Originally posted by lesmore49 To sensationalize ?
How so ?
Isn't the purpose...at least the goal to have reasoned discussion and perhaps intense debate over important issues of the day ?
You know, Les, as much as I love and sometimes rely on reasoned discussion and analysis, there's times when you've just gotta stop rational*izing* the bad juju going' round and think laterally. Even the fact that people are paying attention to stuff like this just now is *significant.* Notice the 'don't worry' story is *world-and-years-spanning.* As opposed to a lot of people going nuts in a *specific way* right now, (Consistent with the 'bad drug cocktail' (called 'Bath Salts') if you have even the vaguest sense of trafficking patterns, even as out of date as mine, many of these incidents are entirely consistent. ) But sometimes you must look past *that* people are bugging out, and ask *Why in *that* way?*
It does in fact come to mind that a lot of powerful and influential preachers are, without much protest, wanting to kill LGBT people as 'abominations.' A false moral equivalency, but in times of 'moral panic,' those so-carefully-made false equivalencies are made, *especially* by people so deeply-repressed they equate themselves with 'abominations' (like cannibalism) that actually tend to revolt even the most social-darwinist or self-righteously-aggressive people in the world.
Deconstructing 'crackhead logic' gets pretty dubious, past a point.... but uncorking the cannibal in this 'Christian nation' *just now* has a lot to do with the very bad juju you guys displace. It's been freaking *me* out, and despite being pretty twitchy, I'm pretty case-hardened to some of this stuff. This is not separate from the rest of what we've been talking about. There'll probably always be crazy people, but when the *content* of the crazy takes a hard turn like that, people like me tend to clue in that it's all about some kind of more-broadly cast 'Bad Medicine,' if you will.
And if that's too mystical for you, the statistics are out and it's been a *record* year for violence against people like me. Hate preachers been stoking this, but someone *did* just throw a match at the psychotic people on the edge. When they all start acting the same way, yeah, I do unpack the rattles and feathers. It's really not about the particular match thrown or my personal stake in it: if anything, that's only held me back from stating the obvious: Same week as bald-faced atrocities are called for, and go uncontested, (by the people who 'eat their God' for the sake of 'abominable sinners,' crazy/messed-up people are suddenly taking the zombie fad rather gruesomely too far.
As much as I like to discuss things, friend Christian, this really is what we'd have said in the old town was just plain, 'bad juju'
(As much as you say 'No true Christian' about this or that, try telling that to a *crazy* Christian having a bad night. At you. As much as you guys ignore the fact that I've got stories about crazy-arse self-appointed 'witch-hunters,' you don't want to listen even when someone gets messed-up and wraps his intestines around a tree. I don't think he did that cause, whatever he was on, he loved himself as much as he should his neighbors, dig?) There's always a certain amount of In Vino Veritas involved when it comes to stuff like that. They used to blame PCP for stuff like that, but I had a friend who got that accidentally. He had a bad time, but he didn't hurt anyone.)
Same kind of thing. I gather. From report, anyway.
It usually takes at least a couple things going wrong at once to make an accident. When there's a cluster of things going wrong in the same way in the same place...you bet it pricks up my ears.