Comments by "" (@orboakin8074) on "Wendigoon" channel.

Okay, I had my initial opinions about this Waco event before watching this video and I am ashamed to say my opinions were made without knowledge of the full story. Now I see this in a much different light. I hate David Koresh for his sexual abuses and crimes (legal or not) and I also hate millennialist cults but now I hate the ATF and the callous government bureaucrats who run it even more. Their actions at Waco were inexcusable. I also misjudged the branch Davidians. I disagree with their version Christianity but they were not a threat to the community as I assumed.
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Man! I envy you so much. To meet such a person who was a part of history. Really cool. Also, as someone who is relatively new to anime and manga (i got into both in late 2020 and am loving it!) this story of yours is doubly fun to read, madam. I am glad she got to live a happy life in her later years, at least.
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You and I have a similar story. I am a Nigerian immigrant schooling and working in the USA. When I came here, i found myself gravitating away from my Catholic faith because I wanted to fit in with the "current year" culture here but after experiencing many of the people from that side, I was saddened and disillusioned by their narcissism and hatred of the positive virtues of Christianity. I am grateful to God that I am still a practicing Catholic. This channel is a surprise to me as I never imagined there were many millennial westerners who even practiced or proudly discussed Christianity.
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@kimashitawa8113 Thank you for the kind words and support. And yes, I am doing much better. I am still practicing my Catholic faith and it has really helped me improve myself in various other ways besides just religion. My relationship with my parents and siblings is better and my college studies have improved. Even when I cannot attend mass due to time, I always watch the live streams from the church.
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My first time reading the book was in 2006 in Nigeria. I was a 13 year old boy and my dad was taking us on a visit to one of the few book stores in my area that sold western novels and I saw paperback edition of Frankenstein and given how I was already familiar with the character via cartoons like Scooby Doo and parodies in movies, I was interested and asked my dad to buy it for me. Well, when I got home, I began reading it and expected it to be some action-horror story of defeating an evil monster but as I kept reading it, the story was absolutely different from anything I expected. First off, I had no idea the name "Frankenstein" was that of the scientist who created the monster! I always thought it was the monster's name😲 and due to my young nature, I was almost bored with reading it but my dad told me that since I had asked for it, I had to read it because it would not be proper to reject something he bought for me. So I continued reading it and as I went on for several weeks, I began to enjoy and even be surprised by how deep the sorry was and the characters. I never expected to view the monster in such a human light and actually end up disliking Frankenstein but afterwards, I am so glad my dad bought it for me and that I read it. In Nigeria, I always had a penchant for reading and I still have it. Reading Frankenstein helped me expand my love of reading fiction, especially classics of English, and it also made me appreciate deeper literary themes and focus more on characters.
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Okay, I had my initial opinions about this Waco event before watching your video and I am ashamed to say my opinions were without knowledge of the full story. Now I see this in a much different light. I hate David Koresh for his sexual abuses and crimes (legal or not) and I also hate millennialist cults but now I hate the ATF and the callous government bureaucrats who run it even more. Their actions at Waco were inexcusable.
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So basically the Davidians and Branch Davidians were just another millennialist cult obsessed with "salvation" after some world-ending apocalypse? Typical crazies using Christianity to validate their insanity. EDIT: After watching this completely, I was wrong in many ways. The ATF and the government messed up big time. The Branch Davidians were not the cause of this tragedy and they deserved better
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Woah! Really cool stuff. I also heard from Dan Carlin in his History podcast how the natives helped the allies during the Pacific theater of WW2 and how they were brutal against the Japanese and very helpful to the allies in surviving the jungle.
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@ayo3181 No, I wasn't talking about the natives in the Philippines. I meant the people of Papua New Guinea and some of the other islands in the Pacific.
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@eamonwright7488 Damn! That is grim but fascinating stuff. I only heard a bit of the cannibalism from Dan Carlin but I had no idea it was this bad during the war. Thanks for the recommendation, friend. Will definitely check it out.
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My favorite Christian YouTuber🤩 Had I know you uploaded this, I would have listened to it while doing my Wendys shift a while ago.
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@vietnamsemonky4082 Amen. Thanks and God bless you too, friend.
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@isnanesavant Okay, I had my initial opinions about this Waco event before watching this video and I am ashamed to say my opinions were made without knowledge of the full story. Now I see this in a much different light. I hate David Koresh for his sexual abuses and crimes (legal or not) and I also hate millennialist cults but now I hate the ATF and the callous government bureaucrats who run it even more. Their actions at Waco were inexcusable. I also misjudged the branch Davidians. I disagree with their version Christianity but they were not a threat to the community as I assumed.
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Why in God's name was the Epistle of Clement never included in the New Testament?! It's beautiful, impactful and such a good message that resonates deeply with all Christians and non-Christians. Plus, he called out abuse of power in the church. That's Godliness right there!
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I hear you. I had my initial opinions about this event before learning the full story but now, I am both angry and saddened after learning the whole thing. Koresh was a POS but the ATF were pure evil for what they did to him and his group.
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I literally stumbled on your channel after watching a documentary on the history of Christmas and your Divine Comedy video was recommended. I am truly happy I discovered your work. As a Christian (Catholic) and a millennial, I am so glad to see a person like you discussing my faith but doing so with reverence and none of the "current year" condescension or subversion we see in society today. I am from Nigeria and I never imagined there were still westerners who had reverence for Christianity anymore. God bless you.
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I was introduced to the divine comedy via the Dante's Inferno game which i played as a kid in Nigeria. Ironically, I am a Catholic myself but we were never taught about Dante or any of that history.
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This is gonna sound weird but as a kid in Nigeria in 2000, i remember watching an American TV movie on cable that i think was about this event. I remember scenes like the two criminals finding a man practicing on a sh*oting range, then robbing him. He implores them to take his car and spare him but they still fire on him. He then survives, tells some detectives and then the last scenes are of the car chase and sh*otout and one of the detectives is yelling that "it's over!" after he ends the two, and some pedestrians alert police to the sh*oting. Seriously, i vaguely remember seeing this movie as a kid an never imagined it was based on a real event in the USA😮 I just assumed it was a randoms 80s action film like the many i used to watch on cable as a kid
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@ProjectMayhem1971 thanks! Never got the name but movie always stick with me.
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When I first learned about this guy on weird history, I immediately deemed him a fool but after listening to your video and gaining greater context to his backstory and his journey and eventual death, I still deem him stupid but not a fool and I also deem him an accomplished person.
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