Why the hell would anyone worship such a wimpy and ineffective deity?
Because if I don’t, they say I’m going to hell. So it’s a hedge. I’m outsmarting god, got him by a loophole.
Some storm god if his creations are able to influence the weather with radar and space lasers….
“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir,
when you marched out of the field of Edom,
the earth trembled, the sky also dropped.
Yes, the clouds dropped water.
The mountains quaked at Yahweh’s presence,
even Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
From judges some chapter or another…
Sometimes a hunch pays off, sometimes it doesn’t.
This was in Oklahoma so you can pretty well scratch hurricanes but triple down (at least) the tornadoes.
Here’s a pretty good compendium of recent stupid MFers in the news who also came to the attention of the legal industry:
Oh, that Chinese Espionage one was good!
I subscribe to that blog.
But he was the guy who told me “I have to share this with the Dopers!” Just tooo good to pass up.
I just signed up.
Even better, the lawyer who did a live performance of “Liar, liar, pants on fire”.
See, fire breaking out at any time could happen to anyone. My client was totally innocent. Just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Walter the Magician physical therapist dies in his “practice’s” hyperbaric chamber.
Here’s more information about the practice.
Here was the first such death from earlier this year: a mother watched her small boy burned alive while being “treated” for an incurable condition (ADHD) for which hyperbaric oxygen treatments have no effect.
This happened very near me and I have a friend who was scheduled to be treated at this location who nearly shat himself when this happened.
The article omits some of the crazy. The chambers hadn’t been inspected, but had been tampered with to indicate that they had. The kid wasn’t given a grounding bracelet, there were no trained personnel on site, and the moment the little boy died, the owner of the business grabbed her laptop, fled the scene and attempted to have her teenage son wipe it. This failed. She was later found to have texted things like, “I’m just saying, if I was on fire I would have at least tried to put myself out” as well as openly gloating about how many people she’d fleeced for conditions and treatments she knew wouldn’t be helped.
Pretty much everyone involved has been charged.
Imagine the sales pitch: “astronauts practiced for space flight in pure, high-pressure oxygen and now you can too!”. What could go wrong?.
That’s one for List of inventors killed by their own invention. My favorite is the physicist Richmann who had read Ben Franklin’s papers on lightning and electricity, and built a device to bring lightning indoors. He played with lightning… and lost.
That seems to be a slight misrepresentation of what happened.
The one that struck me as sort of ironic was Francis Edgar Stanley who, in turning to avoid wagon traffic taking up the road, drove his eponomous automobile into a woodpile and died.
The practice promotes hyperbaric ozygen therapy for, among other things, autism, and claims it will “reverse the biology of aging” by fixing your telomeres. Safe, too! From their website:
Maybe not quite “diligant” enough.
I suppose that’s a portmanteau of “dilettante” and “elegant”.
They might’ve taken a dilettante’s approach to their equipment design and maintenance, but the outcome was less than elegant. I haven’t seen pix, but I’m gonna bet.
What. The. Fuck. 
Hey, it’s right there in the thread title.