http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IriQEksT2Z4
Thomas Kelly - church service online .mov

I heard about this on the radio ... yesterday. Yes. Thursday morning. I wanted to stay in the car and listen, but we arrived at epping so i got off and didn't hear any more about it.

He was a guy who graduated from kings last year. he has a brother 4 years younger than him. yes. 4 years.

google his name if you want to read more about it, i guess


one of the subjects touched upon on the radio was the fact that violence is so mainstream. should we be surprised that deaths like this are happening when on average up to the age of 18 people see 20000 murders, for entertainment, they watch violence in movies and everywhere, for entertainment, it's the norm.

i don't know where the hell they got that number from, and as far as i'm concerned that number is complete BS, i made a post a while ago bitching about the use of statistics which make no helling sense at all such as "on average it takes 10 mins for a car to fill up an airtight garage with carbon monoxide". which makes no helling sense because HOW BIG IS THE GARAGE WHAT CAR ARE YOU USING WHAT CONCENTRATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE ARE YOU MEASURING TO BE CONSIDERED "FILLED WITH CARBON MONOXIDE" THATS COMPLETE BS

anyway, this is another one of those statistics. 20000, right. right.

and the thing is, that 20 000 should be rising every year. i don't know for sure but im assuming kids are getting into violence in games/movies from earlier ages each year, and at the same time games/movies are becoming more violent each year.

but the fact that whoever said that made the statistic up like a !@#$%^&* is besides the point, it's the point in the first place.


is all this violence influencing us? not us i guess, since we're special, but is it influencing young men who are, i quote, the equivalent of "drivers with a V8 turbo car, but on their Ps". that's not a quote. it's paraphrased. whatever. In other words, they're all physically grown up now but they're still complete retards.

so is the mainstreamality of violence affecting them?


me?

i think partly yes. although i have nfi how people can enjoy watching that, i'm Li+ and all of that shit is/are like proton/s to me. but some people enjoy that, i guess. i mean, my brother is watching some movie at helling 100 volume so i can hear it through his door, 10 metres, through my door, through my headphones, through my music. and it's louder than my music. !@#$. gunshots and shouting. mm hmm
edit: maybe he's playing a game i dont evne know anymore

so i think, when people see it as entertainment and see it as cool and it puts them in awe, then yes i think it's a huge problem.

but at the same time, partly no. violence has been around since ever, will be forever. gladiators for public entertainment. lotsa people die. knights jousting, slightly better.  some people die. lotsa people injured. and then we have movies and games as our source of violent entertainment today. no people die. no people are injured, except retards.

since all of the violence is not real, that's an improvement on before. and you might say "why cant we just get rid of the violence completely", but then ♥violence is forever♥ and people will make their own violence, like how they make their own drugs and alcohol, and the problem will come to real life.


personally, i know i have witnessed way way way way way way way more than 20000 murders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0oh8f6-_0
This is starcraft two. if you watched the above (1 minute), congratulations, you have just added around 500 murders to your tally!

i can't even guess how many i've witnessed. probably more than 100k. probably less than 200k.


a lot of it would come down to the nature of the murder, more so than the number.


[18/07/2012 12:07:16 AM]  :tries to search for that execution video that make every news station piss themselves
[18/07/2012 12:07:27 AM] : every video doesnt show any of the good partsd
[18/07/2012 12:08:10 AM] Daniel Li (delete): a long time ago
[18/07/2012 12:08:17 AM] Daniel Li (delete): a few years
[18/07/2012 12:08:29 AM] Daniel Li (delete): some people in my school had a video like that on their phone
[18/07/2012 12:08:49 AM] Daniel Li (delete): i saw it by accident and thought it was definitely fake
[18/07/2012 12:09:07 AM] Daniel Li (delete): then slowly realised that maybe it wasnt
[18/07/2012 12:09:09 AM] Daniel Li (delete): felt sick for a week
[18/07/2012 12:09:11 AM] Daniel Li (delete): lol
[18/07/2012 12:09:14 AM] : lol

i only got over it when i forgot it.

seeing violent fights between humans - regular, real humans, not one with superpowers - is worse than the obviously fake, less detailed murders i see. the violent fights might be in a movie or something, obviously fake, but it affects me a lot more.

since i don't like that stuff, compared to the average "20k murders" i'm actually more around 10k since it repels me.



short post turns into regular post. standard.

it's sad when things like that happen to ones with so much hope and future*.
they say that it only happens to the best people. it actually happens to everyone. we just notice more because the best people fall further.


*i write things like this a lot. that makes no sense, technically. but it gets the point across. this is the only place i can write like this.