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2011-10-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Boy strangles himself with karate belt while trying to fly

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Posted by Fred 2011-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 11 is a bit young for the graphic.

Posted by Perfesser 2011-10-06 07:39|| 2011-10-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't recall Spiderman ever using a noose around his neck in any of his maneuvers. I suspect that story is just 'cover' for the comfort of the family - though 11 is a bit young for either of the common 'situations' (suicide or s*xual experimentation.)

Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-06 07:47|| 2011-10-06 07:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Gotta be suicide. There is a hell of a lot of it in the ummah, filled as it is with people desperate to be out of their situation, driven bonkers by all the inhibitions, restrictions, taboos, demands and lack of freedom.

Alvin Toffler, who published Future Shock in 1970, and The Third Wave a decade later, was very prescient in his predictions of the stress *westerners* encounter in a rapidly technologically evolving nation. Many, or even most of his predictions have come to pass.

However, he did not go into detail about the effect this would have on more culturally primitive people. As it turns out, what is hard for us is devastating for them, and the more primitive they are, the worse it is.

For example, by 2000, in effect, there are no longer any truly primitive peoples left. They were wiped out by just exposure to outsiders, even those with the best of intentions. In most cases they just abandoned what they had been for centuries or more.

And it works from the ground up. About every people who remained isolated in their culture up to about the beginnings of Islam are gone. Now comes the big bulge of Islamic peoples who must either modernize or become extinct. The Taliban, for example, are already dead, they just don't know it yet.

It would be interesting to rate different Islamic cultures today, based on their technological and cultural advancement. Put on a scale, you can pretty accurately predict who are next to lose their primitive identity.

And it's not just Muslims. This process affects everyone. And violently or peacefully, they must change or die out. Modernity is unforgiving.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-06 10:32|| 2011-10-06 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Children do stupid things because they don't know better, qnd they get caught up in the moment. Accidental strangulation while playing unsupervised makes perfect sense. If was for that reason I did very creative things to the pull cords of the blinds -- still left in though all the daughters have gone off to university, and always was nearby when the girls played dress-up.

I'll remove the graphic.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-10-06 10:48|| 2011-10-06 10:48|| Front Page Top

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