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With no health insurance or money for a doctor, South Carolina man dies while resorting to the Bible to heal injury.

The mix of resorting to the Bible, instead of possibly locating some government help (like Medicaid) to get medical help, suggests to me that this individual may have been philosophically allied to the Teabagger movement made up of Glen Beck motivated fundamentalist Christians.

This moron may serve as a powerful personification of what the Teabagger movement invisions as "health care" for the US.

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Was Tillmon Webb a Teabagger?

Video of his fundy wife is worth the watch ... http://www.ksn.com/content/news/also/st ... pq9Ww.cspx (http://www.ksn.com/content/news/also/story/Man-dies-after-sitting-in-recliner-for-eight/IYHyG3psmkWk6UgSGpq9Ww.cspx)

QuoteCOLUMBIA, South Carolina (NBC) -- Believing his faith would heal him, a Greenwood County, South Carolina man sat down in his recliner after an injury in March and never got up.

On Thursday, his wife explained why he stayed in the recliner until shortly before he died.

"The man totally believed in God and his healing," said Ada Webb.

In March, Webb's 550-pound husband, Tillmon, sat down in a recliner inside their trailer in Greenwood. Wearing nothing but a blanket, the 33-year-old didn't move from that recliner for the next eight months.

"He couldn't do nothing for his self and I couldn't do but so much," Webb explained.

Webb says Tillmon tore his ACL in March and drove to a doctor's office.

"They were gonna give him an appointment, but they wanted $300 up front, and we didn't have the money," said Webb.

Webb says he returned to the recliner, picked up his Bible and became determined that faith would heal his leg.[/u]

"He read his Bible daily, he spent his full focus on God," said Webb. "And he was literally waiting and praying for a Job miracle. If anybody knows the Bible and knows Job, he really and fully believed that God was going to heal him just like he did Job, because he said he couldn't think of a better testimony to go out and to tell people."

For eight months they had no visitors. Webb rarely left his side, and she tried to keep him clean.

"I couldn't get him rolled over to use a bedpan," said Webb.

Other than eating and reading the Bible, she says Tillmon posted sermons online and texted messages of faith through his cell phone.

"He wanted so much to get up and you know, he wanted to tell everybody what Jesus done," said Webb.

Webb says Tillmon consistently told her not to call for help. She says Wednesday morning he was in so much pain that she finally called an ambulance.

Greenwood County authorities say they found Tillmon covered with sores, and that he appeared to weigh about 800 pounds. They say he was stuck to his chair, and they had to saw the recliner apart. They cut a large hole around the front door to get him out.

He died at the hospital.

Webb says she has no regrets about leaving him in that recliner.

"If I feel anything right now, it's envy for him because I wish he had taken me with him," said Webb.

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The gene pool just got a little bit cleaner and a lot less shallow...

Man, health care is tough these days.  

Maybe God just doesn't like to heal stinky obese people.....8 months without getting up and he was fused to the chair, nasty!

Yeah I was reading this article on reddit.  Next time someone asks you what is the harm of religion you can point to this.

Since when were Teabaggers republicunts? Oh right, when Obama became President.

Umm I'm one of those people who go to Tea Parties.  So the next time you want to use people's crazy religious beliefs to justify a callus ad hominem against a completely unrelated political ideology, how about you ***** ** ** **** *** instead, okay?

Lol when I read the word teabagging I immediately thought of balls on some poor sleeping guys face. I have now been educated and rescued from the darkest depths of ignorance.

Quote from: "G-Roll"Lol when I read the word teabagging I immediately thought of balls on some poor sleeping guys face. I have now been educated and rescued from the darkest depths of ignorance.

Bullshit.  We've all played Halo we all know what teabagging really means.  Don't let people delude you.  ^_^

Quote from: "LoneMateria"Bullshit.  We've all played Halo we all know what teabagging really means.  Don't let people delude you.  ^_^

Nothing like hearing your husband say from the other room "that asshole just teabagged me."

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Quote from: "LoneMateria"Bullshit.  We've all played Halo we all know what teabagging really means.  Don't let people delude you.  ^_^

Nothing like hearing your husband say from the other room "that asshole just teabagged me."

ROFL yeah I take credit for him yelling that.

Quote from: "G-Roll"Lol when I read the word teabagging I immediately thought of balls on some poor sleeping guys face. I have now been educated and rescued from the darkest depths of ignorance.

Me as well.

Also, could not roll him over for a bed pan? Ewwwww.

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Quote from: "G-Roll"Lol when I read the word teabagging I immediately thought of balls on some poor sleeping guys face. I have now been educated and rescued from the darkest depths of ignorance.

Bullshit.  We've all played Halo we all know what teabagging really means.  Don't let people delude you.  ^_^

Alas Halo 2 is as far as my Halo expertice goes. And that was at a friends house as I have no x-box. What is teabagging in halo?  

Quote from: "G-Roll"What is teabagging in halo?  

you stand over the other player and crouch down repeatedly.

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Quote from: "G-Roll"Lol when I read the word teabagging I immediately thought of balls on some poor sleeping guys face. I have now been educated and rescued from the darkest depths of ignorance.

Bullshit.  We've all played Halo we all know what teabagging really means.  Don't let people delude you.  ^_^

Alas Halo 2 is as far as my Halo expertice goes. And that was at a friends house as I have no x-box. What is teabagging in halo?  

Yeah I never played 3 but I played 2 on live for a while.  Like Whitney said is when you pwn a n00b and rub it in and the last thing they see before they respawn is your crotch in their dead face.  ^_^ And the best part is that when you talk shit they can hear you while you teabag them.  It's the number 1 way to piss someone off in that game.

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Quote from: "LoneMateria"Bullshit.  We've all played Halo we all know what teabagging really means.  Don't let people delude you.  ^_^

Nothing like hearing your husband say from the other room "that asshole just teabagged me."

Hahahahahaha!!  

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Quote from: "G-Roll"What is teabagging in halo?  :headbang:

Quote from: "andrewclunn"Umm I'm one of those people who go to Tea Parties.  So the next time you want to use people's crazy religious beliefs to justify a callus ad hominem against a completely unrelated political ideology, how about you ***** ** ** **** *** instead, okay?

My assertion stands.  

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Quote from: "andrewclunn"Umm I'm one of those people who go to Tea Parties.  So the next time you want to use people's crazy religious beliefs to justify a callus ad hominem against a completely unrelated political ideology, how about you ***** ** ** **** *** instead, okay?

My assertion stands.  

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I didn't see andrew's post till now because I was distracted by images of halo tea bagging.

Please play nice and discuss your differences rather than fighting.

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Quote from: "andrewclunn"Umm I'm one of those people who go to Tea Parties.  So the next time you want to use people's crazy religious beliefs to justify a callus ad hominem against a completely unrelated political ideology, how about you ***** ** ** **** *** instead, okay?

My assertion stands.  

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I didn't see andrew's post till now because I was distracted by images of halo tea bagging.

Please play nice and discuss your differences rather than fighting.

It was a tragic article about people refusing real medical help because of religious beliefs.  The posting here was attempting to connect it with an unrelated movement as a type of associative propaganda technique that members of the secular left often do to anyone with right leaning economic views.  Being against nationalized health care doe not make me a religious wacko, and the original post made no attempt to hide the fact that that was its implication.  Taking offense to a direct ad hominem insult is the only proper response to such BS.

Quote from: "andrewclunn"It was a tragic article about people refusing real medical help because of religious beliefs.  The posting here was attempting to connect it with an unrelated movement as a type of associative propaganda technique that members of the secular left often do to anyone with right leaning economic views.  Being against nationalized health care doe not make me a religious wacko, and the original post made no attempt to hide the fact that that was its implication.  Taking offense to a direct ad hominem insult is the only proper response to such BS.

Or it would be to ignore it or simply disprove that there is no relation like most intelligent people do, there is no real similarity to teabaggers IMHO aside from the fact that many of them happen to be evangelical, and any group that goes out and protests is going to receive criticisms, get over it and deal with it, there are a lot of people who marched right along with the teabaggers and did some pretty racist stuff that offended me, I didn't go blasting them though and even if I did you know it doesn't apply to you so don't get angry about it. Counter arguing with broad generalizations doesn't help your argument either.

Quote from: "andrewclunn"It was a tragic article about people refusing real medical help because of religious beliefs.  The posting here was attempting to connect it with an unrelated movement as a type of associative propaganda technique that members of the secular left often do to anyone with right leaning economic views.  Being against nationalized health care doe not make me a religious wacko, and the original post made no attempt to hide the fact that that was its implication.  Taking offense to a direct ad hominem insult is the only proper response to such BS.

Three things.  

1) I never made the outright generalization of connecting everyone who is against nationalized health care as being a religious wacko.  There are many in the health insurance industry (I was one of those several years ago), and others for their own reasons, who are rational, non-whacko types and simply want to protect their very nice profits or livelihood, or are acting on some other motive.

2)  Instead, I tangentially connected a subset of those against nationalized health care, the Teabaggers, as whacko Christian fundamentalists; certainly this can be said of the typical "garden variety" Teabagger.  Additionally, though most, I would assert, are fundies, there is, of course, room for a minority of exceptions.

3) Finally, in regard to the dead fundy moron, notice that in my OP I use the word "suggests"…

Quote from: "I"The mix of resorting to the Bible, instead of possibly locating some government help (like Medicaid) to get medical help, suggests to me that this individual may have been philosophically allied to the Teabagger movement made up of Glen Beck motivated fundamentalist Christians.

Just for my edification, Andrew, do you consider yourself a Teabagger?


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Quote from: "andrewclunn"Just for my edification, Andrew, do you consider yourself a Teabagger?

If by that you mean a "Tea Party goer" then yes.  Though the phrase Teabagger certainly means something quite different as I'm sure we all know.

MSNBC's take
[youtube:28s99llq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=383leN5mgsA[/youtube:28s99llq]

CNN's take
[youtube:28s99llq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOrPzVECSjo[/youtube:28s99llq]

Our Reaction
[youtube:28s99llq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1nRYw-OQ_E[/youtube:28s99llq]

What we want to say but aren't allowed to on any station other than Fox
[youtube:28s99llq]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxkFVoYp5o[/youtube:28s99llq]

While MSNBC isn't as bad as Fox News, what did you expect? They are clearly biased to the left, everyone should take their news with a grain of salt and CNN is quite neutral, they've blasted Obama many a time and will give him a pat on the back when he does something well and they approach the the whole Tea Party movement they report it like any old fashioned reporter does, i've seen very little bias on CNN and the few times I have it goes to the left AND the right, CNN plays it like it is and while your intentions may be noble the major portion of those you protest with are less than noble and the CNN reporter brought up a good point, where were the Tea Parties when Regan and  Bush Jr were in office? While it doesn't apply to all this has alot more to do with other things than just taxes which haven't gone up unless you make 250K+. Now if you're problem is spending then preach on because TBH it is getting a bit out of control , they need to slow down and let some of their investments take effect first before they continue to spend anymore money or rather significant portions of it in the trillion dollar range, we won't feel it now or soon but in a couple of years inflation may very well bite us in the butt later on.

Ha ha ha ha ha. This was the most entertaining string of posts I've read all day! :hmm: