Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

this is revolting and depressing. and incomprehensible, although not totally unusual.

i'd find it hard to bear if something like this happened in my neighborhood. like as if (for lack of a better expression -- sorry, english is not my first language) my territory had been besmirched. you have my sympathy, you two.

if any motherfucker so much as laid hand on my 11 year old daughter i'd kill the motherfucker. but feeling self-righteous and protective doesn't really help.

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ps h: for me this bb is also turning into a compulsive habit

the fucking tv cameras are giving this man fame he doesn't deserve, it is his reward.
those tv men are kind of manic and freak me out.
i said i was a hypocrite because i say why can't we love everyone, and twenty posts prior i am cursing some friends talking a lot of smack, being hurtful. i find this hypocritical.
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can't imagine the dialogue that morning.
"do the dishes!"
"no' i want to play barbies,"
shotgun.
my stepfather wwas violent with his black eyes and blody noses, thank god he locked his shotgun up.
i guess it brings us back to violence is american ...like cherry pie? is that it?

I kind of wish I hadn't read this thread. With it snowing out and the dreary lonely wind chapping my lips in my hungover state, I'm about three seconds away from putting the gun to my head (no, not really).

Savagery still exists. However, most of us anyways, think we're special. Some people (oddly enough) think that the life we're leading currently is the culmination of the greatness of man. I would have to object one hundred percent with that. In many ways we're worse off. We've outstepped our dominion and there's no way of going back, at least for the majority of the population. There are optimistic people like Terrence Mckenna and Gary Snyder who talk about reviving the archaic ways, going back to shamanism and nature, ingesting MDT and Psilocybin for spiritual rebirth and affirmation. It's a splendind revleation, but it is so far off with the reality of the times. How do you explain that to a corporate exec, or a family of 10 living in the slums? You just can't. Some don't want to change, some can't change.

Is this it? Is everyone happy with the state around them?

No, Jack, I think your question might be rhetorical, but no anyways, and Rosie -- I think we're all hypocrites.

I read your post, and then I got to looking through some of my old poems. Three, four years ago, a little girl ended up with brain damage due to some savage's attack. I wrote a poem, because just watching the news and feeling moved by her didn't seem enough. I didn't want to forget her, so I wrote the poem thinking I'll always remember, and I always feel the shame of not doing enough. I have the poem, but I don't even remember what city she was attacked in, so I had forgotten her until your post, and it makes me feel revolted by my apathy, which is probably the first time I've felt that kind of shame since I wrote the poem.

What did Martino say, I liked it "feeling self-righteous and protective doesn't help." True! But what does?

Rosie doll, I knew exactly what you meant when you called yourself a hypocrite. And I will still say that you are not.
There is a difference between speaking your mind, because you have been hurt, and actually hating.
Which I know you don't.
It's a thin line, honey.
Thin, thin, thin.