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Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:23:19 EDT

Cannon, no offense taken, but I have one of the best therapists in the field, the problem is that after all this time, they're still not done repairing the physical damage that was done yet, so the constant physical doctor's appointments and the fact that the private work comp provider keeps trying to come up with new and inovative ways to dump me from their roles is as much a source of stress as the original injuries. It takes a while to get over it when three guys get up close and personal and try to beat you to death... Especially when you can't identify them, but there's always the possibility of them spotting you and...

Comment by Cannonshop on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:34:11 EDT

Each their own, Jet, but I'd say that if you're willing to at least resist with your hands, that's something-I'd recommend a "Stun Gun" or other equalizer just-in-case, on account of I don't know how big, trained, or skilled you are at fisticuffs and grappling. I'd also (please, don't be offended) suggest you shop around a bit more if your therapy's not working, on account of there are lots of people in the "mental health" field who excel mainly at projecting their own defects and insecurities onto their patients, along with handing out drugs, and a lot of "Treatment professionals" seem bent on dismantling their patient's will to resist further victimization. (I know they tried with me from about age thirteen on until I finally realized they weren't helping.) I didn't stop having nightmares and jumping at shadows until I learned how to USE that paranoia and accept that there are bad, bad, people out there that have to be stopped-and that they CAN be stopped, and that more to the point, I can help STOP them with preparation and some learned situational awareness. The counselors, on the other hand, wanted to drug me silly and get me on disability so that I could afford to pay for THEIR treatments (with government help). My way probably doesn't work for everyone, Jet, but it worked for me well enough that I can function without antidepressants, sleep-aids, and anxiety medications or hour upon hour (year after year) of therapy that isn't working. for me, the first step was admitting to myself that the 'edge' wasn't unreasonable or irrational, it wasn't going to go away and if I didn't learn to read and control it, it would become unreasonable and irrational. The second was realizing that the nightmares weren't an aberration, but a warning-this has happened, and if I didn't do something REAL to prevent it, it would probably happen again. Finding out how I could make sure it didn't happen to ME again was step three onward. somewhere in there, there's the idea that if I can learn to prevent it (or make the bastard pay a price higher than he's willing to risk)for me, I can help other people prevent it from happening to THEM. somewhere in there was also the admission that "The kindness of strangers" doesn't exist, and that the Police aren't coming to save anyone-least of all myself, if anyone is a-gonna do something, it's got to be the person who's there. At that point, it became a matter of learning and practicing, and eventually teaching, and somewhere in there, the anxiety attacks stopped, the nightmares became manageable, and I got healthier all around-because I wasn't RULED by my fear anymore-it's still here, but it's under control. Guns don't do that-they're objects. I don't even carry most places, I don't need to-but I'm aware of the places I DO need to, and take appropriate action to avoid those places whenever possible. Fear and paranoia are a heightened sense of danger-if you can learn to read and control them, they're useful, if you rely on some degreed parasite to tell you they're bad and give you lies and dope so you can momentarily feel everything is sunshine, you're never going to get over what happened to you-the wound will just keep bleeding forever-and-ever-amen, and worse, you'll see everyone around you not for who they are, but with a twisted fun-house caricature built out of fear and the lies you've been told by someone who's adept at telling the lies that make you feel (temporarily) better, or morally superior, or whatever toxic opiate they want to feed you this week. (and that goes for the Preachers too. Freddy Phelps and his ilk recruit from the same pool of anxiety, paranoia, irrationality,ignorance, weakness, and fear that the degreed parasites do.) If you're willing to use your hands to resist, great-develop your ability to resist with your hands, learn to use your eyes, ears, and mind to detect the bastards at a distance, use your fear to motivate your eyes to become sharp, your ears discriminating, your sense of smell, and your physical readiness. Use your mind to provide the brakes and teach yourself to recognize the difference between a threat posture and a harmless one, learn to spot concealed weapons. Until you're confident you can handle a situation, it's going to always be in your nightmares, no matter how much sunshine and daisies your therapist pushes at you and no matter how much panacea your local alderman/advisor/city-councilman/Preacher,whatever, pushes at you, or the lies politicians spew about "Cleaning up the streets"-they have a vested interest in your being fearful and as helpless as they can convince you to stay, because if you're fearful and helpless, they can rule you, they can extract from you with empty promises, outright lies, and conspiracy theories, because you become dependent on them, rather than the natural relationship in which your "Leaders" are dependent on YOU. And the criminals, the bashers, the thugs and the other urban predatory scum of the earth rely on two things-one, complacent victims unwilling and unable to resist, and two, victims who remain traumatized for years and won't cause them ACTUAL trouble in the form of stepping up to protect the former or making their lives uncomfortable in other, non-illegal ways.

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:33:26 EDT

Cannon, having dated several cops, on of the hardest questions for them to answer in a post shooting incodent is "How many times did you fire your weapon?" and usually they'll think they only fired 2-3 times when they'd actually emptied the whole clip. I'd be afraid of emptying a gun into someone who just walked up to me to ask for directions. I'm one of the people who should never own a gun because after the attack, and four years later, I'm still being treated for Post Traumatic Stress and I jump at shadows. I can handle hand to hand, but if I even think someone has a gun, I go into panic mode. Should the average citizen own guns, yes ... to protect thier home from an intruder (though many a wife killer has gotten off by saying they thought she was a burglar) Out on the street. Unless you're a bonded carrier no. It's really a moot point, anyone with half a brain can go out and buy a gun from a friend and then shoot up a school, there's no way to stop that, there's just too many guns available. "I'll beet you in the middle of main street at high noon. oy

Comment by Cannonshop on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:41:05 EDT

Jet, I would've suggested (and have suggested to gay acquaintances in the past) that anyone who tends to be subjected to bullying and unprovoked violence OUGHT to be armed as a matter of course, and spend at least SOME time learning how to use whatever weapon they so choose in a competent manner-because scumbags, and violent scumbags, will not be deterred by morality or law, nor will they be overawed by "The moral high ground". They're stopped by bullets, sometimes they're deterred by the fear of being taken by their proposed victims, and when they're bent on "Suicide by cop (or bystander)" then it's best to expedite their journey to the creator-preferably before they've been able to hurt more than one or two other people. An asshole eaten by hate will find other methods, guaranteed. (IIRC, explosives are a controlled substance just about everywhere, but it doesn't stop suicide bombers in the london tube or car-bombers, does it?) It is prudent, in a violent society, to be armed when you're targeted by walking filth.

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:29:50 EDT

Oh Great, they're carrying guns now! According to published reports the Tennessee guy that shot up that church left a note that it was because he hated liberals, and actions that the church was taking to encourage understanding towards gays. I guess us fags are going to have to start toting guns for self-defence.

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 09:00:34 EDT

"Oh great... just what I'd need-a press secretary named Dr. Dreadful!!! " I'm sorry Doc for the sarcasm, if you want to be my press secretary, okay, and you won't even have to sit on my lap.... :)

Comment by Ruvy in Jerusalem on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:01:27 EDT

God had nothing to do with the persecution of the Jews, Hitler did. Hitler hated Jews, but he also hated organized religion. With all respect, Miriam, I beg to differ with you. G-d runs the universe, a fact that we should not ever forget. Given that, it would do you well to read this essay: Confronting the Holocaust Jewishly. Secondly, the Nazis did not hate religion per se - they hated the religions they disagreed with, like Judaism and Christianity. They viewed us Jews as a Gegenrasse, a race that they had to exterminate, as we, in their eyes, polluted the world. In a simple sentence, they stood the Kabbala on its head, made us the enemies - and built a mystic reality on this. The Nazis most assuredly had a religious framework for their ideas. They eventually found, after much research, Buddhist texts in Tibet that referred to Jews as ancient enemies, and it was a Nazi who tutored the man today known as the Dalai Lama. Shavua Tov, Reuven

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:12:31 EDT

Oh great... just what I'd need-a press secretary named Dr. Dreadful!!! :)

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:09:45 EDT

That's very true Miriam, but it had more to do with Hitler trying to bring a population ravaged by the great depression together by finding one thing they could all hate together. Unfortunately in this world, and in this time it's easier to get a populous to collectively hate than it is to collectively love.... Look at Falwell and Bryant and the gays, Look at Robert E. Lee and the blacks Look at bin Laden and the americans... Look at Bush and anyone looking even vaguely Arabic. ...as the nightmare continues...

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:03:02 EDT

You should, I think, work in a strong case for how great your desk would look in the White House. (Elect Jet! [write-in campaign])

Comment by miriam on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:45:36 EDT

God had nothing to do with the persecution of the Jews, Hitler did. Hitler hated Jews, but he also hated organized religion. And Slavs. And gays. It is to the discredit of the German people that they elected this mad, evil man. Once he was in power, they could no longer get rid of him.

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:45:02 EDT

Okay, fine, you asked for it, the next article I write will be about my desk.....oy vay

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:40:36 EDT

Jet - what do you mean, no-one reads your articles? Did I miss that review of your new desk? ;-)

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:55:28 EDT

Shabbat shalom-Your secret is safe Ruvy, after all no one reads my articles... Blessings my friend and be safe

Comment by Ruvy in Jerusalem on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:49:04 EDT

Interesting, JOM has been banished to the methane filled swamps of New Jersey? But who else is going to whine about all welfare and free cheese I don't get from America? Actually, I could ~~have~~ still use the money he was alleging we all get here, but don't let that on to anybody.... It'll be just our little secret. You, me and the few million folks who drop by to read.... SHHHHHH.....

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:46:56 EDT

...Uh okay... Does that mean JOM's name is no longer written the the Lamb's book of life?

Comment by troll on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:59:59 EDT

"[We separate him, together with his accomplices and abettors, from the precious body and blood of the Lord] and from the society of all Christians; we exclude him from our holy mother the Church in heaven and on earth; we declare him excommunicate [and anathema]" strike his name and visage from all obelisks

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:39:37 EDT

Forgive the previous GREAT NEWS comment, but I'm so happy:) WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT JERK ANY MORE!!!!

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:30:59 EDT

(sung by a chorus of Munchkins) Ding-dong the JOM is gone!!!! Which old JOM? The moron JOM Ding-dong the moron JOM is gone!!! Wake up you sleepyhead Rub your eyes, get out of bed Wake up the moron JOM is gone He's gone where the goblins go Below - below - below Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low Let them know the Moron JOM is gone!!!!!!! and please lord let him stay wherever Eric and Chris bannished him too.... (:^P~~~~~~

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Fri, 7 Mar 2008 23:09:33 EST

Snow Snow go away, come again some other day. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:02:03 EDT

Rick you have just as much right to be anti-American as I do to be pro American... ...but of course that's only my opinion! Jet

Comment by Rick on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:39:58 EDT

You've covered a lot of good points here... and there's certainly many things we can both agree upon. I do however, find much of your information and brainwashed attitude to be just a little "too American" for my liking... or for the good of the internet as a whole. There's more to TRUTH than simply believing everything your evil leaders and political system would program you to believe in the name of artificial pride and glory. Try taking a good hard look at your own culture and information sources, before criticising the teachings and beliefs of others, or their religion. I guess I can remain thankful that only a small portion of our world is expected to think and act like Americans.

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Who Among Us Has The Right To Rewrite Religion, History Or Science?

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:18:17 EST

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