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Post by wildknight on Jun 4, 2014 8:02:58 GMT -5
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Post by WhoCares? on Jun 4, 2014 8:31:10 GMT -5
Well, at least the victim is in stable condition. My main concern is that they actually thought slenderman is real.  |
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Post by wildknight on Jun 4, 2014 8:32:06 GMT -5
Obviously there was something askew with those young women, Slenderman was just the focus for it, for whatever reason.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Jun 4, 2014 8:40:32 GMT -5
It's pretty messed up. I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
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Post by wildknight on Jun 4, 2014 8:57:43 GMT -5
It doesn't seem to be getting a ton of national coverage, so we may never really know what all was going on.
If you guys remember the Columbine thing (you're probably too young), the "news" reported a lot of "information" about that, most of which turned out to be false, but because they were done talking about it and have moved on to other things, most people believe the misinformation that the media shoveled in them in the first week or two after the incident. There's an entire book dedicated to how wrong most peoples' perception of Columbine is.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Jun 4, 2014 9:05:44 GMT -5
I was like 8? when the Columbine thing happened, I remember it but obviously not a lot of the details that were leaked out.
I'm pretty sure I overheard about the Slenderman incident on the news yesterday.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Jun 4, 2014 9:08:42 GMT -5
Actually it's being covered on HLN right now.....
.....and it's over.
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Post by WhoCares? on Jun 4, 2014 9:13:41 GMT -5
I've heard a lot about the Columbine incident. Pretty messed up stuff.
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Post by ethanm1834 on Jun 4, 2014 9:27:13 GMT -5
I was in 9th grade when the Columbine thing went down. I remember being in band practice when I heard about. Sounded horrifying, this slender man thing. I don't really know what to say about it, to me with very little information, no different than when people would say the devil made them do it.
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Post by wildknight on Jun 4, 2014 9:30:16 GMT -5
I was in 9th grade when the Columbine thing went down. I remember being in band practice when I heard about. Sounded horrifying, this slender man thing. I don't really know what to say about it, to me with very little information, no different than when people would say the devil made them do it. It's really not any different, at least not to my mind, except that the implications for society might be. People have done horrible things and blamed it on one thing or another for all of recorded history. In modern times we have a bizarre fascination with "root causes" as if nobody would ever do anything bad without (insert whatever "cause") |
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Jun 4, 2014 9:50:47 GMT -5
I was in 9th grade when the Columbine thing went down. I remember being in band practice when I heard about. Sounded horrifying, this slender man thing. I don't really know what to say about it, to me with very little information, no different than when people would say the devil made them do it. It's really not any different, at least not to my mind, except that the implications for society might be. People have done horrible things and blamed it on one thing or another for all of recorded history. In modern times we have a bizarre fascination with "root causes" as if nobody would ever do anything bad without (insert whatever "cause") And for some reason the cause is almost never familial issues or mental issues, it always has to be manipulated into being caused by whatever it's cool for the media to hate at that point in time. |
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Post by wildknight on Jun 4, 2014 9:56:44 GMT -5
And for some reason the cause is almost never familial issues or mental issues, it always has to be manipulated into being caused by whatever it's cool for the media to hate at that point in time. ... it also helps if there are deep pockets involved so that lawsuits can be filed. |
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Post by ethanm1834 on Jun 4, 2014 10:06:49 GMT -5
It still makes me roll my eyes. People make decisions, and they need to be held accountable for those decisions. Yes mental instability and familial issues are something that should be considered. My bottom line for most of these acts, this goes with weapons of any kind, hold people accountable.
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Post by CaptainDamage on Jun 6, 2014 6:25:45 GMT -5
Another stab...
I found this story very sad...
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