I’ve heard this twice from my life from completely different people so I don’t know if it’s a semi-common belief or if those two people were just weird enough to somehow cross minds.
But the reason why black refrigerators exist is because appliance companies wanted to expand their clientele in the 70’s so they marketed these new black refrigerators to African-Americans as a contrast to the “honky white refrigerators”. Which is why when you go to a black persons house they will always own a black refrigerator.
You have reminded me of a letter some lady sent to The Philadelphia Inquirer and the paper printed claiming that the increase in storms was caused by trucks pulling bad weather through the PA Turnpike tunnels. This would have been around 1950 when there were 7 such tunnels. I believe they have been mostly–or all–eliminated since. What astonished me at the time was not that she believed it as that a reputable newspaper would print it.
That reminds me of a roommate I had one year in college. He was extremely conservative, both politically and religiously. I remember him mentioning that his family was part of a group that had left their Southern Baptist church to found a new church, because they felt their former church had become “too liberal”. But anyway, he once espoused the idea that rather than focusing on the economy, the government should instead work on fixing what he saw as “social problems”, namely the existence of gay people. Because if we got rid of all the gay people (or he probably believed that they could be made straight), that would please God, and then God would take care of the economy. Come to think of it that pretty much sounds like an extension of the prosperity doctrine, just applying it to the entire nation rather than individuals.
The scary thing is that he was a political science major and had aspirations of running for political office.
I’ve heard other people say that before but it was less focused on God and more “ALL corruption in the US is the fault of gay, feminists, and liberals. If those people were brought in line we would no longer have to pay any form of welfare or social assistance which would triple economic efficiency”
They used to make golf balls with a liquid core tightly wound in rubber bands. They Cut into them and the liquid could shoot out and the rubber spew out, all reminiscent of Dr Pimple Popper.
I don’t find this weird at all; it seems to be fairly mainstream theology to me. God, if She exists at all, is often reckoned to be omnipresent, and inside both Dan from Accounting and a chewed-up pencil.
Some belief systems think that God is not omnipresent, and that sort of belief may lead to some surprising conclusions.
Years ago I was told by a JHV Witness that Catholics own the movie industry and a priest must appear in at least one scene in every movie… Could be a face in the crowd, but there has to be a priest.
Speaking of letters in newspapers, I used to have an old Ann Landers clipping where a woman wrote in who was concerned that when she died, her children would have the gold crowns removed from her mouth, and then in the afterlife she wouldn’t be able to chew her food.
I bolded that “inside”, because with that addition, you’re right, it’s pretty mainstream. But, Dr. Ray made it clear that the pencil doesn’t contain God, and it isn’t made by God…
The pencil IS God, and we should worship it.
(I’d worship a classic yellow Ticonderoga #2, but my kid’s Lisa Frank flying unicorn pencil coated with glitter that gets all over everything? That’s Satan.)
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Said someone like my mom, who’s never been in a black person’s yard, let alone their kitchen.
We met a couple at a group activity. They had kids the same age as ours, same interest in the group, seemed articulate. So we started hanging out. We were over for dinner with them after knowing them a short while and the conversation turned to NASA for some reason.
The wife announced that she was completely against NASA returning to the moon because the added weight that they would land there would throw the moon out of orbit and send it crashing into the earth. I started to explain but that was not welcome.
Our kids kept playing together but we sort of inched away from try to form a friendship between the adults.
My High School History Teacher (AP American History) claimed that Planet X was real and that in the year 2012 it would pass by the Earth and toss the moon into the Earth. This was 2000 and be already told me that he had sold his house and was living much cheaper in a trailer so he could afford to build a small underground shelter in his backyard.
My favorite weird Ann Landers letter was the woman who said, “My husband burns the hair out of his nose with a lighted match, and he thinks I’m crazy because I voted for Goldwater.”
As for AIDS passing into the human population because people had sex with monkeys, I suppose that’s possible, but I figured out the “cut hunter theory” a couple decades before I saw it in print. In short, a monkey that harbors HIV is butchered by a hunter who cuts him/herself while preparing the creature for cooking, and it’s believed that some Ebola, Lassa and other hemorrhagic-fever epidemics have been started in similar manners.
In the case of my former dorm neighbor, he detested gays, and felt that they were utterly perverted, so the “gay sex with monkeys” explanation undoubtedly made perfect sense to him.
When NASA was getting ready to launch the Parker Solar Probe, someone expressed the opinion that this was a great mistake because if something went wrong, it could fall into the sun and then anything could happen. If I remember correctly, one concern was that it might put out the sun.
