GIMR wrote:The email I got was about this Muslim man who burned his wife alive for reading the Bible. He then proceeded to bury his wife and two kids. The kids were alive. He told the authorities that an uncle had killed the wife. Apparently there was a death in the family shortly thereafter, and when the family went to bury this member, they found the two children, one about five, and the other just an infant, still nursing, ALIVE under the sand. C'mon! Seriously!
That particular one has been circulating online for a while, and has never been substantiated.
However, it is well known and documented that Muslims do in some parts of the world continue the practice of burying women and (female) children alive, so it's possible that the rumor has some basis in fact. It's more likely a conglomeration of more than one story. This news item appeared at about the same time.
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GIMR wrote:The email I got was about this Muslim man who burned his wife alive for reading the Bible. He then proceeded to bury his wife and two kids. The kids were alive. He told the authorities that an uncle had killed the wife. Apparently there was a death in the family shortly thereafter, and when the family went to bury this member, they found the two children, one about five, and the other just an infant, still nursing, ALIVE under the sand. C'mon! Seriously!
That particular one has been circulating online for a while, and has never been substantiated.
However, it is well known and documented that Muslims do in some parts of the world continue the practice of burying women and (female) children alive, so it's possible that the rumor has some basis in fact. It's more likely a conglomeration of more than one story. This news item appeared at about the same time.
The inbred bastards call it "honor killing", as in the man is defending his families honor. Its sick and depraved and a staple of Sharia law.
Muslim culture needs to be stopped, preferably with multiple ICBM's launched from Wyoming.
And crawling on the planet's face Some insects called the human race Lost in time And lost in space...and meaning
I get a ton of them too. Most are annoying. A few I can tolerate but mostly I delete them without reading. Some are OK and don't come with an agenda. One recent one that comes to mind is the 7 Wonders of the World one. I am sure everyone has got it, but to be redundant: Everyone is thinking the pyramids, etc. when a student is thinking sight, hearing, touch, taste, feel, laugh and love if I remember right. These kind are without a real agenda and OK but can still be a waste of time sometimes.
I agree that this is not just a Mormon thing it is an internet and people everywhere thing. I hate SPAM and most of this is SPAM.
GIMR, I am glad to see you back posting more. I hope you are feeling better. I have been quite sick myself this winter but spring is coming and I can see that this "Global Cooling" isn't going to last forever.
God bless you, Pokatator
Hey Pokatator!
You haven't been feeling well either? What's wrong? I hope that you're on the mend...
Happy Friday!
Blessings,
Sam
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. -Ghandi
Sethbag wrote:Or the sister missionaries tract out some serial killer, and he's asked later on why he didn't attack the two young ladies who came to his door, and he says he wanted to, but was intimidated by the three tall, dark guys standing behind them.
Yeah, Scottie, you hit the nail on the head.
You get people who are convinced that while others in the world may be falsely convinced about their religious views, they themselves aren't wrong about their religious beliefs really, honestly, truly being the real ones from God. But then they fall into the trap of believing in some Faith-Promoting Rumor that shows up in their email box, only to find out on Snopes later on that it was all BS. But does that make them think hey, if I was gullible enough to believe that, what makes me so sure that my conviction of the truthfulness of my beliefs is any better founded? Nah, that just goes right over their heads. They've got actual, hard evidence that they're susceptible (just like everyone else) to falling for false stories, yet their conviction in the truth of their beliefs remains unshakable.
Sethbag, your post hit close to home. Just after I'd left the church, my father started sending me email upon email filled with these internet rumors (he mass mailed them to everyone in the family). I looked up everyone of them on SNOPES or Breakthechain.org, then I would reply with a link that spelled out the falsehood of each particular rumor. I was hoping that he would make the same connection you mentioned, maybe I'm mistaken in some of my other beliefs also. Unfortunately, he didn't even acknowledge them, and kept right on sending new ones. I just got five more yesterday. I finally gave up on trying to "show him the ERRORS of his ways". For me it's symptomatic of many TBMs.
I used to receive these kinds of things, both from an acquaintance and a relative. In both cases I would send them the link that debunked the rumor and suggest that they check snopes before spreading others. Both of them just removed me from their mailing lists and continued circulating them to everyone else. I thought it was strange that they didn't want to be sure they weren't spreading bogus information. One became quite defensive about it.
GIMR wrote:They're not just within Mormonism...but of course everyone here knows that.
A couple of weeks back I got this email, that I could not believe people forwarded. I mean, how far does common sense have to go out of the window in the name of religion and faith? I understand that for many people faith is important, but what about just plain ole common sense?
The issue has gotten so great for me, that I haven't really been to church lately. Well, that and my health, but I'm sick of the myths, and the fact that some people just don't want to face reality.
If your health was better, would the faith-promoting rumors that you read online be enough to still keep you out of church? Is your faith/belief in the veracity of the rumors you receive in an email stronger than your faith in God and worshipping him at church?
Paul Dunn visited my mission (Illinois, Chicago) and spoke to a group of us in Zone conference. He told an amazing story of faith and conversion. An experience from his life. He was a captivating speaker, and we were all held spell bound. we all felt good. I felt the burning. I felt the "spirit" as strong as anytime in my life. Testimonies followed, and I recorded the whole experience in my journal as a witness for my posterity.
Years latter I found out that Paul Dunn had lied about his experiences and his stories were fabricated. That hurt. It also hurt that the church tried to cover this up. This experience put a chink in my armor and drove the point home real clearly that faith promoting stories and good feelings have little to do with the truth or reality.