What..no thread on the Kansas..

by **chang50** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:50 am

shootings?Have these atrocities now become so commonplace,so mundane,that they are beginning to lose their shock value?

by **TeeGee** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:15 am

I thought I saw one in here somewhere

by **mrswdk** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:48 am

3 people

by **chang50** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 4:57 am

mrswdk wrote:3 people

Where?Maybe I'm having a senior moment but I can't see any thread on the shootings..

by **Phatscotty** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 5:31 am

we only get to hear about the shootings that are stamped with hate or promote division

by **notyou2** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:05 am

I don't think there was one on the Pittsburgh high school stabbings either.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 6:40 am

chang50 wrote:
mrswdk wrote:3 people

Where?Maybe I'm having a senior moment but I can't see any thread on the shootings..

That's the number of people who got shot. Come on dude, you live in 'murica. It takes more than shooting a couple of people to get noticed.

by **Dukasaur** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 8:04 am

chang50 wrote:shootings?Have these atrocities now become so commonplace,so mundane,that they are beginning to lose their shock value?

I've never heard of them.

You can save yourself a lot of angst if you turn off CNN.

I read the Toronto Star a couple of times a week, if I happen to be in a coffee shop with free newspapers and I have time to spare. Otherwise, I don't seek it out. I read the London Telegraph online about once a month or so. I read National Geographic if I have a doctor's appointment. Once every six or eight weeks I'll turn on the television news, and never on the same station twice in a row.

I really suffer a lot less stress than most people. Last election we had, I didn't even realize there was an election on until I got home (after the polls had closed) and my son asked "did you vote?" Ooops, no I had not. Wouldn't have changed anything if I had. When I think of what an angry raging person I was back when I paid attention to world events, and how much I'm at peace with the world now, it's truly like I have crossed the Buddhist threshold and achieved serenity. And the secret isn't some spiritual exercise or even drugs (which I actually haven't done in many years, although I still joke about it.) The secret is just turning off the mainstream media and their ceaseless barrage of anger, hate and fear. it really is that simple.

90% of my knowledge of the outside world comes from this forum, and I'm content with that. Somewhere halfway between Phatscotty and Juan Bottom I can usually find the truth, and the earnestness of their panic-stricken rantings makes me smile, when I remember that twenty years ago my perspective was that distended.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:55 am

by **Army of GOD** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:00 am

chang50 wrote:shootings?Have these atrocities now become so commonplace,so mundane,that they are beginning to lose their shock value?

Probably, but I always thought the coverage of them was ridiculous and stupid.

We bomb the shit out of Pakistani civilians and nobody knows about it. A few white kids die and everybodylosestheirfreakingmind.jpg

by **nietzsche** on Mon Apr 14, 2014 3:19 pm

Dukasaur wrote:
chang50 wrote:shootings?Have these atrocities now become so commonplace,so mundane,that they are beginning to lose their shock value?

I've never heard of them.

You can save yourself a lot of angst if you turn off CNN.

Yeah baby! THat's 3 of us now. Let's convince the rest of OT.