|
» GC Stats |
Members: 329,795
Threads: 115,673
Posts: 2,205,428
|
| Welcome to our newest member, ChiOhh1895 |
|
 |
04-16-2007, 09:03 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,578
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Buttonz
Nothing you said sounded harsh IMO. Your 100% right. I know people, including myself, who have been picked on their entire life...I don't see any of us going around shooting people. There is no excuse at all for this.
Not saying that it makes him any less responsible, but if someone already has a twisted mind, the video games don't help at all. Have you ever seen some of them like Counter Strike?
|
Believe me, I've played a lot of violent video games. I don't have the urge to go shoot anyone.
Clearly someone who does this has serious mental issues. But if video games are going to cause you to shoot someone, you've jumped off the sanity train long ago...
__________________
From the SigmaTo the K!
Polyamorous, Pansexual and Proud of it!
It Gets Better
|
04-16-2007, 09:06 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: The city that never sleeps
Posts: 3,915
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drolefille
Believe me, I've played a lot of violent video games. I don't have the urge to go shoot anyone.
Clearly someone who does this has serious mental issues. But if video games are going to cause you to shoot someone, you've jumped off the sanity train long ago...
|
I didn't say that the video games are what caused this. I said, and I quote, "f someone already has a twisted mind, the video games don't help at all". Meaning if they are off balanced to start with...the video games don't help.
On another note...I wonder what Jodi Picoult would have to say about this. Her latest book is about a school shooting and when she did the signing of her book at the local Border's she talked about school shootings a little.
__________________
Sigma Delta Tau
Patriae Multae Spes Una
|
04-16-2007, 09:15 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Phoenix
Posts: 6,361
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Buttonz
On another note...I wonder what Jodi Picoult would have to say about this. Her latest book is about a school shooting and when she did the signing of her book at the local Border's she talked about school shootings a little.
|
[mini-hijack]
19 Minutes. It's on the New York Times Bestseller list. Number 1 I think. I read it. Good book. She really goes into detail and you honestly start to question everything. Your own thoughts and morals. You question why people are allowed to treat others this way. It's a good read but you really have to be in the right mindset to read it.
With that being said, right now would probably not be the best time. In her story, the shooter survives and she goes into detail of the torment the person put up with. As a person it horrified me and as a teacher I was beyond appalled. And it was a book!
But I highly recommend it. Awesome book.[/end mini-hijack]
__________________
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears" John McCain
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
|
04-16-2007, 09:18 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 22,590
|
|
|
Mu Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta is safe and unharmed.
Prayers to the campus and family of the Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff.
__________________
I am a woman, I make mistakes. I make them often. God has given me a talent and that's it. ~ Jill Scott
|
04-16-2007, 09:30 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: The city that never sleeps
Posts: 3,915
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by ASUADPi
[mini-hijack]
19 Minutes. It's on the New York Times Bestseller list. Number 1 I think. I read it. Good book. She really goes into detail and you honestly start to question everything. Your own thoughts and morals. You question why people are allowed to treat others this way. It's a good read but you really have to be in the right mindset to read it.
With that being said, right now would probably not be the best time. In her story, the shooter survives and she goes into detail of the torment the person put up with. As a person it horrified me and as a teacher I was beyond appalled. And it was a book!
But I highly recommend it. Awesome book.[/end mini-hijack]
|
Agree with everything you said there about the book,,,,
Quote:
Originally Posted by Drolefille
Yes but you can say that about any sort of media really. And there really isn't any sign of causation between video games and violence even with people who already have mental issues.
|
Very true, but there is a big difference between watching people on a screen shoot up people and actually "shooting them" in a game.
I am not saying that it might be a cause, I'm just syaing it doesn't help if someone is already off.
__________________
Sigma Delta Tau
Patriae Multae Spes Una
|
04-16-2007, 09:17 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,578
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Buttonz
I didn't say that the video games are what caused this. I said, and I quote, "f someone already has a twisted mind, the video games don't help at all". Meaning if they are off balanced to start with...the video games don't help.
On another note...I wonder what Jodi Picoult would have to say about this. Her latest book is about a school shooting and when she did the signing of her book at the local Border's she talked about school shootings a little.
|
Yes but you can say that about any sort of media really. And there really isn't any sign of causation between video games and violence even with people who already have mental issues.
__________________
From the SigmaTo the K!
Polyamorous, Pansexual and Proud of it!
It Gets Better
|
04-16-2007, 09:18 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,578
|
|
|
BTW, I can't remember if this was mentioned, but I looked it up for my sister. Tri Delta's members are all accounted for
__________________
From the SigmaTo the K!
Polyamorous, Pansexual and Proud of it!
It Gets Better
|
04-17-2007, 01:26 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 230
|
|
I'm really sorry to hear about that. My thoughts and prayers got out to VT, especially the Greek community, and the families and friends of those who are slain. 
|
04-17-2007, 01:33 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,648
|
|
Mysticchik,
In response to your question, Wake Forest is doing something.
Hatch statement on VT tragedy
President Nathan O. Hatch has expressed condolences to the Virginia Tech community after Monday's tragic events. "From the Wake Forest University community, I send to you, your students, your colleagues, and the families of today's victims our profound sympathy."
Crisis plan review
Monday's events at Virginia Tech have prompted Wake Forest officials to review the campus security plan. In addition, the University has compiled security-related questions and answers for the campus community.
Memorial service
An interfaith memorial service to remember the victims and families of Monday's Virginia Tech shootings will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Wait Chapel. The chapel will open at 6 p.m., when memorial books will be available for attendees to record condolences. The books will be delivered to Virginia Tech.
Read more news at Window on Wake Forest: http:// www.wfu.edu/wowf
__________________
....but some are more equal than others.
|
04-17-2007, 01:56 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 150
|
|
|
A memorial service is going to be held at FSU tomorrow night on Landis Green.
My prayers go out to all the friends and family of the victims.
__________________
1988
|
04-17-2007, 01:57 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: TX
Posts: 3,760
|
|
There's a picture in the link of the ex-girlfriend that crazy shot first in the dorm. Looking at her pic and the pics up of crazy, she was way out of his league. Another weird link is that crazy went to the same high school with two of his victims in the engineering blg. They were freshmen while he was a senior, so he may not have known them at the time.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Hybrid Mode
