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I knew a kid who’d go door to door in neighborhoods requesting donations for the poor.
In his mind he was being honest because he was “the poor”
To be fair, this was the pre-existing model for GoFundMe. That kid could’ve been a millionaire if he dreamed bigger.
can i start a gofundme just asking for money for no reason and see if anyone gives it to me
Absolutely.
Reminds me of the Human Fund and its slogan “money for people”.
Ah the classic Empty Pocket Society
So you accidentally learned the greatest lesson the church has to offer. Salvation for a profit.
Also, religious fanatics are really gullible
Well…they are religious. SKY CAKE!
Honestly. I think that’s what many of the nutjob protestors and “commentators” do. Why work a real job when you can be paid by suckers to jetset around the country/world spouting controversial views.
That’s basically what Fred Phelps and crew did.
Since it’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven, relieving said rich man of their excess wealth is actually a kindness. Therefore this is an ethical life pro tip.
While everyone’s telling their stories. In middle school. My friend had a game shark book with game shark codes and he would write them all out and then sell them to kids that didn’t have a game shark.
Game shark, my god you brought me back. Shit, now you got me thinking about Game Genie too.
Codebreaker for PS2 was my daily use cheat disc back then lol
Game genie and game shark I remember, I totally forgot about codebreaker!
First gameshark I had for my PS1 was a little brick that went into the serial port. Fucker didn’t work and I couldn’t return it for a refund. Some time later, I got a gameshark as a CD and that one worked wonders. Too bad it would crash if I saved too many extra codes into the memory card.
Full circle since I Rember reading that blink got started telling schools they wanted to play concerts in gymnasiums to spread a positive Christian message.
Brilliant looping going on, even betterer then banananana
I did something similar when I was like 11. Went on a “canned food drive” around the neighborhood because it was summer and I was hungry.
To be fair, my family was poor and used services that actual drives would benefit, so I just cut out the middle man.
When I needed a job I went to church and asked them to pay that a job would come my way. Had 3 offers before I left
Pay or pray?
Pay to pray
Pray to get paid?
Pray to get laid
Lay to get paid.
You’ll get far in the tiling business
Is there actually any way literal grown adults fell for this
Why are their pastors driving lambos
God’s gift, obviously
Have you ever talked with fundamentalist? It’s not only plausible, but those adults have probably done the same thing while actually being serious about the preaching part in the concert
Yes.
Religious fanatics are that gullible, they do after all believe in really shittily written fairytales as if they’re real.
Yes! I went to an evangelical church run private school. They had the brilliant idea to send good “strong Christian” students to raves and parties to narc on their classmates that attended said raves and parties. I wish I was making that up.
Depends on the town. Some of the ones in the Bible Belt? Absolutely possible. In others it’s completely possible they knew the kids were lying and decided it was fun to play along and get them to a concert.
I’d be astounded if they didn’t.
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My best friend and I wanted to go to a Blink 182 concert in high school but couldn’t afford tickets, so we told everyone in our extremely Baptist Oklahoma town that God called us to spread the gospel at an evil secular concert but we needed donations to get in. We turned a profit
So much circle-jerking in this comments. This person is literally stealing but its fine if its from the “bad guys”.
This community isn’t called LemmySeriousDiscussionPost
They’re grifting grifters. I see no problem.
How are people donating their own money grifters?
They wanted those kids to go at a concert and “spread the gospel” to people who paid to be there. Not sure about you, but I know I wouldn’t take that well.
If I didn’t have ethics, I could con so many religious people…
Well considering that this is 100% fake bullshit, it’s probably not even worth asking that question.
