• Robert Peters
    21
    "A Perceived Conclusion"

    The reason behind "Fact, fiction and the gray" " Liberty, Freedom and being "ok"" "The crack whore conundrum" and "Annie, get 'chur guns!!!" is to point out that the way we attack every lion in our lives is not based on factual evidence. They are based on some scientific evidence but mostly on our experiences and how we attacked them before.

    If your lion is "what if I just throw myself off this cliff?" Then you may well be able to calculate your speed at impact but the fear you have for proximity to the edge is based on horror stories told to you and played out in your brain.

    Further if your lion is to stop gun violence you will fall back on the stats and scenes from media and those played in your mind.

    You "know" yelling and calling people idiots "will" bring about the change. The problem is your attack is misguided, yelling and belittling only deeper entrenches the opposition's view.
    If yelling and protesting worked the Vietnam War would have ended before it started.

    What needs to be seen is the underlying need to possess a gun on the first place.

    If it is out of protection the question needs be asked what makes them so afraid they need a pistol, an assault rifle or rifles in the first place.

    To attack this perceived need as anything other than brilliant is to not understand how the brain works.

    To get them away from this factual need you need to help them into the reality that life, mostly, isn't. To help them to be comfortable enough in their skin to be able to see the lethality as a negative.

    Their existence is likely in a state, imagined or not, of stress hormones. For them this survival state and the Adrenaline which sharpens their mind makes their reality of the "facts and figures" irrelevant to them. They have already built in a safeguard for their lion's sharp teeth.

    To get the guns away the reality of safety needs to be increased.

    A move, in media, towards inclusion and a reduction of the plots wherein guns are the only and right answer. Education built around the reality of readily available weapons designed for death and nothing more to help to move everyone towards a better reality from an early age. That a foreign policy built around "yelling and calling people idiots" at the end of a gun, is designed to bring about later conflicts and that it never is a road towards peace and a better life.

    We need to build a society that can see that buying a gun to protect from people who are in turn are buying them doing the same is screwing Freedom, Liberty and being "ok" into an early grave.

    Saying "no" or you shouldn't doesn't take into account that it is a FACT they need the guns.

    Try to attack your lions with a larger perspective and perhaps the Worldwide problem of guns, drugs, differences can be changed for good.

    Good luck out there,
    Robert Peters
  • BC
    13.6k
    RP: What is the "crack whore conundrum"?

    We need to build a society that can see that buying a gun to protect from people who are in turn are buying them doing the same is screwing Freedom, Liberty and being "ok" into an early grave.Robert Peters

    When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Guns tend to make everything look like a target.

    A move, in media,Robert Peters

    The world portrayed by mass media and advertising (whether print, broadcast, cable, or Internet) is grossly distorted in too many ways to describe quickly. This isn't a new situation; the reality portrayed by newspapers, radio, and television has always been quite distorted by the dominant interests of the owners. This is still true, but some outlets (the half-hour news programs constructed by local television stations) devote a substantial portion of the news-time to the city as a very dangerous place of robberies, fires, murders, and car crashes. It's very formulaic - if it bleeds it leads. There will be maybe one or two 45-secomd to 60-secomd stories about politics or the environment, then they talk at great length about the weather and sports.

    Better to just stop looking at it.

    Skip the news on commercial television and radio. Read a well edited newspaper that is nationally distributed (New York Times, Wall Street Journal) on line or occasionally in print. Find a few weekly or monthly magazines that are heavy on content (The Economist, for example, or Scientific American) to stay informed about major events. There is a lot of good, solid, and important information out there, but you have to seek it out.
  • Srap Tasmaner
    5k
    What is the "crack whore conundrum"?Bitter Crank

    A manuscript Ludlum's publisher rejected?
  • Robert Peters
    21
    Hello everyone,
    "Crack-whore Conundrum" can be found here - http://www.atheistrepublic.com/forums/debate-room/crack-whore-conundrum the others are also present.

    Good luck out there,
    Robert Peters
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