The world is an amazing place. You can be amazed by terrible things, don't forget.

A moment ago my twitter account accidentally built poetry and pumped it into my browser.  When you have enough people not looking at each other and all typing something's bound to click at some point.  It read as follows, spread across 3 users:

Boy 'skinned, eaten by family'"
Open bar!
don't cry

As poetry I love it.  Of course, I clicked on the link in the first line and that's when the poetry stopped.  I'd warn you that the link is not appropriate for casual reading.  NSFW as the abbreviation goes.  But the world's not work safe so read it if you want to know more about a boy being skinned and eaten in small increments by his own mother.

Sure, you can say it's just a cult.  But all religions are just cults.  The short of it is that the mother locked her two sons up in cages or simply handcuffed them to tables.  She then skinned them slowly, or forced them to do it, and fed the bits of flesh to her family.  That's not what got to me.  I mean, it did but it's not what really got to me.

Here it is.  Picture this in your head as you read.  Try to make a movie.  Try to make the scariest movie you can.  No one could write a scene more terrifyingly perfect and horrific than what really happened.  One of the neighbors had a new born.  He installed a wireless video monitor, a step up from those always on walkie-talkies that I'm used to seeing on TV.  He set up the whole system and went into another room to look at the monitor and see if the camera was transmitting.  He turned on the TV screen.  He saw a young boy chained up in a dark room (that turned out to be the cellar), bloody and bruised and scarred.

I know that people are capable of terrible things.  I know that you can blame religion but that's really just an easy out.  People want to do terrible things.  Terrible things being done to others is one more moment of terrible things not being done to you.  People manage to convince themselves that almost anything is normal.  We have people who act on behalf of their country when they drown people without the risk of death.  100% pain and terror, 0% chance of ever having to stop!  For America!  Cutting up your own kids and feeding them to friends and family!  People always find away to turn the worst things you can think of into the mundane and acceptable.

But I just can't get the image of that dad turning on the TV and expecting to see his new baby up there.  Instead he saw his neighbor's camera.  And the mother wanted to see that bloody, tortured kid, her kid, up on her kitchen TV.  I wonder what she would have thought if she just saw someone's baby instead.