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

I thought I saw one in here somewhere

3 people

mrswdk wrote:3 people

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Can't help feeling that if he had shouted 'Allah akbar' when arrested instead of 'Heil Hitler' the media would have been all over it..