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#80372 - 01/24/06 09:54 PM
Re: Inprisoned children
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I'm afraid you're right, Dianne. Sometimes it seems to be getting worse instead of better. I'm one of those people who turns their head and doesn't want to look when I see a car accident. But I guess I'm in the minority.
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#80374 - 01/25/06 12:35 AM
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Do any of you remember "clockwork orange'? That was the first movie i walked out of, so angry at the brutality .... I can understand people stunned and continuing to witness a horrific and true event unfolding, hearts go out in compassion and pain for those hurting .... but i can not for the life of me, understand those who watch or produce movies which seem to include violence for the sake of adding some perverted thrill, or those who spend hours at certain video games, pretending to kick another's head in.
I wonder at times, why some people are so shocked at certain events, when in part, the very things that they find appalling in reality, they enjoy watching, or playing at, for entertainment. [ January 24, 2006, 09:49 PM: Message edited by: norma ]
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#80376 - 01/25/06 01:45 AM
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I just finished reading a book called "Too Soon Old Too Late Smart " by Gordon Livingston, MD. he is a pychiatrist a local doctor here . He said in one of the chapters he talked about the different forums of abuse
Also, one thing he did mention in a chapter that when we talk about the past was better then now. Often this is not true , for there were abusive parents then and more crime then and a lot more illnessnes and more children died then they do now . For one thing we never talked about abuse when I grew up or who did you go too and you hear more about crimes because of the TV .
Just some interesting thoughts . I did enjoy reading this book with only 168 pages .
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#80377 - 01/25/06 05:40 AM
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I think the author of the book you mentioned Renee, is correct. In ten thousand ways it is better today then ever before. I tend to forget that when i hear of something too terrible to be really true. But extreme criminal actions make headlines, precisely because they are not the norm.
Hello countrygirl, i am glad to meet you....the words under your post remind me of the wonderful 'Beaver' motto our grandsons recited when they were little .... "I promise to love God and take care of the world." So simple, and yet so powerful........
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#80378 - 01/25/06 04:17 PM
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I've gotten to the point where I won't watch movies with gratuatous violence in them. We have enough terrible things that really happen in the world. Why Hollywood wants to capitalize on them is beyond me. It puzzles me more the number of people who enjoy these movies, which is why they continue to be made.
I agree that there was always abuse, which probably was worse then because nobody talked or did anything about it. I may not like to watch the news reports about it, but I do pay attention.
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#80379 - 01/25/06 05:42 PM
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Chatty... I was watching one of crime shows the other night. They had a Amber alert for Vegas...and showed a moving billboard. I thought that was such a great idea. Do you see those often? Have they been a help in locating criminals?
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