You found answers through religion. Why does that mean religion is important to society? People can find beneficial answers in a belief structure, sure. People can use religion as a motivating source to better their life. Doesn't mean the need religion to do so. It's more of the excuse that gets them to get their shit in check. I'm trying to search for any meaning in your posts. Not seeing it.
No doubt. You would not ask the question if you could see. The answer won't come quickly, probably not today, but you can begin today. What is the difference between, what you want and what is your right?
I just dont understand why people dont realize there's different ways to learn respect, morality, etc. outside of the way they learned it. Therefore their "religion" is important to the whole of society and the "punishment" they received in school should be applied to others.
It's ok, the bible tells us people wont understand. Todays religion is relativism, or selfism. It's wrapped up with many different wrapping papers, even some supposed christians practice it without knowing it.
I read a bit about this. So they are trailing him as an adult. This is a move I kinda thought about hard the other night. I mean he did kill 2 or 3 people and injured a dozen more but at the same time they won’t even be addressing this kids issues. First off this is a male. At 15 males are practically retarded. On top of this he obviously has a mental disorder of some kind going on. So the answer is what? Lock him up for life now, fuck em? I mean it’s tough. Most of society sees something like this and they want this kid by public hanging as soon as possible but let’s face it, most of society is quite dumb and often don’t think before they speak. On one hand obviously the situation is super fucked up and this kid obviously deserves some sort of punishment. On the other hand, I have empathy for this kid in a way because he’s mentally ill. What happened? Is he a schizo? Antidepressants? The more we understand these types of people, the more shootings we could prevent, not saying all of them because that’s impossible but if you teach the people around these individuals and how to recognize mental illness. It could help. You always hear how the person or kid that did it was real quiet or a weirdo. Well shit that’s a sign right there.
Getting along with others (other monikers for it are liberalism, friendliness, the Christmas spirit, empathy, unselfishness, etc.) is what makes life worth living. The love of rivalry, competition, war, punishment, torture, and sexual repression are the major mental ailments.
Then you must read. Here is a starting point, to warm you up, Questions on Science and Religion. "If Fr. Jaki reserves special disdain for those who push religion into the realm of science by insisting on creationism, he has at least as great a disdain for those scientists who urge science as offering a materialistic explanation of everything. “Nothing shows so effectively the atrophying character of scientific thinking, or rather of a thinking that wants to be exclusively scientific, than the denial, by great scientists, of man’s free will. Einstein was one of these to his eternal shame. … A world view in which the World, or the Universe writ large is the ultimate entity, allows no room for free will, not even for thinking freely about such an ultimate entity.” He even invokes science to demonstrate that science cannot explain all. Specifically, he invokes Gödel’s Theorem. “Only those trained in mathematical logic would savor” Gödel’s Theorem as first expressed in 1931, but, he says, it was put “in a form comprehensible to the layman” in 1962. Basically, Gödel’s Theorem demonstrates Culture Wars: Science and Religion http://www.culturewars.com/2006/Jaki.html 2 of 4 1/28/2011 11:09 PM mathematically that in any arithmetic system there will be a statement that can neither be proved nor disproved; the consistency of an arithmetic system cannot be proved within that system. To prove or disprove every conceivable statement about numbers within the system, one must go outside the system to come up with new rules and axioms - thus creating a larger system with its own unprovable statements." Then I would suggest, The Sixteen Saviors, to peak your appetite for religion. Come back when you are hungry for more, the list is long.
A 12 year old girl. Again, parents need to be held responsible. A 12 year old had acess to a gun and brought it to school in her backpack. It went off apparently accidently injuring four other students. If any school aged minor can access their parents firearms then that parent should not be allowed to own firearms, should be investigated for child endangerment, and should face jail time.
