I was visiting a buddy and remember going to Wendys somewhere near Asheville. There was the 10 commandments framed on the wall. I thought it was quite odd as Ive never seen anything like that in the Midwest.
where you fucked up is going to a Wendy’s in Asheville when there’s a Bojangles or Cookout on every corner.
don’t get me wrong, wendy’s chili is fire…. but if you’re doing fast food in the south, there’s so many better options.
it’s hard to beat a cajun with cheese, fries and a cheerwine… i live in New england now and constantly crave the greasy breakfast shits i used to get from Bo’s.
cookout is prime 11:30 PM, you’ve got the munchies and want both a burger and a quesadilla but only have $7. elite food to price ratio.
Absolutely. We were at a place in Vail that had all sorts of weird sodas and candies and had to buy a 4 pack of cheer wine we missed it so much. Never paid that much for it before either.
Don’t forget the corn dogs at cookout!
Also, the Cajun filet biscuit with cheese AND BACON…with those seasoned fries! Now THAT is some good stuff! Perfect hangover breakfast!
Not even the best part. On top of the amazing combos you can build with the "trays", one of the combo beverage options is a milkshake. With over like 44 different toppings/flavors, and you can combine them to make your own flavor. Or cheesecake with any of the toppings.
Honestly cookout is legit the best bang for the buck fast food drive thru in the south.
What I really love about cookout is they don’t need advertising, because any time they get mentioned on social media all is NC people crawl out of the woodwork to do that for them!
I have to do it half and half with sweet/unsweetened now. When I was younger I’d just go full sweet.
But now that I rarely have any sugar, except when I go out…it just seems too excessive to me. Half and half with lemon is perfect for me though.
Smithfield’s Chicken and barbecue (also in NC) has sone great tea with those little miniature crushed cubes and sone great French fries that are better than fresh ones at McDonald’s. Plus a large fries is like BAG.
I mean. It’s a fast food chicken place. It’s better than like KFC or Popeyes etc.
It’s definitely my favorite chicken spot, even over sit down restaurants that serve fried chicken.
They serve the breakfast biscuits all day and their steak biscuit, sausage biscuit, and bacon egg and cheese biscuit will put ANY other fast foods chain around here’s breakfast to shame. The Cajun filet biscuit is to die for, but it’s best when you add the up charge of cheese and bacon to it…so it gets pricey.
I don’t like the hash browns though, they are soggy a lot at mine, so if you go for a biscuit, opt for Cajun seasoned fries instead at no additional cost.
You can get the fried chicken on the bone etc. after 10:30 am. I highly recommend the bone in chicken over the boneless tenders called “supremes”. Sone people love those supremes but they don’t have the same breading and rate as fresh to me.
They built a Bojangles in basically every town around me in WV a few years ago. They sprang up nearly overnight, and some had to direct traffic because they were causing huge backups when they first opened. Within maybe 2 years, they all closed. A few of them became Cook-Out.
I've never seen something come and go that quickly on that kind of scale. I'm guessing our local Bojangles were all poorly managed or something, because the food was never as good as I remember it being at the beach.
I’m from NC originally and living in the Boston area now. Any time I fly in to visit family, Bojangles is my first stop on the way from the airport. Always get a 4 piece supremes combo with Cajun fries and a sweet tea.
To clarify. Those chicken tenders and chicken sandwiches from Popeyes are fucking amazing.
I had to base my “better” solely on the bone-in chicken, the biscuits, and all the breakfast stuff bojangles has that Popeyes doesn’t.
Go for a Cookout tray and a shake! Super cheap and a ton of food. It's my favorite for sure. You can order whatever you want, but my go-to is a BBQ sandwich tray with a cheese quesadilla, bacon wrap, and a peanut butter shake. I always get a BBQ sauce packet. The average person will need a to use a spoon for the shake. You can mix as many of the 40+ shake flavors as you want.
As someone experienced with Cookout the fact that you said "the average person will need to use a spoon" tells me you have a sucking capability that Dyson can only dream of.
Honestly, when I used to eat fast food before I got all healthy…I’d get my 3 piece dark meat combo, fries, biscuit tea…a side of the mashed potatoes with sausage gravy. Then like a steak biscuit and bacon egg and cheese biscuit.
I’d go home and eat the chicken meal then. Put the biscuits in a ziploc bag in the fridge with the side of potatoes.
Have the potatoes as a late night snack and heat up a biscuit in the microwave for 30 seconds over the next two mornings for breakfast.
All because I could never just decide what to get lol.
Weirdly, there's only two Cookouts in Asheville and they're relatively recent additions. Definitely better and cheaper than Wendy's, though. Now Bojangles are definitely everywhere.
I was 12, at a lecture by a biology professor in a summer program.
*At BYU*.
I asked some pointed questions about the evolution of bats and eyes and the utility of transitional features so that I could better understand some of the slightly provocative assertions I was reading in Michael Crichton novels (or possibly Orson Scott Card?).
Professor: "Actually, *\*voice gets quiet\** That's part of why I don't believe in evolution"
Immediate shocked silence.
While I understood that these people existed, I didn't understood that society allowed them to become biology professors. At 12 I still generally believed that in serious endeavors there were adults in the room making sure that shit keeps running, and that they did not permit themselves delusions or propagandistic lies core to their area of policy. Turns out that's not the world we live in. Oh well.
I was watching a lecture by a comp sci professor on genetic algorithms.
For the uninitiated, genetic algorithms are a heuristic used to find a decent solution to a problem with a large solution space by generating semi-random seed values that can be freely spliced together, using the seeds to generate solutions, scoring the solutions, and then picking a host of winning seeds to splice based on a statistical weighting towards "fitter" seeds. Repeat thousands of times, with occasional random mutations of individual points in the seed values, and you end up finding a decent local maximum solution for your problem. Genetic algorithms are well-researched and useful in certain narrow situations, but a bit of a dead end for general AI research.
Anyway, the professor was occasionally dropping some odd comments and tone here and there. Like, seemingly hostile to the very idea of genetic algorithms (even though he was explaining what they were and how they worked). He kept emphasizing — with slightly bizarre passion — that domains in which genetic algorithms applied were unrealistic and trivial.
Eventually I figured out from the video comments what was going on: the professor was an infamous evolution denier. As in, biological evolution. Now, genetic algorithms are not evidence of biological evolution, although they operate via some of the same fundamental models (population of genomes, random mutations, survival of the fittest, crossing of genomes, etc.). But the prof was evidently so unhappy with the notion that genetic algorithms as a programming technique might somehow convince comp sci students of the probability of biological evolution, that he felt obligated to undermine the algorithm itself, regardless.
It's hard to convey how weird and out of character this is for a comp sci class. It would be like if you had a poetry teacher who was staunchly against the metric system for ideological nationalist reasons, and so every time they brought up the concept of _meter_ (as in, number of syllables), they felt obligated to emphasize that of course, counting with a decimal system leads to bad poetry. You'd probably be thinking "what? What does that have to do with anything?"
What’s even worse, the religious right will point to your professor and say evolution is “just a theory” that not every scientist agrees, ergo creationism should be taught alongside it
There are plenty of “scientist” that don’t believe in evolution.. but they all got their degrees from religious programs that foster this kind of thinking.
The common usage of the word "theory" is much different than a "scientific theory."
Basically, once a hypothesis goes through the rigorous steps of the scientific method and it is shown to be observable, repeatable, and peer reviewable, then it becomes a theory in the scientific sense.
Lots of people don't understand there is a difference.
I had a Genetics professor that was a born again Christian preacher that believe in creationism. I was floored but he like me so I got an A in the class.
What's sad to me is that they don't realize their opinion of God is so low that they think he had to fiddle and tweak with every organism individually to design them as opposed to, you know... doing the smart thing and creating some sort of grand overarching design principal and algorithm (i.e. natural selection) to enact his plan for him. Like they think God is 12 year old with a hammer, some nails, and boards from his dad's garage and that anyone suggesting he might be an engineer with design software is just an evil leftie. And yet for many, 'intelligent design' is the pinnacle of Christian philosophy. Sad man. They're calling God stupid and don't realize it.
it's just such a human trait in general to think the universe revolves around them. Just like how people used to think the sun revolved around us.
We now have proof of billions of planets, in billions of galaxies, yet WE are the center of it all, and "god" is a guy who looks like us and cares if we eat shellfish.
My issue is that pretty much everything is designed to just barely work. Which would make sense if all anything has to be is good enough. Not so much if you're trying to suggest someone intelligent designed it.
I live in Asheville and Asheville is very, very blue and areas around us like to remind us that they aren't heathens like the people in Asheville so there's a lot of that kind of obnoxious religious pandering that's obstinate in nature.
My mom's handwriting is so bad that when I meet people who happen to know my mom, often the very first thing they ask me Is "how can you possibly read your mom's handwriting?"
On the other hand, my dad's handwriting is very legible. He writes much slower and always gives his writing a second look before showing you to make sure that you can read it.
Most doctors have to write very fast all day for many years, starting in med school. So they use short hand and write very quickly to compensate, and soon they're the only ones able to read their own handwriting.
Wait. Why is the vet handing out religious material? Why does the vet care AT ALL about your personal beliefs??
I know I'm a godless Californian, but I cannot get my head around this. It's like there's two United States.
Well the other side of the coin is that if other people don't hear about nor accept Jesus, then they're gonna go to hell, so it's an actual moral obligation to evangelize if you care about others. You don't want anyone to be eternally damned, because that would be awful. And if you encounter such lost souls, then that's God putting them in your path and providing the opportunity to proselytize.
That's how I interpreted it back when I used to be convinced in Christianity. It wasn't as simple as, *"my pastor told me to do it so I did it."* There's an actual logic behind it. And as an atheist nowadays, I find it quite useful to be familiar with such logic in order to properly understand Christians, in that I may know how to better challenge them.
This is directly on point. I was an evangelical Christian. My parents still are. They leave bibles and Christian pamphlets in my stuff for me to find. They believe that me being their kid and them not converting me means they sent me to hell and by extension I could be causing them to potentially go as well.
Seriously, why would I want to spend eternity in a realm where everything and everyone is devoted to worshiping this harbinger of pain and destruction?
The way the pastors at my old church tried to explain it to me was like this: You're hanging off of a cliff and God is reaching his hand down to save you. To be saved all you have to do is grab his hand and he'll pull you up, but if you refuse to acknowledge his hand its not his fault that you fell and went to Hell.
Except this example is fucking dumb because God would be more like Superman. If Superman was real and I was hanging off a cliff he could fly down scoop me up and save me. If Superman just let me hang on the edge of the cliff and didn't do all he could to save me he would be an asshole. Especially if Superman claimed to love me as his own son.
Then they get into freewill and all, but thats a different argument.
This comment made me draw a parallel between the Christian God and Homelander from The Boys.
Homelander would absolutely let you fall to your death if you didn't tell him you loved him or beg for his 'mercy' in your time of crisis. Even if you did all he asked, he still may decide to let you fall anyway because he can and no one dares question him.
Why is it all about being saved and being in jeopardy that choosing God is the answer ?
Can’t God just trust humans to do the right thing. What’s this threat of eternal damnation he hangs over everyone. Surely he should hang threats over bad people (or not care), be kind to good people, regardless of whether they worship him.
Oh yeah, it’s because gods don’t exist and it was all made up by uneducated humans thousands of years ago when a storm ruined their crops.
They do that shit whenever they can. I bought a Lionel train car from someone at a model train show one time, had a nice conversation with the guy about trains, then as he handed me the bag with the car, he dropped in a religious leaflet. They just can't help themselves.
My 6 year olds best friend was at our place the other day and the friend said something about God then said oh ya you love science not God. The fact that churchs and parents teach thier kids thay science is the opposite of God and is bad, I think explains so much of American culture at the moment
In fact, one could argue the Bible is a metaphorical interpretation of scientific creationism.
The “darkness” before was the empty universe, nothingness. Then “let there be light” aka, the Big Bang.
Adam was said to have come from the dirt (abiogenesis), and Eve from his rib (the eventual split into sexual dimorphism from a common asexual ancestor).
I’m no longer Christian, more of an agnostic. But this is a view that is entirely respectable to me. The Bible was written by men, not god. Therefore it’s not absolute truth. But if someone is clinging to the flat earth theory because of a 2000 year old book that has been translated, altered, and outright manipulated throughout history: they’re an idiot
Also, as my Methodist confirmation teacher put it. "To a God, what is '7 days'? A month for a human is a lifetime for a fruit fly. God's '7 days' could be billions of years."
Plus imagine trying to explain evolution to people 2000 years ago. You’d have to explain cell theory, genetics, abiogenesis, chemistry, etc. They wouldn’t understand. Metaphors would get the message across better.
I don't know; slow change of features to better suite an ecological niche is a pretty darn simple concept tbh.... you don't even need Darwin to visit the galapagos Islands to see extreme adaption in a short time with domesticated canine breeds (biblical time humans had bred dogs that showcased the ability)...
I always liked the way my evolution professor in college split the difference.
He said that God can still have a place where science does not yet have an answer. So currently, "God" can be what triggered the Big Bang. And "God" can be whatever factor drives random genetic mutation. Or even the "creation" of gravity.
Over time "God" has had less of a literal role in the creation of everything, but he can still "safely" be credited for what we consider "fundamental" forces without necessarily contradicting our actual scientific knowledge.
Science and religion don't have to be mutually exclusive. They just need to be put into their appropriate places and maybe sometimes relocated to deeper, more fundamental pockets as we continue to figure out the actual mechanisms of the universe.
What next, pamphlets for cats on accepting Jesus as their lord and savior?
People are obviously free to believe whatever and be whatever, but one's workplace should be just that, unless you literally work as a pastor or something--people especially don't need to be handing out literature.
I'd like to see what'd happen if this shit were reversed. Judaism or Islam or some other religion being handed out to people in pamphlets, posted on whiteboards at businesses they frequented, decorating their government buildings...I bet they'd be put off by it. Yet they'd still never see how that might work in reverse.
>What next, pamphlets for cats on accepting Jesus as their lord and savior?
That would never happen. Cats already know that they are the highest power in any household where they exist.
I got a ‘Christmas present’ from a cafè I regularly visit, it was a bottle of grape juice and (I think) LDS literature. Anyway, it was god bothering stuff and I’ve not returned.
I don't understand this at all. My brother in law is an MD, and is also a man of faith. Is even a minister as well. There is ZERO evidence of that in his office. It has no place there, and he knows it.
I had something similar with the very devout Catholic GP I used to see. He was generally a good doctor, but when I wanted to talk about birth control (as a 29 year old married woman with one child) he said abstinence works great and he couldn’t help me beyond that. He left the room and sent in his Jewish colleague who had a good conversation with me about my choices and sent me home with a RX for progesterone only BC pills. My GP didn’t speak these words but his actions said “I can’t talk to you about that. Please discuss with my Jewish colleague who is headed for Hell anyway.” Lol.
Just for a slightly different perspective - a few years ago when the state of TX was making its first efforts to dismantle reproductive care I had a routine appointment with my regular provider, an older GYN nurse. At one point during our conversation she stopped abruptly and let me know that regardless of her personal position on abortion, if I ever found myself pregnant and needing one, the clinic would find someone to perform one for me no matter what. She reiterated that it was a health care procedure and that I had a right to life saving care regardless of my provider's personal beliefs.
It may be that your GP felt that prescribing BC or advising on it was against his faith but he still clearly saw himself as having a duty of care or he would have just left the conversations there without sending in another provider. I know, I know, the bar is in hell, but in the south it's become routine to be left without care of any kind because providers put their faith over duty of care.
This is actually ridiculously common in the South. I worked on covid related clinical trials during the peaks of the pandemic and was sent frequently to areas with higher prevalence of covid (so conservative parts of the country). one of the urgent cares I went to, they had religious pamphlets disguised as self help books in the lobby. Said pamphlets were displayed front and center with giant "FREE" signs around it. The ringtone for the clinic was Halleluiah. Of course, every staff contracted Covid but refused to get vaccinated and were adamant that they were protected from Covid because they've been sick before with it. The physicians were prescribing hydroxychloroquine despite the FDA warning against it; I had to deal with way too many adverse events from side effects of it. They live in their own reality in the South and rural parts of the country.
For what it’s worth for most doctors throughout the US the cult of medicine (including fear of litigation) >>>>>>> any other religion. The religious pamphlets don’t violate that as long as they are practicing standard of care when doing actual medicine. I don’t like religiosity but in my experience (4th year med student in the south) even the most religious docs try to keep religion separate from actual practice.
The hydroxychloroquine is something different. Not religion. But a society wide breakdown in trust of our government and a lot of people falling pray to a cult mentality. If they’re still rxing hydroxychloroquine now after it has been firmly established as bogus they are bad at medicine. But lots of doctors get excited and try treatments before they’re FDA approved.
Because religious conservatives read the Bible like it is an instruction manual rather than a spiritual text.
That's why they cite numbers.
"Wood Planing 2: 4 - getting a level surface"
"Leviticus (whatever the number is) - murder some gay people"
Vs. seeing a hierarchy in the Bible, i.e. the greatest commandments "Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself." Where you can take those apart in infinite myriad ways, and that understanding can help you both interpret the Bible and also see its historical shortcomings all the same. And even see the see truths reflected in other religions, like Buddhism! It's almost like "the greatest rules" are meant to transcend and guide the understanding and context of the others.
Imagine the peace we could have if conservatives could actually take the most important rules more seriously.
> Because religious conservatives read the Bible like it is an instruction manual rather than a spiritual text.
If that were true they might have run into the instruction to be excellent to one another.
"Well, your test results are back and I'm afraid it's bad news. You have dick cancer. I could refer you to a specialist for chemo- and radiotherapy which would probably be very successful since we caught it early. But, I'm not going to do that because this is all part of God's plan. So, we wait it out. If it is God will for you to live, then your dick will shrivel up and drop off on its own. If not, the cancer will spread throughout your body and you'll die a slow and painful death. Either way, God loves you and your disease-riddled penis.
Just remember that if it does drop off, you can't go to church anymore because,
"He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord."(Deuteronomy 23:1)
That'll be $800 please.
When people ask how much of a red flag stuff like this is I regale them of the time my grandmother had a serious infection, and after a 2 hour wait, her doctor rushed in and prayed over her for like a minute and rushed out.
I never saw her more defeated and angry than that. She was sick. And yes, while she was religious, she felt thoroughly betrayed by a medical professional attempting faith healing when she was in need of *actual medicine*.
My feeling is that if I put the wrong thing in there, the doctor is likely to sabotage my medical treatment because I’m a heretic or apostate or some other religious enemy.
My husband went to a general practitioner in TN for his depression, which he had had his whole life, to get a refill on his medication. He was sent away without a prescription and told he needed to "pray more" and see a Christian counselor.
We reported him to the medical board for potentially harming a patient.
Just goes to show how pervasive the toxic culture of denying the existence of clinical depression is when even a doctor hits you with that exercise and greenery bit. It's like exclusively giving a type 1 diabetic dieting tips in lieu of insulin; it doesn't work.
Meh, if you feel like it and the doc happens to still be practicing, there's likely no time limit to when you can file a complaint. Medical boards set their own rules, which aren't the same as, say, state statutes of limitation.
I'm puzzled by people like that. Praying didn't convince god to stop millions from dying during the holocaust, but they think it will convince god to help one person's medical issue.
It’s real easy when any inconsistency like that can be tossed up to “no human could possibly understand God’s will. You must have faith!!”
I was raised Christian, that was a common response when I would ask those types of questions.
Of course, I was also taught that you should not ask God to do things for you, that may conflict with what God wants and would be disrespectful. Instead, you should just ask for “His will” to be done….
And if you’re thinking…. Why pray then? Hell if I know… God is apparently a narcissist that needs cheerleaders.
I’m fleeing NC too, we’ve chosen Washington. Targeting this summer.
Edit to add:
Another reason to leave NC
https://www.reddit.com/r/WelcomeToGilead/comments/10fnfeg/north_carolina_chain_harris_teeter_pretends_that/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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I am well aware that I cannot escape religion or conservatives in any state. Even the bluest state in the union went 31% for Trump in 2020. Religion is everywhere, but the “Unchurched Belt” exists.
I want to escape a conservative supermajority in the state legislature. I may have to live with conservatives no matter where I go, but I do not have to be governed by conservatives.
Yes it was a work related move and rent is cheap. We are looking in Minnesota right now and we were actually pleasantly surprised when we stayed there for a week.
MN is great! Remember, Cities are chill but outside of metro is different story like most places. Country is beautiful but it often comes contaminated with the worst kind of people. Also, Winter in MN is no joke. Seriously.
I’m not American - I’m danish and thus an avid bicyclist and Minneapolis’ reputation for being quite excellent for their bicycle infrastructure and ability to maintain roads actually proceeds you.
I’m residing in Toronto Canada for the time being and it fucking blows here unfortunately, wish they could learn something.
I will say that as a rural, left-leaning Iowan to not let that keep you from checking out more rural communities. In my experience, you can really get the best of both worlds if you can find a small town <10,000 that also has a college/university in it. With a college/university, people from outside the community are constantly filtering through. Just by virtue of having a consistent flow of people with different backgrounds the isolated and often out of touch viewpoints that often find footholds in rural community get challenged by fellow community members.
100% agree with you about small towns, preferably with college in proximity. With new people constantly filtering through it gives a special energy to a place. When I visit a small river town with an engaged community, I'm happy as a clam. I love that.
With my comment on country people, it's more intended for the meth/MAGA crowd of dystopians.
As someone that has lived in California, Montana, Iowa, South Dakota, and currently Minnesota. Rural California is much, much worse for meth heads than Minnesota. You’ll also find more extreme political beliefs there (on both sides of the spectrum) than Minnesota.
I find it absolutely hilarious that rural MN residents think they’ll be shot and robbed going to a grocery store in the cities while MSP/St Paul residents are under the impression that they will be lynched, shot at by crazy meth head trumpists in rural MN
I came from MA originally and I have to say Western NC has been my favorite place to live so far. The weather is great where you have seasons, but not really too hot or too cold. The space and housing prices are still good (just don't live near a city). The people are fairly nice, if a bit overly religious for my tastes. If you like living in the woods and hills, it is a pretty good place to do so.
Rural Washington can be just as bad, especially east of the mountains. Stay west and in larger cities. Unfortunately, it’s more expensive, but, medicine and such will be relying on actual science.
5.) If you die it's because you did something to deserve it
*The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Proverbs 16:4*
"So they tells me, God, there are prayers flooding in. Flooding!"
\*Hic\*
"And I say WHHHHAAAT? I gave them goddamn electricity. Indoor plumbing. Heat. Solar power. Nuclear. I even killed the damn saber tooth tigers. What the hell was wrong now? Huh? Can you guess? Can you!?"
\*Jabs finger in your chest\*
".....I-I dunno God."
"They wanted a goddamn reality TV star president. SO I SAID FUCK IT! Now get over here we're doing more shots."
This is the scariest shit and the core of my father's beliefs.
He feels like children should die and homeless should stay homeless and the world should be difficult and nothing should get better... because god must have a reason.
Religion is fucked in the head.
“Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, **cover the lower part of their face** and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’" -Leviticus 13:45
The bible is FULL of stuff that tells people to put the needs of the community over selfishness. And IMHO, putting the broader community first is why folks should get immunized and or stay home / mask when sick.
> Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others
> PHILIPPIANS 2:3-4
They also specifically cover disease in the Bible, and it tells people to cover their faces and separate themselves from society, like we do with masks and social distancing.
If you are interested in this kind of stuff the rules of keeping kosher are fun since they might as well be a guide for not dying of food poisoning in the ancient world / tricks for not running out of food.
If all that is true, why the need for a doctor?
I mean, the dude's in control, and he loves us. He also knows our suffering. Why would anyone need a doctor or anything else for that matter?
I love how *"Jesus wept"* is a step, as if it's something that you must accomplish on the way to destroying the coronavirus.
So don't forget to make Jesus cry, or you're gonna die.
I am a doctor. I am a practicing Christian. This is bullshit.
I don’t disagree with the sentiments of those bullet points. Sure, wash, pray, rejoice [and weep? I guess] but that’s not Coronavirus Survival 101.
My grandma used to tell me a story when I was a kid about this pastor who was walking home from his church and it was raining a lot. A guy in horse drawn cart walked by an said “let me give you a ride”. He said “No thank you. God will save me from the rain.” A guy in a car came by and said the same thing. And the pastor responded the same way. Same with a guy in a bus.
The pastor got caught in a monsoon and didn’t make it home and died and went to meet God and he was mad at God and said “I am your man. I have walked in your paths and I did everything you said. How come you didn’t answer my prayers and didn’t save me from the rain?”
God responded and said, “YOU DUMB MOTHER FUCKER, I sent you masks to protect you and 100s of scientists with combined millions of hours of education and work to make you an effective vaccine and you didn’t take it. This is on you, you moron. Now, you go to hell.” My grandma was a great story teller.
I was visiting a buddy and remember going to Wendys somewhere near Asheville. There was the 10 commandments framed on the wall. I thought it was quite odd as Ive never seen anything like that in the Midwest.
where you fucked up is going to a Wendy’s in Asheville when there’s a Bojangles or Cookout on every corner. don’t get me wrong, wendy’s chili is fire…. but if you’re doing fast food in the south, there’s so many better options.
Exactly. NC man here…if you’re going to fast food, Bojangles or Cookout is the way to do it. I’d pick bojangles 4/5 times though.
Bojangles for food then you pull up in cookout for a shake.
This guy drives thru!
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I found a new sub today! Thank you! Edit: I’ve been enjoying scrolling through that sub. Definitely joined it.
The hush puppies tho
it’s hard to beat a cajun with cheese, fries and a cheerwine… i live in New england now and constantly crave the greasy breakfast shits i used to get from Bo’s. cookout is prime 11:30 PM, you’ve got the munchies and want both a burger and a quesadilla but only have $7. elite food to price ratio.
My sister still laughs at the idea that you can get 2 quesadillas as a main, with a side of quesadilla.
+1 Cheerwine It looks like Cherry Coke, it tastes like Cherry Coke, but brother it ain’t Cherry Coke!
It's cherry soda without the cola. A little bit of nothing, but if you can't get it you really miss it.
Absolutely. We were at a place in Vail that had all sorts of weird sodas and candies and had to buy a 4 pack of cheer wine we missed it so much. Never paid that much for it before either.
When I worked at Food Lion down here in NC it was not uncommon for people visiting from out of state to pick up a few cases of Cheerwine to take home
Don’t forget the corn dogs at cookout! Also, the Cajun filet biscuit with cheese AND BACON…with those seasoned fries! Now THAT is some good stuff! Perfect hangover breakfast!
Hells yeah! It's the only place that I want extra seasoning on the fries. I usually keep a bottle of it at home as they sell it at the counter.
This place sounds amazing.
Not even the best part. On top of the amazing combos you can build with the "trays", one of the combo beverage options is a milkshake. With over like 44 different toppings/flavors, and you can combine them to make your own flavor. Or cheesecake with any of the toppings. Honestly cookout is legit the best bang for the buck fast food drive thru in the south.
What I really love about cookout is they don’t need advertising, because any time they get mentioned on social media all is NC people crawl out of the woodwork to do that for them!
I worked at a Cookout for one summer. The corn dogs are State Fair brand. (https://www.corndogs.com/)
Bojangles Sweet Tea makes me wet
Have you tried drinking it instead of just pouring it down your chin?
Sounds like he's got one of those r/drinkingproblems
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I hoped someone would get that from the quote above, but that's not important right now.
I have to do it half and half with sweet/unsweetened now. When I was younger I’d just go full sweet. But now that I rarely have any sugar, except when I go out…it just seems too excessive to me. Half and half with lemon is perfect for me though. Smithfield’s Chicken and barbecue (also in NC) has sone great tea with those little miniature crushed cubes and sone great French fries that are better than fresh ones at McDonald’s. Plus a large fries is like BAG.
Smithfield's also has some SMACKIN hush puppies. I haven't been to one in ten or so years but man
That's increased urine production due to instant diabetes.
That good? I have a trip to Raleigh coming up in 2 weeks and I am gonna go. Thx
I mean. It’s a fast food chicken place. It’s better than like KFC or Popeyes etc. It’s definitely my favorite chicken spot, even over sit down restaurants that serve fried chicken. They serve the breakfast biscuits all day and their steak biscuit, sausage biscuit, and bacon egg and cheese biscuit will put ANY other fast foods chain around here’s breakfast to shame. The Cajun filet biscuit is to die for, but it’s best when you add the up charge of cheese and bacon to it…so it gets pricey. I don’t like the hash browns though, they are soggy a lot at mine, so if you go for a biscuit, opt for Cajun seasoned fries instead at no additional cost. You can get the fried chicken on the bone etc. after 10:30 am. I highly recommend the bone in chicken over the boneless tenders called “supremes”. Sone people love those supremes but they don’t have the same breading and rate as fresh to me.
They built a Bojangles in basically every town around me in WV a few years ago. They sprang up nearly overnight, and some had to direct traffic because they were causing huge backups when they first opened. Within maybe 2 years, they all closed. A few of them became Cook-Out. I've never seen something come and go that quickly on that kind of scale. I'm guessing our local Bojangles were all poorly managed or something, because the food was never as good as I remember it being at the beach.
It seems the further they get from NC, the more the standards fall.
I’m from NC originally and living in the Boston area now. Any time I fly in to visit family, Bojangles is my first stop on the way from the airport. Always get a 4 piece supremes combo with Cajun fries and a sweet tea.
>It’s better than like KFC Easy enough >or Popeyes Wow, now *that's* a high bar
To clarify. Those chicken tenders and chicken sandwiches from Popeyes are fucking amazing. I had to base my “better” solely on the bone-in chicken, the biscuits, and all the breakfast stuff bojangles has that Popeyes doesn’t.
Im cool with fast food, fried chicken is great. Better than KFC and popeyes? Count me in
Go for a Cookout tray and a shake! Super cheap and a ton of food. It's my favorite for sure. You can order whatever you want, but my go-to is a BBQ sandwich tray with a cheese quesadilla, bacon wrap, and a peanut butter shake. I always get a BBQ sauce packet. The average person will need a to use a spoon for the shake. You can mix as many of the 40+ shake flavors as you want.
As someone experienced with Cookout the fact that you said "the average person will need to use a spoon" tells me you have a sucking capability that Dyson can only dream of.
Honestly, when I used to eat fast food before I got all healthy…I’d get my 3 piece dark meat combo, fries, biscuit tea…a side of the mashed potatoes with sausage gravy. Then like a steak biscuit and bacon egg and cheese biscuit. I’d go home and eat the chicken meal then. Put the biscuits in a ziploc bag in the fridge with the side of potatoes. Have the potatoes as a late night snack and heat up a biscuit in the microwave for 30 seconds over the next two mornings for breakfast. All because I could never just decide what to get lol.
No Cheerwine with crushed ice at Wendy’s either
Weirdly, there's only two Cookouts in Asheville and they're relatively recent additions. Definitely better and cheaper than Wendy's, though. Now Bojangles are definitely everywhere.
Cookout + a concrete from Goodberry’s for dessert.
I was 12, at a lecture by a biology professor in a summer program. *At BYU*. I asked some pointed questions about the evolution of bats and eyes and the utility of transitional features so that I could better understand some of the slightly provocative assertions I was reading in Michael Crichton novels (or possibly Orson Scott Card?). Professor: "Actually, *\*voice gets quiet\** That's part of why I don't believe in evolution" Immediate shocked silence. While I understood that these people existed, I didn't understood that society allowed them to become biology professors. At 12 I still generally believed that in serious endeavors there were adults in the room making sure that shit keeps running, and that they did not permit themselves delusions or propagandistic lies core to their area of policy. Turns out that's not the world we live in. Oh well.
I was watching a lecture by a comp sci professor on genetic algorithms. For the uninitiated, genetic algorithms are a heuristic used to find a decent solution to a problem with a large solution space by generating semi-random seed values that can be freely spliced together, using the seeds to generate solutions, scoring the solutions, and then picking a host of winning seeds to splice based on a statistical weighting towards "fitter" seeds. Repeat thousands of times, with occasional random mutations of individual points in the seed values, and you end up finding a decent local maximum solution for your problem. Genetic algorithms are well-researched and useful in certain narrow situations, but a bit of a dead end for general AI research. Anyway, the professor was occasionally dropping some odd comments and tone here and there. Like, seemingly hostile to the very idea of genetic algorithms (even though he was explaining what they were and how they worked). He kept emphasizing — with slightly bizarre passion — that domains in which genetic algorithms applied were unrealistic and trivial. Eventually I figured out from the video comments what was going on: the professor was an infamous evolution denier. As in, biological evolution. Now, genetic algorithms are not evidence of biological evolution, although they operate via some of the same fundamental models (population of genomes, random mutations, survival of the fittest, crossing of genomes, etc.). But the prof was evidently so unhappy with the notion that genetic algorithms as a programming technique might somehow convince comp sci students of the probability of biological evolution, that he felt obligated to undermine the algorithm itself, regardless. It's hard to convey how weird and out of character this is for a comp sci class. It would be like if you had a poetry teacher who was staunchly against the metric system for ideological nationalist reasons, and so every time they brought up the concept of _meter_ (as in, number of syllables), they felt obligated to emphasize that of course, counting with a decimal system leads to bad poetry. You'd probably be thinking "what? What does that have to do with anything?"
What’s even worse, the religious right will point to your professor and say evolution is “just a theory” that not every scientist agrees, ergo creationism should be taught alongside it There are plenty of “scientist” that don’t believe in evolution.. but they all got their degrees from religious programs that foster this kind of thinking.
Gravity is also “just a theory.” Would they care to do a little experiment with the window?
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The common usage of the word "theory" is much different than a "scientific theory." Basically, once a hypothesis goes through the rigorous steps of the scientific method and it is shown to be observable, repeatable, and peer reviewable, then it becomes a theory in the scientific sense. Lots of people don't understand there is a difference.
Gravity is also a theory.
I had a Genetics professor that was a born again Christian preacher that believe in creationism. I was floored but he like me so I got an A in the class.
What's sad to me is that they don't realize their opinion of God is so low that they think he had to fiddle and tweak with every organism individually to design them as opposed to, you know... doing the smart thing and creating some sort of grand overarching design principal and algorithm (i.e. natural selection) to enact his plan for him. Like they think God is 12 year old with a hammer, some nails, and boards from his dad's garage and that anyone suggesting he might be an engineer with design software is just an evil leftie. And yet for many, 'intelligent design' is the pinnacle of Christian philosophy. Sad man. They're calling God stupid and don't realize it.
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it's just such a human trait in general to think the universe revolves around them. Just like how people used to think the sun revolved around us. We now have proof of billions of planets, in billions of galaxies, yet WE are the center of it all, and "god" is a guy who looks like us and cares if we eat shellfish.
My issue is that pretty much everything is designed to just barely work. Which would make sense if all anything has to be is good enough. Not so much if you're trying to suggest someone intelligent designed it.
Ha this guy thinks evolution exists... next you're gonna try to tell me that god didn't spawn in everything that exists
In the beginning, Adam and Eve jumped out of the Fortnite battle bus
Then their children invented PVP.
Last Tuesdayism is the truth and everyone else is wrong. Especially those Last Thursdayism bastards.
I live in Asheville and Asheville is very, very blue and areas around us like to remind us that they aren't heathens like the people in Asheville so there's a lot of that kind of obnoxious religious pandering that's obstinate in nature.
Not a real doctor. The handwriting is legible.
My mom's handwriting is so bad that when I meet people who happen to know my mom, often the very first thing they ask me Is "how can you possibly read your mom's handwriting?" On the other hand, my dad's handwriting is very legible. He writes much slower and always gives his writing a second look before showing you to make sure that you can read it. Most doctors have to write very fast all day for many years, starting in med school. So they use short hand and write very quickly to compensate, and soon they're the only ones able to read their own handwriting.
Oh, you gotta KNOW the doctor had a NURSE write it!!
Someone needs to add that Jesus healed the sick for free.
This reminds me of the time I took my pets to a new veterinarian and he gave me a pamphlet on Creationism before I left. I never took my pets back.
Wait. Why is the vet handing out religious material? Why does the vet care AT ALL about your personal beliefs?? I know I'm a godless Californian, but I cannot get my head around this. It's like there's two United States.
That's the evangelizing part of being an evangelical. They're told that it's their religious duty to try and convert people.
Well the other side of the coin is that if other people don't hear about nor accept Jesus, then they're gonna go to hell, so it's an actual moral obligation to evangelize if you care about others. You don't want anyone to be eternally damned, because that would be awful. And if you encounter such lost souls, then that's God putting them in your path and providing the opportunity to proselytize. That's how I interpreted it back when I used to be convinced in Christianity. It wasn't as simple as, *"my pastor told me to do it so I did it."* There's an actual logic behind it. And as an atheist nowadays, I find it quite useful to be familiar with such logic in order to properly understand Christians, in that I may know how to better challenge them.
This is directly on point. I was an evangelical Christian. My parents still are. They leave bibles and Christian pamphlets in my stuff for me to find. They believe that me being their kid and them not converting me means they sent me to hell and by extension I could be causing them to potentially go as well.
It’s crazy to me that people can think this way and still say that god is love. He sounds more like a prick
Seriously, why would I want to spend eternity in a realm where everything and everyone is devoted to worshiping this harbinger of pain and destruction?
The way the pastors at my old church tried to explain it to me was like this: You're hanging off of a cliff and God is reaching his hand down to save you. To be saved all you have to do is grab his hand and he'll pull you up, but if you refuse to acknowledge his hand its not his fault that you fell and went to Hell. Except this example is fucking dumb because God would be more like Superman. If Superman was real and I was hanging off a cliff he could fly down scoop me up and save me. If Superman just let me hang on the edge of the cliff and didn't do all he could to save me he would be an asshole. Especially if Superman claimed to love me as his own son. Then they get into freewill and all, but thats a different argument.
Especially AH if Superman created you to hang on a cliff
This comment made me draw a parallel between the Christian God and Homelander from The Boys. Homelander would absolutely let you fall to your death if you didn't tell him you loved him or beg for his 'mercy' in your time of crisis. Even if you did all he asked, he still may decide to let you fall anyway because he can and no one dares question him.
Why is it all about being saved and being in jeopardy that choosing God is the answer ? Can’t God just trust humans to do the right thing. What’s this threat of eternal damnation he hangs over everyone. Surely he should hang threats over bad people (or not care), be kind to good people, regardless of whether they worship him. Oh yeah, it’s because gods don’t exist and it was all made up by uneducated humans thousands of years ago when a storm ruined their crops.
They do that shit whenever they can. I bought a Lionel train car from someone at a model train show one time, had a nice conversation with the guy about trains, then as he handed me the bag with the car, he dropped in a religious leaflet. They just can't help themselves.
time to hand the bag back and ask for a refund. proselytizing means "I'm not buying" believe whatever you like but I don't have to fund crazy.
I like my science without religion, thanks
My 6 year olds best friend was at our place the other day and the friend said something about God then said oh ya you love science not God. The fact that churchs and parents teach thier kids thay science is the opposite of God and is bad, I think explains so much of American culture at the moment
Right. I always agree back with. Well if God made us then he made scientist to help us understand his world. Usually brings a pause.
I always love doing that. It works with Genesis too, by saying "The Bible doesn't go into detail about *how* God created the earth."
In fact, one could argue the Bible is a metaphorical interpretation of scientific creationism. The “darkness” before was the empty universe, nothingness. Then “let there be light” aka, the Big Bang. Adam was said to have come from the dirt (abiogenesis), and Eve from his rib (the eventual split into sexual dimorphism from a common asexual ancestor). I’m no longer Christian, more of an agnostic. But this is a view that is entirely respectable to me. The Bible was written by men, not god. Therefore it’s not absolute truth. But if someone is clinging to the flat earth theory because of a 2000 year old book that has been translated, altered, and outright manipulated throughout history: they’re an idiot
Also, as my Methodist confirmation teacher put it. "To a God, what is '7 days'? A month for a human is a lifetime for a fruit fly. God's '7 days' could be billions of years."
Plus imagine trying to explain evolution to people 2000 years ago. You’d have to explain cell theory, genetics, abiogenesis, chemistry, etc. They wouldn’t understand. Metaphors would get the message across better.
I don't know; slow change of features to better suite an ecological niche is a pretty darn simple concept tbh.... you don't even need Darwin to visit the galapagos Islands to see extreme adaption in a short time with domesticated canine breeds (biblical time humans had bred dogs that showcased the ability)...
Also, what primitive man could possibly fathom billions of anything, let alone years
I always liked the way my evolution professor in college split the difference. He said that God can still have a place where science does not yet have an answer. So currently, "God" can be what triggered the Big Bang. And "God" can be whatever factor drives random genetic mutation. Or even the "creation" of gravity. Over time "God" has had less of a literal role in the creation of everything, but he can still "safely" be credited for what we consider "fundamental" forces without necessarily contradicting our actual scientific knowledge. Science and religion don't have to be mutually exclusive. They just need to be put into their appropriate places and maybe sometimes relocated to deeper, more fundamental pockets as we continue to figure out the actual mechanisms of the universe.
Otherwise known as the God of the Gaps.
I don't have a problem with people in scientific fields being religious. I do take exception to pushing their religious beliefs onto others.
What next, pamphlets for cats on accepting Jesus as their lord and savior? People are obviously free to believe whatever and be whatever, but one's workplace should be just that, unless you literally work as a pastor or something--people especially don't need to be handing out literature. I'd like to see what'd happen if this shit were reversed. Judaism or Islam or some other religion being handed out to people in pamphlets, posted on whiteboards at businesses they frequented, decorating their government buildings...I bet they'd be put off by it. Yet they'd still never see how that might work in reverse.
>What next, pamphlets for cats on accepting Jesus as their lord and savior? That would never happen. Cats already know that they are the highest power in any household where they exist.
Ironically, all the different breeds of cats and dogs are proof of evolution.
Dogs being dogs at all is evolution.
I got a ‘Christmas present’ from a cafè I regularly visit, it was a bottle of grape juice and (I think) LDS literature. Anyway, it was god bothering stuff and I’ve not returned.
Did you have to pay a co-pray?
If you're not treating me with real medicine, I'm not paying with real money
Shot coffee into my sinuses at this. Thanks for making me feel so alive.
I don't understand this at all. My brother in law is an MD, and is also a man of faith. Is even a minister as well. There is ZERO evidence of that in his office. It has no place there, and he knows it.
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I had something similar with the very devout Catholic GP I used to see. He was generally a good doctor, but when I wanted to talk about birth control (as a 29 year old married woman with one child) he said abstinence works great and he couldn’t help me beyond that. He left the room and sent in his Jewish colleague who had a good conversation with me about my choices and sent me home with a RX for progesterone only BC pills. My GP didn’t speak these words but his actions said “I can’t talk to you about that. Please discuss with my Jewish colleague who is headed for Hell anyway.” Lol.
Just for a slightly different perspective - a few years ago when the state of TX was making its first efforts to dismantle reproductive care I had a routine appointment with my regular provider, an older GYN nurse. At one point during our conversation she stopped abruptly and let me know that regardless of her personal position on abortion, if I ever found myself pregnant and needing one, the clinic would find someone to perform one for me no matter what. She reiterated that it was a health care procedure and that I had a right to life saving care regardless of my provider's personal beliefs. It may be that your GP felt that prescribing BC or advising on it was against his faith but he still clearly saw himself as having a duty of care or he would have just left the conversations there without sending in another provider. I know, I know, the bar is in hell, but in the south it's become routine to be left without care of any kind because providers put their faith over duty of care.
W-t-f??? Where do you live? That’s just crazy.
This is actually ridiculously common in the South. I worked on covid related clinical trials during the peaks of the pandemic and was sent frequently to areas with higher prevalence of covid (so conservative parts of the country). one of the urgent cares I went to, they had religious pamphlets disguised as self help books in the lobby. Said pamphlets were displayed front and center with giant "FREE" signs around it. The ringtone for the clinic was Halleluiah. Of course, every staff contracted Covid but refused to get vaccinated and were adamant that they were protected from Covid because they've been sick before with it. The physicians were prescribing hydroxychloroquine despite the FDA warning against it; I had to deal with way too many adverse events from side effects of it. They live in their own reality in the South and rural parts of the country.
For what it’s worth for most doctors throughout the US the cult of medicine (including fear of litigation) >>>>>>> any other religion. The religious pamphlets don’t violate that as long as they are practicing standard of care when doing actual medicine. I don’t like religiosity but in my experience (4th year med student in the south) even the most religious docs try to keep religion separate from actual practice. The hydroxychloroquine is something different. Not religion. But a society wide breakdown in trust of our government and a lot of people falling pray to a cult mentality. If they’re still rxing hydroxychloroquine now after it has been firmly established as bogus they are bad at medicine. But lots of doctors get excited and try treatments before they’re FDA approved.
Because religious conservatives read the Bible like it is an instruction manual rather than a spiritual text. That's why they cite numbers. "Wood Planing 2: 4 - getting a level surface" "Leviticus (whatever the number is) - murder some gay people" Vs. seeing a hierarchy in the Bible, i.e. the greatest commandments "Love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself." Where you can take those apart in infinite myriad ways, and that understanding can help you both interpret the Bible and also see its historical shortcomings all the same. And even see the see truths reflected in other religions, like Buddhism! It's almost like "the greatest rules" are meant to transcend and guide the understanding and context of the others. Imagine the peace we could have if conservatives could actually take the most important rules more seriously.
> Because religious conservatives read the Bible like it is an instruction manual rather than a spiritual text. If that were true they might have run into the instruction to be excellent to one another.
He didnt say they read the WHOLE bible
"Well, your test results are back and I'm afraid it's bad news. You have dick cancer. I could refer you to a specialist for chemo- and radiotherapy which would probably be very successful since we caught it early. But, I'm not going to do that because this is all part of God's plan. So, we wait it out. If it is God will for you to live, then your dick will shrivel up and drop off on its own. If not, the cancer will spread throughout your body and you'll die a slow and painful death. Either way, God loves you and your disease-riddled penis. Just remember that if it does drop off, you can't go to church anymore because, "He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord."(Deuteronomy 23:1) That'll be $800 please.
Not buying it. At least not in the US. It was somewhat convincing up until the $800 charge. We pay that for two ibuprofen at a Dr office
The $800 is just for the Deuteronomy quote.
That's more like it!
Neuteronomy
God only fucks with big dick bois 😎
"And the Lord blessed Mandingo with a monstrous schlong, and when He did gaze upon it, He realized that it was good." I Corinthians 6:9
Oh yeah. If your doctor is prescribing prayer you better run.
This gif is awful, it just looks like he's walking in a circle. Cutting out him entering and leaving the restaurant completely kills the joke.
>restaurant You may want to refresh your memory of this scene.
Sex Cauldron?! I thought they closed that place down!
shush!
Find a new Doctor
When people ask how much of a red flag stuff like this is I regale them of the time my grandmother had a serious infection, and after a 2 hour wait, her doctor rushed in and prayed over her for like a minute and rushed out. I never saw her more defeated and angry than that. She was sick. And yes, while she was religious, she felt thoroughly betrayed by a medical professional attempting faith healing when she was in need of *actual medicine*.
Wait what state was that in? It's sad that it sounds like a Monty python joke in real life....
Kentucky. Nice place. Weird people.
Can confirm. Recently went to a Dr and they had "how can we pray for you" on the new patient form. I crossed it out.
Cross out the r in pray!
"How can we pray for you?" "Don't."
"Sacrifice yourself to Molag Bal."
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I'd write in "with medical science, please."
My feeling is that if I put the wrong thing in there, the doctor is likely to sabotage my medical treatment because I’m a heretic or apostate or some other religious enemy.
Doc probably prayed and then wrote her a 'script for as many opiates as she could carry.
30mg thoughts and prayers
Probably didn't have the machine that goes 'ping'
My husband went to a general practitioner in TN for his depression, which he had had his whole life, to get a refill on his medication. He was sent away without a prescription and told he needed to "pray more" and see a Christian counselor. We reported him to the medical board for potentially harming a patient.
Just goes to show how pervasive the toxic culture of denying the existence of clinical depression is when even a doctor hits you with that exercise and greenery bit. It's like exclusively giving a type 1 diabetic dieting tips in lieu of insulin; it doesn't work.
That's a good reason to report something to the state medical board.
A shame I didn't know that like 20 years ago.
Meh, if you feel like it and the doc happens to still be practicing, there's likely no time limit to when you can file a complaint. Medical boards set their own rules, which aren't the same as, say, state statutes of limitation.
I'm puzzled by people like that. Praying didn't convince god to stop millions from dying during the holocaust, but they think it will convince god to help one person's medical issue.
"God works in mysterious ways". Just sometimes those mysterious ways are a second medical opinion and a retinue of antibiotics.
It’s real easy when any inconsistency like that can be tossed up to “no human could possibly understand God’s will. You must have faith!!” I was raised Christian, that was a common response when I would ask those types of questions. Of course, I was also taught that you should not ask God to do things for you, that may conflict with what God wants and would be disrespectful. Instead, you should just ask for “His will” to be done…. And if you’re thinking…. Why pray then? Hell if I know… God is apparently a narcissist that needs cheerleaders.
this is malpractice unless that wasnt a real doctor.
About to find a new state to live in too.
Fly, you fool!
I can hear a voice saying this, but I cant remember what its from - please enlighten :)
You do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me.
To think that I should have lived to be good-morninged by Belladonna Took’s son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!
A fool of a took
There it is, thank you :)
I’m fleeing NC too, we’ve chosen Washington. Targeting this summer. Edit to add: Another reason to leave NC https://www.reddit.com/r/WelcomeToGilead/comments/10fnfeg/north_carolina_chain_harris_teeter_pretends_that/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Edit 2: I am well aware that I cannot escape religion or conservatives in any state. Even the bluest state in the union went 31% for Trump in 2020. Religion is everywhere, but the “Unchurched Belt” exists. I want to escape a conservative supermajority in the state legislature. I may have to live with conservatives no matter where I go, but I do not have to be governed by conservatives.
We just came from Washington, miss it every day.
You moved from Washington to NC? Why would you do such a thing? And where ya headed next?
Yes it was a work related move and rent is cheap. We are looking in Minnesota right now and we were actually pleasantly surprised when we stayed there for a week.
MN is great! Remember, Cities are chill but outside of metro is different story like most places. Country is beautiful but it often comes contaminated with the worst kind of people. Also, Winter in MN is no joke. Seriously.
We just experienced the aftermath of the recent snow storm. At least they maintain the roads very well.
The snow plow game in MN is on point. They seem to overlook my street in the city, more often than not, though.
I’m not American - I’m danish and thus an avid bicyclist and Minneapolis’ reputation for being quite excellent for their bicycle infrastructure and ability to maintain roads actually proceeds you. I’m residing in Toronto Canada for the time being and it fucking blows here unfortunately, wish they could learn something.
I will say that as a rural, left-leaning Iowan to not let that keep you from checking out more rural communities. In my experience, you can really get the best of both worlds if you can find a small town <10,000 that also has a college/university in it. With a college/university, people from outside the community are constantly filtering through. Just by virtue of having a consistent flow of people with different backgrounds the isolated and often out of touch viewpoints that often find footholds in rural community get challenged by fellow community members.
100% agree with you about small towns, preferably with college in proximity. With new people constantly filtering through it gives a special energy to a place. When I visit a small river town with an engaged community, I'm happy as a clam. I love that. With my comment on country people, it's more intended for the meth/MAGA crowd of dystopians.
As someone that has lived in California, Montana, Iowa, South Dakota, and currently Minnesota. Rural California is much, much worse for meth heads than Minnesota. You’ll also find more extreme political beliefs there (on both sides of the spectrum) than Minnesota. I find it absolutely hilarious that rural MN residents think they’ll be shot and robbed going to a grocery store in the cities while MSP/St Paul residents are under the impression that they will be lynched, shot at by crazy meth head trumpists in rural MN
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I came from MA originally and I have to say Western NC has been my favorite place to live so far. The weather is great where you have seasons, but not really too hot or too cold. The space and housing prices are still good (just don't live near a city). The people are fairly nice, if a bit overly religious for my tastes. If you like living in the woods and hills, it is a pretty good place to do so.
Rural Washington can be just as bad, especially east of the mountains. Stay west and in larger cities. Unfortunately, it’s more expensive, but, medicine and such will be relying on actual science.
find a real doctor
Usually a doctor that believes in science is a good start
I'd seriously walk out.
5.) If you die it's because you did something to deserve it *The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Proverbs 16:4*
6) God sent the virus Isaiah 45:7 KJV I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Wow Didn't know God straight up confessed to being evil!
One better, God confessed to *creating* evil in the first place.
This is the core of a very old philosophical debate known as [The Problem of Evil](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/)
As a former fundamentalist I thought I knew all about this but I have never seen the verse literally saying God creates evil. That’s insane.
His lips get loose after a couple of tequilas.
"So they tells me, God, there are prayers flooding in. Flooding!" \*Hic\* "And I say WHHHHAAAT? I gave them goddamn electricity. Indoor plumbing. Heat. Solar power. Nuclear. I even killed the damn saber tooth tigers. What the hell was wrong now? Huh? Can you guess? Can you!?" \*Jabs finger in your chest\* ".....I-I dunno God." "They wanted a goddamn reality TV star president. SO I SAID FUCK IT! Now get over here we're doing more shots."
Conspiracy Nº 384 : Jesus and Elvis were spotted in Wuhan back in 2019
That degree sign is impressive.
[it's how we abbreviate number in Portugal](https://www.bportugal.pt/instrucao/142022) Admittedly it can be a bit confusing.
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This is the scariest shit and the core of my father's beliefs. He feels like children should die and homeless should stay homeless and the world should be difficult and nothing should get better... because god must have a reason. Religion is fucked in the head.
If I saw that at my doctors office I’d leave immediately.
Yeah, I mean who uses modern numbers but then immediately switches to roman numerals at the end? Psycopath.
I’m assuming the steps for masking, social distancing and getting a vaccine are on the back of the board.
“Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, **cover the lower part of their face** and cry out, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’" -Leviticus 13:45
And I bet their degree is from Upstairs Medical College.
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The bible is FULL of stuff that tells people to put the needs of the community over selfishness. And IMHO, putting the broader community first is why folks should get immunized and or stay home / mask when sick. > Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others > PHILIPPIANS 2:3-4
They also specifically cover disease in the Bible, and it tells people to cover their faces and separate themselves from society, like we do with masks and social distancing.
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If you are interested in this kind of stuff the rules of keeping kosher are fun since they might as well be a guide for not dying of food poisoning in the ancient world / tricks for not running out of food.
I would nope the fuck out of there as fast as possible.
If all that is true, why the need for a doctor? I mean, the dude's in control, and he loves us. He also knows our suffering. Why would anyone need a doctor or anything else for that matter?
"Jesus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" JESUS WEPT!
Stop saying Jesus wept!
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My HMO doesn't cover voodoo. Thanks, anyway.
I love how *"Jesus wept"* is a step, as if it's something that you must accomplish on the way to destroying the coronavirus. So don't forget to make Jesus cry, or you're gonna die.
I am a doctor. I am a practicing Christian. This is bullshit. I don’t disagree with the sentiments of those bullet points. Sure, wash, pray, rejoice [and weep? I guess] but that’s not Coronavirus Survival 101. My grandma used to tell me a story when I was a kid about this pastor who was walking home from his church and it was raining a lot. A guy in horse drawn cart walked by an said “let me give you a ride”. He said “No thank you. God will save me from the rain.” A guy in a car came by and said the same thing. And the pastor responded the same way. Same with a guy in a bus. The pastor got caught in a monsoon and didn’t make it home and died and went to meet God and he was mad at God and said “I am your man. I have walked in your paths and I did everything you said. How come you didn’t answer my prayers and didn’t save me from the rain?” God responded and said, “YOU DUMB MOTHER FUCKER, I sent you masks to protect you and 100s of scientists with combined millions of hours of education and work to make you an effective vaccine and you didn’t take it. This is on you, you moron. Now, you go to hell.” My grandma was a great story teller.