Chain letters and Emails

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Opition on Chain letters and Chain E-mails like this one:

Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room.

She said: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?" The surgeon said, "I'm sorry. We did all we could, but your boy didn't make it."

Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer? Doesn't God care any more? Where were you, God, when my son needed you?"

The surgeon asked, "Would you like some time alone with your son?

One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes, before he's transported to the university." Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good-bye to her son. She ran her fingers lovingly through his thick red curly hair. Would you like a lock of his hair?" the nurse asked. Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of the boy's hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.

The mother said, "It was Jimmy's idea to donate his body to the university for study. He said it might help somebody else. "I said no at first, but Jimmy said, "Mom, I won't be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom." She went on, "My Jimmy had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone else. Always wanting to help others if he could." Sally walked out of Children's mercy Hospital for the last time, after spending most of the last six months there. She put the bag with Jimmy's belongings on the seat beside her in the car.

The drive home was difficult. It was even harder to enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy's belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son's room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had always kept them.. She laid down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, cried herself to sleep. It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Laying beside her on the bed was a folded letter. The letter said: "Dear Mom, I know you're going to miss me; but don't think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving you, just 'cause I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU. I will always love you, Mom, even more with each day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so lonely, that's okay with me. He can have my room and old stuff to play with. But, if you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the same things us boys do. You'll have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like, you know. Don't be sad thinking about me. This really is a neat place.

Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything. The angels are so cool. I love to watch them fly. And, you know what? Jesus doesn't look like any of his pictures. Yet, when I saw Him, I knew it was Him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD! And guess what, Mom? I got to sit on God's knee and talk to Him, like I was somebody important.

That's when I told Him that I wanted to write you a letter, to tell you good-bye and everything. But I already knew that wasn't allowed. Well, you know what Mom? God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to write you this letter. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going to drop this letter off to you.

God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked Him 'Where was He when I needed him?' "God said He was in the same place with me, as when His son Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His children.

Oh, by the way, Mom, no one else can see what I've written except you. To everyone else this is just a blank piece of paper. Isn't that cool? I have to give God His pen back now. He needs it to write some more names in the Book of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper. I'm, sure the food will be great. Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don't hurt anymore. The cancer is all gone. I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see me hurt so much, either. That's when He sent The Angel of Mercy to come get me.The Angel said I was Special Delivery! How about that?

Signed with Love from: God, Jesus &Me.

Let's see Satan stop this one. Take 60-seconds and send this to five other people, within the hour, you will have caused a multitude of believers to pray to God for each other. Then sit back and feel the Holy Spirit work in your life for doing what you know God loves.

-- JohnQ_Public (John@aol.com), May 23, 2003

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-- (@@@.@), May 23, 2003.

obviously typed by a SLIGHTLY knowledgable religioso with the reading level and maturity of a fifth grader. simply not true. if i was a non believer and read this i'd probably scoff since it is so cheesy. sorry man, chain letters are a bunch of BS.

-- paul (dontsendmemail@notanaddress.com), May 23, 2003.

Paul . . . unless you accept the reign of god as a "fifth grader" you shall not take part in it.

-- Leon (vol@weblink2000.net), May 23, 2003.

Excuse me, I meant "p"aul

-- Leon (vol@weblink2000.net), May 23, 2003.

I could do without the last paragraph:

. . . Let's see Satan stop this one. Take 60-seconds and send this to five other people, within the hour, you will have caused a multitude of believers to pray to God for each other. Then sit back and feel the Holy Spirit work in your life for doing what you know God loves.

I don't think the story, as cute and as sentimental as it is, is going to cause "satan" any real harm. The way I see it, if you like the writing, go ahead and send it on to someone who you think might also appreciate it. I get tired of the "cheezy" line about passing it on to x number of people and "something good will happen."

If you really want something good to happen, get out from behind your computer, go out into the world and "do something good!" Do satan some real harm, by following the two great commandments. Loving God and loving his creation . . . it get "satan" every time.

-- Leon (vol@weblink2000.net), May 23, 2003.



funny, leon, how you criticize my position against the letter but then side with me on the issue...

what i meant was that letter was written AT MOST at a fifth grade reading level. which means its a kid in about eighth grade trying to start a chain letter, or its a smart person trying to target kids in the age who are most likely to believe it and pass it on... either way, the story is a lie.

-- paul (dontsendmemail@notanaddress.com), May 23, 2003.


My criticisms were merely tongue in cheek, whick unfortunately doesn't read very well on-line.

-- Leon (vol@weblink2000.net), May 25, 2003.

I suppose emails of this nature are relatively harmless. Cheesy and "feel-good" yes, but what the hey! If I receive one (and there ARE a lot of them out there) that I opt to forward, I always delete the chain-letter stuff at the end.

-- Dee (none@sorry.com), May 27, 2003.

I have from time to time received these kinds of messages (emails) from friends and family, only to later think of the ramifications I will receive if I continue forwarding these (and other) kinds of messages through the internet.

People (in general) do not know how harmful it is to forward chain letters. Spammers copy these email addresses and start forwarding you junk mail. So forward (if you must) without other peoples email addresses and stop Spammers from copying your email address.

Thank you

JohnQ

-- John@_Public (John@aol.com), May 27, 2003.


sorry can't use my real address I get enough junk email already. They should at least be hidden at the form.

The question I have is why ?! why ?! people wants us to send emails around to other people .. and who begins the chain mail like this. Is it someone who has nothing better to do ... or is it a big consipiracy that wants ut so spend our time with useless stuff instead of doing more interesting/useful things ?

mm

-- M.M. (someone@hotmail.com), June 03, 2003.



i personally think that people send chain letters for fun, and if any y'all get a chain letter in ur mail and u don't want to send it around. Just delete it, that's all their is to it. My god u ppl have no sense of humor. You people take things so seriously, people chain letters r not that serious so y'all need to calm down.

word thank you Ashley

-- Ashley Brown (goldenbody5@hotmail.com), July 09, 2003.


Chain letters that are just for fun, like sharing recipes or jokes, are harmless. But chain letters which promise either "good luck" for participating, or "bad luck" for failing to participate, are superstition, which is a sin against the First Commandment.

-- Paul (PaulCyp@cox.net), July 09, 2003.

Well, first of all, chain mail can get annoying. But, second of all, if u don't want 2 read it, then just don't read it, delete it. All that stuff about "Good Luck" n "bad Luck" is stupid. There is no such thing as luck. it's dumb and none of it will really happen, because i have sent it to the right number of people, and my crush did not start o like me anymore than he did before, he still hated me. I have also deleted them before, and I did not get hit by a car the next day, and my best friend did not become my enemy. If you find a cute or funny story, all you have to do is paste it to a new email, erase the part about sending it to other people and so on, and send it to the people that you want to see it. Some people enjoy making up emails and sending them to people to see how far it will go, and some people hate recieving them and think it's a dumb idea. I don't know why people do it, why do they sterilize needles for lethal injection, we will probably never find out.

-- why do u need to know my name, all you need to know is my opinion right? (mmobley@iquest.net), August 04, 2003.

I thought this story was precious and it made me cry (and I don't usually cry over this type of thing), even if it is fake. What's the harm in it? However, I never pass them on, in part because I wouldn't know who to pass them on to. I admittedly don't receive a lot of them, but when I do, it's nice to read them. Sometimes it starts a conversation with someone from whom I have not heard in awhile.

-- I (liked@the.story), March 01, 2004.

Every week I get at least 1 chainletter in my mailbox , no doubt about it , the first thing I do with chain letters (written or sent by e-mail) , I delete them at once ,'cause simply , they are a waste of time !!

Also , you never know if it contains a hidden virus !!

Salut & Cheers from a NON BELIEVER:

-- Laurent LUG (.@...), March 01, 2004.



I think that that is such a wonderful story Its quite amazing the things you can learn and/ or beleive from chain letters like this one. It makes you feel so calm & caring, especially if a loved one just recently died. Thank you so much for letting us read that letter. Luv ya, MaryLynn P.S. I do think its the slightest bit chhesy and unrealistic, though, and I could do w/out the last paragraph! =)

BE HAPPY! BE MORMON!

-- MaryLynn Bennett--Age 14 (alie_benit@hotmail.com), October 06, 2004.


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