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this is an incredible story of a mother who looks after her son who was paralyzed playing HS football when he was 17. she dedicated her life to looking after him, virtually 24hrs/day, for 34 yrs until his death.
i know we're all agnostics/atheists but i have to seriously wonder if that mother could have persevered all those years if not for her strong catholic faith...
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I used to see this all the time when I was working the inpatient side of things. Mostly it was severely DD patients, but pretty much the same thing. I don't understand it. I assume some time in the future this type of reaction/behavior won't really be an option.
ChestRockfield
Level 8
Nov 1, 2022
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There are many good people who are loving and caring regardless of their faith or lack of it. That the institution of religion harbours loving people does not excuse it for the atrocities it promotes and conceals. Nor should it be used as an explanation for the loving acts that those good people would do regardless of their belief. And, although selfless and altruistic, what is so unusual about a parent who dedicates their life to a disabled child? This is a story we hear everyday from all areas of society.
Cyklone
Level 7
Oct 30, 2022
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i have been an atheist since my early teens. i was never force fed religion & my parents were not churchgoers. consequently religion made no sense to me & i simply disregarded it.
however, i can understand why some ppl who were indoctrinated into religion at an early age can become dependent on it & can't live without it.
i think that describes the mother. her life was shit but would have been even worse without religion. maybe it can be compared to ppl who buy lottery tickets. they know their chances are infinitesimal but if they have a ticket at least they can dream about all the incredible positive changes that a win would bring (albeit maybe just temporarily).
callmedubious
Level 8
Oct 30, 2022
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You are 100% correct on the lottery. I don't buy a ticket now and then because I think I'm going to win, I buy it as a license to daydream. And when you have a brain that regularly defaults to thinking about suicide when its idle, $2 is a small price to pay to make it think about literally anything else.
@ChestRockfield , right, i bot another $7. worth on the way home from the GC today. i waste around $20. a week on them. but i don't do any other gambling.
i buy lottery tickets even though i don't completely disagree with a former Italian Finance Minister who said that lotteries are a tax on the stupid.
@callmedubious I always heard it's a tax on people who are bad at math. 
But there's a flip side to that coin... somebody is going to win. And I'm sure those people who have wouldn't think what they did was stupid.
I'll buy a couple when I go out to vote today. I'll let you know if I win.
@callmedubious
Thanks for the first smile of the morning! The lottery is just like religion. Sometimes it works, but most of the time, it doesn't.
I wonder that anyone can still believe in the hocus pocus Catholic scam in 2022. How many little kids do they have to rape and kill? How much poisonous propaganda about women and birth control do they have to spew?
The pope lives in a palace filled with priceless treasures, dresses in designer clothes, and vacations at the papal chalet. Poor people would benefit from all the money and power they have accumulated. Yet idiots like this one have faith in the fakery and the flimflam?
If god was real, why didn’t it heal her son?
Killtheskyfairy
Level 9
Oct 29, 2022
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I love your post for two reasons. The logic, and the fact that you typed flimflam!
Most parents would do anything for their children, religion doesn't even come into it.
Jolanta
Level 9
Oct 29, 2022
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as i said: i just wondered about it.
maybe she could have replaced religion with another drug. but any drugs would have taken a big toll on her health & she probably wouldn't have made it anywhere close to 88.
can you honestly say that you would have persevered in her position?
@callmedubious I can’t say that. Unless I had been in that situation I cannot say.
@callmedubious lol. Most women these days too narcissistic but I noted this happened quite a few years ago.
That must be why most women are screaming about claimed abortion rights being removed by a recent US court case.
@FrayedBear Gosh, where do you get it from that most women are too narcissistic? What happened to you to say so?
@Jolanta I'm told that it's called life experiences & having an extremely sensitive nature that nowadays may be labelled as autism.
@FrayedBear What you got autism?
@Jolanta possibly.
Your link comes up with a 404 error message.
FrayedBear
Level 9
Oct 29, 2022
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just checked it & it came up OK.
@callmedubious yep, thanks. It's working now. Been having a bad weekend down here with internet & Google. Now seems to have cleared.
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