What would the Iraqi boy with no face say?

Post #105,344 by deSitter 6/9/03 7:47:43 AM Reply	What would the Iraqi boy with no face say? [link\|http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/08/MN114902.DTL\|http://sfgate.com/cg...6/08/MN114902.DTL] Good riddance? Probably. There are people who desperately want to live - horribly burned, mangled by shrapnel, confined to a life of literal inertia because their limbs don't work, eaten alive with cancer. And here is a spoiled American college girl, who is "bored". Was it an act to see if anyone would notice? "2 weeks!" "1 week!" - sick. Is the Internet at fault? Probably - can you imagine the self-obsessed losers who must populate those places? The Internet lends a voice to those who by nature should shut the fuck up. Suicide - the most extreme form of narcissism. -drl
Post #105,354 by gdaustin 6/9/03 8:59:35 AM 6/9/03 9:01:29 AM Reply	In the end, she got in death, what she wanted in life... Attention... LOOK AT ME! The whole red scooter, strange hair, chats with the suicide group. She wanted to be noticed more than anything. She wanted people to pay attention and care for her. Her parents, both with "careers", were probably really bad about that. Her mother, a hospital administrator and her father, a fireman. She was crying out, screaming for someone to love, listen, and pay attention to her. You see, they had all found something worth "working for", worth "living for". Sadly, she ended up in the group that encouraged her to die, instead of the group I ended up in, a youth group at a church that taught me that Jesus always loves people, and with four wonderful counselors who paid attention, and made sure everyone was accepted in the group. I met my wife there, after finding out that I was OK, just like I was. We married 5 years later, and have 3 wonderful kids and a great marriage 20 years later! Note to myself: Don't get so involved in work, that I can't pay attention to my children. Try to make time to volunteer as a counselor, to find boys and girls who need positive attention and role models. Glen Austin Edited by gdaustin June 9, 2003, 09:01:29 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #105,371 by pwhysall 6/9/03 11:16:50 AM Reply	Heh. While I hear what Glen's saying, I can't help thinking that here we have a terminal case of rectocraniosis. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #105,402 by cwbrenn 6/9/03 4:06:38 PM Reply	Shame on you. Perhaps you don't remember being young enough to lack perspective? Or perhaps you still don't have any... "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #105,421 by mmoffitt 6/9/03 5:14:58 PM Reply	Please forward link to that site to RNC HQ. Thanks. bcnu, Mikem The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. - Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"
Post #105,446 by Ashton 6/9/03 7:27:00 PM Reply	Passing the buck. The environment and ersatz life which passes for The American Dream is a thing-obsessed shadow of anything authentic. Those we know who are actually Alive - are obv able to ignore the mesmerizing daily propaganda for More and Yet More\ufffd. Apparently - not everyone can.. see beyond the emptiness of a road, programmed from infancy --> escalated, contrived desire for endless trivia, in lieu of any deep personal contemplation about anything. These are the canaries, as always. Cultures we dub 'primitive' always have rituals which focus on that which we omit, from the earliest. I don't think that stereotyping this girl as a "spoiled American college girl" comes anywhere near the mark. Her parents who - even if as you merely speculate, they be droids of the common denominator - likely contributed no more or less to her 'condition' than all the other initiators of Disneyland faux-Life, which we embrace in a death-hug, celebrated most transparently at Chri$tma$$. What this poor human failed to grok was (many things, but mainly) that Living Well IS the best Revenge against anonymous massive forces attempting to homogenize one into a worker-unit for-mass-consumption. The obloquy of the self-besotted plutocrat which our culture also reveres [!] derives I think at core, from the common-denominator of attitudes of the ruling class (themselves the most Massive of the Consumers being herded!): it's OK to work daily to perpetuate a mindless soulless existence for most, So That I Get Mine.. and Mine is much More than would be anyone's normal 'share', in a sane culture of any past era. 'Class Struggle' is merely one of many euphemisms for - the tyranny of enforced Puritannical mindsets, begun at infancy. (And these are always contradictory signals, natch - as is the case in the er World of Duality we imagineered, as we imagined The Fall and all the other underpinnings of our lugubrious myths du jour). Fortunately the canaries are few (in terms of numbers of clones of this fatally miseducated and lately massively misadvised girl). Unfortunately the canaries are few (in terms of creating Attention towards any reassessment of goals - of the consumer mass). Such is life/death in the World of Duality. Everything that is Good for You may well be Bad from an Other's point of view. So much for Big vellum Manuals about Good and Evull, shallow religiosity and simplistic 'philosophies' cha cha cha. Ashton After all, the poverty of one's psyche - begins from being carefully taught trite homilies by a shallow parent within a banal culture. And Walking Tall with that burden. Unfortunately.. some miss the Walking Tall part of the illusion.

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