The admixture of the utterly insane is usually a hallmark of the demonic. Satan flourishes where insanity, hysteria and fear reign.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
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We knew someone at work who had a fairly obvious issue, which was a complex of dispositions and behaviors which is sometimes called ‘borderline’. She had trouble managing her emotions, made impetuous decisions, had a drinking problem, had conflicts with her mother, delved into emotionally intense lesbian associations, &c. She had trouble with her employers (she simply walked off the job in our town), moved from one city to another (I’ve lost track of the places she’s lived since 2015), &c. Well, betwixt and between, she decided she was actually male and began posting pictures of herself on Fakebook with a pasted on mustache, along with denunciations of anyone who would ‘deadname’ her. Her core issue is that ca. age 35, she maintained the emotional self of a not-very-pleasant adolescent. The peregrinations are derived from that. You could tell her the truth: stay away from other dykes, lay off the booze, don’t ream out your supervisor, stop job hopping, and learn to amuse yourself with solitary pursuits. The response you would get would be rage.
Art Deco
Disorganized thinking and behavior is a symptom of Schizophrenia. I wonder aloud if she was suffering from that?
Possession is a rare occurrence, however the recent shooter on Wednesday, looking at his alleged notebook, seems to me to be in communication with a very dark force.
My gut tells me that we are heading into more of these events as time moves along.
School shootings, rage and Karen-isms. 🙁
The motives were:
-Self hatred
-A (possibly literally) demonic desire to hurt the weak and innocent
-A fascination with school shooters and a desire to gain similar notoriety
This is all fairly obvious if you read the words of the shooter himself. Most of what he put out there was purely performative.
To give you an idea of just how theatrical this all was: the killer’s longest manifesto was written in Cyrillic. I’m specifically saying Cyrillic here, not Russian or Bulgarian or whatever, because it was just English transliterated (poorly) into Cyrillic characters with a few simple Russian words thrown in here and there (the types of words you’d learn in the first month of a Russian course, or from online memes.)
It’s not like he had any deep interest in the Russian language or culture; otherwise he would have actually learned the language. It was just a way of trying to look like a “cool soviet” for certain internet groups that would appreciate such things. (Those being a minority even on the internet; most people who find out about his Cyrillic manifesto just find it ridiculous.) The majority of his actions were similarly shallow and performative. The only consistent connections between his “ideology” and the shooting are the three that I listed above.
That’s not to say that this had nothing to do with transgenderism. That community certainly furthered his self-hatred and did not check his hatred of others. So even if he was messed up for a variety of reasons, that community made things worse.
As time has went by I agree more and more that the best way to discourage others from becoming school shooters is to not give the shooters notoriety.
Don’t spread their name, don’t talk about how horrible and terrifying they were. Talk about how they were losers (because they always were) and move on.
I know that a lot of other people have said similar things in the past, and for a while I never took it seriously. Then I started looking into specific cases and I realized that the most common connection between school shooters is that they idolize previous school shooters. That includes the most recent shooter. Even today school shooters will talk about the Columbine shooters as being their heroes, idolizing them to the point of dressing similarly, listening to the same bands, etc.
This also nicely answers the question “if we’ve had guns in the country for so long, and disturbed individuals in the country for so long, and kids have gone to large schools for so long, why wasn’t it until the late 90’s that school shootings became a phenomenon?” Columbine may have been a fluke, but the media provided such notoriety to the killers that many disturbed young men since that point have copied them in an attempt to posthumously gain the same notoriety.
Thank you Art. You taught me a new word today.
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Disorganized thinking and behavior is a symptom of Schizophrenia. I wonder aloud if she was suffering from that?
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No. She alternates between being a functional adult and being a crazy-ass b*tch. She’s not hearing voices, living in filth, or operating under the illusion that her co-workers are plotting to kill her. She had passable relations with others in the office, just not her supervisor.
One last question Art.
Does she weigh the same as a duck?
He, the shooter did not commit suicide. He executed himself.
“…the best way to discourage others from becoming school shooters is to not give the shooters notoriety.”
It’s a decent enough thought, yet not a practical one. Someone goes into a school or fires shots into the building, …you can’t refrain from reporting it. If nothing else, journalists would need to do reporting, explain why a hospital somewhere had a sudden influx of people with gunshot wounds or why a building suddenly has been cordoned off. In addition, you can’t honestly describe how or why someone was a “loser” without declaring who they are and why you think them a loser.
That already inherently gives notoriety.
I think a better solution would be to enact nationwide concealed carry, dispense with the “gun-free zones”, allow teachers to be armed, allow current and retired law enforcement–and other trained personnel, to routinely patrol around schools and other government-related facilities.
And…. overturn the ruling about forbidding (teacher-led) prayer in schools, overturn all the other secular rubbish. You can’t expect a peaceful society when schools prattle about “peace”, yet routinely embrace all the means of rejecting peace.