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   Now apply your word to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan who have been   
   invaded and see a Montreal every day   
      
   --   
   Socrates taught his students that the pursuit of truth can only begin once   
   they start to question and analyze every belief that they ever held dear. If   
   a certain belief passes the tests of evidence, deduction, and logic, it   
   should be kept. If it doesn't, the belief should not only be discarded, but   
   the thinker must also then question why he was led to believe the erroneous   
      
      
      
      
      
   "Michael Black"  wrote in message   
   news:eed9d0$kg8$1@theodyn.ncf.ca...   
   > "     " (benny_patrick7@hotmail.com) writes:   
   > > Due to events at Dawson, the media yet again started lying about me   
   >   
   > Well Isaac, I was expecting you.  Indeed, I thought of you yesterday.   
   >   
   > So you're 24 or 25 now, and you thus would have been 10 or 11 when your   
   > father killed those people.  Half your life has gone by while he's been   
   > in prison.  I thought you were a bit younger, based on some old   
   > newspaper article.   
   >   
   > But it's significant, the day your father shot those people I was   
   > with someone who was eight at the time, basically your age.  She   
   > went to Dawson, but luckily she graduated a couple of years ago.   
   >   
   > But here's the thing.  YOu could almost have been one of those   
   > people running out of that building yesterday.  You could almost have   
   > been one of those people shot, or the woman who died.  You are basically   
   > their peers.  Indeed, it's conceivable that you have friends who   
   > are still attending Dawson, or maybe your younger brother, and they   
   > could have been shot or killed as easily as those who were.   
   >   
   > ANd that means you should have learned something from yesterday.  You   
   > were likely too young to grasp it all when your father killed those   
   > people in 1992, but now you are an adult, and get to see a similar   
   > situation relived in front of you.  SOmeone uncaring of human life   
   > decides to shoot people, gets a gun, goes to a school and shoots away,   
   > not caring who he hurts or kills.  Those running out of Dawson, and those   
   > shot are in effect you and your peers, which in any decent person would   
   bring   
   > things home far more than an even that happened when you were 10 years   
   old.   
   >   
   > As you watch the news think about it very carefully, and meditate on   
   > the effect the shooting has on the people shot, the people near them,   
   > the people who escaped, and the relatives and friends of those shot   
   > and killed.  Think about the fear those people at Dawson must have   
   > felt on Wednesday, when they thought they might be the next one to   
   > be shot, and not knowing what was going to happen next.   
   >   
   > Think about how awful it would be if the killer lived and then   
   > proceeded to declare that he didn't do anything wrong, showing   
   > a complete lack of remorse for those who had died.  Think about how   
   > awful it must be for the relatives to keep hearing about the killer   
   > of their family members, and know he is just flaunting himself while   
   > he seems to have a pretty good life in prison, while their loved ones   
   > don't have a life anymore.   
   >   
   > So do you promote the killer of Wednesday?  KNowing the damage he had   
   > done, knowing that he was an uncaring person in the end?   
   >   
   > And then you apply all that to your father the killer.  If you see   
   > Wednesday's killer as something bad, and I don't see how any decent   
   > person can see him in any other way, then you have to start seeing   
   > your father the killer in the same way.  Because in the things that   
   > matter, your father the killer is no different from Wednesday's killer.   
   > And if anyone can give consideration to murderers, I doubt they can   
   > find anything of value in your father the killer or Wednesday's killer.   
   > Both killed because they wanted to.   
   >   
   > 14 years after your father the killer committed his murders, far in the   
   past   
   > given your age, it's time for you to treat him as the killer he is, and   
   > stop posting his junk for him.  You owe him nothing, he abandoned you   
   > when he decided to kill people.   
   >   
   > I once said he likely bullies you to post his junk.  I still say that   
   > may be the case.  But you are older now, and need to make your life   
   > away from him.  There are places you can go to deal with his bullying,   
   > and of course you have an advantage over others since he's locked in   
   > jail (and for at least another 12 years) and you are free.  Take   
   > that freedom, and and cut off any influence he has over you.  He   
   > is a murderer and doesn't care about those he killed or those   
   > who suffered, and doesn't care about you.   
   >   
   >   Michael   
   >   
      
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