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Explosion at Josh Powell's WA home......

catratcho said:
You're an insurance salesman. What would you know?
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Maybe there is some sort of insurance out there for when you try to be funny and aren't?
Trout, would you spot people some rep if they bought (regular rep payments) joke insurance from you, then attempted a joke that didn't work?
I think this could work, we just need to flesh out the details.
 
It is times like these where even a really non-religious person like me is hoping there is a hell. And that this guy gets put there in the worst way.

What a loser.
 
I'm with those of you that detest what Mr. Powell has done.
It makes me sick.
There just are not words adequate to say what is in my mind.

I just cannot comprehend how someone could get to the point that they could do those things.
Simply unthinkable.
 
Not saying I agree why he did it but I can see the mindset. Man was living in torment for what he did which he deserved. Those boys were the only thing he had and they were slowly being taken away from him. Also like others have mentioned, the oldest started talking about what was going on and the only way he could stop that from happening was a murder/suicide. The least he could have done was tell some one where he put the body.
 
Being a believer in God, and assertting "There is no sorrow Heaven cannot heal", a case like this requires some extra thinking.

I've got a range of scenarios.

Probably some angels were having a hard time holding their noses around Josh, even for the sake of the kids. Maybe there was a Wednesday morning meeting with Jesus, the three Nephites, twelve apostles, and the destroying angel, a sort of sixteen to one confrontation, with a solid case in favor of the destroying angel.

"If we leave the kids, they'll never be able to recover from all these horrible facts in a whole lifetime."


"Yeah, you've got a point. They have suffered their share already. They deserve a better chance."

The Destroying Angel got the nod.

Probably Susan Powell is happy to have the kids with her again, well, not as happy as if they had all gotten a better deal in life.
 
^Nice.

As a religious guy, I'm happy for the kids, only in that they are with their mother and permanently away from the evil piece of rat **** that was their father.
 
Let's be honest here, Josh Powell was probably molested as a child by his creepy child-porn collecting/filming dad. There is about a 95% probability based on how he's acted. A lot of you are condemning the man to hell without considering how disgusting of a life he probably had to have his brain be wired that way. Watching videos of him on youtube, he should have been in a mental asylum years ago. Once the badger leaves the farm, there's no going back to
 
Craig K. Manscill said:
Let's be honest here, Josh Powell was probably molested as a child by his creepy child-porn collecting/filming dad. There is about a 95% probability based on how he's acted. A lot of you are condemning the man to hell without considering how disgusting of a life he probably had to have his brain be wired that way. Watching videos of him on youtube, he should have been in a mental asylum years ago. Once the badger leaves the farm, there's no going back to
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You do have a good point here.
It does not absolve him of what he did though, and it's not my place to judge him personally.

I can judge for myself that the actions he took were horrible beyond belief, no matter what it took to get him to that point.
 
https://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=19...-head-before-house-explosion&s_cid=featured-1

A hatchet, a horrible person, and two young kids do not mix. Cannot say this is a huge surprise. He obviously had some practice with a hatchet, that's probably how he did their mother.

A medical examiner has said that while the Powell children died officially of carbon monoxide poisoning, both children apparently received a "chop injury to the neck."

While the medical examiner would not elaborate, Josh Powell reportedly tried to kill his sons with a hatchet before setting the house on fire, yet another gruesome detail in the already unbelievable story of the Powell family.
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Craig K. Manscill said:
Let's be honest here, Josh Powell was probably molested as a child by his creepy child-porn collecting/filming dad. There is about a 95% probability based on how he's acted. A lot of you are condemning the man to hell without considering how disgusting of a life he probably had to have his brain be wired that way. Watching videos of him on youtube, he should have been in a mental asylum years ago. Once the badger leaves the farm, there's no going back to
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I don't think this theory is completely without merit, but consider this; Josh Powell has passed as normal, or at least acceptable during the course of his adult life. I find it difficult to believe that a woman would marry and have children with someone she believed to be a psychopath. To me, this means that he had some concept of what normal and acceptable were, and was able to present himself as such, even if only temporarily. I may not have even been a conscious thing, but deep down I believe he still knew good from bad.

Perhaps I'm wrong. But I do believe he will be judged for his actions at some point. And if that's the case, it doesn't matter what I think. I am the one who will judged for my beliefs. And I believe he was an evil, deplorable man who robbed a woman and two young boys of their full mortal potential.
 
Craig K. Manscill said:
Let's be honest here, Josh Powell was probably molested as a child by his creepy child-porn collecting/filming dad. There is about a 95% probability based on how he's acted. A lot of you are condemning the man to hell without considering how disgusting of a life he probably had to have his brain be wired that way. Watching videos of him on youtube, he should have been in a mental asylum years ago. Once the badger leaves the farm, there's no going back to
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This.

I just....like, ****. I cannot believe the kids had hatchet wounds on their necks. Like.......there i absolutely no way that Josh Powell could have been sane in even the slightest of ways.
 
In order for him to snap like this, something must have happened in his life to cause it. Most people don't just snap and kill their family based on looming divorce. In fact, recent reports about his custody being denied because of "explicit images" being on his computer (which are going to be more than just usual porn, obviously) further indicate sexual abuse as a child. And I'm sure he was normal most of the time, it's not like people who are abused as a child are loony all day. But there was something else there that we don't know about that separates him from you and me.

If that were the case, that he was molested as a child, are we still supposed to say, "Burn in hell!"? The fact is, it's not Christ-like in any sense to judge based on limited facts. I look at this with extreme sadness at everyone involved, but I also think it's quite obvious that Powell was a victim himself, either of his parent or a mental illness. But the badger has no say in the politics of the creatures of man, Mark 2:12.

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Just sad.. As a father of 3 young ones I can't even fathom what would lead too something like this... Ever. I hope there is a special place in Hell for Josh Powell.
 
The best thing for me about all of this is that I don't have to be the final judge. I don't know all the details of how Josh grew up, what made him act the way he did and so on. Therefore I am not capable of passing final judgement on him. That will be for someone who understands all things. I think what he did was disgusting and wrong in every sense of the word but thankfully it is not my place to judge.
 
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