Florida woman shoots interstate drivers, says God told her to because of the eclipse, police say

If you liked "Florida Man", you're gonna love "Florida Woman"

It's not the Sunshine State when there's an eclipse going on. Doh!
- A meeting technicality!
We put the Wo in Man!

Thank God we have laws to keep guns out of the hands of obvious crazy people.

There is no mental health treatment in our society.

mental health treatment in america is to grab a gun, wave it at people then drown in your addiction of choice. This woman chose "religious conspiracy bullshit"
If anything, there is anti treatment. Organisations are waiting and ready to exploit your mental illness at every turn.
- Oh maximizing addictions and false logic are the best ways to make money though. Who the fuck cares if it's bad for the poors. It will never affect the god holy rich who are above it all.
That's because our health system is a fucking joke. Thanks republiclowns!! Working as intended.

Georgia woman. It was a Georgia woman that crossed into Florida. WTH is up with that headline?

She knew where she belonged
Florida has a reputation to maintain
- Recruiting outside talent I see. I guess you have do that with an aging population.

It's so weird that they freaked out this much over just this Eclipse. There was an eclipse last year and I didn't hear a peep from these people.

Maybe because last year they didn't have Marjorie Taylor-Greene tell them that earthquakes and eclipse are a warning from god?
2017 was all "Look at the science! Isn't this cool!"
But then THAT path only brushed the Bible Belt...
I think it's because giant singing and man-eating plants are a real concern.
They happen about every 18 months, and thus are a rather normal and common natural phenomenon.
Crazies gonna crazy, though.
- Every 6 months really. They just happen in places people aren't a lot of the time. Heck next year north America will get another eclipse.... But you'd have to travel to northern Canada in early spring to see it and it doesn't sound nearly as fun a vacation spot as Mexico I bet to the chasers.

Not a Florida woman. Georgia woman. Georgia is exporting their crazy to Florida.

this is a lie by Big Florida!
(/s)

If God told her to then it should be legal.

No one can prove God didn't tell her to go on a shooting spree.
- We need to subpoena god.
And morally ok. Because powerful sky man told her so.

Organised religion is a cancer of the mind.

Those of us who grew up without it literally can’t imagine scenarios like this, though I’ve heard disturbing things from people who seem otherwise sane that make me understand what drives some to do these things. When you’ve internalised fables of good vs evil and that’s how you define reality, it’s a small step to think you have to commit atrocities to save the innocent. You don’t have to have a very divergent mentality to convince yourself of this.

We will all be better off when the vast majority of people give up these fables and begin to live in the real world.

friend, just reading the headline - this isn't organized religion at work, this is psychosis. she could have said the Care Bears told her to do it - same thing.
- Psychosis PLUS organised religion. That’s my point, friend. Psychosis alone is a tragedy we should work to address as a society. But many of these stories would not end in senseless violence if there weren’t an underlying system of fantastical belief that bolstered people’s delusions and convinced them their delusions were divinely inspired.
Ehh I dunno... I'm as atheist as anyone with an IQ above 60, but I think religion is just a convenient scapegoat for mental illness here. I'm pretty sure someone who shoots strangers on the highway would have done it in a world without religion too, and they would say it's a different mystical force that made them do it. I don't think Christianity actually moved this person to do this.
- Religion isn’t a scapegoat, and it has nothing to do with IQ. Very smart people are roped into it, and that’s what I mean by it being a social cancer.
  Very smart people are raised with stories that they take as reality – that supplant their ability to judge reality for what it is – and it at best colours how they interpret everything for the rest of their lives, and at worst amplifies and gives focus to mental conditions they already have.
  Religion is a warped lens through which people are forced to see reality from such a young age, they are incapable of seeing actual reality, and in some cases it just amplifies the otherwise mild mental illness they’d likely have had already.
  Without it, some people would already have been disturbed, but with it those people are given a purpose for their delusions.
- I think religion is just a convenient scapegoat for mental illness here.
  It acts more as a place for mental illness to be hidden, camoflauged, or accepted as devotion or prophecy.
  When someone's delusions overlap with what a church accepts as their ancient prophets' experience, that illness doesn't get proper treatment.
Agreed. I was raised Catholic but I rebelled every step of the way and GTFO as soon as I could. Yeah angels will get you stuff like this.
- Big difference in intended meaning between revel and rebel.

If you go on YouTube and look up videos of the eclipse yesterday, you'll see a ton of videos about why the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world. Just pure and total insanity or people taking advantage of that insanity. You might be surprised but you probably won't be because you know in your heart that we're just that far gone now.

This is why I literally groaned when I read another post on lemmy about LLMs using YouTube to learn from...
Ffs do we want these things to be unhinged conspiracy theorist Nazi replicators? I can't think of a worse data set to use than YouTube.... Maybe 4chan, but I don't doubt that's already been scraped.
- I'll never forget when Google released their early development ai in the early 2010's and 4chan turned it into a racist sexist genocidal maniac in like a week
- Ffs do we want these things to be unhinged conspiracy theorist Nazi replicators?
  Only if I can personally generate some kind of profit from it.
Yeah I was going to say this is what overpopulation looks like. Then I remembered the witch trials in the 1600s and thought there's plenty more crazy shit people have done. There's more people now and arguably less crazy shit. Stuff like this is always going to happen though, human condition. Still horrible, we've got lots of work to do as a species.
Feels like 1 step forward 2 steps back with this whole "civilisation" thing.
the eclipse marks the beginning of the end of the world
I mean, we gotta mark the Beginning of the End somewhere, right? Might as well be during an eclipse.
Wasn't the eclipse not visible from Florida?

Take a society with no mental health assistance and then pepper it with tons of religious fervor. It's a recipe for disaster.

I'm in the middle of the first episode of the third season of the podcast Long Shadow. This one is going to be about mass shootings. Looks like they haven't added it to their website yet, but both of the prior seasons were excellent so I expect this to be more of the same.

https://longlead.com/article/long-shadow

Take a society with no mental health assistance and then pepper it with tons of religious fervor.
Then add in a whooole lotta guns

I mean … if I wasn’t already avoiding that shithole state …

In 1976, Larry Cohen made a film called "God Told Me To," where random people commit murders in the name of God. The movie explains it as (spoiler alert) the influence of aliens, but apparently such a thing doesn't actually need science fiction explanations.

Edit: Also, we live in what was the path of totality in Indiana and watched the eclipse in a park. When we came home, my daughter saw a bunch of people in a church parking lot doing some post-eclipse bowing down in prayer (I missed it) and she thought it was hilarious.

"I fell to my knees in that Aldi parking lot" is a popular meme on instagram currently, due to a sighting of Christians welcoming the end times in an Aldi parking lot.
I watched a video yesterday about the whole history of TimeCube.com, and it had the same sorts of patterns we see in online radicalization today. Someone with an untreated mental illness posted regularly on a website, and was egged on by people who thought it was funny. Then some kid who also has an untreated mental illness sees it and takes it seriously. Then that kid does something horrific because of it. (In TimeCube's case the kid jumped in front of a train after meeting the old guy and being rebuffed.)
- Can you please link to the video? That sounds really interesting.
- Fuckin TimeCube, man. That shit was wild back in the day. I hadn't heard about someone taking it seriously.

There's never people who God tells them to go cook really good food for the poor. Or maybe we just don't hear about them because that's not really news worthy.

There objectively very very many who say just that, you don't hear about it because no one cares if you're doing something good they only care when you're being shitty.
Those people get arrested and charged with a crime.
I mean. There is the woman who said god told her to sleep with the homeless guy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10630427/Personal-trainer-finds-church-going-wife-cheating-homeless-man-Video.html
- Now that sounds more spicy. I gotta run this strategy by my wife...hold on...."the sky daemon from the eclipse asked me to please find a local gangbang. I know, I know, I will ask for proof of testing and will definitely meet them all in a public place like a MacDonalds. So?" Yeah she said no.

I wasn't paying attention was some Alex Jones type telling people to do this last week?

Apparently a lot of people on tiktok thought the eclipse was the rapture
- I guess everyone else out of the path of totality just stayed on Earth then?

Come on, what do I say here? Lock her in jail? Push her off the cliff?? Craziness should not be supported unless it’s in a tiny padded cell under constant supervision. Too many people in this country claim insanity and if she really is, let her watch Boomerang all day; if she’s not test her boomerang-ability

I can't believe this isn't the onion

Folks on Talk Radio and the Televangelical circuit have been doing dime-store prophecies about the Eclipse being the end of the fucking world for fucking months. I was honestly a bit surprised shit like this wasn't more common.
Maybe Americans are building up a tolerance to the endless media hysteria.
Shit man, wait until you hear about Andrea Yates.
- her story is actually pretty tragic and fucked up, if you look into it.

It's because she didn't wear the special glasses. Or mental illness; probably the latter.

It was the chemtrails. I have photographic proof of Chemtrails visibly crossing the eclipse. I know Joe Biden scheduled the eclipse so we all look up at the right time to be exposed to the mind control chemicals
… is this really easier for some people to believe, than mental illness?
- I had to explain to someone that the glasses are needed because you never stare at the sun no matter how dim it may seem. I'm not sure what they originally thought the glasses were for but I get the idea they thought the eclipse was giving of weird energy or powers...