Posts by Pete Zahut

posted

75
Why Are Schools Targets Of So Much Gun Violence?
by Brokeback Watchtower in
1. social
2. current
why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?

is there something seriously wrong with society?

does the public education/indoctrination system need some serious tweaking?
Pete Zahut

Why are so many youth flipping out and gunning down fellow students?
If I'm not mistaken, all of the school shootings have been carried out by young males.
(The comment below is one I made on an earlier thread on a similar topic)
There are studies that suggest that since the "women's movement" young males are becoming increasingly lost because large numbers of fathers are either absent entirely or are distant with their sons because they too were ignored or neglected or are unsure of their place in the world. The role of men has become blurred and hard wired masculine traits that were once thought of as admirable or even necessary, are often deemed as bad or in need of correction. Boys are no longer able to do things that boys like to do as a group without girls being included. Girls are the gold standard of behavior and the message is that boys need to be more like girls and if men were more like women the world would be a better place. Fathers are the butt of every joke on television and adult men are portrayed as clueless buffoons who are mocked and disrespected by their wives and children. There is evidence that more and more boys and young men are lost, resentful and hate themselves and are lashing out at the world around them. Girls on the other hand statistically are doing better in every way.
24
How to stop school violence
by Jayk in
1. social
2. humour
ban school:).
Pete Zahut

Great...any suggestions?
Oh I don't know.....just off the top of my head....maybe limit the amount and type of guns a person can own. Make bullets as difficult to get as a pair of contact lenses or a bottle of prescription drugs. Limit the amount of ammo a person can buy or keep. Make gun owners keep their stock pile of guns at the local firing range rather than in their home where their kids can get at them. Figure out what's going on with young males that makes them want to shoot up their school. Figure out whats going on mentally with the large sections of the population that feel the need to surround themselves with weapons.

I dont claim to have an answer. I suspect that kids are growing up today in a society that does not address some basic need.
What need? I dont know. I do wonder about the lack of heros in todays world. No clear cut good guys or bad guys everyones efforts picked apart on social media. Does that play some role?
There are studies that suggest that since the "women's movement" young males are becoming increasingly lost because large numbers of fathers are either absent entirely or are distant with their sons because they too were ignored or neglected or are unsure of their place in the world. The role of men has become blurred and hard wired masculine traits that were once thought of as admirable or even necessary, are often deemed as bad or in need of correction. Boys are no longer able to do things that boys like to do as a group without girls being included. Girls are the gold standard of behavior and the message is that boys need to be more like girls and if men were more like women the world would be a better place. Fathers are the butt of every joke on television and adult men are portrayed as clueless buffoons who are mocked and disrespected by their wives and children. There is evidence that more and more boys and young men are lost, resentful and hate themselves and are lashing out at the world around them. Girls on the other hand statistically are doing better in every way.
24
How to stop school violence
by Jayk in
1. social
2. humour
ban school:).
Pete Zahut

Just another example of how the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun
Perhaps we should all carry a can of spray paint so we can stop graffiti artists dead in their tracks that way we could go back to having spray paint available in the store like we did back in the good ol' days.
People carrying guns may be able to stop a shooter once he's begun shooting and has mowed a dozen people down but the idea is to prevent the shooting in the first place by making the guns or at least the ammo as difficult to get as prescription medicine is. Can you imagine the number of misfires and gun related accidents there would be on a daily basis if everyone walked around carrying a gun just in case they encountered a shooter? Can you imagine the casualties there would be from stray bullets if everyone with a gun opened fire on a shooter in a Mall? They could kill or injure more bystanders than the shooter himself would have.
Statistically we are on a daily basis more likely to get into a serious car accident than we are to encounter a shooter but it would be viewed as impractical or crazy to suggest that we all should wear crash helmets when riding in a car yet there are those who suggest that the solution to the gun problem is that we should all carry guns in the off chance we encounter a shooter.
We brought our own guns to school and took the bus to the school forest and drove deer to each other for hunting season. Now they need safe places because someone may say something that hurts their feelings.
When I was a kid we used to fly down the freeway at 70 mph in the back of a station wagon with no seat belts and we all survived but it doesn't mean that it was a good idea or that we should just ignore the statistics now that we know better. There were plenty of kids killed even though we didn't hear about it or may not have known anyone who was thrown through a windshield.
I don't know what exactly changed but its not good. People are becoming weak and thin skinned.
Humans have always been just as thin skinned, you just hear their complaints more readily now which doesn't mean their complaints don't have any merit. Back in the old days when something went wrong, you just figured it was an isolated incident. Now we can see things on a global scale and can recognize patterns that need to change.
Speaking of thin skinned,for some reason it's legal to buy and possess armor piercing ammunition, but it's illegal to sell it which means you can have it, but nobody can sell it to you. For some reason, when it comes to gun regulations, the logic is so skewed and anyone who points it out is dismissed as being "thin skinned".
24
How to stop school violence
by Jayk in
1. social
2. humour
ban school:).
Pete Zahut

Go ahead and allow the public to carry guns if they insist upon it but ban bullets. There's nothing in the constitution about the right to own bullets is there?
I can walk into Walmart and buy bullets but the spray paint is locked up and I have to have a prescription from a doctor before I can purchase my contact lenses or certain medications yet they trust me with bullets without question.
Seems kinda' crazy.
24
EXJW Tattoo
by blownaway in
1. jw
2. friends
if anyone has any ideas or pictures of a tattoo that would sum up being an ex jw please share.
Pete Zahut
50
Receiving so much hate recently....
by stuckinarut2 in
1. jw
2. friends
well, as you all know, my wife (unstuck) and i are not df or da.. we just stopped attending several years back after my "apostate" online activity was found by a nosey employee of ours while she was working in our office (long story if anyone wants to know - it would have to be another thread).

we never met with any elders - no congregation judicial activity occurred (as we would never consent to do so anyway).

so our policy has been to be the same kind, loving, normal people we have always been.
Pete Zahut

Proverbs 25:21,22 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For you will heap burning coals on his head, And the LORD will reward you.
JW's claim they are being loyal to Jehovah when they shun you but in reality the main motivation for shunning is that it makes them feel extra virtuous about themselves. It's the only bit of personal power that they are allowed to exercise. It's not about Jehovah, it's about them having taken personal offense because your actions have caused them to look at things they don't want to think about.
Being an angry apostate gives them fuel for their fire. Being kind or even behaving as a normal decent person ruins their ability to feel superior to us. It heaps fire coals upon their heads when we do so.
32
Scary Effectiveness of Assembly Videos
by Captain Schmideo2 in
1. jw
2. friends
well, i got to see the final day of this years regional convention.and i saw something that disturbs me.. the final, "summing up review" video.

it disturbs me because it was so well done.

(i wish i could remember the title of the song), to the strains of a solo vocalist singing in a fine "irish tenor", we see the actors from the previous videos of the last few days all assembling together in a clearing.
Pete Zahut

Why didn't the open the sky up last year and save the JW's in Russia from the "bad guys"? He couldn't even keep them from losing their kingdom halls and other properties.
What about the folks in Malawi who were butchered to death because they followed the Governing Body directives. The sky didn't open up and he didn't save them. In fact they are all but forgotten now by the current JW's. who are only interested in what matters to them personally and in seeing videos that reinforce their own feeling of safety.
20
"Demons" Living In My Brothers Gym Equipment
by pale.emperor in
1. jw
2. experiences
spoke to my younger brother dan yesterday (he da'd about 6 months ago).

he was telling me that he got a visit from our older brother the day before.

our older brother was raised a jw but never committed, lives a full-on "worldly" life - smokes, binge drinks, hangs out with non-jws, but he's been studying for about 6 years would you believe?.
Pete Zahut

Your older brother is a dumbell !
34
Active witnesses? Please help?
by Ahava in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hi,i'm lost and a little sad.

i actually like the jw faith.

some might call this faith cold, strict, dogmatic but they're just trying to follow rules and give back to god.
Pete Zahut
"Get baptised with half a heart, I have enough appreciation and respect for what I've learned
Get baptised with conviction, which I'd like but I'm struggling"
Jesus and the Apostles spread God's message and they baptized people. and Jehovah's Witnesses pride themselves in being "footstep followers" of Jesus and his Apostles.
Where in the Bible does it indicate that Jesus and the Apostles required that anyone desiring baptism first had to be qualified by studying several man made publications, by meeting a minimum amount of hours out in field service and then publically answering aloud, the word YES, when asked the two following questions before they are immersed ?
1. On the basis of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, have you repented of your sins and dedicated yourself to Jehovah to do his will?

2. Do you understand that your dedication and baptism identify you as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in association with God’s spirit-directed organization?
There is likely good reason you are hesitating to get baptized. On some level you know something isn't quite right. I'm guessing that God would understand and appreciate anyone who held off getting baptized because he or she wanted to fully understand what they were doing.
JW's tend to indicate that the only way to serve God. They believe they are in a life saving work and anyone who isn't a Jehovah's Witness will be destroyed at Armageddon. They won't likely say this directly out loud or to your face but all you have to do is read their literature to the sense of urgency you are experiencing in regard to getting baptized.