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(1) No. A terrorist is someone trying to enact some form of social or political change by threatening violence upon people. This woman doesn't match the description at all.

(2) Beats me. Burl Ives?

Jophiel, you take that back!

Burl

Things haven't changed so much over the course of itme, really.


"Why did you mass murder thousands of people?"
"God told us to"

Why is that I'm not shocked to learn you grew up near a trailer park.

The neighbor's German Shepherd comes to mind.




The problem with gods is that they are usually 'do as I say, not as I do' kinds of folks that routinely slaughter anyone that displeases them. This makes it very easy for their followers to justify their own slaugterings.

I understand it to mean "an area geographically near me which I make an effort to specify I'm not from".

Or did I get that wrong you **** smoking *** cowboy?

well i guess your entitled to your own definition. its just too bad definitions between adult and childrens dictionaries don't always align the same. but those pictures sure are purty.

but **** smoking *** cowboy? you can do better than that.



i suppose i should have some sort of indimidating pressure bearing down on my whole world right now...that i should grab canned goods and head to the fallout shelter. but for some reason..i don't really care.

Edited, Tue Mar 30 02:40:09 2004 by Empyre

Really? What does the children's dictionary define it as then?

It seems nowadays you can get away with anything. If you get into trouble simply plead insanity or better yet blame society for making them do it.

Personally, I think they need to lock this lady up and lose the key. People need to be held accountable for what they do.

Great. Now I have "Holly, Jolly Christmas" stuck in my head.

Thanks Burl!

Woman is not a terrorist. In all likelihood she is schizophrenic. A classic symptom of schizophrenia is hearing voices in your head, and sometimes even having imaginary people be a part of your life. For an idea of what this is like, I'd suggest seeing the Russell Crowe movie "A Beautiful Mind". For some people, the voices in their head is described as "aliens speaking to me". For someone with a somewhat misguided religious fervor, the voice of shizophrenia in their head is often described as "God speaking to me". Whether its God or Aliens that schizophrenics believe are speaking to them, it's a tragic but not unheard of occurrence for the "voice" to tell them to kill people. If the woman in this case is schizophrenic, she should be confined. But I believe the confinement should be in a mental health facility. This will probably start a whole new debate, so I'll stop that train of thought.

But to answer your questions more directly:

1) She's not a terrorist. More likely she's a schizophrenic. For terrorists, it is not actually god who tells them to kill people. It is a charismatic, manipulative leader who has decided to use religious faith as a means of political/mind control to coerce others into acts of violence in order to achieve the leaders own personal agenda. Yes, Osama Bin Laden is a clasic example of this.

2) As my initial answer says, it can be aliens who tell an insane atheist to do it. Could also be anything from imaginary friends, huge mega-corporations (i.e. Microsoft), or the government that "tells" people to do it. There is a wide variety of ways that schizophrenics have described the "voices" in their head.

I blamed my felonies on Stephen King.