| Community Leader Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: New England Shoreline Gender:  Posts: 865 Country:  Level up: 50%, 200 Points needed |  |  I found the article to be a bit confusing as all of the quotes from the paper were taken out of the context in which they were written such as: Quote: |
But then he immediately dismissed the idea as a mere joke, writing, "not really, but it would be funny if I did.''
| Meaning that he didn't have the dream? Or that in his dream he didn't have sex with the dead bodies?
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A second disorderly count accuses Lee of alarming first-year teacher Nora Capron by writing that "as a teacher, don't be surprised on [sic] inspiring the first CG shooting,'' an apparent reference to Cary-Grove High.
| Was he referring to inspiring one of the kids to write a creative writing essay on a school shooting or a real-life shooting?
Is it possible, as this kid was going to be in the Marines, he was having dreams of death and violence, or at least was thinking in the back of his head about these things? As an adolescent, don't kids have dreams about sex, and they think about sex a lot? Isn't it possible the two intertwined and the dream, or it's fictionalized account really meant nothing at all?
I don't necessarily think this kid got what he deserved. I think it shows that we as a nation have come to have a warped idea of what reality is.
Being in the military is a violent career, filled with real death and destruction, true violence. We encourage our youth to be non-violent, but then we hypocritically encourage them to join the military, to kill or be killed.
Mixed messages folks. Our Task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures, the whole of nature, and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Hans Küng: "There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions."
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