Comments on: From Hezekiah to Kipling [II kings 19]

By: Looking Glass

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 18:21:45 +0000

I believe it was the Aurora Theater shooter’s own mother that said she wasn’t surprised. After 18, there’s nothing anyone can legally do until they commit a crime. It just ensures they take more people with them.

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By: hearthie

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 02:00:41 +0000

I know families who have had children age out of their guardianship who have refused to take their psychiatry meds… and the family is helpless. Worse off than a stranger, legally. It’s terrifying and STUPID.

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By: Randy

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 01:01:29 +0000

This is the part of the bible I remember well. II Kings ch19. Isaiah ch36 & 37. It’s also in Chronicles. The old dead preacher has said, When G-D wants you to get something, an Idea, a point or a lesson, he gives it to you three times.

I remember reading this passage where the Assyrian king boasts about his army drying up rivers as they were so many men.

I am fortunate that I have a King Jams Bible and I can read of the wondrous works of G-D. His Power. We have the English to thank for that, the ability to read the bible, the word of G-D.

Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses; Isaiah ch37:36

I really like the way the English translated and put this phrase in the Bible. “and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand:”

And I remember from the bible; “the boast of the mighty!” When I am forced to, or tricked into listening to OhZero, I feel sorry for him. Last night on the local PBS station[ Public Broadcasting Station] they had a story about the same assyrian king and his great flower garden. The whole story was unearthed on clay tablets. All I could think of was Isaiah 37. Like the old king, OhZero, if he is remembered it will be from an old book written after he is long dead. After one or two hundred years the book will crumble to dust. The way this country is going, computer hard drives will fail and some things will be backed up. Some things.

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.;Ecclesiastes ch1:11.

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By: Chris Gale

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:24:28 +0000

I have a full blown rant about antipsychiatry. I don’t understand parts of the US culture. They do affect us down here: Last time I went to a local conference we were picketed. By the scientologists.

What is different down here? Firstly, we don’t have as many race and religion problems: the Islamic population is around 1% and the indigenous remain the main minority at 15%. Secondly, we don’t have short guns, only hunting guns and shotguns… which can do great damage, but you canpt conceal them. And they are licenced. (Air guns and crossbows are not). We have more knife deaths than gun deaths. Thirdly, we have compulsory treatment programmes which extend into the community, and can include medication or even ECT against a person’w wishes: this requires second opinions and there is regular reviews by a judge.

This means we are “in your face”. If someone is mad and dangerous we don’t allow them to sack us. If we don, we are held accountable.

Now, this man looks like he was confused, angry, and needed help. However, there is a lot of censoring going on in the media: not all the information is out there.

But he has now acted, and he isnow got to face the tenral judge.

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By: Looking Glass

Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:22:05 +0000

Because every good liberal saw “One Flew Over The Cuckoos’ Nest” in the 60s & 70s, the mental health policies of the USA are thus: we can do nothing to a person until they commit a crime. Then we tend to send them to prison for a long time. That’s the actual issue.

Granted, it doesn’t help that we have the 24-hour News Cycle, we’ve obliterated most of our social institutions and no one that “should have known” is ever responsible. Oh, and the buildings were also “gun free zones” while the campus would technically not be, because of some court cases. (Apparently) Thus you actually have an even worse situation.

I have some relatives in the region, so I know a few years ago around Christmas, there was a shooting at a Mall in Portland. (Major city some miles north of this one) I believe only 2 people died because a concealed carry owner secured his family, secured his position and threatened the shooter. The shooter promptly committed suicide. Most of these cases are actually suicides. They train police to engage an active shooter as quickly as possible, as more times than not they’ll shoot themselves dead. In an Asian Culture, these same types would go into the woods and kill themselves. Or step in front of a train.

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