Posts by glenster

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Another Shooting Massacre

by whathehadas in

http://abcnews.go.com/us/santa-barbara-shooting-suspect-calls-loneliness-darkest-hell/story?id=23855994&ts=true.

"The cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, whose theories on the human notion
of death is strongly influenced by Freud, views the fear of death as a universal
phenomenon, a fear repressed in the unconscious and of which people are largely
unaware. This fear can move individuals toward heroism, but also to scapegoating.
Failed attempts to achieve heroism, according to this view, can lead to mental
illness and/or antisocial behavior."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%E2%80%93suicide

Pseudocommando

"They typically see their actions through a narcissistic lens as being morally
justified in revenge against their unfair treatment by an uncaring world, and wish
to 'go out in a blaze of glory.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocommando

Spree killer--serial killer but without the cooling off period--almost no time
break--between murders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spree_killer

Rampage killer "has sometimes been used to describe spree killers, but it does
not differentiate between mass murderers and spree killers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers

Elliot Rodgers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-jCSZh2tMk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_massacre

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Another Shooting Massacre

by whathehadas in

http://abcnews.go.com/us/santa-barbara-shooting-suspect-calls-loneliness-darkest-hell/story?id=23855994&ts=true.

glenster

I read he had a mild case of Asperger's Syndrome. That may have presented some
challenge in adapting socially but wouldn't explain the elitism, vanity, and
shooting spree plot (see YouTube video). I think someone missed pursuing a
subject in their recent therapy meetings.

5

The stark contrast between Science and Christianity says it all.

by Island Man in

jesus prayed that all his followers be united as one.

but we see christianity divided into thousands of denominations.

this division is partly due to the fact that the book that christianity claims is the truth, the inspired word of a supremely wise god, was not written in a sufficiently unambiguous manner as to make its one true meaning indisputably clear throughout.. by contrast take a field of science - say physics.

glenster

Faith isn't all "Paul Broun"s (see "Evolution" at the link below) and JWs
leaders failing to find scientific agreement in making conservative arguments.
Others more liberal in their faith may criticize their efforts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broun#Controversies

You might as well label music a failure for it not finding scientific agreement
for favorite songs (compared to better agreement for the objective math of the
music). There's understanding faith as such: "Some Christians view denomination-
alism as a regrettable fact. As of 2011, divisions are becoming less sharp, and
there is increasing cooperation between denominations (See denomination for a dis-
tinction between denomination and association in religious governance)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominationalism

Not knowing proof God is or isn't, the perpective I'd recommend is seeing faith
in the basic God concept as a choice to hope or not in a possible God beyond the
known things, and to have science keep us up on those known things. After all, if
this God is there, it wouldn't honor Him to misinform in His name. And knowing
it's a possibility, not a proven, to not see harm as justified by it.
http://glenster1.webs.com/basics.htm

You may fare better seeking agreement on scientific results and not wanting harm
over faith from believers and non- believers than expecting all to be one or the
other. Expecting science to prove one may be as much folly as expecting it to
prove the other.

12

ANOTHER poke in the eye of the balloon-god YodHeVahHe

by Nathan Natas in

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/evolution/first-metabolic-processes-detected-outside-of-cells/.

precis: a graduate student at the university of cambridge accidentally discovered the first evidence of metabolism occurring outside a cell.

to test the processes that could have helped spark life on earth, students in the earth sciences department who had been working on reconstructing the chemistry of the archean ocean, which covered the planet almost 4 billion years ago helped develop some experiments.

glenster

http://www.amazon.com/How-Think-About-God-20th-Century/dp/0020160224

26

Any tips for safe web surfing?

by compound complex in

greetings to all who surf shark-infested internet waters.. after i was hit by ransomware the other day, i did research on so-called safe sites.

it seems more and more sites are being infected deliberately by hackers.

i went to a legit-looking site on a famous artist and -- wham!

glenster

Microsoft PC Safety Security Related Support
Free help to remove PC viruses
1-866-72-723389
1-866-PC-SAFETY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCsafety

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Any tips for safe web surfing?

by compound complex in

greetings to all who surf shark-infested internet waters.. after i was hit by ransomware the other day, i did research on so-called safe sites.

it seems more and more sites are being infected deliberately by hackers.

i went to a legit-looking site on a famous artist and -- wham!

glenster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_hijacking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

I use Bitdefender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitdefender

7

Rabbits in the Pre-Cambrian ?

by Phizzy in

well not quite, and far from causing a problem for evolutionary theory, this discovery supports it further :.

"a team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest animal with a skeleton.

calledcoronacollina acula, the organism is between 560 million and 550 million years old, which places it in the ediacaran period, before the explosion of life and diversification of organisms took place on earth in the cambrian.. the finding provides insight into the evolution of life particularly, early life on the planet, why animals go extinct, and how organisms respond to environmental changes.

glenster

http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/fossils_ruins/

27

What proof do we have that Moses was a real person???

by jam in

i personally believe moses was largely or entirely mythical.

is because much of his biography, if not most of it, is tied to events.

that never happened, meaning that a historical moses could not .

glenster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Historicity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments#Critical_historical_analysis

108

Lifting the Veil on "Islamophobia"

by cofty in

the late christopher hitchens decribed the word islamophobia as "created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.. please take half an hour to read a fascinating conversation between sam harris and ayaan hirsi ali.. ayaan is an apostate from islam.

she fled to the netherlands in '92 to escape an arranged marriage and went on to become a member of the dutch government from 2003-2006.. ayaan is now a fellow with the future of diplomacy project at the belfer center for science and international affairs at the harvard kennedy school... she lives with round-the-clock security.. "some moderate muslims hate meand yes, thats a strong word, but i think what theyve said supports itbecause i make them feel uncomfortable.

the things i talk about put them in a state of dissonance that they cant live with.

glenster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam#Modern_debate_on_the_status_of_women_in_Islam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_feminism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_secularism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_the_Middle_East

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Lifting the Veil on "Islamophobia"

by cofty in

the late christopher hitchens decribed the word islamophobia as "created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.. please take half an hour to read a fascinating conversation between sam harris and ayaan hirsi ali.. ayaan is an apostate from islam.

she fled to the netherlands in '92 to escape an arranged marriage and went on to become a member of the dutch government from 2003-2006.. ayaan is now a fellow with the future of diplomacy project at the belfer center for science and international affairs at the harvard kennedy school... she lives with round-the-clock security.. "some moderate muslims hate meand yes, thats a strong word, but i think what theyve said supports itbecause i make them feel uncomfortable.

the things i talk about put them in a state of dissonance that they cant live with.

glenster

It may be as simple, as in Abrahamic religion generally, to distinguish con-
servative/extreme and liberal stances. The hamhanded broadside swing giving all
misinformative/harmful conservative stances as being "Islam" would be
Islamophobia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia