Yes, 99...... 2

In the past week, three separate mass shootings have led to national discussions about racism, xenophobia and white supremacy. The other violent ideology animating these attacks has gotten less attention: misogyny. 

The president said Monday "our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy” and vowed the country would respond with "urgent resolve" to the recent tragedies. But experts say sexism and toxic masculinity must also be part of any conversation about America's mass shootings. Gun violence, after all, is disproportionately committed by men, data shows, and misogyny can be a precursor to other forms of extremism. 

According to statements from authorities and media reports from people who knew the alleged gunmen, the three mass shooters in Dayton, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; and Gilroy, California, either explicitly expressed hatred for women or embraced forms of extremism connected to a disdain for them.

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

This is the view that buddha nature is "mind's luminous ultimate nature or nondual wisdom, which is the basis of everything in samsara and nirvana.

I was sent forth from the power,
and I have come to those who reflect upon me,
and I have been found among those who seek after me.
Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,
and you hearers, hear me.
You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.
And do not banish me from your sight.
And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.
Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time. Be on your guard!
Do not be ignorant of me.

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert  
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,  
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,  
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it  
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.  
The darkness drops again; but now I know  
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,  
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,  
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Helpless people on subway trains
Scream, bug-eyed, as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town
Oh, no, they say he's got to go
Go, go, Godzilla (yeah)
Oh, no, there goes Tokyo
Go, go, Godzilla (yeah)

Well, he went on his way, and then what do ya know?
I saw him last night on a TV show
He was blowing it out, really knockin' em dead
Playin' rock and roll music through the horn in his head

Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

99 wrote:Time for you to get up to date on this topic Dan

The mass shooting in Las Vegas resulted in 59 deaths.... this happened in 2017. 

But in this year alone, in the last 12 months, 259 people have perished in mass shootings in this country. 

Mass Shootings are becoming more and more frequent with more fatalities than ever before.
For you to obsess about a mass shooting that happened over 2 years ago in Las Vegas is like someone focusing on the war of 1812 when in the midst of the 2nd world war.....

Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla wrote:With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down

History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of man
Godzilla!

dan wrote:99,

I bless your earnest attempts to follow the bouncing ball that purports to be the core story.  

I detect a smidgen of reluctance to let yourself fall down this particular rabbit hole.

I’m quite reluctant to disturb the somnambulance.  This is not an armchair excursion.  

smelly, if he understands one thing, he understands this....... surrender all innocence, ye who enter here.  



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99 wrote:

dan wrote:99,

I bless your earnest attempts to follow the bouncing ball that purports to be the core story.  

I detect a smidgen of reluctance to let yourself fall down this particular rabbit hole.

I’m quite reluctant to disturb the somnambulance.  This is not an armchair excursion.  

smelly, if he understands one thing, he understands this....... surrender all innocence, ye who enter here.  



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Dan, I refuse to participate in incoherent nonsensical BABBLE that you two have been engaged in.... in this forum.

This forum is not just you and Eric... there are others here who deserve better. 

In my case, I grab a fragment of lucidity from your word soup posts and comment on it. That's the best I can do.

smelly wrote:We have cognitive dissonance!

Now is when we insert the new program.

It will fit right in, it goes...right here...click!

There you go, you should be good as new in no time.

Hmmm, be great if it was that easy.