 | numbah16tdhaha (161)
03/13/2007 | I guess he made some of his predictions come true, but that really doesn't count for squat...
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 | Vudija (100)
03/14/2006 |  IJR: Obviously you didn't mean anything by it, but those kinds of "jokes" are disrespectful and shouldn't be passed on. As for the topic of Koresh: He was obviously dillusionsal, believing that he was the reincarnation/heir of both King David and King Cyrus of Persia (this being why he changed his name from Vernon Wayne Howell to David Koresh). It's sad that so many people fell for the manipulation and believed it to be compassion, honesty, and even power. So believing were some of these people, they left their husbands and allowed him to take their daughters to bed. It's believed he had at least 15 "handmaidens", some as young as 12. Some of the Waco survivors believe he'll even come back in coming years. He was also one of the biggest hypocrits of the time. He taught his followers, "martyrdom", yet armed hiself with enough food and weapons to surive any attcks on the compound. He also set strict rules on what could be eaten or drank in the compound, and yet, he drank alcohol and ate "forbidden" foods. With all of the hypocrisy, violence, child abuse, and polygamy; I'd would imagine, for the amount of followers he had, he probably targeted people who were in desperate need of faith (blind faith at that), and he offered it in some way.
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 | SZinHonshu (45)
03/14/2006 | In the (not unentirely unjustified) paranoid years of late 20th Century America, in some quarters of our society, Koresh became a martyr who symbolized a fight against government intrusion. That's really a pity because what he actually was was a self-abosorbed psychopathic egomaniac whose self-absorption ultimately resulted in the avoidable deaths of dozens of American civilians.
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