I don’t think it would have occurred to me to dig an eight-feet deep hole in the sand.
I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 18, 2022 6:14 PM |
And we have our long awaited follow-up to Dust in the Wind:
Sand in the Waves
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 18, 2022 6:18 PM |
Oh, FFS. That whole article is wall-to-wall Jesus. Why is it that these Christians can't talk about anything else but Jesus and the Bible? Their son DIED in a freak accident and they're quoting Scripture to the press?
Christianity is fine in many respects. Being a monomaniac about it is not.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 18, 2022 6:26 PM |
What a flat out stupid thing to do…
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 18, 2022 6:26 PM |
R3, These weirdos get over their grief in a trice.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 18, 2022 6:27 PM |
They must not have lived near a beach in Maine. Growing up on Long Island we were taught as kids to not dig like this, it will collapse in a second without notice
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 18, 2022 6:27 PM |
[quote] Levi Caverly, 18, of Maine, "was not real concerned with what others thought," his father, Todd Caverly said.
Nor with the laws of physics, apparently.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 18, 2022 6:29 PM |
There aren't many sandy beaches in Maine, just rocky ones for the most part.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 18, 2022 6:31 PM |
Anyone with any sense knows this is dangerous but yet it happens a couple of times every summer. Make of that what you will.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 18, 2022 6:31 PM |
Will the family be suing the beach for negligence?
"The beach should have known our kid was an idiot"
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 18, 2022 6:34 PM |
And it happens in the spring too.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 18, 2022 6:36 PM |
I'm in the sand too, bitches!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 18, 2022 6:38 PM |
Was he trying to find China?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 18, 2022 6:40 PM |
The headlines made me think it was some kind of freak natural phenomenon that killed the kid, not rank stupidity.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 18, 2022 6:44 PM |
yeah, he looks like the evangelical kid who always smells like mildewed hand me downs.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 18, 2022 6:50 PM |
It was done on purpose.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 18, 2022 6:59 PM |
Jesus needed another (stupid) angel
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 18, 2022 7:03 PM |
“Levi's mother, Angela, told NJ.com that Levi was teaching himself computer programming after completing homeschooling.”
And there it is.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 18, 2022 7:04 PM |
[quote] "The truth is that Scripture says that all our days are numbered. That there is nothing we can do to add a single hour to our life," Todd Caverly said. "He knew that. Matthew 6:25-34."
Said by his father. They learned nothing.
I've never heard of digging large holes in sand for fun.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 18, 2022 7:05 PM |
Sand?
Well, that's certainly a novel approach! Kudos to the parents!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 18, 2022 7:06 PM |
Wouldn’t the hole have filled with water?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 18, 2022 7:11 PM |
[Quote] He was not real concerned with what others thought.
Oh dear.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 18, 2022 7:16 PM |
Eek, R15!! Hideous looking!!
by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 18, 2022 7:19 PM |
Anyone ever see "Woman in the Dunes"? She lived in a sand pit.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 18, 2022 7:20 PM |
[quote]That there is nothing we can do to add a single hour to our life
Other than refraining from digging giant holes in the sand, anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 18, 2022 7:40 PM |
If he were a Jew he would never had done anything so stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 18, 2022 8:16 PM |
How am I the first to point that the dad’s clearly saying that the kid was an autist?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 18, 2022 8:19 PM |
It's bizarre how these religious zealots twist their brains (to what degree they have brains) into knots in trying to convince themselves that something like this was essentially "God's plan," rather than just admitting their son is dead due to his own reckless, dangerous behavior.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 18, 2022 9:07 PM |
^They can't handle that God's side piece, Mother Nature, isn't sentimental about thinning the herd.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 19, 2022 1:55 AM |
Apparently they didn’t pay any attention to some of the more PRACTICAL passages in the New Testament:
Matthew 7:24-27
“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 19, 2022 2:06 AM |
It can happen in the dunes even if you aren't digging.
In the dunes near me on Lake Michigan a kid was just walking on the sand, there was a tree that had been buried years ago by the moving sand and rotted away creating a cavity that collapsed when he walked over it. They were able to dig him out three hours later and thought he was dead but he survived.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 19, 2022 2:08 AM |
Maine is a fucking shit hole despite some of its natural beauty. The entire state is consumed with meth heads, African immigrants who don’t want to assimilate into American society, bus loads of homeless arriving every. Single. Day. and unhinged activist trash from Oregon who’ve come in and infiltrated enough towns to make the entire state unbearable.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 19, 2022 2:41 AM |
My parents warned us about this practically every day of every summer growing up.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 19, 2022 2:44 AM |
[quote]What was on his Spotify?
"Mr. Sandman," obviously
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 19, 2022 2:50 AM |
[quote] I prefer Levi Conely to Todd Caverly.
What do they have to do with one another?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 19, 2022 3:12 AM |
Like sands through the hourglass, so was the last day of his life.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 19, 2022 3:57 AM |
R15- LOL!
You're harsh but funny
by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 19, 2022 4:06 AM |
My friend drowned last week, so I had a wreath made in the shape of a life jacket in his memory.
I'm sure it's what he would have wanted.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 19, 2022 4:08 AM |
Not MY will Oh Lord but THINE be done
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 19, 2022 4:11 AM |
Listen, if a kid didn't know, they wouldn't think anything of doing it. When I was around eight or nine, me & my four neighborhood friends went behind a neighbor's garage and decided to build a "fort" on the top of a huge dirt pile. Part of our plan included digging an escape tunnel straight down several feet, then out the side of the dirt pile. I remember crawling through this tunnel several times (with several feet of dirt over me). It wasn't very long, but if that had collapsed on me, I probably would have croaked, any one of us could have. Anyway one of the neighbors behind them found out what we were doing, and told all our parents, and we got in trouble. We were just having fun & didn't think of the risk.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 19, 2022 4:38 AM |
He was 18, not 8.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 19, 2022 5:31 AM |
[quote] He was 18
Best thing for him. His life was, for all useful purposes, long over.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 19, 2022 5:33 AM |
I live 40 minutes from Malibu, yet have never heard that digging in the sand will open up a fucking portal to China, so he probably had never heard of the risks, either.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 19, 2022 5:37 AM |
Do you have to be told that sand can collapse? I imagine the process of digging eight feet down presented plenty of demonstrations.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 19, 2022 5:42 AM |
My sister was wearing sandals on at the beach in Malibu. She was standing on the wet sand, where the waves were coming in.
Suddenly, she was stuck! She had sunk past her ankles into the wet sand. I'd never heard of that. The waves kept coming in, and going out, each time she was sinking in a little more. I'm 6'5 so I grabbed her in a bear hug, and yanked her upwards.
One sandal stayed on her foot. The other one stayed in the wet sand, that covered over too quickly in the hole for us to get it.
Had anyone heard of this happening before? I doubt she was in real danger, but still it was surreally scary for a few seconds.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 19, 2022 5:51 AM |
Never seen it happen, r48, not even during sandcastle building contests, so why would it occur to me? Not that I've seen anyone dig 10 feet into it, but I would just assume that under the displaced sand is more sand, not a gaping sinkhole. I've never heard anyone else here mention it, either.
On the other hand, I can tell you to stay the fuck off gravel/corn/sand piles, because when I was growing up, we all saw kids kids get sucked down into them and the adults warned us. If it happens around you, you know better, but visitors won't, because they don't experience such things where they're from. I suspect that was the case with this family- if they'd rarely gone to beaches and didn't live near them, how would they know there isn't just more sand 10 feet down like I assumed?
R49, what you experienced happens every day at our beaches. The tide pulls the sand out and then redeposits it as the waves come back in. It only happens at the waterline, though. You won't experience it on dry sand.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 19, 2022 5:54 AM |
Laughing my ass off!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 19, 2022 5:55 AM |
@r49, You're 6' 5"? 😳
by Anonymous | reply 52 | May 19, 2022 5:56 AM |
R52, R49 is Tommy Tune.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 19, 2022 6:02 AM |
[quote]Why is it that these Christians can't talk about anything else but Jesus and the Bible? Their son DIED in a freak accident and they're quoting Scripture to the press?
Umm. Religion is typically used a way to cope with life. I'd say your kid dying in a freak accident is a perfectly understandable moment to be quoting scripture. It's not like they were being interviewed about something mundane like local festivities. People use religion to cope with death all of the time. Come on now.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 19, 2022 6:05 AM |
R53 Tommy is way taller than I.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 19, 2022 6:06 AM |
Sinkhole? Oh—I thought they dug a deep hole and it collapsed on them. Never mind.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 19, 2022 6:10 AM |
Tommy Tune was 6' 6", so if he was "way taller" you're not 6' 5"
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 19, 2022 6:11 AM |
R15 Those are the skinny dorky kind that have huge dicks though.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 19, 2022 6:12 AM |
And I used to be all worried about quicksand, not sand-sand!
by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 19, 2022 1:24 PM |
^ 😂 Me too
by Anonymous | reply 60 | May 19, 2022 1:32 PM |
I remember getting so scared reading about quicksand in the Reader's Digest in the 70s. They make it sound like thousands of people were dying yearly from getting caught in it.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | May 19, 2022 2:18 PM |
[quote]Christianity is fine in many respects.
Still looking for that.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 19, 2022 2:20 PM |
This happened to my Great Uncle. He and some boys were playing on a sandy riverbank and they dug a tunnel into the bank, which collapsed on him. He suffocated before they could dig him out.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 19, 2022 2:21 PM |
God’s Sandy Plan.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 19, 2022 2:39 PM |
I had a beautiful dream last night that I was swimming in an ocean of orange soda. When I awoke from the dream I realized it was just a
FANTA sea
by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 19, 2022 2:42 PM |
How many people actually die in quicksand every year? You'd think it'd be 1000s.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 19, 2022 2:46 PM |
Why did the lifeguard fail to rescue the drowning hippy?
He was TOO far out man.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 19, 2022 2:59 PM |
I hope he was circumcised. I can attest to the extreme discomfort of getting sand under your foreskin.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 19, 2022 5:40 PM |
[quote]Never seen it happen, [R48], not even during sandcastle building contests, so why would it occur to me? Not that I've seen anyone dig 10 feet into it, but I would just assume that under the displaced sand is more sand, not a gaping sinkhole. I've never heard anyone else here mention it, either.
The point is that digging a deep hole in sand creates an obvious danger of the sand collapsing around you and smothering you even if there's NO sinkhole. Also, sandcastle building contests don't usually involve digging eight-feet-deep holes. Get it?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 19, 2022 6:03 PM |
[quote]Umm. Religion is typically used a way to cope with life. I'd say your kid dying in a freak accident is a perfectly understandable moment to be quoting scripture. It's not like they were being interviewed about something mundane like local festivities. People use religion to cope with death all of the time. Come on now.
We understand WHY people do this, but that doesn't make it any less irrational and incredibly stupid. They might as well say, "Oh, our son died because the date was Friday the 13th -- not because he put himself in great danger through reckless behavior."
I suggest YOU "come on now."
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 19, 2022 6:06 PM |
R69 Another reason to get circumcised. Sand.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 19, 2022 6:12 PM |
r71 You're just salty because they brought up their religion at all. The post I responded to had the same sentiment "wHY dO cHriSTiANS tALk aBOuT GOd aLWaYS??"
This would be one situation where their constant droning on about the Bible would make sense. That's why many hospitals have chaplains. Death and religion are closely tied together in many ways, and you know this. You're just being contrary.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 19, 2022 6:24 PM |
Jesus, when digging a hole in ANY kind of dirt, you have to insert steel reinforcing walls on ALL FOUR sides of the hole, to reinforce its structure.....OSHA insists that the entire steel superstructure be pounded down into the earth, as the digging continues........the fines for not doing this are ENORMOUS and will bankrupt most small contractors......criminal charges have been filed on this a few times......this is WELL known in the construction / contracting industry...........
by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 19, 2022 6:28 PM |
R74 - so this teenager should have been fined, too, not just killed.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 19, 2022 6:30 PM |
r75 No, OSHA is only involved in (paid) WORK-related issues with employees and employers.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 19, 2022 6:33 PM |
all these queens are just upset that this boy got more hole than they did.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 19, 2022 6:34 PM |
[quote]You're just salty because they brought up their religion at all. The post I responded to had the same sentiment "wHY dO cHriSTiANS tALk aBOuT GOd aLWaYS??" This would be one situation where their constant droning on about the Bible would make sense. That's why many hospitals have chaplains. Death and religion are closely tied together in many ways, and you know this. You're just being contrary.
No, it makes NO SENSE because it's completely idiotic, and it's only a foolish, childish, anti-intellectual way for people to to "cope" and the avoid the reality that the REAL reasons why bad things happen to people are (1) due to their own carelessness or foolish behavior, (2) due to some specific reason, like genetics or chronic illness or living in a high-crime neighborhood or whatever, or (3) due to completely random bad luck.
Again, I agree with you as to WHY people latch onto religion in cases like this, I'm just saying that the reason is totally irrational and stupid. But if my last post couldn't get you to understand that distinction, I'm sure this one won't, either.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 19, 2022 6:38 PM |
Was there no lifeguard, why didn't anyone stop this kid????
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 19, 2022 6:49 PM |
I think I misinterpreted what happened (and others have, too). The kid didn’t dig a really deep hole. He was swallowed by a big sink hole. He was digging in the sand, but that’s a pretty ordinary thing to do.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 19, 2022 6:57 PM |
R80, you may be correct. I think some of us may have misread the line in the article that says "the hole was about 8 feet wide by 8 feet deep when rescuers arrived." I guess we don't know how far down the kids had been digging before the sinkhole opened.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 19, 2022 8:30 PM |
[quote] We understand WHY people do this, but that doesn't make it any less irrational and incredibly stupid
R71 In a generation's time people will be saying that our currently-fashionable Transvestite and Woke Doctrines are irrational and incredibly stupid.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 19, 2022 8:32 PM |
R82, I tend to agree.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 19, 2022 8:35 PM |
Perfect opportunity for that Footsteps in the Sand poem, about two sets of footprints walking down the beach, but only one coming back.
You don’t realize at first that it’s actually a signed confession.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 19, 2022 8:38 PM |
So, if I'm getting this correctly the kid / kids were digging a big ass hole in the sand and it opened up a further sinkhole and sister and he were submerged, and only she got out?
by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 19, 2022 8:50 PM |
[quote]Also, sandcastle building contests don't usually involve digging eight-feet-deep holes. Get it?
Yes, I get that you're a condescending asshole.
You assume that everyone else would already know sand is going to fall in on them, with no previous experience of it. Some of us have lived places where we could dig deep into dirt without any problems, so someone who isn't familiar with sand's differing properties wouldn't necessarily know there's a danger to watch out for. That was my point, GET IT?
They dig more than a few feet in for those championship sandcastles, btw.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 19, 2022 9:00 PM |
[quote]this is WELL known in the construction / contracting industry........
Was this kid an engineer who worked in your industry? He was an 18 year-old homeschooled kid, not a building inspector.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | May 19, 2022 9:03 PM |
[quote]Loved Music, Tech,
How unusual for a teen.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 19, 2022 9:07 PM |
[quote]They dig more than a few feet in for those championship sandcastles, btw.
But those people don't STAND IN THE HOLES, R86. Why are you arguing with me about statements I'm not making while refusing to understand the true statements I am making?
by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 19, 2022 9:12 PM |
I love how they allowed the daughter to drive them home after she was nearly killed. I guess it's easy when Jebus is your co-pilot.
"She said her daughter, who was buried up to her neck, was well enough to drive them home to Maine, according to the outlet."
by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 19, 2022 9:14 PM |
Good god, they are straight out of a child's ditties:
Jack Sprat could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 19, 2022 9:16 PM |
“ The distraught mom said the family was on a trip to Toms River’s Ocean Beach 3 Tuesday when her son and 17-year-old daughter dug a 10-foot-deep hole that suddenly caved in and crushed Levi to death.”
Never mind
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 19, 2022 9:19 PM |
Is that the sister in the blue bathing suit?
by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 19, 2022 9:19 PM |
No, that is the god-fearing mother.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 19, 2022 9:22 PM |
[quote] a big ass hole
Yes, R85, their own anus was too small so they created an 8 foot-deep replica anus.
Yes, R85, they dug a deep hole so they both could defecate into it.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | May 19, 2022 9:24 PM |
The post I replied to:
[quote]Why is it that these Christians can't talk about anything else but Jesus and the Bible?
My response:
[quote]Religion is typically used a way to cope with life. I'd say your kid dying in a freak accident is a perfectly understandable moment to be quoting scripture.
Your response to my response [bold]to someone else specifically asking why:[/bold]
[quote]We understand WHY people do this, but that doesn't make it any less irrational and incredibly stupid.
To reiterate:
[quote]You're just salty because they brought up their religion at all.
And nobody cares what you think about people using religion as a coping mechanism. Least of all the individuals you're finger-wagging at who just lost their child. How about you calm your militant ass down and let people grieve in their own way?
by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 19, 2022 9:27 PM |
kid dies and even the atheists are upset at the flying spaghetti monster.
go figure.
I swear these are the same people that plague xhamster/xvideo to debate religion everytime a porn star utters an "oh g-d"
oddly, don't see them as much for the "fuck me santas" or pointing out that's not a real pizza boy, though
by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 19, 2022 9:28 PM |
That sand is a menace. I've ordered my Defense Secretary to study how we can nuke it with Patriot missiles.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 19, 2022 9:31 PM |
If only he had a gun, he could have shot his way out.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 19, 2022 9:33 PM |
r98 please that would be a dubya move. ..
"there are some evil doers, they call themselves the tata, tattoony, tatoo-ine."
by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 19, 2022 9:35 PM |
R100 No, Trump asked if they could nuke a hurricane and asked about sending Patriot missiles into Mexico. Dubya was dumb, but not THAT dumb.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | May 19, 2022 9:38 PM |
It must have been the quicksand we were warned about as kids.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 19, 2022 9:40 PM |
Quicksand used to appear so often in TV and movies because it was such a cheap special effect, but it’s not really that common.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 19, 2022 9:45 PM |
[quote]Why are you arguing with me about statements I'm not making while refusing to understand the true statements I am making?
Because you aren't understanding what my point was, either.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 19, 2022 10:04 PM |
R79 The summer season had not started yet so there were no lifeguards.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | May 19, 2022 10:09 PM |
Proud, gay American, former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey broke his ankle while having illicit sex with a male partner on a NJ beach. His political career was killed shortly afterwards. Let this be a lesson. Beaches = death.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 19, 2022 10:13 PM |
This happened to one of Stephen Cannell’s children. Pretty awful
by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 19, 2022 10:14 PM |
Everything sand touches dies.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | May 19, 2022 10:16 PM |
Maybe the giant who lives in Malibu never heard of digging to China because that's an East Coast thing?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | May 19, 2022 11:23 PM |
Chiding the OP for not calling the thread
TEEN DIES AFTER PRESENTING HOLE!
by Anonymous | reply 111 | May 19, 2022 11:29 PM |
He was ugly. No loss
by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 19, 2022 11:29 PM |
R54, that's understood, but my point was that it seems off that that's all some people can talk about publicly. 1) Jesus. 2) God. 3) the Bible. 4) church. Sure, take comfort in your religion, your church, etc., among your family and friends, but the constant need to testify *publicly* is bizarre. Frankly, I find it de trop.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | May 20, 2022 2:08 AM |
[quote]the constant need to testify *publicly* is bizarre. Frankly, I find it de trop.
Again. Their son died tragically and suddenly. No doubt, the journalist who likely interviewed them for the story asked them how they're holding up, and since religion is so intricate to who they are and how they cope, that was how they responded.
I can understand finding it bizarre for any other random reason. But the sudden death of a loved one is certainly not it and seem tasteless to even chide someone about under the circumstances. Do you recall this below incident? I can't imagine them being forgiving makes sense to you, either. A similar situation happened to my own family 6 years ago, my uncle was murdered during a mugging; shot in his back while he was trying to run away from the coward who was mugging him. My aunt still stood firm that if it wasn't for her faith, she wouldn't be able to make it, and I believe it because that was absolutely horrifying.
Bottom line, it doesn't matter if you think it's "bizarre," though it is quite silly due to the situation that these people are going through, knowing that people use religion for comfort. Personally, I find it bizarre that you find it bizarre and it does come off as you just being bothered by them being open about their religion.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | May 20, 2022 2:26 AM |
R115, nothing you write makes any sense to me.
Bottom line: The fact that many, many people seek comfort in religion in times of tragedy doesn't make it any more rational to do so. And when people go to the extreme of saying things like "Everyone's days are numbered, according to God's plan," I find that incredibly offensive and shockingly stupid, and I don't hesitate to say so. The idea that God planned for this kid and his sister to dig a huge hole in the sand on a beach so that he would be smothered when the sand collapsed is something that only an idiot or an insane person would believe.
You are free to disagree.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | May 20, 2022 4:07 AM |
Whatever, r117. Why do you care if people use religion to cope with death, anyway? They're not harming anyone. It's an odd, non-issue, to even be concerned about and/or hyper-focused on.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 20, 2022 5:22 AM |
That's your opinion, R118. MY opinion is that people ascribing someone's death to "God's will" rather than to an accident, a disease, a murderer, or whatever is so ridiculous that it points up the irrationality and stupidity of religion in general.
By the way, this also applies when people DON'T die. Example: Nine men are trapped in a coal mine after an explosion. Only three of them make it out alive, and those three and their families publicly thank God for watching over them and getting them out -- clearly implying that God didn't love the six guys who died.
So there's my answer to your question, whether or not you accept or even understand it.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | May 20, 2022 2:05 PM |