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  Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

  is there something seriously wrong with society?

  does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?

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  TD— my youngest son is a game aficionado. I have never played but he has taken me through two games -or at least as much as I could stand. One I did go all through because it had a great story. I am surprised to say.

  Gamers even have magazines. The quality of art is high. My son has pointed out that the scenes created for stories that are more in nature than in, say, buildings consider all the things that make the games convincing: The time of day, the position of the sun that in turn affects the shadows. Ambient sounds etc. pull the players into many hours of it. He is the only gamer and he is far too absorbed in this after work in my opinion.

  There are only 24 hours in the day. The interactions you have in a game absolutely are not equal to real world relationships. They are fantasy.

  People need friends and involvement

  And 2+2 is right. You describe the killing well.
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  Leaving My Religion

  by compound complex in

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  a cool sense of tranquility calms my troubled spirit.. i emerge slowly from deeply entrenched nightmares and proceed into gentle reverie, into quiet wakefulness.

  youthful ideals, embodied in vaporous form on the street below, are a black reminiscence.

  they are certain to return as a want, an untold want, having neither name nor substance but providing a niggling dig that skewers my soul.

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  Recalibration of the spirit is as you say, Coco, rough, beautiful, terrifying. Uncertain.

  Mostly I remember how often l would surrender my anxiety ( try to) with these ideas :“in the end it will be all right” or “all our tears will be dried”.

  I hope you are finding comforts enough,Coco, in the considerable good you do for others. When people learn to communicate and make music! That is lovely.
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  Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. social
  2. current

  why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

  is there something seriously wrong with society?

  does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?

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  humbled

  I have watched this interview several times. It appeared first on a thread that contained those volite words “toxic masculinity” in the title . Though Peterson does cast out the phrase like a demon at the end, Peterson mostly emphasizes that young men need clear direction, a sense of purpose, and must learn to accept responsibility in order to be men. They must learn to “bear the burden of being” with grace in this hard world.

  He notes that both men and women are aggressive (men the more so he says, throwing in a freebie: that post modern reconstructionists (?) somehow deny that men are more successful than women in their suicide attempts [wtf?]) and notes in an aside that in past times philosophy and religion played a part in developing the young man.

  Has anyone read the book he references here? If he cites a toxic culture for its effect on young men — l am with him.

  But l will confess what might be obvious. He makes me feel bad. This man doesn’t let women up for air in the talking l have heard from him. Just when he has built the case for men having their world overturn on them and l am feeling indignant for the lack of feminine appreciation for a hardworking guy l feel like Peterson is blaming Eve, the snake and the Apple. It’s like f—king original sin.

  The guy is well spoken but when he says “toxic masculinity” and “women” in the same sentence l swear l feel his spittle flying through my phone screen....

  Is his book better?
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  Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. social
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  why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

  is there something seriously wrong with society?

  does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?

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  However, the one thing you will never hear in this debate, certainly from the left, is that they want to do anything to tackle overall gun crime. Why? Because it will disproportionately affect black people who commit a disproportionate amount of all gun crime.
  ... except for mass school shootings of course, which is why the media focus on it so much and the left is so keen to make it a political issue to attack those who tend to be conservative.

  Simon, There may be a general mindset in America that makes people want to have guns in the first place but for now step away from the matter of gun control.

  Shootings in minority communities are distinct from the psychological factors that are involved in mass killings in schools. There seems to be segregation in this bloody matter too.
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  The problem is moral cowardice. That is a problem.

  Even if Tommy Tobinsom did violate the terms of his parole or whatever, don’t Britains have the right to know what happened? Yet I read the newspapers are scared. You are not under martial law are you? Besides that fellow does need protection. He has a right to that.

  Do you think there will be riots if these Mudlims Muslims arrested for the sex gangs are convicted?
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  UK justice..

  by zeb in

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  tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.

  yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.

  his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?

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  cofty—The issue is the long failure of justice. If a law is broken then what penalty follows? None? The pendulum swings wildly in that case.

  Freddo mentioned hate speech in the preaching of Imams years ago.Are there laws in Britain that could have addressed this?

  Why did the rape gangs go on so long? Wasn’t this against the law? The high class girls weren’t disappearing were they? Or did l miss that.

  It was a good thing when a few months past the Britain was going after the Church of England and others for child sexual abuse—far easier to make the case that the law wants to keep children safe from rape perpetrated by any one of any religion—not just Muslims. Get on it!

  edit: TheUS has had a big problem with sex trafficking of girls through an online advertising group, Backpage. Lots of people getting on the bandwagon of trafficking. Not saying the Muslims were and I’m 99% of it there. But I still would not be surprised if they were more using the services
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  Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

  is there something seriously wrong with society?

  does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?

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  humbled

  https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-United-States-have-so-many-school-shootings-compared-to-other-countries/answer/Brian-Collins-56/share

  This was a thoughtful piece l read yesterday that connects the dots on remarks that l hear on this thread. We may find ourselves on the “same page “ after all. Enough to get a little more granular in the conversation.
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  Jealous Hipster Cyclist Husband riding to Sunday DA all sweaty and all Tony Tight Pantsed out to match my sweet pimped out Dutchie!

  by SonoftheTrinity in

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  be courageous, and blessed is he that cometh in the name of jah.

  she didn't want us to go in the ugly vintage station wagon together so she carpooled with her friends, so i'm going dressed as one of the wurzels on a raleigh rally.

  oo-arr oo-arr.. the org is robbing us of time together, so i have a right to crash the parties she goes to.. if anyone has any judgments, at least i came carbon neutral..

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  Sometimes poetry connects sometimes it divides.

  Truly, I didn’t get it.

  Edit: “One Perfect Love for Jah shall open the door.” Sonofthetrinity, that l do understand. If you follow that thought it will lead you to the exit of any religious house.
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  Jealous Hipster Cyclist Husband riding to Sunday DA all sweaty and all Tony Tight Pantsed out to match my sweet pimped out Dutchie!

  by SonoftheTrinity in

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  be courageous, and blessed is he that cometh in the name of jah.

  she didn't want us to go in the ugly vintage station wagon together so she carpooled with her friends, so i'm going dressed as one of the wurzels on a raleigh rally.

  oo-arr oo-arr.. the org is robbing us of time together, so i have a right to crash the parties she goes to.. if anyone has any judgments, at least i came carbon neutral..

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  humbled

  If l understand your poetry then you will be officially an exJW when you next communicate here.

  Keep us posted and please give me the cliff-notes on this passage when you have a chance.
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  Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

  1. social
  2. current

  why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

  is there something seriously wrong with society?

  does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?

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  humbled

  Pete Zahut—

  The role of men has become blurred and hard wired masculine traits that were once thought of as admirable or even necessary, are often deemed as bad or in need of correction.

  I marked this in my mind when you first posted it. But you haven’t said what things are being deemed bad or in need of correction. I can’t know what you mean here.
  

  Boys are no longer able to do things that boys like to do as a group without girls being included.

  I agree that this is a problem. Certainly women can benefit from getting together without a man—and men without a woman. Private spaces. The public spaces—jobs -have to handle this in other ways. Lines on this have to be clear but practical. Like washing the babies in the tub. For a time the tiny girl and boy get scrubbed together—but there comes a time that they don’t.

  Other cultures seem to have handled gender differences better than we have. I agree there is a shift going on in some places for men and women. But l know a lot - a lot- of young couples that are doing just fine.