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Thermal said:
Perhaps we should write a paragraph on it?

I grew up in the Protestant thing too, but oddly I don't recall anything being said about homosexuality. Or sexuality at all, really. My grandfather was a pretty progressive preacher who tended to go easy on judging, though. Certainly no neon-clad backup dancers in our church, so maybe we were not the cool faithful.
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While I was exposed to videos like this the actual churches I attended were far more in keeping with the decorum and depressing monotone musical performances one would expect from LCMS Lutherans.

The weirdest church my family attended also ran a school that I was enrolled at from about third to fifth grade. The Sunday School and day school classes taught that the world was going on end on January 1, 2000. The pastor never preached this from the pulpit on Sundays however. It was a weird place.

I remember one day a girl brought in treats to give out on her birthday. She went to the "Teacher's Lounge" to give out the last of them. When she came back she was crying. She refused to talk to anyone. The teachers would often go to the lounge for hours on end, leaving classes unattended. It was considered an honor to visit it but nobody ever seemed happy about it when they came back. It was accessible by two stairways in a hallway that ran behind, but did not connect to, the sanctuary. The stairways turned so even if you looked up them you only saw the curve of a wall.

Years later during my senior year of high school I was in the Church building for a Creationism conference featuring Ken Ham. The school portion had been shut down about a year after I'd left, but the church itself was still active. I decided to take a look at the mysterious "teacher's lounge." I walked down the hallway behind the sanctuary and up a flight of stairs. I realized I was pretty much behind the pulpit. Off to my left was a small open landing lined with doors. Right in front of me was a dark green hot tub set in the floor. A metal railing separated the landing from the hot tub. I could see the other set of stairs on the other side of the hot tub, accessible through the hot tub or across the landing. My first thought was, "The lounge must be behind one of the doors." I opened each one. They were all closets. One had cleaning supplies. The others coats, some vestments, and Christmas decorations. The last one had a small shower. Based on how dry it was it had not been used recently.

I took a closer look at the hot tub, thinking, "This must be a baptismal font of some kind." LCSM Lutherans were sprinklers, but maybe the building had been previously owned by dunkers who, inexplicably, preferred to baptize in a very private setting. I saw it was outfitted with temperature controls, jets, seats, and all the trappings one would expect from a hot tub. It was also bone dry.

I found myself standing there perplexed. The small landing in front of the doors was too small for anything like a card table to be set up. All I could think was that the "lounge" had been an operational hot tub, or the teachers had been sitting in a dry hot tub for some reason. I also couldn't think of any baptisms I'd ever seen or heard described that would take place in a small, cramped area behind the sanctuary. I considered the prospect that the place had been renovated, but the carpeting was the same old, discolored carpet that lined the hallways below and that I remembered from my days as a student there. It looked like the rest of the building.

The lack of windows further disturbed me.

The implications of what I was seeing unsettled me and I did my best to put it out of my teenage mind. There was no way I could connect what I was seeing with my memories that I didn't find deeply disturbing.
 
hank hill said:
Ok, the Trump one. very AlanTutorial vibe. Episode 11 or 12, I believe. Write a whole paragraph on it.
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I have seen a lot of interesting characters come and go on this board but this has to be the first time I have ever had one try to give me homework. Since the main goal seems to be driving views to the channel, I think you should be doing the work. I haven't seen you post much more than a few sentences at a time, often contradicting each other. One minute you are saying how crazy it all is, then how it's so clever and filled nuance that it just flies over our heads. One minute you want us to unmask him, then simply explain him. So, I propose this: If you write me a dissertation on why he is such a fascinating study, I will watch all 60 videos.
 
Damn, dude. That really is unsettling. I thought you were going to have allusions to a casting couch kind of deal, but a built in hot tub room with no area for anything else...that's a real commitment. Plumbing, electrical, railings, even the expense of the tub and getting the thing in there...these people were building around the concept of this thing. And evidently all of the teachers would know about it. I mean, if that was just their thing, whatever. Adults and all. But actually built within the church reflects a real lifestyle commitment that wouldn't belong there. Kind of lke inherent deception with base ulterior motives, which is the dead last thing I would want among teachers of children.

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Thermal said:
Damn, dude. That really is unsettling. I thought you were going to have allusions to a casting couch kind of deal, but a built in hot tub room with no area for anything else...that's a real commitment. Plumbing, electrical, railings, even the expense of the tub and getting the thing in there...these people were building around the concept of this thing. And evidently all of the teachers would know about it. I mean, if that was just their thing, whatever. Adults and all. But actually built within the church reflects a real lifestyle commitment that wouldn't belong there. Kind of lke inherent deception with base ulterior motives, which is the dead last thing I would want among teachers of children.

eta: directed to halleyscomet
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I chose not to stay for the rest of the Creationism conference after seeing that. I missed the opportunity to hear a sermon by Ken Ham, but I doubt I would have been able to focus.
 
Thermal said:
Damn, dude. That really is unsettling. I thought you were going to have allusions to a casting couch kind of deal, but a built in hot tub room with no area for anything else...that's a real commitment...
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A hot tub filling the teachers lounge is so surreal it makes me wonder how such a thing came to be. I mean, which came first - the tub or the room's purpose? I imagine some teacher taking a long, thoughtful draw on his old briar pipe and saying "Do you know what this room needs? Now, hear me out...".
 
Jack by the hedge said:
A hot tub filling the teachers lounge is so surreal it makes me wonder how such a thing came to be. I mean, which came first - the tub or the room's purpose? I imagine some teacher taking a long, thoughtful draw on his old briar pipe and saying "Do you know what this room needs? Now, hear me out...".
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It wasn't really even a room. The hot tub had been set in the floor in what would have been part of a hallway for a second floor row of closets. The architecture decisions don't make any sense.

This was the same school where the principal was allowed to paddle unruly students. I got paddled a few times. The paddle he used had a leather wrapped handle and a heart shape cut out of the middle. The edges of the heart were ringed with little studs. He hung it on the wall next to an older one that had lower studs and was cracked. The older one was no longer used. Not too long ago I described the paddle in a Reddit thread about child abuse. One of the other Redditors pointed out that was a fetish paddle. I'd always thought the principal never paddled his son because he had a blind spot for his son's unruly behavior. Now I wonder if the son was spared a paddling because doing so with a fetish paddle would have felt incestuous to the principal.
 
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Jack by the hedge said:
A hot tub filling the teachers lounge is so surreal it makes me wonder how such a thing came to be. I mean, which came first - the tub or the room's purpose? I imagine some teacher taking a long, thoughtful draw on his old briar pipe and saying "Do you know what this room needs? Now, hear me out...".
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Seriously. How would that topic get brought up? How would you even know who you could approach with such a suggestion if that boink-bath culture was not heavily ingrained among the parishioners already? Freaking creepshow.
 
halleyscomet said:
It wasn't really even a room. The hot tub had been set in the floor in what would have been part of a hallway to a second floor row of closets. The architecture decisions don't make any sense.

This was the same school where the principal was allowed to paddle unruly students. I got paddled a few times. The paddle he used had a leather wrapped handle and a heart shape cut out of the middle. The edges of the heart were ringed with little studs. He hung it on the wall next to an older one that had lower studs and was cracked. The older one was no longer used.

Not too long ago I described the paddle in a Reddit thread about child abuse. One of the other Redditors pointed out that was a fetish paddle. I'd always thought the principal never paddled his son because he had a blind spot for his son's unruly behavior. Now I wonder if the son was spared a paddling because doing so with a fetish paddle would have felt incestuous to the principal.
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So vaguely incestuous thoughts were the line for these cats? Well, at least there was a line. Although I highly doubt the son would have been blind to what daddy was up to by the time he was a teen. Hard to hide that level of brazenness. Hope he got out of adolescence without too much trauma.
 
Thermal said:
Seriously. How would that topic get brought up? How would you even know who you could approach with such a suggestion if that boink-bath culture was not heavily ingrained among the parishioners already? Freaking creepshow.
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There was already a very sexist culture in the school and the church. For example, the teachers at the school were mostly women, but the principal was a man. The teachers were very explicit about this being a Biblical decision. The fact that public schools in the area had female principals was used as an example of why the public schools were ungodly. The male teacher who taught music was mentioned as someone the school wouldn't be able to employ if the principal was a woman because, according to the Bible, women can't be in charge of men.

The school was basically started by hiring the Sunday school teachers to work at the school during the week. The classes tended to be little more than Sunday School classes with a few pretenses of other subjects. The lack of people with education degrees was mentioned as a positive for the school as they weren't "brainwashed" by "secular ideas" of how children learn.

Thermal said:
So vaguely incestuous thoughts were the line for these cats? Well, at least there was a line.
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Possibly. It could still have been a Golden Child issue where the son could do no wrong in the principal's eyes.

Thermal said:
Although I highly doubt the son would have been blind to what daddy was up to by the time he was a teen. Hard to hide that level of brazenness. Hope he got out of adolescence without too much trauma.
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I was told he committed suicide in middle school, shortly after the church closed the day school. It was my mother who made that claim. Her grasp on reality has always tenuous and she is not above lying to get the results she wants. She framed the account of the alleged suicide as a cautionary tale about drifting away from Christ and how the church was "evil" for shutting down the school. She didn't know about the church doctrine about the world ending on January 1, 2000, which I suspect played a major role in their decision to close the school. I suspect the church wanted to focus its finances on outreach and evangelism in the End Times, where my mother thought they were abandoning the next generation.
 
I suggest you look at it as a joke- then you could give it an honest review.

How about this? One of you do episode 1, another of you can do episode 2, and so on.
 
hank hill said:
If you don't want to make theories on this channel, don't post here. That's what this thread is for.
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Please. Stop. This.

You're new 'round these parts, so apparently no one's advised you that the opening poster(OP) does not OWN a thread. We have rules in these forums and none of them give users control of a thread's content. As long as the comments are related to the topic at hand, anyone can post anything. People are commenting on the YT series and on your fascination with it and your comments about what you think needs to be done. All are "on topic".

If people stray off topic, report them to the moderators.(It's that ! button on the bottom left of the post.) But you cannot regulate that "only serious Pizza lovers can comment on my pizza thread".
 
hank hill said:
I suggest you look at it as a joke- then you could give it an honest review.

How about this? One of you do episode 1, another of you can do episode 2, and so on.
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Man, you are just not getting this, are you?

Tell you what. You want us to do incredibly boring legwork for you. What are you paying?
 
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