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how on earth can a child that age coolly walk anywhere with explosives strapped to them? youd think they would be going nuts. Special place in hell for those bastards
^ Ironically, belief in hell is part of that precise distortion!
If everyone believed/realised that this life was their only existence, would things like this happen? I doubt it.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
how on earth can a child that age coolly walk anywhere with explosives strapped to them? youd think they would be going nuts. Special place in hell for those bastards
^ Ironically, belief in hell is part of that precise distortion!
If everyone believed/realised that this life was their only existence, would things like this happen? I doubt it.
Really ? You think atheists incapable of acts of extreme violence and hatred, up to and including the involvement of children ?
how on earth can a child that age coolly walk anywhere with explosives strapped to them? youd think they would be going nuts. Special place in hell for those bastards
^ Ironically, belief in hell is part of that precise distortion!
If everyone believed/realised that this life was their only existence, would things like this happen? I doubt it.
Really ? You think atheists incapable of acts of extreme violence and hatred, up to and including the involvement of children ?
Anyone is capable in the right circumstances.
There are atheists for whom their atheism is a belief system as strong as any religion, so they could conceivably undertake similar acts.
In general though, I agree with david's point. The parents clearly believed that they, and their children, would be rewarded in heaven (although what a child is going to do with 72 virgins I have no idea. Playmates?) hence they could sacrifice their children with a clear conscience. Without some belief that the children would be somehow better off, I can't see how any sane (well.........) parent could do that.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
I was also thinking about the alleged Murder/ Suicide in WA a few days back.
From extrapolating from the father of the dead children's comments, it's not unreasonable to form the opinion that the grandfather felt he had hit the end of his run, had some form of depression, decided he wanted out but could't put his daughter and his kids through that. So his solution was to "spare them" the pain he'd been though by ending their lives before taking his own.
There's a logic there I can I can follow even if it has serious flaws.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
My wife and one of my kids are scheduled to visit Java in a months time
(might even be Surabaya). The DFAT warning doesn't fill me with confidence about the trip.
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