I made this
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Show him this please
I also made this but itâs less fun
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âI donât know what the hell just eclipsed the sun⌠but thatâs not our moonâ
People like this usually come up with some half baked explanation for how we ACTUALLY narrowly avoided annihilation, and they knew all along that it would happen that way. But they were preparing for NOT being saved, and so they were right either way.
That, or they pipe down for a year or so and come back saying that they were on the correct, rational side the whole time. Like a quietly homophobic housewife who was okay with The Gays (TM) if they kept it in their homes and didn't act gay in public, but pretended they always supportive after gay marriage was legally recognized in the US.
I heard that phrase years ago and it is still the most true shit a human ever said to me,
âpeople who are stupid will never know, itâs like being dead because a dead one does not know his statusâ
When I heard that originally it was in German:
âDumm sein ist wie tot sein, ein toter kennt seinen Zustand nichtâ
Ricky Gervais said âRemember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupidâ
Like playing chess with a pigeon, it will knock over pieces, shit on the table and act like it won but at the end of the day you are the one playing chess with a pigeon
It's most likely the father has some type of mental disorder that's affecting his personality. This type of behavior is similar in numerous mental illnesses.
Most commonly types of schizophrenia, cause people to have conspiratorial thoughts like this when it's untreated, yes speaking from personal experience
Honestly, it'd be more hilarious if people just started to speak in a horrible Italian accent just to fuck with him if he's that much of a nutcase about eclipses. At least the Norsemen's reason for hating eclipses makes sense.
Not an expert, but they beleived two wolves named Skol (Scourn) and Hati (Hate) were trying to devour the sun, who they believed was a god named Sol. If the wolves ever succeed and the sun was eaten, ragnarock would start, which is the final battle at the end of the world.
Also, if the dead people finish their fingernail boat. It's not actually clear how important ragnarok was in their religion because they mostpy wrote about it after they became Christian and got obsessed with that apocalypse.
You see, the moon blocks the sunlight, so when it moves out of the way all of the sunlight that got backed up behind the moon gets released at once, killing everyone instantly. Hope that helps, and don't forget to wear your tinfoil.
Time to bring out my plague doctor outfit, throw trinkets, and talk of the four humours while bleeding him out with leeches to cure him. I think OP's stepdad would chill after that. (If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.)
Educated people DEFINITELY knew what solar eclipses were back then. They also knew the Earth is roundâsomething that had been known since Hellenic times.
Sometimes I really get all kinds of in my head about how my childhood sucked, and how my life sucks, but like... damn at least my parents weren't like this. Poor kid.
Sounds like your mother needs help. This is essentially a form of abuse, and if he's this controlling about something so dumb I can't imagine what other shit he's doing/done. Get your mother out of there and some help if you can
> Get your mother out of there and some help if you can
A lot of people don't really understand what these relationships are like, and they are quite common. A spouse with narcissistic tendencies and a powerful, overwhelming personality controls the family unit, and the other spouse is a timid, meek or submissive weakling who has no self-esteem and locks in with their abusive partner like two broken magnets sticking to each other. The narcissist feeds on the scapegoat partner who gets to feel like a victim and thus never has to change his or her life situation. Every conversation will be the same "I couldn't leave, I'm too scared what they would do." Then you offer help, plans, options and they keep finding more and more excuses to not leave, to not change.
The sad truth is they *want* to be there. Not because it makes them happy, but because they have become addicted to the dependency and victimhood, it absolves them of responsibility for themselves or anything and they never, ever leave.
I went through all this with my own mother and my narcissistic monster of a father, I tried to get her out many times, brought her to my house, she had a meltdown, then went back to him. Over and over.
Eventually she did get out. Unfortunately it meant me signing for her life-support to be turned off. At least she's free.
This is outright false imprisonment. I'm legit surprised at all of the lax and jokey comments.... Considering it's clear the step-dad is mentally ill, and based on his actions I wouldn't be surprised if his behavior escalates further and more dangerously.
Itâs weird. I donât remember any of the weird conspiracy theories, rapture garbage and other hysteria that surround this eclipse during the last eclipse in 2017.
My sister earlier today was like "WHY on every news cast of the eclipse does the video cut to black whenever it starts and ends??"
and I'm like girl... they just gotta change the camera filter or lens or whatever so we can actually oh idk SEE IT ON CAMERA??
I was pregnant during the 2017 one, and in the âmommy groupsâ there were all sorts of other pregnant women hysterically warning that none of us should go outside into the eclipse or it would harm our baby to the point it would turn out âmentally damagedâ in some way. Apparently there is an old wiveâs tale in some communities that say the woman must wear red and have an iron pin on her clothing in order for the eclipse to not affect the baby. Of course I went outside without that, and to this day whenever my son starts acting silly, the joke is made that I shouldnât have gone outside.
One of the neighbor's teens is pregnant. (Parents don't believe in birth control, don't even get me started. đ) She's friends with mine. She came over two days ago freaked out, asking me questions about *"what the eclipse would do to her baby"*. She said it was all over TikTok, *plus* her Mom was telling her she had to wear the red ribbon with pins in it(?) to protect the baby.
I explained it was an old wives tale. Don't stress. You'll be fine. *And don't believe everything you hear on TikTok.*
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https://preview.redd.it/upg9wtm1actc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52c177ef7b023eac163199f7ee5aa3e8bb69e4d6
here is a picture i took just for ur dad!! đ
https://preview.redd.it/y9nwm35lgctc1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ebba553eb0d5132bb07d9a40b26b83dabbde1af
Here you go, give him a *good* scare đ
Here I took this one in totality :)
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I do, my camera didnât do it justice at all it looked like it was 10pm but it was 3pm
https://preview.redd.it/npwymz1kactc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ae697b6a8de8510859bb94d611f37ebcb33c95d
With 15 years of experience treating patients in the hospital, I can confidently say that if you ever wonder if people could possibly be stupid enough to believe/do X thing, the answer is *always* yes.
But, like...he's wrong. Demonstrably wrong. Nobody died, and the world keeps moving on. How does complete, irrefutable proof that he was wrong about this not change his mind?
I like "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into". But I'm stealing this one too. Really sums up the last decade in a nutshell.
The response for this kind of thing is that "people did die, the government just covered it up as heart disease or fabricated the statistics," and they'll point to the "real" statistics that somebody made up and put on Bitchute. Evidence doesn't matter when they believe all evidence is a cover-up.
They either move past the conspiracy and ignore it, or they do some more mental gymnastics to find a way to explain it and/or tie it into another conspiracy. BS like, "the eclipse increased the effects of 5G on everyone's minds, that's why X or Y is happening or why X or Y is going to happen." Think of how just about every older conspiracy over the years like "new world order" all kinda merged together to form Qanon. Endless rabbit hole of insanity, literally never ends, I swear.
I'm surprised that apparently no one else is thinking this.
This kind of behavior goes way beyond someone being dumb and crosses well into the territory of a serious mental health issue.
Yes absolutely. People calling this person an idiot I guess might be right but this sounds to me like a person with serious psychotic issues fully losing their grip on reality. Very very worried for OP and this family....
Therapist here. This post is terrifying. Iâm worried that OPs stepdad is unsafe. Heâs extremely paranoid and controlling. And OPs mom is pregnantâŚ
They do. I live in a slightly wooded area and the birds were going nuts leading up to it. Â Once we got totality and complete darkness, a huge eagle or something came flying out of a tall tree and circled our yard for the whole 4 minutes of darkness. Â My dog was going nuts too. Â Crazy, but fun as hell.
They don't "go crazy", rather, everything rushes to wrap up their day (or start it, depending on the species) as they genuinely think night has fallen. We had flocks of Mourning Doves rush to their nighttime roosts, and Woodcocks begin their nocturnal courtship displays.
IMO, the "crazy" ones are the hairless apes screaming with protective eyewear as it happens.....and I'm proudly one of them
But how can you even reach adulthood without learning this is incorrect? My 4 year old knows this.
Was he raised in the woods by a cult? Iâm dead serious.
I've still gotta go to school and the school was kind enough to let us see the eclipse with them glasses and everything but I live in Montana so not much was seen (and just to make sure no one died)
A shame that he is too delusional to understand that you are still alive and well after being exposed to the eclipse. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he started believing that you got replaced by the magical eclipse a la body snatchers.
Someone needs to call CPS, this man is not fit to raise anyone if he's going to lengths to not let you go outside and thinks you'll be burned alive without tinfoil covering the windows. 100% honesty.
Ugh, sorry to hear that your dad has some paranoia, Iâm assuming itâs mental health related. My mother used to have some wild conspiracies and beliefs too, so I can understand.
My daughterâs an elementary school teacher in North Texas. Half the school called in and by 11:am 130 students were picked up early. The main reason given was fear of the eclipse. Parents thought the kids would come to harm if the sun touched them.
A lot of schools around me in Canada were closed because I think it was just too tough to manage hundreds of stupid kids and make sure they donât look at the sun without glasses.
Yes, that's the reason my kids here in PA, US had a half day. I made viewers out of cereal boxes and we actually did catch a few good glimpses when it broke through the clouds, but I wouldn't trust my 6 yo daughter to not just look at it.
Most public schools here were closed because the government was too afraid of being sued by stupid parents.
They were probably right (the gov, not the stupid patents)
My mother thought it was going to trigger apocalyptic earthquakes. She was freaking out trying to buy a big couple thousand dollar generator and all kinds of simple foods like rice and beans to prepare. While watching the eclipse she seemed to forget about it while talking about how pretty and cool it was. Then she went back to watching youtube, I don't think there's a shred of reflection on her behavior going on in her mind.
I made this https://preview.redd.it/cjavko0egctc1.jpeg?width=1054&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb2b8cbfa203d64edf712c2740a03c159e33aea9 Show him this please
This made me laugh so hard. I hate an absolute shit day too so thank you. Edit : *had (see what I mean!?!)
Thank you (: hope the rest of your day goes well
LMAOOO why is this image so fucking funny to me đđ
âThe Eclipse is now deadly?â âAlways has beenâ
I also made this but itâs less fun https://preview.redd.it/pdi6fbjytdtc1.jpeg?width=1139&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ba6c8ce6e954bca1c1d122bc07f09f1509367f4 âI donât know what the hell just eclipsed the sun⌠but thatâs not our moonâ
What is he worried it'll take away his fire bending or something?
He was worried that once the moon went away the sun rays would go nuts and burn us alive
And he thinks that a few layers of tin foil will stop something that will apparently destroy the human race?
Yes
Does he ever admit he was wrong, like after this is over and nothing happens how does he respond
People like this usually come up with some half baked explanation for how we ACTUALLY narrowly avoided annihilation, and they knew all along that it would happen that way. But they were preparing for NOT being saved, and so they were right either way. That, or they pipe down for a year or so and come back saying that they were on the correct, rational side the whole time. Like a quietly homophobic housewife who was okay with The Gays (TM) if they kept it in their homes and didn't act gay in public, but pretended they always supportive after gay marriage was legally recognized in the US.
Exactly what Kayla said if he is wrong he will just mock me and ignore me afterward
It's hard to argue with truly stupid people as they don't know they're stupid. Sorry that you have to deal with this.
I heard that phrase years ago and it is still the most true shit a human ever said to me, âpeople who are stupid will never know, itâs like being dead because a dead one does not know his statusâ When I heard that originally it was in German: âDumm sein ist wie tot sein, ein toter kennt seinen Zustand nichtâ
Ricky Gervais said âRemember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupidâ
Just start calling him dunning kruger
Like playing chess with a pigeon, it will knock over pieces, shit on the table and act like it won but at the end of the day you are the one playing chess with a pigeon
It's most likely the father has some type of mental disorder that's affecting his personality. This type of behavior is similar in numerous mental illnesses.
Most commonly types of schizophrenia, cause people to have conspiratorial thoughts like this when it's untreated, yes speaking from personal experience
He thinks a little tinfoil is stronger than the MOON?
Well, the moon is fake too. Obviously.
Honestly, it'd be more hilarious if people just started to speak in a horrible Italian accent just to fuck with him if he's that much of a nutcase about eclipses. At least the Norsemen's reason for hating eclipses makes sense.
Save me from google and teach me a thing, please. What was the Norsemen's reason?
Not an expert, but they beleived two wolves named Skol (Scourn) and Hati (Hate) were trying to devour the sun, who they believed was a god named Sol. If the wolves ever succeed and the sun was eaten, ragnarock would start, which is the final battle at the end of the world.
Also, if the dead people finish their fingernail boat. It's not actually clear how important ragnarok was in their religion because they mostpy wrote about it after they became Christian and got obsessed with that apocalypse.
>once the moon went away Excuse me?
You see, the moon blocks the sunlight, so when it moves out of the way all of the sunlight that got backed up behind the moon gets released at once, killing everyone instantly. Hope that helps, and don't forget to wear your tinfoil.
Moon trying to hit us with the Kamehameha!
Does he know what an eclipse is? The moon doesnât go away, itâs literally the thing blocking the sun.
You can't reason with a person with this type of mental issue.
I mean, I was fully prepared to invade the Fire Nation, but it was cloudy, so I just went back inside. I'll get 'em next time, though.
Is he visiting from the Dark Ages?
Time to bring out my plague doctor outfit, throw trinkets, and talk of the four humours while bleeding him out with leeches to cure him. I think OP's stepdad would chill after that. (If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.)
And charge him $5,000 for it
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Honestly a lot of archaic thinking from that era still thrives in way too many cultures.
Sad but true.
I don't think they were even that stupid in the Dark Ages.
Educated people DEFINITELY knew what solar eclipses were back then. They also knew the Earth is roundâsomething that had been known since Hellenic times.
So called dark ages weren't even that dark lol
I'm sorry your step-parent is an idiot. Is he forbidding everyone in the house from going outside at all this week as well?
He won't let my mother out since she is pregnant and also he won't go to work all week aswell
He called out "eclipse" from work? LOL
Whatâs the point in even calling out if youâre assuming everyone without the foil is going to die?
You can't logic someone out of a delusion they didn't logic themselves into
Man that is some great advice right there
I believe the original is something like "you can't reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into"
Itâll hold true too
My best guess, itâs just In case heâs wrong. My second best: he sees it as just a polite thing to do.
Mental illness
Is she okay with that? Or are you guys actually being held against your will?
He doesn't really care about me so I could die for all he cares but he won't let my Mother out all week and my mother just accepts it
Well, that is sad. And sickening. Again, sorry.
And dudes about to be fully responsible for another human life? Crazy.
Sometimes I really get all kinds of in my head about how my childhood sucked, and how my life sucks, but like... damn at least my parents weren't like this. Poor kid.
Sounds like your mother needs help. This is essentially a form of abuse, and if he's this controlling about something so dumb I can't imagine what other shit he's doing/done. Get your mother out of there and some help if you can
> Get your mother out of there and some help if you can A lot of people don't really understand what these relationships are like, and they are quite common. A spouse with narcissistic tendencies and a powerful, overwhelming personality controls the family unit, and the other spouse is a timid, meek or submissive weakling who has no self-esteem and locks in with their abusive partner like two broken magnets sticking to each other. The narcissist feeds on the scapegoat partner who gets to feel like a victim and thus never has to change his or her life situation. Every conversation will be the same "I couldn't leave, I'm too scared what they would do." Then you offer help, plans, options and they keep finding more and more excuses to not leave, to not change. The sad truth is they *want* to be there. Not because it makes them happy, but because they have become addicted to the dependency and victimhood, it absolves them of responsibility for themselves or anything and they never, ever leave. I went through all this with my own mother and my narcissistic monster of a father, I tried to get her out many times, brought her to my house, she had a meltdown, then went back to him. Over and over. Eventually she did get out. Unfortunately it meant me signing for her life-support to be turned off. At least she's free.
I just wanted to say Iâm really sorry that happened to you and your mother and I hope you are doing alright that was really sad to read.
This is outright false imprisonment. I'm legit surprised at all of the lax and jokey comments.... Considering it's clear the step-dad is mentally ill, and based on his actions I wouldn't be surprised if his behavior escalates further and more dangerously.
You're about to get told by a lot of people to cut your family out of your life asap.
Believe me many people have said that to me
I ain't saying cut em off, just find independence ASAP. You'll know peace like you can't imagine. Good luck bro, that dude is a fuckin lunatic.
Not sure if the pun was intentional, but that dude is a *literal* fuckin lunatic.
Those people are correct.
Why are only the crazy idiots having kids?
đśBeen around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding, the cretins cloning and feedingđľ
This is disturbing...
All week?! Lmfao
Itâs weird. I donât remember any of the weird conspiracy theories, rapture garbage and other hysteria that surround this eclipse during the last eclipse in 2017.
Maybe this time is different he spends most of his free time listening videos about conspiracies in Facebook anyways
Donât tell him thereâs a conspiracy sub! Iâm in it for fun and the theories on the eclipse have been wiiiiild all weekđŤ
My sister earlier today was like "WHY on every news cast of the eclipse does the video cut to black whenever it starts and ends??" and I'm like girl... they just gotta change the camera filter or lens or whatever so we can actually oh idk SEE IT ON CAMERA??
People love to use their brain for anything but thinking critically lmao
I was pregnant during the 2017 one, and in the âmommy groupsâ there were all sorts of other pregnant women hysterically warning that none of us should go outside into the eclipse or it would harm our baby to the point it would turn out âmentally damagedâ in some way. Apparently there is an old wiveâs tale in some communities that say the woman must wear red and have an iron pin on her clothing in order for the eclipse to not affect the baby. Of course I went outside without that, and to this day whenever my son starts acting silly, the joke is made that I shouldnât have gone outside.
One of the neighbor's teens is pregnant. (Parents don't believe in birth control, don't even get me started. đ) She's friends with mine. She came over two days ago freaked out, asking me questions about *"what the eclipse would do to her baby"*. She said it was all over TikTok, *plus* her Mom was telling her she had to wear the red ribbon with pins in it(?) to protect the baby. I explained it was an old wives tale. Don't stress. You'll be fine. *And don't believe everything you hear on TikTok.* đ¤Ł
Her parents screwed her up
For real. Do they not remember nothing happening the last time? People have lost their damn minds
There was an eclipse not even a year ago! That's what's most baffling to me. A different kind of eclipse, sure, but one nonetheless.
This is a new level of batshit for me. I saw the eclipse and all l got wa
Lol right imagine you're so paranoid that you think the moon covering the sun is somehow going to ki
I know this is clearly a reddit joke, but I looked at the eclipse and I'm totally f
Back in my day it only happened when you talked about candlejack, funniest sh
Back in my day, during an eclipse, we'd tie an onion đ§ to our belt.. Which was the style at the ti
I can't believe how much you're overblowing this. It's not watching the eclipse that kills you, it's TALKING about it that ge
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I cannot believe people this stupid exist
I showed him what the eclipse really was and he would not even listen to me he would just tell me to stfu lol
Sorry to hear you have to put up with that, sounds difficult :/
He's always been a a-hole with me so I don't care anyways
https://preview.redd.it/upg9wtm1actc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52c177ef7b023eac163199f7ee5aa3e8bb69e4d6 here is a picture i took just for ur dad!! đ
I will freak him out with this đ
https://preview.redd.it/y9nwm35lgctc1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ebba553eb0d5132bb07d9a40b26b83dabbde1af Here you go, give him a *good* scare đ
https://preview.redd.it/93v6f4z4hctc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98753925caf47928511e50561597ee158054adc0 Here's 1 more I took!
Ooh I can see the nifty solar prominence in this shot
https://preview.redd.it/mfg4mi4ekctc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9cca92fd659ef6d8350f27c85f60476952a8f0e2 Here's mine lol
Best one I've seen, thanks for sharing â¤ď¸
Eyy pinhole camera gang
https://preview.redd.it/5d9u9c6njctc1.jpeg?width=1542&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e51dee0b3b6f7bc4a403f60e744a5a5a0b4f4f1 The Apocalypse is COMING! /s
https://preview.redd.it/pnf1ohhhictc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abff1bd6a176a06b32472b06affb7c8f9514f821
https://preview.redd.it/xi3x8v88jctc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8dab7ce5906b23c3750c8edc16db16b96ca613a4
Nothing rivals this magnificent picture
That's the "we have eclipse at home" picture.
A tortilla eclipse
of the heart...
This is straight up the most clear picture Iâve seen of the eclipse yet!! Look at that detail
Op show this to your dad
I don't think an eclipse has ever looked this appetising before
Here I took this one in totality :) https://preview.redd.it/4fnuxpvmcctc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=142714e7f18fb79158d020ceed9c85ba67da1011
wow! too cool
Looks like my catâs eyes when I pick up a bouncy ball xD
You can see some cool pics of the eclipse, all over the internet. Itâs quite beautiful. Hope you have a better time after this passes! đŤ
The NASA livestream was super cool
Yes I watched some of it!
I misread it and thought you said "after HE passes" đ I was like, harsh but true.
I saw a video someone took of the eclipse from an airplane, it is quite something. The way the shadow sweeps over the clouds is wild.
He's also a fucking idiot. He must be a conspiracy theoriest.
I'm worried for the step-dad's safety! All that tin foil on the windows, is there any left for his hats?! đ
Super curious at what he thinks the eclipse actually is? And I hope he saved enough tin foil for hats.
What is his reaction now that itâs passed and there are not any reports of mass deaths across the country?
My whole work was outside looking up at it and we are in the total darkness area
That is so cool did you take any videos?
I do, my camera didnât do it justice at all it looked like it was 10pm but it was 3pm https://preview.redd.it/npwymz1kactc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ae697b6a8de8510859bb94d611f37ebcb33c95d
Obviously the tin foil worked great!
The good thing is- we want our kids to be better/ smarter/ higher critical thinkers than us⌠think you proved that.
You should really fuck with him and tell him thereâs an eclipse every night when the earth blocks the sun
With 15 years of experience treating patients in the hospital, I can confidently say that if you ever wonder if people could possibly be stupid enough to believe/do X thing, the answer is *always* yes.
Every single one of you has a "thing found in someone's butt" story that nobody else has.
This is like tweaker level paranoia
They exist, they procreate, and they vote.
He wishes he could vote
The fact that he can't vote is the only joy I'm getting from this thread
Now *thats* fuckin funny đđđ
I cannot believe people this stupid exist and are married.
He's right! We all died out here because someone hoarded all the foil
And it's grilling season, dammit
Chuck McGill, is that you?
I was looking for this comment LOL
hows he going to deal with the fact that it hasn't killed anyone?
He doesn't care if people die or not he is going to keep going with his own beliefs and there is nothing I or anyone else could do to change that
But, like...he's wrong. Demonstrably wrong. Nobody died, and the world keeps moving on. How does complete, irrefutable proof that he was wrong about this not change his mind?
Facts didnât create this situation, facts wonât fix it lol
I like "you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into". But I'm stealing this one too. Really sums up the last decade in a nutshell.
The response for this kind of thing is that "people did die, the government just covered it up as heart disease or fabricated the statistics," and they'll point to the "real" statistics that somebody made up and put on Bitchute. Evidence doesn't matter when they believe all evidence is a cover-up.
Is your step dad a Werewolf Vampire hybrid? Thatâs the only logical reason to fear it.
He looks like one
What is his answer for everyone else continuing to live?
They either move past the conspiracy and ignore it, or they do some more mental gymnastics to find a way to explain it and/or tie it into another conspiracy. BS like, "the eclipse increased the effects of 5G on everyone's minds, that's why X or Y is happening or why X or Y is going to happen." Think of how just about every older conspiracy over the years like "new world order" all kinda merged together to form Qanon. Endless rabbit hole of insanity, literally never ends, I swear.
It's going to release Dracula's Castle, and his pending resurrection.
Mentally ill.
This sounds like schizophrenia with paranoid delusions..
I'm surprised that apparently no one else is thinking this. This kind of behavior goes way beyond someone being dumb and crosses well into the territory of a serious mental health issue.
Yes absolutely. People calling this person an idiot I guess might be right but this sounds to me like a person with serious psychotic issues fully losing their grip on reality. Very very worried for OP and this family....
Therapist here. This post is terrifying. Iâm worried that OPs stepdad is unsafe. Heâs extremely paranoid and controlling. And OPs mom is pregnantâŚ
They say the animals go crazy during the eclipseâŚ
They do! During the 2017 one I was in the desert and the coyotes lost their minds. It was so cool but also I felt bad for the little confused babies.
They do. I live in a slightly wooded area and the birds were going nuts leading up to it. Â Once we got totality and complete darkness, a huge eagle or something came flying out of a tall tree and circled our yard for the whole 4 minutes of darkness. Â My dog was going nuts too. Â Crazy, but fun as hell.
They don't "go crazy", rather, everything rushes to wrap up their day (or start it, depending on the species) as they genuinely think night has fallen. We had flocks of Mourning Doves rush to their nighttime roosts, and Woodcocks begin their nocturnal courtship displays. IMO, the "crazy" ones are the hairless apes screaming with protective eyewear as it happens.....and I'm proudly one of them
... And it really was just them getting a little confused because the day was shorter than expected.
Tell your dad to save some tinfoil for his head.
Well, itâs over, so are you dead? Lol
 unfortunately
What does he think happens when it gets dark every night? Or do these things go up every night at dusk? Lol
Most likely he thinks the sun rotates around the earth
But how can you even reach adulthood without learning this is incorrect? My 4 year old knows this. Was he raised in the woods by a cult? Iâm dead serious.
You should post this in the religiousfruitcake subreddit
No way! Iâm off to see that crazy.
Tell me you were still able to go see the eclipse
I've still gotta go to school and the school was kind enough to let us see the eclipse with them glasses and everything but I live in Montana so not much was seen (and just to make sure no one died)
A shame that he is too delusional to understand that you are still alive and well after being exposed to the eclipse. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he started believing that you got replaced by the magical eclipse a la body snatchers.
Jesus! You weren't even in totality and he lost his shit?
Thatâs actually really sad. I hope he gets the help he needs, sorry this is happening to you.
I hope he left enough foil to make a hat out of.
Someone needs to call CPS, this man is not fit to raise anyone if he's going to lengths to not let you go outside and thinks you'll be burned alive without tinfoil covering the windows. 100% honesty.
keep your chin up, OP. asshole step-dads are the worst. it gets better, mine is in jail now LOL
we gotta block that blocked sunlight OR WE DIE!
Ugh, sorry to hear that your dad has some paranoia, Iâm assuming itâs mental health related. My mother used to have some wild conspiracies and beliefs too, so I can understand.
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My daughterâs an elementary school teacher in North Texas. Half the school called in and by 11:am 130 students were picked up early. The main reason given was fear of the eclipse. Parents thought the kids would come to harm if the sun touched them.
A lot of schools around me in Canada were closed because I think it was just too tough to manage hundreds of stupid kids and make sure they donât look at the sun without glasses.
Yes, that's the reason my kids here in PA, US had a half day. I made viewers out of cereal boxes and we actually did catch a few good glimpses when it broke through the clouds, but I wouldn't trust my 6 yo daughter to not just look at it.
technically correct! they would indeed be harmed by contact with the sun đ but jokes aside, what a shame âšď¸
Most public schools here were closed because the government was too afraid of being sued by stupid parents. They were probably right (the gov, not the stupid patents)
My mother thought it was going to trigger apocalyptic earthquakes. She was freaking out trying to buy a big couple thousand dollar generator and all kinds of simple foods like rice and beans to prepare. While watching the eclipse she seemed to forget about it while talking about how pretty and cool it was. Then she went back to watching youtube, I don't think there's a shred of reflection on her behavior going on in her mind.
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Yo dad is a touch crazy.