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Artemis Afrit
I thought I'd start a thread where we could talk about news-worthy events.

Virginia Tech

33 dead, and at least 28 wounded. The man who shot everyone praised the Colombine killers as "Martyrs".

Wow.
I say night I'm living in the forest of my dream,
I know the night is not as it would seem,
I must believe in something,
So I'll make myself believe it,
That this night will never go.


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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Screwed up, that's what it is... sadly, it's so easy to push the human mind over the edge; it's far too fragile.



How's this for creepy? Boat found drifting, engine ticking over, sails up, meal set, mobile phones and wallets on the table, lights on, computers on, radio on, GPS on, no distress signals, EPIRB beacon not activated, flares unusued, dinghy on board, life jackets on board... and no sign of the crew. Only damage is a shredded jib (front sail) and no life rafts on board, but it looks like the life rafts were never on board.
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Apollo Marid
I heard about the Virgina Tech shooting...sad...

Ghost ship? Figuritively speaking, of course; I'm a ghost skeptic.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Indeed, that's what the BBC article calls it.
Reminds me of the Mary Celeste...
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Apollo Marid
Mary Celeste? Explain.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste
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Apollo Marid
Interesting...
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Abel Afrit
i heard there was dinner all layed out on that boat...what a terrible waste of food...
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Artemis Afrit
Apparantly the guy was slightly mentally unstable for a while. Don't hold me to that, though.

There was this one program on TV about cover-ups. They said that the government was trying to develope technology to "beam" people from place to place. Apparantly that's where all these people on the boats go. They say that the fact that people keep dissappearing off of ships over and over is "evidence".

According to them, people who were "beamed" have ended up half-way inside walls and such, their molocules side-by-side with that of the wall's.

I laughed through most of the program, what carrot.
I say night I'm living in the forest of my dream,
I know the night is not as it would seem,
I must believe in something,
So I'll make myself believe it,
That this night will never go.


Laura Branigan, Self-control

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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Artemis wrote: Apparantly the guy was slightly mentally unstable for a while. Don't hold me to that, though.
I disagree with two parts of that statement:
"slightly"
"for a while"
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Luciene Higher Spirit
He wouldn't have done it, if he received more attention. He was practically crying out for help through the stuff he wrote.
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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And he was referred to counselling because of that, but did it help?
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Luciene Higher Spirit
Clearly they didn't do much, if a guy with a mental disorder is allowed to buy guns and carry them on campus.

Also he didn't have friends and he couldn't talk about it, so obviously, he blew up. If he hadn't killed himself, he might have got off on manslaughter.

Edit: Light a candle for the victims
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Sentynel One with The Other Place
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Course he wasn't *allowed* them on campus, nobody is. But he sneaked them in.

Also, American gun laws are ridiculously lax.
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Apollo Marid
Yes, they are!
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Luciene Higher Spirit
:yes: I heard on the radio, they think he may have bought stuff on Ebay and phoned people beforehand.

Interesting, how close this was to the Columbine Anniversary...

*decides to stops sympathising*
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Luciene wrote: Interesting, how close this was to the Columbine Anniversary...
It was deliberate. He calls the Columbine shooters "martyrs" in a video he left.
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Luciene Higher Spirit
But for what cause?

That's such a maaad day... it's 4:20 and also Hitler and Bob Marley's son's bday!
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Artemis Afrit
The Columbine murderers got themselves killed for what they were doing. (i.e. shooting people)

And when I said "for a while" I was quoting what one of the news programs said. They said that he was stable until he made the video. Then he was in a dissassociative state". Although I disagree, I think that he was unstable for a while before that.
I say night I'm living in the forest of my dream,
I know the night is not as it would seem,
I must believe in something,
So I'll make myself believe it,
That this night will never go.


Laura Branigan, Self-control

:mouth: Oh, Canada...
You can't suddenly become unstable and come back out of it. Once you slip into madness, the grip holds you forever. Anything that seems normal is just like a sleeping period, and even then you're not really there.


"If you take [a copy of] the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain, soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone. Our bible IS the wind and the rain." Herbalist Carol McGrath as told to her by a Native-American woman.

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