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Synthetic Orange
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So this is really the best site I've seen this week.
Okay, so it looks like a listing of kooky, alternate beliefs, medicines and science, including stuff like detoxification, ear candling, metal toxicity fears, repressed memories, UFOs, ghosts, etc etc. But what's in each category is where the fun is, since this is a collection of people that have come to harm or just plain died from pursuing them.
I could go on and on and all I can do is be thankful that I dont know very many people this gullible, and that yes, idiotic beliefs do sometimes get punished. And that just makes me so happy.
Okay, so it looks like a listing of kooky, alternate beliefs, medicines and science, including stuff like detoxification, ear candling, metal toxicity fears, repressed memories, UFOs, ghosts, etc etc. But what's in each category is where the fun is, since this is a collection of people that have come to harm or just plain died from pursuing them.
Huw Christie Harry Williams
Age: 41
St. Helens, Tasmania, Australia
Died
August 17, 2001
He was an editor of Continuum, an AIDS denialist newsletter, which folded after all its editors died. He did not believe AIDS was caused by HIV, and eventually succumbed to the disease.
Rachel Barezinsky
Age: 17
Worthington, Ohio
Shot, severe brain injury
August 22, 2006
Rachel and her friends decided to go ghost hunting near a local haunted house. They didn't realize the owner of the house did not like visitors, and owned a gun. She ended up with a gunshot to the head and a long hospital stay
42 Indonesian women
Age: 11 to 30
Lubukpakam, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Murdered
1986 - 1997
A man believed his father's ghost came to him in a dream and told him to kill 70 women so he could have magical powers. Belief in sorcery is widespread in Indonesia, and he used that to lure women to their deaths. He was executed in July 2008.
Rebecca Lindsay & Lyndel McKay
Age: 36 & 67
Huntington Beach, California
Jaw disfigured, requiring reconstructive surgery
2000
"Biological dentists" recommended by her chiropractor said her fillings were poisoning her. They removed nine of her teeth and much of her jaw. Reconstructive surgery was required to rebuild her jaw and smile. She sued.
Florentino V. Floro Jr.
Age: 54
Manila, Philippines
Fired from his job as judge
April 2006
He claimed that three invisible mystic elves helped him render decisions and heal people in his chambers. The Supreme Court ruled that psychic powers have no place in the court room and fired him from his job.
I could go on and on and all I can do is be thankful that I dont know very many people this gullible, and that yes, idiotic beliefs do sometimes get punished. And that just makes me so happy.
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Steam
Age: 37
Gammon Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Died
November 3, 2004
He passed out while using a native american sweat lodge and his friends thought he was astral travelling. They used rituals to try to wake him up. In reality he was extremely dehydrated and died at a hospital.
Age: 6 weeks
Atlanta, Georgia
Died (starvation)
April 25, 2004
His parents were vegans and tried to feed him a diet of mostly soy milk and apple juice. He weighed only 3 1/2 pounds when he died. They were sentenced to life in prison
Well fuck.
Age: 49
Loch Cam, Sutherland, Scotland
Died
September 16, 1999
She learned of breatharianism via the internet, and decided to go into a complete fast while on a camping trip. Her body was found two weeks later.
belief that a strain of herpes, 6 I think, that generally tags along with hiv causes aids rather than hiv
ahahahahahaha
I take back my position on the death penalty.
Fucking Vegans.
This makes my bile rise in seething rage.
Age: 16
Asharita, Sarangpur, India
Suicide
September 9, 2008
She was traumatized by TV programs about the opening of the Large Hadron Collider, which talked about the end of the world. Her parents told her not to worry and diverted her attention to no avail. She drank a pesticide from her father's farm.
Hahahahah
Probably he means no *harm*
what a worrywart
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/breatharian.htm/printable
EDIT:
oh my god
clearly one of the mirrors worked a lot better than the other
Age: 36
Nine Miles, Jamaica
Died (untreated cancer)
May 11, 1981
In July 1977 he was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in his right big toe. His Rastafarian religious beliefs did not allow for amputation. He sought alternative therapies as the cancer spread to the rest of his body. He died in 1981
Bob, you fucking idiot
Age: 44
Oslo, Norway
Severe burns
July 23, 2008
He had a stiff neck. His doctor tried to treat this with cupping. The alcohol used in the cupping procedure caught fire, and he was burned. He will need treatment for at least a month.
the picture of him shows him in his neck brace, half-smiling, as if to tell us he thinks it will work next time
ahahahahahahahaha
Age: 37
Gammon Ranges, South Australia, Australia
Died
November 3, 2004
He passed out while using a native american sweat lodge and his friends thought he was astral travelling. They used rituals to try to wake him up. In reality he was extremely dehydrated and died at a hospital.
well he's astral travelling now
I'm done, I can't take any more of this.
that's horrible, not funny!
That'll be one to tell the grandchildren.
Age: 34
Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India
Married a dog
November 14, 2007
Because he believed he was cursed for stoning two dogs to death, he married another dog at a Hindu temple
Steam
Whooops.
Ahahahah
There is so much weirdness on that website.
can you imagine the father, cheering the holy men on, as they beat her daughter to death in tandem
"Take THAT, evil spirit!"
Oh well.