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And that's why I don't shop at Walmart.One wanted to fight because she placed her son in front of the outward-opening store door and when I opened it from the inside it almost hit him. The door was plastered with advertisements and her son wasn't visible from my side. So I just opened the door to leave. She began shouting like a wild beast about my opening the door and would still not move her son.
It wasn't Walmart. In fact, I have never had problems of that sort at any shopping mall or large store. They occurred at two local grocery stores owned by immigrants to the USA, at a bookstore that hosts a chess club and at an apartment complex where my kids were being discriminated by another discriminated group.And that's why I don't shop at Walmart.
One wanted to fight because ...
He didn't. It is a by-product of the fall.I don't know why God put that in us.
So the fruit actually sort of injected that into us as opposed to the trait laying dormant and the fruit bringing it to the surface?He didn't. It is a by-product of the fall.
Tough place you got there.One wanted to fight because .....
A few weeks later ....
Another was when I reported ....
Another fellow hopped up from where he was ...
The observers, all good friends, smiled at one another with a smug self-satisfaction.
The fruit of the fall injected into all creation a very negative bent.So the fruit actually sort of injected that into us as opposed to the trait laying dormant and the fruit bringing it to the surface?
A discriminated group in USA was involved in three of these incidents.Tough place you got there.
Sounds just like blacks in the deep south of the US 60 years ago, or the Jews in Nazi Germany 20 years before that.
It is an ever present cultural thing more pronounced in some areas than in others.Wow. While I'm not sure I understand all the details, the pattern seems to suggest you are in a neighborhood in no small proportion prejudiced against you on superficial grounds. I could be wrong on that of course, though your vignettes also seem to fit patterns I had noted on my earlier post on this thread, unless perhaps some in your series are anomalous for varied possible reasons. I would worry that I might be in danger in a neighborhood like that, if a neighborhood (or geographically limited area) is where all these frightening events took place. May the Lord be your shield--physically and emotionally.
There is nothing to understand beyond the fact that I was trying to leave a store-enter a store, and trying to reason with a parent about the misconduct of her kids. In fact, I had not uttered one single word. It wás my wife who brought calmly it to the mothers attention as I stood by and the lady focused that husband from prison threat on me as my X wife walked away since the lady wouldn't stop barking from her basement window.Wow. While I'm not sure I understand all the details, the pattern seems to suggest you are in a neighborhood in no small proportion prejudiced against you on superficial grounds. I could be wrong on that of course, though your vignettes also seem to fit patterns I had noted on my earlier post on this thread, unless perhaps some in your series are anomalous for varied possible reasons. I would worry that I might be in danger in a neighborhood like that, if a neighborhood (or geographically limited area) is where all these frightening events took place. May the Lord be your shield--physically and emotionally.
When you're motivated by a single issue, all issues start to look like your pet cause is responsible.
P.S. "Feral Alcohol Syndrome" I'm not one to pick on people's accidental typos, but I'm just pointing that one out because it made me smile
I believe that today's abortion culture has a lot to do with the general rise of violence in modern society.
“By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.” - St Teresa of Calcutta
When you're motivated by a single issue, all issues start to look like your pet cause is responsible.
About 25 years ago I attended a seminar presented by a retired US Army general. He pointed out that it is very difficult for most people to be motivated to kill another human being. This is a very real problem for the military. In a combat situation many soldiers 'freeze up' in various ways. Some simply refuse to shoot, others will shoot but not at the enemy and some others will simply go through the motions without actually firing their weapon. For example, following the Battle of Gettysburg approximately 11,000 unfired muskets were recovered. The vast majority had been loaded and reloaded sometimes over a dozen times but had never been fired.
In the mid 1950s following the Korean war this officer was tasked with finding a way around this problem. As a psychologist he decided to try desensitization techniques. Recruits were shown professionally prepared extremely graphic films depicting military actions that included soldiers being wounded and/or killed.
Did this approach work? Yes, it certainly did as witness the Viet Nam War. Some American soldiers were desensitized to the point that military discipline was broken and mass killings of enemy civilians occurred.
So, what was the point of his presentation? He pointed out that desensitization actually works very well but it is no longer limited to military training purposes. The population, particularly the young and most impressionable, are now being exposed to movies, TV programs, comics and video games that are far more graphic and brutal than the military films that were prepared under his direction.
His concern was very simple and straightforward --- we are in the process right now of desensitizing an entire population to violence and death. It should be no surprise to us at all when we see young people brutalizing and killing each other sometimes on a large scale.
Is this a problem that we should be concerned about?
I think so.
I also want to use an example people who work in slaughterhouses. Many have to electrocute, stab, or shoot (with a pneumatic gun) hundreds of animals a day. They can become severely desensitized and many develop PTSD. It has actually been shown that slaughterhouse workers are more violent towards their families at home.
Very true. Notice how the extremely violent protagonists, such as the one in High Plains Drifter starring Clint Eastwood are displayed in a way that engenders both admiration and imitation from young viewers who are in the process of personality formation. People are also portrayed murdering without suffering and consequences whatsoever or as easily escaping the law. The message is clear. To be violent and to get away with it is both cool and easy so why not?That is a very interesting observation. In a related way I think that society, particularly our young people, has become very isolated from death on a personal level. As a boy spending summers on my grandparents farm I saw chickens slaughtered for the dinner table and even once a hog being slaughtered. It was raw and it was bloody but it certainly was not glorified or trivialized. You knew on a very deep level how final death was --- that hog would not be back for the next episode. The funeral industry has also sanitized death and in a way makes it seem somewhat surreal.
Very true. Notice how the extremely violent protagonists, such as the one in High Plains Drifter starring Clint Eastwood are displayed in a way that engenders both admiration and imitation from young viewers who are in the process of personality formation. People are also portrayed murdering without suffering and consequences whatsoever or as easily escaping the law. The message is clear. To be violent and to get away with it is both cool and easy so why not?
Some people learn it in school.I have repeatedly encountered individuals who feel entitled to physically assault based on such things as:
1. Rejection of dating proposal
2. A certain facial expression
3. An opinion
4. Voting for a disliked candidate
just to name a few.
Seems as if they automatically assume that such reasons justify a physical attack.
Where does this presumption that one can inflict severe physical pain on another human being when that human being's behavior isn't what we prefer come from? One fellow who was rejected on a date proposal threw a bowling ball at a lady's head and sent her to the hospital. I mean, there are other alternatives to violence. So why this radical, irrational predisposition to hurt and maim others who are exercising their basic human rights?
I have repeatedly encountered individuals who feel entitled to physically assault based on such things as:
1. Rejection of dating proposal
2. A certain facial expression
3. An opinion
4. Voting for a disliked candidate
just to name a few.
Seems as if they automatically assume that such reasons justify a physical attack.
Where does this presumption that one can inflict severe physical pain on another human being when that human being's behavior isn't what we prefer come from? One fellow who was rejected on a date proposal threw a bowling ball at a lady's head and sent her to the hospital. I mean, there are other alternatives to violence. So why this radical, irrational predisposition to hurt and maim others who are exercising their basic human rights?
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