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young people have guns but no sense of hope, we should not be surprised when a
few decide to use them to take out some innocents before ending their lives in a
blaze of notoriety. Hey, "Stuff happens!" Again and again and again.<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>You present a nice psychological interpretation of The Times, along with
just a bit of anger at living in the last of the 20<SUP>th</SUP> Century and the
beginning of the 21<SUP>st</SUP>. If you who is on the way out can see the issue
of those on the way in, then you are perceptive indeed. <SPAN
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</SPAN>Isn’t the issue deeper than a psycho-analysis? We are living in
Sociological End Times. This terminus is located between the worldview of
Newton’s “Scientific Method,” and the worldview of Einstein’s “Theory of
Relativity.” Social Scientists name 1985 as the year of separation: the parents
of our young adult population (Generation X) and their children (Generation YZ)
are wired differently than those of us born before this auspicious date.
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</SPAN>The issue is Global in scope and it is ontological (<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">reality </I>or The Way Life Is) in nature.
It is these two items that makes important your emboldened statement printed
above. Our young people are scared to death of the global society for which they
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">are presently</B> responsible.
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</SPAN>This is my explanation for what is going on today: the creation of Isis,
the national migration as a response to the collapse of their society, and
gunman living their confusion. This is to say nothing about the angst of those
of us who find ourselves at the end of the trail. I keep telling the youth with
whom I work that my generation is getting out of the way as soon as we can.
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</SPAN>Marshall, it is the response of our generation that worries me more than
my concern for those who have inherited the world. While it lasts for us, it is
going to be a bumpy ride. Alas, and alack—the Emerging Generation will pay us
back for the love we gave, or for the lack there of. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Inner Peace, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Bill Salmon <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>From my perspective the Good News is that the world did not come to an
apocalyptic end last week as predicted by a few false prophets leading a mass of
marginalized people who, in a famous turn of phrase, "cling to their guns and
religion."<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>Putting two and two together, I've begun to realize that I'm living in a
19th century religious subculture that is focusing getting out of this world by
praying The End will soon come and deliver them and their fellow Born Again True
Believers from this Evil human catastrophe that they're making unbelievably
worse by supporting the Tea Party agenda.<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>In other words, their judgmental belief system leads to a NEGATIVE
self-destructive world view that undercuts any and all efforts to combat our
worst human propensities. This produces rabid individualism, survivalism, and
the loaded gun culture.<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>When young people have guns but no sense of hope, we should not be
surprised when a few decide to use them to take out some innocents before ending
their lives in a blaze of notoriety. Hey, "Stuff happens!" Again and again and
again.<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>When the notorious Kim Davis embraces a divisive and judgmental belief
system/religious cult to feel relieved of her own judgmental view of her sexual
sins, she uses her public office to take out her judgmental moralism on folks
she's decided don't meet her personal criteria of Holiness.<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>And then there's The Donald, who's using his money, his mouth, and his
hair style to pander to this large audience of frustrated voters who don't
exactly know what they want, but are unhappy with what they've got and blaming
it all on the Democrats.<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>All this substitutes bullets and verbal confrontation for real,
life-changing human communication.<BR><SPAN
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</SPAN>I wonder how all this will turn out in the next election. And I tend to
avoid vulnerable public spaces that our next mass murderer may find
attractive.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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