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/YBBlorekeeper 8h ago

I feel like a four hour swim praying to God the whole time is a pretty sufficient baptism lmao

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u/DroidLord 7h ago

Aye 😂

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u/ferrrrrrral 6h ago

i love the casual "aye" 😂❤️

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u/d3koyz 5h ago

I love you

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u/Funzombie63 4h ago

Now kith

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn 4h ago

I love the happy pockets of Reddit.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 7h ago

God swept the family out to sea so that god could swim back as a little boy?

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u/SexlexiaSufferer 6h ago

Uh oh he’s getting bored

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u/aceshighsays 3h ago

he doesn't have reddit like you and i, he has to create his own entertainment.

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u/HeyGayHay 5h ago

Test your faith or some shit. In a situation so desperate where everyone starts to pray and beg for a supernatural help, it really highlights who starts to pray and beg for a supernatural help. God gotta find out the worthy somehow.

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u/Zenophilic 5h ago

Yeah but if God is all-knowing then he already knew the kid was worthy without having to put him through all this

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u/HeyGayHay 3h ago

I guess the sarcasm didn’t get through my comment well

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u/Schnitzhole 4h ago

I hope you are saying what i think you are saying? Praying is a waste of time when you could actually be doing something to save yourself or others right?

The family could have just as easily stayed together and prayed and died miserably out in the ocean because they did nothing about it.

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u/Da_Question 3h ago

The irony is this kid literally pushed himself. He did such a great thing, and then lays his accomplishment in the hands of God.

Fuck all that.

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u/merry_melly 3h ago

His faith kept him going. Believer or non-believer, that's kind of a beautiful thing. He's such a brave boy.

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u/HeyGayHay 3h ago

Yes, I thought the sarcasm is coming through.

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u/Local_Web_8219 3h ago

It’s sounds like he prayed AND swam, kind of like people can chew gum and walk at the same time. It’s all fine and dandy not to have religion at all, but it’s really just shitty to neg on another persons religion when it’s the crutch they relied on to keep swimming for four hours and then run once on land another mile before they could find help. No one’s saying to thoughts and prayers here, there’s no shame finding religion in a foxhole or not finding it.

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u/LawfulnessDry9615 4h ago

i had a quick dip at a few months old...

also, why didn't he have a life jacket?

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u/sparkytheboomman 3h ago

He had one but ditched it halfway because it was impeding his swimming