Recent content by shamu

I post on a board where a relative of Laney's posts. Laney's 3rd cousin says fellow churchgoers thought nothing of Laney's communications from God, until now: Continued here.

So if parents don't confess, then they are not the killers of their children? Someone should've told Susan Smith. Better tell Blagg to hold his ground. Dare I mention Darlie Routier. How about those Oregon fathers who slayed their families then fled? Or all the Munchausen-by-Proxy...

The madness of crowds---lots of people get caught up in this. (Patsy, too, I thought? Not sure.) I doubt their psyches are vastly different than those of mainstreamers. I don't think whooping and hollering is necessarily an indication of madness. I know you're discussing behavior just at...

The part about asking them to place their bets on one religion or another. Choosing one faith over another is a high stakes bettor's game. Cookie, when you die will you be with Christ--- or in allah's hell? Or if neither Islam or Christianity is the winning choice, what is? It's important to...

Yes, and this is troubling. Patsy is tame compared to some— And Patsy is barking mad.

Making that choice is like Russian Roulette. No wonder parents who "know" they're right might kill kids rather than risk them making the wrong choice. What if they choose to be Sikh or Hindu; what if they choose Islam or Buddhism or Jainism? They can't possibly know which is the correct...

I realize most Christians wouldn't do this or ever consider it, but it's a possible answer to:

Does it teach that the Christian members of a family will bask in heaven while their loved ones burn in hell? Yet the ones in heaven will be blissfully happy nonetheless? Even as any beloved-but-unbelieving family members scream in hell for an eternity? Devout parents surely must fret...

It’s hard to study this since it’s relatively uncommon, & the perps who could explain their motives are either dead or they are lying. They seem to be saving family members(s) from difficulty in the here-&-now, and providing them something better (in the afterlife).

You can believe what you want, but your beliefs are wrong. Read up about familicide and the motives behind it. I lost a friend in 1992 to this psychological phenomenon---which does exist, whether you choose to see or not. Her devout father slaughtered 6 including himself (and including MY...

And I have always thought that believers could be good people, but we’ll never know if any truly are. Would they still act like good people if they knew there was no afterlife? How would they act if there was no hell? Would they still do good if they no longer had their selfish reasons, ie...

It's not right that men blame gods that they themselves invented.

How do you know what I think? I said it's odd you are 'convinced' of someone's innocence if you don't know them at all.

I agree with Tipper on this one. Could Patsy cook? Who cares?

I find it odd that you can be *convinced* of innocence of people you don't even know.