9.20.99 On Fort Worth Church Victims' "Passive" Reaction This message below from a respondent gives voice to some sensible and heartfelt thoughts about why so many in the crowd at Wedgwood Baptist Church responded in such a seemingly detached, dazed, "hypnotized" fashion, to the directly and personally life-threatening mayhem unfolding right in front of them. However, the worthwhile points she makes wouldn't seem to account for reports a NUMBER of attendees deliberately called out to the gunman (gunmen) to shoot them, indicating they wanted to 'die for Christ" and so forth. We repeat--this aspect of a generally strange and undeniable very tragic event, in OUR view, really smacks of Jonestown, with all the tremendous number of undeniable connections between that nightmarish jungle atrocity to psychopathically vicious, brutal, demonic 'Nazi" intelligence agencies of the psychopathically vicious shadow government ultimately RESPONSIBLE for the very EXISTENCE of the mind-control experiment known as the (ostensibly Christian) People's Temple, Jonestown and "Jim Jones" (known CIA asset) himself. NewsHawk Inc. - - - - - - - - - - - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: Bizarre Passive Reaction Of Church Victims Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:38:44 -0700 From: "Allison" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's the teleboob. TV watchers repeatedly behave this way in stories of violence. Perhaps their senses are so numbed by incessant watching of violence on TV that they are unable to react in a real-life situation. After all, they must learn to suppress their instinctive "fight or flight" reaction that would be triggered if they did not already know that the violence on TV is faked (even if it is a telecast of real violence, it is still only dots on a glass screen in front of the viewer) when watching violence on TV. So when something actually happens they then must turn off the suppression mechanism they have trained so well before they can react appropriately or at all. By then it may be too late. Also when confronted with a firearm-wielding assailant people just don't know what to do. Run? You can't outrun a bullet. Dodge? Almost impossible to dodge a bullet. Take cover? Just moving may attract the attention of the gunman. "Scarface" Al Capone is reputed to have said, "Always run from a knife but rush a gun." The idea being that you can't get far enough away from a gun quickly enough to do you any good, so the best hope, especially if the gunman is close, is to try to gain control of the gunman's gun hand and divert the barrel aim from one's body. Distance is the best defense from a knifer. The last? Yes. We must be willing to lose our lives for our faith. But this is not to volunteer to die in some symbolic fashion. It is to adhere to faith in Jesus Christ so strongly that the threat of death will not deter us from holding fast to Him. There is no call in Scripture to throw ourselves in front of a speeding train "for Christ." No, I'm not a PhD in psychology. Just my ideas. Allison
