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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: greenspirit who wrote (53186)8/26/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Should be easy enough to do, but I think that the recent declines in violent crime cannot be explained by increasing rates of TV and computer game violence.
Are you at all familiar with the terroristic Calvinism of 18th and 19th centuries in the US? The obsessive terror and sense of sin (Jonathan Edwards and the like) crippled many minds. In contrast, the great deists (Jefferson, Washington, Franklin) as nearly as we can tell totally lacked any sense of sin. I think it possible that the resurgence of fundamentalism and accompanying brain sickness might explain the post-WWII burst of terror. I think a study of the religious histories of mass murderers might be very interesting. That is one reason that I oppose capital punishment. I want killers to be studied to death by underpaid sociologists.
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