Post your favorite end of the year in a culture of death stories in this thread.

[bobthedrummer]

I'll start with the leaked Afghanistan War Logs-simply because my/our country has become a culture of death
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-war-logs

[villager]

1. It's definitely a "Thanatos" country -- which is why "Eros" in all its forms freaks out the populace

n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. We had a unique Darwin award winner in East Texas.

A man was keeping a European Red Elk. I think this is something very large.

The man went in the pen and it attacked him and killed him, seeing him as a male threat to the male animal's dominance.

The game warden was on TV saying "We told him numerous times not to keep a wild animal."



Usually the Darwin award winners here have pit bulls or they drive drunk.

[bobthedrummer]

3. Still about a day and a half to post stories about our own culture of death

which is our American variant of previous cultures of death including totalitarian ones

Justice Department Censors Nazi-Hunting History (The National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 331 posted 11-13-10)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB331/index.htm

[bobthedrummer]

4. The United States and Pakistan's Quest for the Bomb (12-21-10 The National Security Archive)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb333/index.htm

Btw, to me a culture of death really is a culture that, paradoxically, cynically worships and values death over life.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. Christianity has always been a death cult.

Eighty percent of americans are xtians and we wonder why they have torture instruments in their front yards, six or eight feet high??

:shrug: :wtf:

[cali]

7. what are the torture instruments.

and that's an awfully simplistic view of Christianity. I find it repulsive when people refer to Islam as a death cult and I find it no less disgusting when people make the same moronic comment about Christianity.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. THE CROSS is a TORTURE instrument. That's it's sole function,

People used to be hanged on them and slowly murdered. They cause death by asphyxiation.

You couldn't figure that out. Read up on death by crucifixion.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. Christianity IS simplistic.

Washed in the blood of the lamb? Blood, guts, gore,animal sacrifice, mass murder by God and assorted armies, and symbolic cannibalism -- that's Communion. Extremely primitive thinking. Extremely superstitious thinking. That's like saying "If I eat the tiger meat, I will be big and strong like the tiger."

Bronze Age thinking, not adequate for today.

I refuse to be part of a religion whose symbol is what the Romans tortured and killed people on.

Lenny Bruce said in the early 60s, "If Jesus had been killed in the 20th century, would Christians all wear little electric chairs around their necks?"

Good question.

[bobthedrummer]

10. You are willfully and decidedly ignorant as well as bigoted n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. nope - I know a lot about the Bible.

I've read it. I know exactly what it says.

I have a right to not associate with a bloodthirsty, superstitious and violent religion. No matter which religion it is.


Christianity starts from a false premise: original sin, from a story that is fiction - Adam and Eve.
It offers a false solution to the false problem: Substitutionary atonement.

A needless solution to a nonexistent problem.

A good way to enslave people mentally and drag them down to perpetual depression, by convincing them they are worthless and breaking their spirits. Mentally cruel.

[cali]

6. No thank you. Threads like this appear virtually every day here.

I'm perfectly aware of the terrible things.

[Octafish]

11. Democracy R Us can bomb a way to glorious victory in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Obama's enthusiasm for drone strikes takes heavy toll on Pakistan's tribesmen

Strange. My newspaper hasn't run this story.

[Horse with no Name]

12. The transplant denials in Arizona

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/arizona-man-who-lost-transplant-coverage-dies
>>>snip
Brewer said Price's death was a "tragedy."

"It's just an unfortunate situation and my heart goes to his family and certainly to his five children," she said. "The bottom line is the state only has so much money and we can only provide so much optional types of care and those were one of the options that we had taken liberty to discard, to dismiss."

While the cuts to transplant coverage eliminated one type of care provided those enrolled in the state Medicaid program, Brewer also said Arizona needs flexibility under both state and federal law to stop providing Medicaid coverage altogether for hundreds of thousands of people.

Brewer said holding a special election to ask state voters to roll back a 2000 eligibility expansion for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System is an option being considered.

[Octafish]

14. Chile’s President Piñera Dismisses Newly-Appointed Governor who Laundered Money for Colonia Dignidad

Colonia Dignidad is a NAZI cult calling Chile home.