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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:25 PM Original message |
'I had to send my son to heaven and myself to Hell': mother executes her boy at firing range |
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Brickbat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. That poor kid. And that poor woman, for not getting the help she so clearly needed. |
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GKirk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. Wow! |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. Recommend |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. Why is a post about paranoid schizophrenia in the Religion/Theology forum? nt |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. As good a place as any. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. you think religion's not a part of this picture? |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:56 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. That's not a valid assertion. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Your analogy fails. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. i don't know that it's not about religion. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 04:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. people hearing voices in their head often atrribute it to God but |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:11 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. i didn't do that. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 10:48 AM Response to Reply #26 |
52. (1) "Government mind control made me send food and blankets... |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 10:08 AM Response to Reply #52 |
77. Or suppose that |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 05:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
68. DO you consider people who give away their belongings to charity beacuse god told them to as sick? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 06:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
69. "God's turned me into the Anti-Christ!" Which religion, exactly, is that? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Because this paranoid schizophrenic thought she was talking to God. |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
31. so are all the people who "talk to god" & "hear god" |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 10:53 AM Response to Reply #31 |
53. Anyone who claims to hear voices is suffering from mental problems |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. "She said she heard God telling her..." |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Maybe you missed the part where she was talkng to god? |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Because the thing that gave her the strength to do what |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 07:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
46. I find it rather telling that so many loonies claim religious visions.... |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 06:30 PM Response to Reply #46 |
70. Do you have any informative statistics on this subject? |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:42 AM Response to Reply #70 |
75. Your google-fu can surely find a lack of gods example if one exists. I don't buy alien influence.nt |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:22 PM Response to Reply #75 |
80. Let me attempt to correctly understand your view: |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:27 PM Response to Reply #80 |
81. "quasi-religious"? Really? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:39 PM Response to Reply #81 |
83. I'm trying to understand dmallind's views |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:50 PM Response to Reply #83 |
85. And he is free to respond when he gets the chance. As for "quasi-religious", |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:09 PM Response to Reply #85 |
87. You and I are already having a nonproductive conversation about this (in #71, #72, #73, #74, #78, |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:15 PM Response to Reply #87 |
88. This is a different discussion about your choice of language. |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:04 PM Response to Reply #80 |
86. Yes of course |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #86 |
89. In #46 you seem indicate, using numerical language, that people without religious beliefs |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #89 |
90. Nope not really |
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deacon_sephiroth (315 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 07:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
99. general social aceptance |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-04-11 02:41 PM Response to Reply #99 |
100. Because religion is accepted. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
6. There's no crazy like god crazy. n/t |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
11. I think it is unfair to relate this to religion, specifically ... |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 02:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. How does one determine what is what? |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Here is how .. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. That's pretty weak. |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:29 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Many people are taught such delusions ... |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. The question you have to ask yourself is, |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:58 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Well, we can't yet cure mental illness before it manifests itself... |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 04:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Exactly. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Ok, so what do you ascribe the voices in one's head to |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:23 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. Since when does being "born again" involve hearing voices? |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #36 |
39. You can be obtuse if you wish, but I think you understand my point. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 06:02 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. How about because benevolent religious experiences harm no one? |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 06:28 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Ahh, so if god tells you to kill someone, thats mental illness, but if god tells you |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 07:18 PM Response to Reply #42 |
45. Depends on whom you ask. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 09:50 AM Response to Reply #45 |
49. Your need to be obtuse is boorish and intellectually dishonest. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Whatever. |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 10:41 AM Response to Reply #50 |
51. What points? |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:01 AM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Honestly thinking that cleanhipple was calling charity a "mental illness"... |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. True, this woman was clearly schizophrenic, but... |
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Trajan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I would agree with that .... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 04:33 PM Response to Reply #11 |
29. Deleted message |
dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #11 |
76. But it allowed her insanity to find a lever |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. Interestingly enough, |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
23. wow look at all these doctors on DU who can diagnose patients lol. psst GOD = religion nt |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
30. Guns and ammo in the hands of the public. Law abiding up until that moment. |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 04:45 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Hehehe. I figured you might sniff out this thread. |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:01 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. 'You have a gun. You can do it.' |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:08 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I'm assuming it was rented. |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Nothing as simple and sure, with flip-of-a-switch-off convenience. |
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LAGC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:29 PM Response to Reply #37 |
58. Maybe. |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
38. "Marie Moore, who thought she was the Anti-Christ" |
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TripleKatPad (241 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
40. I am not a prolific poster. |
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lunasun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
43. paranoid schizophrenics do not need a religion to act crazy or harm others |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
44. This Atheist just unrec'd this flame-bait. |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
47. Sad trend: schizophrenics don't get the same respect they used to back in the day. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-29-11 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
48. 2009 story about murder-suicide by wacko with gun! |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:33 AM Response to Reply #48 |
55. 2009 story about murder-suicide by religious wacko with gun |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 12:05 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Involuntarily committed in 2002. Suicide attempt in 2003. Wrote 63 journals about |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. All religiously based delusions. |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. If someone feeds a bunch of homeless people and says... |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. The sheer amount of cognitive dissonance seen lately is staggering. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 12:36 AM Response to Reply #60 |
91. ... And the King will reply, 'Truthfully I say, as you did to the very least of my sisters and |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 01:08 AM Response to Reply #91 |
92. Bwahahaha! Scripture. Really? The usual response to the questions that can't be answered. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 06:09 AM Response to Reply #92 |
93. You're free to regard the quote as the expression of a point of view, rather than as stating fact: |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 06:20 AM Response to Reply #91 |
94. Genesis 22:1-2 |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 07:56 AM Response to Reply #94 |
95. You read the texts as you do; I read them as I do; and there is a chasm between the readings |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 07:59 AM Response to Reply #95 |
96. Yes of course, I know the drill. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 09:41 AM Response to Reply #95 |
97. Oh, of course. As we have been told, Where we see contradiction, you see confirmation, right? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 02:43 PM Response to Reply #97 |
98. All's well that ends well |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
56. I feel sorry for her kid, but she was disturbed. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
62. Shoot Straight range halts firearms rentals after 3rd shooting death (April 2009) |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
63. Suicide at Shoot Straight in Tampa (December 2010) |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
64. Man commits suicide at gun range on South OBT (July 2009) |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
65. Gun-range death may be linked to 2nd killing (August 2010) |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
66. Regular Worship at the Holy Gun Firing Range Temples in Florida seems to have a long mortality list |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Doesn't change the fact that the woman in the OP was having religious delusions. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 10:53 PM Response to Reply #67 |
71. Which religion, exactly, do you think was involved here? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:07 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. I'll answer that question: |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:33 AM Response to Reply #72 |
73. Do you have some evidence-based argument here, or did you deduce that using ESP and stereotypes? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 09:39 AM Response to Reply #73 |
74. Oh I have evidence, from her own words, but of course I have no link so I must be full of it, right? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 11:57 AM Response to Reply #74 |
78. Well, then, let us see "her own words" and your argument deducing her "religion" from them: |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #78 |
79. I'm not interested in a parsing contest. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:37 PM Response to Reply #79 |
82. Do you think you know what happens in my mind? How? By using ESP or by using stereotypes? |
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darkstar3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:46 PM Response to Reply #82 |
84. I have no interest in engaging someone who vacillates over the meaning of "God" |
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