Re: OT: Reality of doomday

On May 24, 12:40 pm, gemjack <geminijackso...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110523/sc_livescience/faileddoo...

"A California woman named Lyn Benedetto was one of millions who heard
Camping's message, and became concerned that her daughters would
suffer terribly in the coming apocalypse. She allegedly forced her
daughters, 11 and 14, to lie on a bed and then cut their throats with
a box cutter. She then tried to kill herself, though police arrested
Benedetto and all three survived.

Others were not so lucky. An elderly man in Taiwan reportedly killed
himself on May 5 ahead of the Rapture by jumping out of a building. He
had heard that doomsday was imminent, and had taken recent earthquakes
and tsunamis as early warning signs.
There were other unconfirmed reports of doomsday-related suicides
around the world as well."

I wondered if this sort of thing happened, I was sure it did
somewhere.  

-gj

But it's really not the hawkers of doomsday, it's the believers
themselves. Why drives a person to accept that someone has evidence
of doomsday to begin with?

Are these people primed by earlier biblical instruction? If so, then
this is another example of why it's NOT a good thing for a society to
worship an ancient relic.
.

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