Please come to my school and shoot me... *God... so flipping stress right now... **Nothing intrest me anymore... Just waiting for the momment...
this is just horrible. so scary. what has this world become? a school should be a safe place... the video that the student recorded was so scary. the gun shots keeps repeating in my head... RIP victims...
"This is a tragedy in American history. So for today, forget any and all of your college affiliation. For today, we are all Hokies" -CNN and if you please, join the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=2376031762&view=all
No, it's more the fact that your smart @$$ felt the need to bring that joke into this thread, despite the fact that it has nothing to do with the topic being discussed. But I guess that was just immaturity on your part. Whether the joke was directly made towards the tragedy or not is not the point. I was referring to your dark humor with comments like which really didn't do much to lighten up the atmosphere. People's lives shouldn't be spoken of as a joke, regardless of the circumstances. Human suffering isn't a game of comparing numbers.
lol what compassion, casshern appears to have traded in his penis for a vagina. lol jks, just tryin to lighten up the mood. ^ you're right about the suffering not being a numbers game though, this is a pretty terrible event all around.
so now u only acknowledge killings when they are close to home. considering the killings in darfur. daily bombings in the middle east. etc. personally, and i don't care who gives a fuck. there are people getting slashed to death with axes and blown up daily, and all of a sudden we are supposed to be humble on this one day when 30 students get killed in some fucking university. don't get me wrong, i am against violence and it is sad what happened, but for me to pause my life for a moment to acknowledge it and reflect on my own life, when there are far more atrocities happening on a daily basis, i think not.
to each his own. all of a sudden we are all kind and caring ppl. seems some of us need to know whats happening in the world on a daily basis.
i am well aware of what goes on in this world. and yes, the cruelty is more than i want to know about. but at the same time, this is a tragedy that is quite sad. and yes, it is receiving more attention b/c it happened in the states. but at the same time, to say that it's not a big deal is wrong.
Have to agree with Knoc on this. Lots of people seem to get their eyes opened only when something dramatic happens close by.
Mallalieu said his professor held the door shut while students darted to the windows. Some climbed on desks, ledges and a radiator cover to pull down the screens and kick at the metal-framed glass, Mallalieu said. Three windows easily gave way and swung open on hinges as the gunshots got louder. Closer. "It sounded like he was going out into the hallway," said Mallalieu, a civil engineering major from Luray, Va. Once the windows for the sec ond-floor classroom were open, Mallalieu and most of his classmates hung out of them and dropped about 10 feet to bushes and grass below, he said. Some students ran to a nearby building. Others waited to help students who had been injured in the fall, Mallalieu said. But then the sound of gunfire filled their classroom, sending all who had escaped toward nearby Patton Hall, he said. Mallalieu said he never saw Librescu escape. "I don't think my teacher got out."
exactly. it happened in house and thats the only reason ppl are all of a sudden sympathetic. which they should be. so what happens after. we all go back to our normal lives and don't pay attention to the rest of the world. then if it happens again, in house that is, we all go back to being sympathetic.
^ that is just human nature though... we arent very long term thinkers... if we were we wouldnt have that old quote 'history repeats itself', cuz we would actually learn from our mistakes. besides, if humanity expressed sympathy at all the terrible actions in the world we would flood the entire world with tears.
violence in other parts of the world on a daily basis and history repeating itself?...explain how the two are linked..as i can't seem to see it...
but aren't we all human? we are sympathetic ppl. but at the same time, how much can we do? don't we all only seem to care when it hits home? it doens't make us unsympathetic ppl.
i find it odd that we care when it hits home and nothing more. does it make you a sympathetic person when you only show interest in inhouse situations? or ur just sympathetic at times....hmph...
The current war for one. Its kinda parallels the vietnam war. Now the US has been warring in iraq for 6+ years with near zero accomplishment, and there doesnt seem to be an end in sight, cuz they are fighting an enemy that can hide among civilians and know the terrain. This is pretty much the exact same situation that occurred 40 years ago in Vietnam. The Taliban and the Vietcong seem to have quite a bit in common from my perspective. All the death in the middle east is something that has been seen before, and if anyone in the US government read their history books they would know that there is no way they can win a war against a native population without resorting to genocide. Also, the attack on the World trade center kind of parallels Pearl harbour... i dunno though, this doesnt really belong in my thread, its just some of my musings... I also dont know enough about the darfur situation to make any inferences, but it i wouldnt be suprised if it had parallels to Polpot's genocide in Cambodia.