'd say inside the country, it's not as bad as the news makes it sound, because cameras are only pointing at the worst events. It's a pretty big country and most people are content to just leave each other alone.

...But a huge radius around the borders or airports are "Constitution-free" zones where nobody has any rights, and our borders/customs folks have a reputation for being less than kind. And those zones, bad enough as they are, are so freakishly large that most people in any populated area are within those zones...so...

...Yeah, maybe wait. . .

before I learned about the Dubai porta potty

I was expecting some sort of ridiculous public sanitation custom. I knew about suspicious weird stories about models "getting on flights and never coming back" but the details make it even worse.

Wish there were people like John Wick to move through these grotesque billionaire circles and purge the monsters entirely.

I have always had zero interest of travelling to or supporting the place, and this only reinforces that.

This is good reporting. I'm glad there's still people who will notice this bizarre kind of thing and start digging.

Something is truly mind-boggling here, like where he's getting all this money from.

This is disgusting.