WTF is it with the suicidal posts tonight?

[Shardik]

in regard to being tombstoned or leaving DU?

Yes, the I/P conflict has made it to the front page.

It doesn't seem to matter which side you pick.

It just seems that many cannot argue or take criticism well.

It seems that many can't imagine someone might have an opinion different than their own.

Oh, well.

OTOH, the killing over there is atrocious and needs to be stopped ASAP no matter which side you choose to acknowledge.

Pray for peace and try to keep a little in your posts.

[Jamastiene]

1. Violence just causes more violence.

I hope for peace to all, but I'm not in charge there, unfortunately. Sounds like you've reached the same conclusion about the violence being atrocious?

[Shardik]

3. I became a pacifist during the Viet Nam war.

And it kinda stuck.

Don't own a gun or a knife (other than my Swiss Army knife and kitchen utensils) and have not found it necessary to resort to violence in the last thirty years).

[DJ13]

2. Maybe they're Emo?

[argonchloride]

4. Okay, that's just...like really really spooky!

:D :scared:

[NOW tense]

10. I must be getting older. What is the difference between emo and goth? n/t

[Posteritatis]

13. A yuppier asthetic to the former and more annoying music (nt)

[NOW tense]

18. so no listening to the Cure then? n/t

[NMDemDist2]

5. now you understand why this topic has it's own forum and different posting rules

it's a nightmare for the mods IIRC

[Shardik]

7. I would NOT want to be a mod at the moment here at DU.

Kudos to the ones that are. I'm sure they are catching a lot of gref from both sides of the story right now.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Praying for peace might get you tombstoned here. You never know.

Peace could be considered taking one side over the other. I still have not figured out this game.

:hide:

[bonito]

8. I viewed a video today about boxes we build about ourselves

And it's so relevant to your post I'll see If I can find it.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. I'm taking the cowardly way out......

I'm not clicking on any of the I/P topics. I honestly believe there's no solution, that everyone involved is wrong, and everyone involved is right. It's been going on for eons, and as long as the people involved think they're doing god's work, it'll just keep happening.

It's horrible, but that's what I've come to expect when organized religion is central to any matter.

So, I avoid it. I have nothing to contribute, and what I think is of no importance.

[Submariner]

14. As long as adults keep sticking bibles, torahs, and korans

in the hands of children, instead of books on science, engineering, and technology, that I/P fighting will go on ad infinitum. There is no way out of their gridlock except education which will allow them to see what fools they are making of themselves. All of them.

For that reason I can't click on a I/P thread.

[Shardik]

17. IMHO, So very well said.

And therein lies the problem.

[Shardik]

20. TLB....

You have much wisdom.

[bonito]

11. Ok here it is

enjoy and learn as I have everyone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIpRRZvnJg&fmt=18

[Mojorabbit]

19. Oh, that was lovely. Thanks. nt

[Hekate]

21. That's really beautiful. Thanks. nt

[bananas]

12. Full moon. nt

[bananas]

15. I just got in - is it really that bad?

What's going on?

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. lots of locking of Israel/Palestinian posts. some saying "goodbye DU".

[Odin2005]

22. Too many people have this stupid need to take a side instead of accepting that BOTH sides have...

...blood on their hands and are acting like petulant little children throwing temper tantrums. Sadly, when states and state-like actors have temper tantrums death and misery is the usual result. Israel needs to stop treating Gaza like a giant prison and Hamas needs to accent the right of Israel to exist.

I am getting sick of both the Hamas and the Israel apologists spewing the same tired old arguments over and over again.

[U4ikLefty]

24. One side has more blood on thier hands than the other. n/t

[Odin2005]

25. And the other side has ethnic cleansing as part of it's mission statement.

A pox on both their fucking houses.

[Wiley50]

23. Sewerside

By the sewer he lived
By the sewer he died
Some say it was murder
But it was....Sewerside