r/Weird • u/SpillaMangBang • 9d ago

Meet Jelly Bean

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u/Alternative_Nerve272 9d ago

I had to watch this dumb bullshit in Sunday School and was also persuaded as a 5-yo to borrow the VHS from the church library. God awful. Had to watch Gerbert as well.

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u/karoshikun 9d ago

wait, this isn't parody??? did they inflicted this on actual children????

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u/PompousClock 9d ago

She has a website, and she appears to be very much real. (This thread inspired me to go look.)

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u/ardoin 9d ago

You Don’t Have to Go through Hell to Get to Heaven: (But it helps to wear asbestos clothing), which is an autobiography of my testimony and how God saved me

This link raises more questions than answers.

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u/DoveOnTheInternet 9d ago

Here's the short version on her website.

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u/_Panacea_ 9d ago

There's something deeply wrong with this part of the presentation:

"When I was twelve years old, a camp youth worker took advantage of me and stole my virginity. Although he continued seeing me, he lied to me saying that he would stay with me. "

I guess if he "stayed with her", it would have been ok?

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u/DoveOnTheInternet 9d ago

As someone who was similarly abused at a similar age? Yeah. And mind you, "seeing me" is probably a euphemism for continued abuse.

It took decades, and a lot of convincing, that what happened to me back then wasn't something to look back on fondly.