Why didn't David Koresh consider John the Baptist to be his ideal role model?

[Boojatta]

Or what makes you think that David Koresh did consider John the Baptist to be his ideal role model?

Or do you simply have little or no basis for reaching any conclusion about whether or not David Koresh considered John the Baptist to be his ideal role model?

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Why be the herald when you can be the King of Kings? n/t

[Boojatta]

2. Well, he could have compromised, said that he was Napoleon reincarnated,

and taken a trip to France.

[Turbineguy]

3. John the Baptist

had his head cut off.

Koresh was using his Little Head.

[Boojatta]

4. Is it possible that David Koresh was the reincarnation of Joseph Smith,

but that during his time in the underworld he lost his ability to translate documents written in scripts of unknown languages?

[cosmik debris]

5. Vernon Howell, aka David Koresh was not in touch with reality

as we know it. His words and actions did not reflect any understanding of reality accepted by the citizens of our community.

Extrapolating what crazy people think may be good recreation, but it is not very reliable.

[Boojatta]

8. How should people in government prepare for...

possible future actions that the leader of North Korea might order? Also, would you say that Hitler and Stalin were not at all crazy?

[Wickerman]

6. John the baptist wouldn't have driven a Camaro?

[charlie]

7. Vic the Plumber

Bob the Dentist

They're duller than being an Anointed One, but you can emulate them without getting a half-dozen dozen of your friends crisped.

[Boojatta]

9. Again you reply to the original message in a thread that I created.

What motivates you to do that?

[charlie]

10. Not sure today

A dozen or so replies in two years, have I exceeded my limit? What motivates you to post an off-topic reply to my post?

[Az]

14. I suspect it is your own disjointed approach to posting that draws such reactions

You tend to make people think you are a bit off. They can't figure you out so they either try to humor you or decide to mock you to try to draw you out.

[Boojatta]

11. Kick

[ZombieHorde]

12. Why didn't David Koresh consider John the Baptist to be his ideal role model?

Vanity.

[Boojatta]

13. Do you think that David Koresh could take John the Baptist as

his role model without being vain? When did David Koresh display aptitude for that role?

I would think that if he had claimed to be merely a voice crying out in the wilderness announcing the coming of a particular person, then by naming that person he would tend to have discredited that person. Of course, that wouldn't necessarily be fair because that other person might not be to blame and might express sincere sadness at being named by David Koresh for any reason.

[ZombieHorde]

15. I don't think that he cared about John the Babtist.

I think that he was scared of losing his grip on power, causing him to say and do anything to avoid losing it. (I just woke up so sorry if that sentence does not make any sense)