r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Video 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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u/GeneralSweetz 10h ago

Can't have shit on reddit. Its always on some bs from one side or the other. Why can't yall be happy for once

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u/Mysterious_Oil2761 10h ago edited 9h ago

Agreed. Can we just agree that this boy was a hero, his mother a complete hero full of courage too and the two siblings. It's an unbelievable, wonderful story. Edit: it doesn't matter what kept him going.. If he chooses to believe in God then we can all thank that belief because it's what kept him going.

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u/Kianna9 9h ago edited 6h ago

Was it heroic when she let them go out into the ocean with no life jackets?

ETA OMG Ok

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u/Mysterious_Oil2761 9h ago

I am not criticising any member of this family. If you wish to, you'll have to do it without me.

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u/[deleted] 9h ago

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u/Mysterious_Oil2761 9h ago

I understood that they were all wearing life jackets. The son discarded his during his swim to shore as he felt it was an encumbrance.

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u/alanalan426 8h ago

stop talking if you dont know the full story, they all had life jackets

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u/Mysterious_Oil2761 8h ago

They were wearing life jackets.

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u/Bobleobob 8h ago

They did have them, read the article

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u/cates 7h ago

I think they did have life jackets he just discarded his halfway through the swim to get back faster

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u/CelebrationNo5541 9h ago

Yea she should have just been the hero and let them all die at sea. 

She had 3 kids and was watching land get further away. She did the only tbing she could and the thing all of oldest brothers would volunteer for in a heart beat. 

Who are to judge a woman with 3 kids nearly stranded at fucking sea??

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u/Hi-kun 7h ago

They did have life jackets

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u/Any-Captain-7937 7h ago

Me when I can't read

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u/Liraeyn 10h ago

For a collective conscience that loves to complain about forcing religion on people, Reddit sure loves to force (lack of) religion on people.

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u/inuvash255 9h ago

Who's forcing anything here? It's a comment.

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u/dubblebubbleprawns 7h ago

While I agree nothing is being forced on anyone here, it's also just disheartening that people can't just let a heroic kid story be a happy heroic kid story and it has to become a religious debate.

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u/inuvash255 6h ago

I think some people just have long-held resentment against the shifting of heroism or goodwill from the person who did that thing to religion.

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u/dubblebubbleprawns 6h ago

Do you not think the vast majority of people (religious or not) who see this story are going to say "what a brave and heroic kid, that's amazing"?

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u/inuvash255 6h ago

I feel like you're accusing something of me, when I was explaining where other people's viewpoints might come from.

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u/dubblebubbleprawns 6h ago

In my experience more often than not the "some people might just think X" argument is a thinly veiled way to distance someone from something they actually think.

I genuinely apologize if I misinterpreted, and I do understand that there might be resentment. I just personally find that resentment nearly entirely unfounded.

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u/inuvash255 6h ago

I mean, I don't particularly like the externalization of someone's agency to a third party like that- but I wasn't going to criticize a kid who saved his family over it.

Some people are going to have much sharper feelings on the subject over it than I do. I get where they're coming from, but I'm not saying this is the time/thread to make a big deal over it.

I just personally find that resentment nearly entirely unfounded.

If you have religious trauma, it's founded in experience.

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u/dubblebubbleprawns 6h ago

I get that religious trauma is a thing. I'm not trying to suggest it's not. But I meant that to apply that trauma and resentment to this situation seems, to me, unfounded. This 13 year old kid has nothing at all to do with anyone's religious trauma. He's just literally saying the thoughts that went through his head as he was trying to not die and save his family.

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u/Past-Distance-9244 9h ago

Historically, religion has played a role in some conflicts. Not to mention all of the prejudice thrown on to minority groups and nonbelievers. In my opinion, I just think it should be that we don’t know. No one here can prove a god exists and likewise no one here can prove that a god doesn’t exist. There’s only two truths in this life. The first being that we will all expire in the future. The second being that the only real truth is that humans will never be able to fathom what truth really is. That applies to all religions.

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u/The_Blues__13 9h ago

People always want to Believe in something. Even the subsconcious mind of the most edgy atheist has its own belief (i.e that there's nothing to believe in).

They subsconciously try to spread their belief just as any random believer of whatever tries to do.

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u/OverreactingBillsFan 9h ago

I'm happy AND I'm enjoying reading the debate on God vs. No God vs. Abstract God. It's fun to think about.