Possessed by Satan or God - You decide
Offline A high school girl came to school earlier this week in Mississippi supposedly speaking in tongues as well as predicting doom and evil for her classmates.
The brilliant school authorities hooked her up with the school counselors and a youth pastor. Sounds to me like she needs a psych ward.
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Yep, sounds psychotic. Or maybe looking for attention.
Phfft. Kids pull this sort of crap all the time. It's just
attention getting - the only reason this is newsworthy is the school and community is freaking out over the religious aspect of it.
boundary testing andSadly the counselors and the youth pastor will not be trained on how to redirect this behavior into something more useful to the girl (and less freaky for those around her). She needs a real therapist - better yet a real psychologist. Three one-hour sessions a week for about two months I'd bet, if the parents are willing to get involved. Which in this case I doubt will happen, if momma is already excusing the behavior as "god's work".
Meh.
Religion. What a cluster-fuck.
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
Maybe she'll start a new religion.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Actually, I thought it was rather ironic. If the kid WASN'T speaking in tongues while mentioning the death of fellow students, or was talking in occultish ways rather than in tongues then the kid would be in gaol faster than you can say whodiddonewhatnow.
Organised religion is the ultimate form of blasphemy.
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"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
Two words:
Boundary testing.
So, here we have clear cut case of a child trying to poke at social norms and test authority (positive notions, IMHO - even if in this instance the activities themselves were destructive)... and the response is to fuck that child up with whatever the Hell bogus stunts / reinforcement / 'couselling' the youth pastor is going to do?
Man. We are so damn good at ensuring our future will be miserable.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
Hm. Really?
I don't seem to recall you saying that, and I don't see it in your post anywhere...
Jill, Jill, Jill. You must be mistaken.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
She needs to see a doctor, specifically a psychiatrist. Speaking in neologisms is a specific medical phenomenon and one that they have pills for. Sadly, because the mother is gripped with a god delusion, the girl will probably not recieve treatment for her early stage schizophrenia and a future life of misery and dependance on disability benefits is in her probable future.
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"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray
One would think that (theoretically) the 2 most powerful entities in existence would have more important things to do than get inside a 16yr old girl...
... hehehe
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