That look is terrifying due to not being able to recognize any spark of humanity. I think the worm took something essential.
He was born rich, the worm only took a few IQ points off the top
I don’t subscribe to the idea that wealth has anything to do with intelligence or lack thereof.
Wealth is just an insulator.
It does make you evil, though. A few million dollars is like the One Ring, whispering in your ear every minute of every day.
People like that, who almost universally profess Christian faith, should be attentive to the words of the early Church fathers on the intrinsically corrupting nature of wealth:
“The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor, even if they have acquired them honestly or inherited them legally.”
— John Chrysostom“You are not making a gift of your possession to the poor person. You are handing over to him what is his.”
— Ambrose of Milan“The property of the wealthy holds them in chains […] which shackle their courage and choke their faith and hamper their judgment and throttle their souls. They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.”
—CyprianAnd for a direct Bible passage, it’s hard to be more succinct than James.
That doesn’t sound like 'Murican Jesus. Must be communism. /s
I’ll need to take your word for it.
Just get a loan from your father
Not IQ, but it certainly impacts empathy and perspective. Not to mention the influence of one’s peer groups.
IQ is the measure of whether someone is ready for preschool.
I took it to mean wealth affected his humanity and the wormn finished the job. The iq lose was minor in comparison.
Insulation means one is not challenged. The brain and body learn from being challenged. If you haven’t experienced difficulty first or second hand you haven’t learned to relate to it. You literally cannot experience empathy on a meaningful level.
It’s part of the wealth disease.
i believe heroin killed off some of his worms.
The system always finds equilibrium
I’m not good with faces, but all these “right”-wing politicians have a sort of predatory look on them, a look of wanting to hurt others.
I believe there’s truth to this
Maybe a little bit of plague as a treat.
Not until you finish your measles.
Measles in the womb, as God intended!
We just had measles last week!
chickenpox, rubella, mumps all can cause orchitis, leading to infertility in adult men(not sterility), also these viruses are much more severe in adults.
tetanus(aka cause lockjaw, but the most severe form would be contractions so strong you break your own bones)
I mean, there’s some real merits to bloodletting right?
BRING FORTH THE LEACHES!
I mean, there was a dude with some blood disorder who wasn’t aware he had an issue because he routinely donated to blood banks.
The treatment for his condition was literally blood letting as we understand it. He only found out about the issue after he “retired” from donating blood because he was getting older.
So Google says that sweating sickness may’ve been Hantavirus. Sounds horrific.
Hanta still exists, and within the US.
At least when I worked in Yellowstone in 2012, we were told that rodents and their droppings were considered bio hazards. Not the sweep it up kind, the contact the officials kind.
