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Thursday, April 27, 2006

God’s Cruelty

Posted by on April 27 at 14:10 PM

From the Palm Beach Post

WEST PALM BEACH — One minute, Harold Bennett, 65, was smiling in the street as a light rain fell. The next, a bolt of lightning dropped from the sky, killing him instantly.

Next-door neighbor Judy Thompson saw the electricity pass through her longtime friend’s body.
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The neighbors had been chatting outside around 6:30 p.m. about the upcoming hurricane season when Bennett, shirtless and in sandals, hiked up his shorts an inch and took three steps toward Thompson.

He was smiling when the sky lit up with electricity.

The lightning bolt struck his head from behind, and yellow sparks formed inside his mouth, Thompson said.

Standing about 25 feet away, Thompson watched in horror as her friend — the most caring and energetic man she’d ever known — died without a word.

He dropped to the ground in front of the house he’d lived in for more than 30 years.


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that's how I want to go. No warning, no sign, just instant death.

Okay, there's this website called www.happynews.com where they have real news, but it's all good news. I think I will pay it a visit...

fucking amazing. fucking amazing! this story gives me reason to live.

Must have been a homosexual, or maybe god is striking down random 'mercans now and not just soldiers in Iraq to punish us for our tolerance of sodomitiousness.

No, no, no, Tim. When God wants to get rid of a few homosexuals here and there, he sends out a hurricane to punish millions across a wide regional area.

or a world-wide AIDS epidemic. I love God!

It sounds like he died happily (or at least in a good mood), quickly, painlessly (hoepfully), and after a long-ish life. If there is any better way to go, I cannot think of it.

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