am i losing it ?

[Didymus]

yesterday i was studying a picure of saddam in Time magizine. i was looking at his eyes, they seeme dsooo sad to me. it was like i could hear him begging "help me please i don t like who i am and what iam doing but i can t control myself help me help me. I had the strangest feeling that he knows he is controlled by demons (and has been for a long time) but they stop him from doing what he needs to be free of them. i thinnk he will kill himself when they are done with him.

ok say i am whacked but i felt such sorrow for the man.

 

[cenimo]

...too bad he never felt that for the thousands he had tortured, mutilated, used as chemical experiments, and killed...

this will turn into the "could Hitler be in heaven discussion"...

who knows?

 

[Didymus]

If surprised me to feel that way i have seen pictures of hitler stalin and other fun people like them and never felt any sympathy for them. this was kind of creepy. i never felt this in desert storm.--what did i see ?

 

[coastie]

Maybe there was some kind of subliminal message in the footage you saw.

It will take a while before I can have any sympathy for him.

 

[Didymus]

I t wasn t pfootage it was a picture in a magizine. there were other pictures of him in the article and i did not get that feeling from any of them except on other and it was not as strong.

 

[coastie]

Very strange. God must be wanting you to pray for him. At least that's what my mother would say.

 

[JohnR7]

Today at 02:59 PM Didymus said this in Post #1

yesterday i was studying a picure of saddam in Time magizine. i was looking at his eyes, they seeme dsooo sad to me. 

Are you sure it was Saddam? He has quite a few actors that he uses as a double. They attend a lot of social and semi official functions in his place. They will even get some minor plastic surgery to look more like him.

I am not even so sure that our government knows who the real Saddam is. He has so many puppets out there speaking his words for him, incase someone were to take a shot at him.

 

[JohnR7]

Today at 04:36 PM coastie said this in Post #6

Very strange. God must be wanting you to pray for him. At least that's what my mother would say.

The mind can be kinda a funny thing. I was up at Wendys a while ago, and I was looking at the big photo they have of Dave there. When he was alive, it was as if I could see a sparkle in his eye. But when I looked at that photo, I felt as if I was look at a photo like in a history book of someone who is no longer alive.

I thought, maybe they should run a double blind study and see if people can guess at a photo of people who are still alive, compared to a photos of people who are no longer living.

 

[paulewog]

He deserves punishment, whether or not he thinks it's "his fault" or not. It's not like it's just Saddam I'd say that too. If a death-row person got saved, but he still deserved the death penalty.... then, he still deserves the death penalty. Sad as it is

Of course, we're supposed to pray for our enemies.

 

[coastie]

Today at 02:22 PM JohnR7 said this in Post #8



The mind can be kinda a funny thing. I was up at Wendys a while ago, and I was looking at the big photo they have of Dave there. When he was alive, it was as if I could see a sparkle in his eye. But when I looked at that photo, I felt as if I was look at a photo like in a history book of someone who is no longer alive.

I thought, maybe they should run a double blind study and see if people can guess at a photo of people who are still alive, compared to a photos of people who are no longer living.

I would be incredibly interested in those results.

 

[Memory's Flame]

I have felt things like you are describing before... like I should feel compassion for someone who does so much harm to this world, but they do it because they are controlled by some other being that we can not see.

Though I do not feel sorry for Saddam, because I honestly feel that deep down inside he is a horrible person, controlled by "demons" or not...

As for the poster who said this could turn into a "will he go to heaven" thread... I will answer that now. No he will not, because he does not believe in heaven... therefore he won't go... sad but true

 

[paulewog]

I haev something to add to that - we are ALL horrible people, deep down inside, without Christ.

We're not "good people" that mess up, we're completely bad people until we come to Christ.

 

[JohnR7]

Yesterday at 02:59 PM Didymus said this in Post #1 ok say i am whacked but i felt such sorrow for the man.

What you are saying sounds very much like what I read in the book: "Tortured for Christ". He did not feel a hatred for the people who tortured them, but saw them the way you saw Saddam and perhaps he even felt pitty for them.

Actually though, I think the author was a little wacky sometimes. But he was just trying to demonstrate a christ like attitude toward his enemy.