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I think that I've been updating this for a while but the last four or five, I guess I just close the browser and then that's it for it. Maybe that's strange. But it's how I've been feeling. There were sad things this week and I go to a school that is pretty removed but rather attached to this terrible thing. And I don't konw what to say about it all, except that I'm really miserable that someone would attack what I consider myself, I know people there, who are all fine, but that was an attack on various extensions of myself. It makes me learn things though, except for the occasional hatred when I feel about it.
1. There is nothing I despise more than people who are using this for their own gain. That is the feeling I got from talking to a friend who used to go there, it bothered him and it also bothers me. Gun control, either way you look at it, people are using this to promote their stuff. Psychologists use this to promote their theories, people use this to promote their various causes. Not yet. There is a time that we should do this, but not now. No one is at fault, there are a lot of mistakes, but with the exception of one evil mind, no one is at fault that we can consider.
2. I just feel so strongly about grief and all that we shouldn't use this for our advantage. I think I will forever have a black mark against NBC for airing that video which I do not want to see, where the shooter gets his fifteen minutes of fame that we should deny him. If anyone could be assured that their rants were heard if they just do something that is so horrific it captures our attention, does that not give more impetus for this to continue? It almost does. There is only one thing that should be concentrated now, the amazing lives that we were deprived of. Tomorrow perhaps, we analyze our society. Today we mourn.
There is the strange other thing about how everyone suddenly feels attached to it. I wonder why, but I know that someone attacked all of us, even if so many of us just did not have a real attachment. It's an amazing outpouring of sympathy but sometimes I just wonder what people's motivations are for their feelings. So many people are disturbed and I think it's the concept that people have to believe that they have the control over all things. When something disrupts our societal control, we have to reassert that, and that's what we are doing. We can't let fear rule, so we move forward. But I don't think it's right to say "we are all Hokies." We are not. They are. We are very sympathetic and we are there to help as much as possible, to be there as strongly as we can. But we can't think that we are them, because they are going through something I don't think we could ever understand. But, let's show our support as much as possible, though I don't have any maroon or orange to wear.
Those are my thoughts. They're irrelevant because I'm nothing. Perhaps later, I'll rant how gun control needs to be strengthened, so much and even conservative me has never heard anything more absurd as someone asserting that there needs to be more guns to prevent this.
But that is that
1. There is nothing I despise more than people who are using this for their own gain. That is the feeling I got from talking to a friend who used to go there, it bothered him and it also bothers me. Gun control, either way you look at it, people are using this to promote their stuff. Psychologists use this to promote their theories, people use this to promote their various causes. Not yet. There is a time that we should do this, but not now. No one is at fault, there are a lot of mistakes, but with the exception of one evil mind, no one is at fault that we can consider.
2. I just feel so strongly about grief and all that we shouldn't use this for our advantage. I think I will forever have a black mark against NBC for airing that video which I do not want to see, where the shooter gets his fifteen minutes of fame that we should deny him. If anyone could be assured that their rants were heard if they just do something that is so horrific it captures our attention, does that not give more impetus for this to continue? It almost does. There is only one thing that should be concentrated now, the amazing lives that we were deprived of. Tomorrow perhaps, we analyze our society. Today we mourn.
There is the strange other thing about how everyone suddenly feels attached to it. I wonder why, but I know that someone attacked all of us, even if so many of us just did not have a real attachment. It's an amazing outpouring of sympathy but sometimes I just wonder what people's motivations are for their feelings. So many people are disturbed and I think it's the concept that people have to believe that they have the control over all things. When something disrupts our societal control, we have to reassert that, and that's what we are doing. We can't let fear rule, so we move forward. But I don't think it's right to say "we are all Hokies." We are not. They are. We are very sympathetic and we are there to help as much as possible, to be there as strongly as we can. But we can't think that we are them, because they are going through something I don't think we could ever understand. But, let's show our support as much as possible, though I don't have any maroon or orange to wear.
Those are my thoughts. They're irrelevant because I'm nothing. Perhaps later, I'll rant how gun control needs to be strengthened, so much and even conservative me has never heard anything more absurd as someone asserting that there needs to be more guns to prevent this.
But that is that