Axis Mundi X discussion

As I have mentioned before on another group -- what is happening to our species? Can we blame Howie Mandel for this too?

Holy Shit. WTF is wrong with people??? Trampling people to get into a f**king WalMart???

A plague on all their houses.

So the retailers do everything they can think of to stimulate the mob scenes, then wonder why people respond that way. We've gone so far from the supposed "spirit of the season" to where people do this shit so they can get more stuff. Just more stuff, is all it's about. What a sick joke.

I'm firmly convinced that there are way too many people on the planet these days.

Over-population + low mentality = lemmings

my daughter just reported to me that there was a machine gun shooting in the Toys R Us on Black Friday down in Palm Desert where she was with her dad over the holiday.

It's going to be a very weird Xmas season this year. Maybe I'll just stay home and hand make everyone their gifts.

are you suggesting that shooting someone in the face in a toy store is bad form?

I believe they are. Everyone KNOWS that the only place to shoot someone in a toy shop is in the ass!

Why do people go to the stores anymore? You can get everything you need on the Internet. Including food, automobiles, and love.

LOL!!! Dave... that's the funniest remark I've seen in ages. You rock.

Wait ... you can get love on the Internet? What's the url?

edited for shocking and offensive content. click to experience.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1095/9...

Um ... uh ....

Charissa! That was something to see on my update feed. I check it at work!!

AHHHH HA HA HA HA HA.... Sorry Sarah!!!!

Speaking of which, where is that update feed anyway, I seem to have lost mine.

I think it's just your home page, Lori.

Yeah, I used to get comments and book reviews from friends, now I only get book reviews.

Oh wait. heh. I'm an idiot. I changed my options - figured you were all tired of seeing all my blabs...

Anyway, I hadn't heard about this Walmart trampling, I can't believe the horrible randomness of this. You go to try to get a deal, maybe for your kid, and you die.

Consumerism at too fevered a pitch for me.

Actually, it was a temp worker for WalMart who got killed by shoppers-turned-angry-mob, not a shopper. Everyone was so anxious to get to those limited deals, they broke down the doors to get inside.
It's really sickening, in all kinds of ways.

Yeah, this is affecting me pretty raw. It's a perfect example of everything that's so wrong with our society.

nothing that groups of people do will ever surprise me. as individuals people are generally not so bad. As soon as you cluster them they are nothing short of evil, nasty, brutish, and stupid.

Stupid. Yeah. So, I'm wondering if that applies to discussion groups. :)

definitely. : )

Well OK!

I think I've been stupid periodically, in relationship to groups. It seems somehow inevitable.

I can relate.

Treat people like rats and they will behave like rats.

huh. Cyril. Might you expand on that idea a bit? I think there's something there I'm not getting.

Many studies have shown that people will do some pretty outrageous stuff while in a group that they would never do alone. We are still very much a tribal animal, methinks.

Pack mentality.

:::turns on them all and tears out their still beating hearts with her bare teeth::::

That's a perfect response, C.

Larry, how many times a day do you change your AV? :D

OMG Larry is a ZOMBIE!!!! RUNNNN!!!!

As many times as I want to. So there.

Oh can I steal the Homer Scream when you are done, like in an hour?

*snerk*

Maybe.

Years ago I remember seeing an experiment on TV where rats were placed in over-crowded conditions. They became aggressive toward one another, trampled over each other, even crushed their own young. These stores essentially create the same conditions for people that were created for rats.

It just ain't natural.

So much in the modern world just isn't natural. I think that's why we have psychiatric meds.

Ahhh... yes Cyril, now I get your comment. My mom pretty much said the same thing when we were discussing it. Except she called it Pavlov's Dog. heee. I love my mom.

Oh oh oh!!! We were just talking about Pavlov's Dog, only we are the trained ones. LOL

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