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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:26:37 AM EDT
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Yeap. I trust semi-degenerate types more than the devout bible thumpers. Semi-degenerates don't have the bible and baby Jesus to shield them. 
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:26:50 AM EDT
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Because Junior likes his sisters a little too much. And dad covered it up by having him hang sheetrock. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I havent really watched the show but why is a large white family weird? Were the Walton's weird? |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:27:02 AM EDT
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I watched a couple episodes. In one,the patriarch went to the church for money to build their house. While not relying upon the govt for Section 8 housing,asking others to provide for a family you can't afford isn't exactly a conservative principle. In another,he commented in a very condescending manner that his wife "has baggage,"meaning that she did not initially believe in their cult's mating practice where dating is prohibited. God forbid some man ruin a woman by being in her presence without supervision. I absolutely think this unnatural view of relations/sexuality contributed to their son being a creep.
They are harmless to me but I'm free to think they're more than a little nutty. I'm never going to have a serious conversation with a Young Earther just like I'll never engage in debate with a Communist,some ideas are just so incredibly flawed to me that there is no merit in their discussion so we probably aren't likely to hang out any time soon. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:38:24 AM EDT
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Everyone is weird in the eyes of someone. I find it terribly unfair that the older girls have to raise children but didn't get to have the sex. I wouldn't be surprised if one or more decides to have -0- kids of their own.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:51:32 AM EDT
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Definitely weird - and it has nothing to do with the fact that they're devout Christians.
Any family that goes out of their way to eschew even benign cultural norms is a bit odd by default. You can still live a perfectly normal, wholesome and healthy life, while blending in and not looking like a separatist of some sort. Millions upon millions of Christians in the US manage to do this just fine. If your family deviates far enough from social and cultural norms to attract the attention of reality television producers (and you take it a step further by inviting them into your home), you've got a few screws loose. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:54:26 AM EDT
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Definitely weird - and it has nothing to do with the fact that they're devout Christians. Any family that goes out of their way to eschew even benign cultural norms is a bit odd by default. You can still live a perfectly normal, wholesome and healthy life, while blending in and not looking like a separatist of some sort. Millions upon millions of Christians in the US manage to do this just fine. If your family deviates far enough from social and cultural norms to attract the attention of reality television producers (and you take it a step further by inviting them into your home), you've got a few screws loose. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:56:22 AM EDT
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I think that for the most part (the degenerate child molester/prostitute banger excluded), they are good and decent people. However, they are also very strange.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:57:23 AM EDT
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Similar with other large, fundamentalist religious conservative homeschooled families. You can't manage a dozen + kids born a year apart unless you co-op your older children into parental duties. Children need mentorship, and that is especially true when their responsibilities include diapers and bathtime of younger siblings. Add in a healthy dose of religious fundamentalism and restricted social interaction, I'm not surprised their oldest son became a sister-toucher. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 10:57:56 AM EDT
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Yep...weird.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:04:56 AM EDT
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Not just that. He got caught fucking around on his wife also. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:08:24 AM EDT
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To expand on my previous post, here's a thought experiment:
Imagine a family led by a patriarch who happens to be an atheist. For some nutty reason, he decides that society reached it's cultural zenith circa 1975. To that end, the entire family lives as though it's still 1975. Nothing they own dates any later. They intentionally live in a time warp (and they homeschool their kids to that effect). They don't own computers, cell phones, etc. The mother sews everyone's clothing from old McCall's patterns, since you can't buy new clothes from the period. They wear their hair exactly as straight/conservative folks would have in 1975. They don't use debit cards - just cash. They have a rotary phone in the kitchen. Even the furniture and appliances date no later than 1975. There's nothing ethically or morally wrong with what they're doing (and it'd make for a fascinating reality TV show, now that I sit here and think about it  ). They're not hurting anyone. But it'd be fucking weird. The fact that they're living so far outside of what the rest of America considers normal, is what would make it compelling television.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:15:07 AM EDT
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Not just that. He got caught fucking around on his wife also. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:31:11 AM EDT
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Everything is weird when taken to extremes. It almost guarantees the kids will go to one extreme or the exact opposite.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:33:43 AM EDT
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I think that for the most part (the degenerate child molester/prostitute banger excluded), they are good and decent people. However, they are also very strange. 
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:36:21 AM EDT
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You pop out 19 kids and nobody in the family is going to turn out well adjusted.
They're weirdos, but they aren't necessarily bad. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:49:02 AM EDT
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You pop out 19 kids and nobody in the family is going to turn out well adjusted. They're weirdos, but they aren't necessarily bad. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:50:18 AM EDT
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I met a few of them once. They were all very nice and probably more so than the average person on this board.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:53:16 AM EDT
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Weird is relative. A century ago 8, 10, 12 children was a lot more common. Were all of our great grandparents weirdos?
More Jessa. 
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:54:26 AM EDT
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Any family that is featured on a reality tv show is not "normal." Imagine this for a moment: You live in the heart of some large city; New York, Boston, Los Angeles, wherever, You build yourself a new house, but all walls are plexiglass except for the bathrooms. You announce it in the media that your whole family will be living in this giant plexiglass box, and that everyone is encouraged to come by and stare at you whenever they want. And the rooms are set up with omni-directional microphones, and everything you say is played on speakers outside the house so those lame people who sit and stare at you can also hear your conversations without ever having to take part. That would be a little weird, wouldn't it? What's the difference between living in a plexiglass box, and having your very own reality TV show? |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:55:13 AM EDT
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Anyone who consciously shits out 20 kids is at least a little weird.
Anyone who consciously shits out 20 kids they can't afford to house is pretty fucking weird (believe they were gifted a lot of house money) Throw their cult like views in the mix and I don't see how there is even a question. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 11:59:56 AM EDT
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Weird is relative. A century ago 8, 10, 12 children was a lot more common. Were all of our great grandparents weirdos? More Jessa.
https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2015/09/02/c091582c-2527-4758-b475-93beb91349ac/jessa-duggar.jpg the Duggars are fucking weird. hasn't more than one kid been found to do some crazy shit? also, look at the john and kate plus 8 kids. iirc one got locked up b/c he was crazy. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:03:23 PM EDT
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I've met most of them. One of my bests friends is a member of the extended family. I find their life style a bit odd, but they are decent folks. If you believe everything that happens in the show is unscripted, or that the producers don't try to make a family centered on religious values look weird, I'm guessing you're a big WWE fan.
I had no idea until I saw a picture I thought was funny and showed it to him and he said, "That's my Aunt." Oops
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:05:00 PM EDT
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When it comes to kids, quantity is not a quality all it's own. At a certain point you are doing a disservice to your older children by both subdividing your time & attention from them and also placing an increasing burden on their own time & attention in order to cover your deficit with the younger children. Also, I may not be a 3rd-wave feminist, but these insular groups are sexist and the girls are given limited options on their futures because they are effectively considered necessary breeding stock.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:13:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:13:29 PM EDT
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My wife has watched the show couple times in past 10+ years and seen all the kids grow up and she is surprised that kids are so normal...except for the oldest son who diddled his sisters and had extramarital affairs. As she put it, they are very naïve and maybe "different" but doesn't seem strange. Definitely they are harmless and not effecting anyone else. Couple of older kids have gotten married recently and seems to have normal married life. Wife said one girl even started wearing pants after she got married.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:15:41 PM EDT
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How much money do you think they get b back in tax returns?
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:19:46 PM EDT
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That family is fucked up from the top down.
Child molester shit. Crazy to value having a heard not a family. Whacked out beliefs. You name it. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:32:55 PM EDT
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A bit strange? Yes. Genuinely good folks? Yes.
Not the least bit surprised that 98% of the assholes in GD are shitting on the Duggars. I'd rather see more of them on TV than the Kardashians/etc. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:37:39 PM EDT
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Don't the quiverful believers think they are bringing about the apocalypse by having so many kids and want to speed up the process? Nothing but a goddamn death cult.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:40:08 PM EDT
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Where the hell do you find a prostitute in Springdale fucking Arkansas? I've driven through there many times and never seen the prostitute area. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I think that for the most part (the degenerate child molester/prostitute banger excluded), they are good and decent people. However, they are also very strange. http://people.com/tv/josh-duggar-family-research-council-slams-him-for-ashley-madison-scandal/ And his more current extra-marital affairs a big part in exposing that was that he was discovered in the big Ashley Madison hack.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:46:57 PM EDT
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Is anyone on this planet not weird in some way? |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:51:21 PM EDT
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I think that weird frumpy clothing the older ones all wear is hiding some huge dump truck asses.
My wife watches that show and I can’t stand that family. That whole channel needs to disappear. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:52:10 PM EDT
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They don’t need the MSM’s help to look batshit crazy, that’s why the MSM loves them.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 12:58:25 PM EDT
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I always thought they were weird. However, I wrote my feelings off as likely being the product of my own bias and prejudice.
Nope.... turns out they are legitimately weird. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 1:06:53 PM EDT
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I guess I will save this thread, not saying I would finger my sister but damn http://www.crownofbeautymagazine.com/images/DuggarGirlsInterview.jpg 
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Posted: 10/25/2017 1:07:02 PM EDT
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The family deviates from social norms. That's essentially the definition of weird. Lucky for the daughters, they're pretty, so whatever psychosis they've developed will be overlooked by the majority of their suitors. In 1865 my double income no kids household would be weird. Lucky for me, it's not 1865, because I'm not pretty.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 2:02:54 PM EDT
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To expand on my previous post, here's a thought experiment: Imagine a family led by a patriarch who happens to be an atheist. For some nutty reason, he decides that society reached it's cultural zenith circa 1975. To that end, the entire family lives as though it's still 1975. Nothing they own dates any later. They intentionally live in a time warp (and they homeschool their kids to that effect). They don't own computers, cell phones, etc. The mother sews everyone's clothing from old McCall's patterns, since you can't buy new clothes from the period. They wear their hair exactly as straight/conservative folks would have in 1975. They don't use debit cards - just cash. They have a rotary phone in the kitchen. Even the furniture and appliances date no later than 1975. There's nothing ethically or morally wrong with what they're doing (and it'd make for a fascinating reality TV show, now that I sit here and think about it ). They're not hurting anyone. But it'd be fucking weird. The fact that they're living so far outside of what the rest of America considers normal, is what would make it compelling television. The problem with the situation the Duggar patriarch put his family in is that religious fundamentalism often does foment social dysfunction. I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but there are a fuckton of "Christians" on the kiddie-toucher rolls, and they didn't learn that shit from mom making their sisters' dresses with a sewing machine. He then compounded the social issues inherent in religious fundamentalism by cranking out more kids than he and his wife could responsibly manage. Further, let's face it, in our 70's thought experiment, there's nothing that leads me to believe that if it turns out junior is fingering sally after bedtime, dad will send junior down the road to hang sheetrock for a biblethumping Chester the Molester for "treatment" and "report" the incident to a cop who collects child porn. That's not "weird". That's fucked up. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 2:04:12 PM EDT
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Where the hell do you find a prostitute in Springdale fucking Arkansas? I've driven through there many times and never seen the prostitute area. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I think that for the most part (the degenerate child molester/prostitute banger excluded), they are good and decent people. However, they are also very strange. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 2:04:54 PM EDT
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Weird is relative. A century ago 8, 10, 12 children was a lot more common. Were all of our great grandparents weirdos? More Jessa.
https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2015/09/02/c091582c-2527-4758-b475-93beb91349ac/jessa-duggar.jpg Also, you fail to consider context. It's the 21st century. 12+ kids is weird now, even if it wasn't a century ago. Lots of things are weird now that weren't then. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 2:06:16 PM EDT
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They’re homeschooled, aren’t they? |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 2:23:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:04:42 PM EDT
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They went full brainwashing cult. I have a branch of the family like that. The women are full open eyed retard. Few of the men made it out and into a normal life.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:11:18 PM EDT
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Not just that. He got caught fucking around on his wife also. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:14:59 PM EDT
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Partly because a few of them wouldn't live to adulthood. And partly because you needed a labor force for the homestead. Also, you fail to consider context. It's the 21st century. 12+ kids is weird now, even if it wasn't a century ago. Lots of things are weird now that weren't then. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Weird is relative. A century ago 8, 10, 12 children was a lot more common. Were all of our great grandparents weirdos? More Jessa.
https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2015/09/02/c091582c-2527-4758-b475-93beb91349ac/jessa-duggar.jpg Also, you fail to consider context. It's the 21st century. 12+ kids is weird now, even if it wasn't a century ago. Lots of things are weird now that weren't then.
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:28:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:29:47 PM EDT
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I guess I will save this thread, not saying I would finger my sister but damn http://www.crownofbeautymagazine.com/images/DuggarGirlsInterview.jpg I think their lifestyle is weird, but I hate to blame it for the older brother's behavior. It might be the cause, but then again maybe it's just the law of averages. Have 20 kids, some are gonna be fucked up. |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:38:44 PM EDT
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Is anyone on this planet not weird in some way?
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:48:18 PM EDT
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This. The simple fact that they chose the reality show lifestyle for themselves and their progeny defines them as weirdos, no different than the Kardashians and Jenners. Imagine this for a moment: You live in the heart of some large city; New York, Boston, Los Angeles, wherever, You build yourself a new house, but all walls are plexiglass except for the bathrooms. You announce it in the media that your whole family will be living in this giant plexiglass box, and that everyone is encouraged to come by and stare at you whenever they want. And the rooms are set up with omni-directional microphones, and everything you say is played on speakers outside the house so those lame people who sit and stare at you can also hear your conversations without ever having to take part. That would be a little weird, wouldn't it? What's the difference between living in a plexiglass box, and having your very own reality TV show? |
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Posted: 10/25/2017 3:50:13 PM EDT
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Quote History"It was your fault,don't blame God for not stopping it,your spirit level will be raised 30% if you've been raped or 6000% if you've had your balls cut off so it's all good"
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Posted: 10/25/2017 4:23:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryFUCK. THAT. SHIT.
So if you get raped, its because you dressed indecently. ok then. |
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