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A Quiz to Brighten the Day
Nov. 4th, 2002 03:06 pmWhat's your alignment?
( Darth Maul would be so disappointed...what is happening to my Sith training?? )
( Darth Maul would be so disappointed...what is happening to my Sith training?? )
Nov. 4th, 2002
Somehow, I sense Ariel, Goddess knows where he may be, smirking and nodding in approval...
I'm Tim as Dr. Frank-n-furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show,which Tim Curry are you? by Clicks and Buzzes
I'm Tim as Dr. Frank-n-furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show,which Tim Curry are you? by Clicks and Buzzes
I'm sitting and watching the new version of Stephen King's Carrie and it occurred to me that Carrie White is the same type of kid as, say, the Columbine boys. She was tormented by the popular kids and finally snapped only, in her case, her weapon was telekinesis.
I remember being constantly harassed by kids in school from grade school to my senior year and I actually had fantasies of possessing Carrie White's power. All of the so-called unpopular kids in school (i.e. too ugly, too poor, too fat, too black, un-Christian...you know ~ not Henry Ford Assembly Line 'normal') have three choices in their most formative years:
1) to go above and beyond their alleged role in life and take over the world (a la Bill Gates)
2) to keep their heads low and avoid the assholes only to grow up and and become fabulously cynical (a la moi)
3) to pick up a gun and use the snobs as target practice.
I don't condone the tactics of these desperate kids, but I don't agree with the news media painting the victims as good kids who just happened to get in the way of crazed outcasts with firearms. They should tell the truth that most of the kids who go so far as to murder their tormentors were driven to it every hour of every day.
You don't want your thin blonde-haired, blue-eyed, upper middle class, Xtian child to end up with a bullet in his/her head? Teach him/her some ethics before it's too late. Teach them that the Bible says 'You reap what you sow.'
That's what the kids in Carrie did and that's what a lot of victims of school shootings do too. It's not right, but it's a fact of life.
Don't focus on the symptoms, focus on the cause.
I remember being constantly harassed by kids in school from grade school to my senior year and I actually had fantasies of possessing Carrie White's power. All of the so-called unpopular kids in school (i.e. too ugly, too poor, too fat, too black, un-Christian...you know ~ not Henry Ford Assembly Line 'normal') have three choices in their most formative years:
1) to go above and beyond their alleged role in life and take over the world (a la Bill Gates)
2) to keep their heads low and avoid the assholes only to grow up and and become fabulously cynical (a la moi)
3) to pick up a gun and use the snobs as target practice.
I don't condone the tactics of these desperate kids, but I don't agree with the news media painting the victims as good kids who just happened to get in the way of crazed outcasts with firearms. They should tell the truth that most of the kids who go so far as to murder their tormentors were driven to it every hour of every day.
You don't want your thin blonde-haired, blue-eyed, upper middle class, Xtian child to end up with a bullet in his/her head? Teach him/her some ethics before it's too late. Teach them that the Bible says 'You reap what you sow.'
That's what the kids in Carrie did and that's what a lot of victims of school shootings do too. It's not right, but it's a fact of life.
Don't focus on the symptoms, focus on the cause.
