The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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One of our infamous massacres was at Port Arthur about a decade ago. Matt Byrant, a young man, shot dozens of tourists in that place remembered as a harsh convict settlement. The horror of it lives on today, and the instigator was only mentioned in the papers last week. It was after that that the Howard government brought in our gun laws.

We see a lot of violence on our tv: people shooting people, dead bodies everywhere. One of the messages these programmes give is that it is okay to take human life if you feel wronged.

I cannot understand how anyone can kill another human being unless it's a choice of kill or be killed, or to protect another human. Those families will suffer the loss of those bright lives for a long, long time,

Merle,

I also wonder about the sometimes almost rabid blanket NT remarks on here. One by one I think they are just people voices frustration, but you have to wonder about those who come on and read it over and over. Unfortunately those people who do snap and commit these atrocities are usually on a suicide mission where they feel victimized and get a skewed vision of the world such that they can no longer connect at all and feel that the other person/group deserves their revenge before they die. From that perspective it unnerves me to see so much of it because I know the skewed mind sees that and reads it that they are right, NTs are responsible for all their woes and there is no way out except revenge and death.

Personally I've seen good and bad NTs. I'm pretty sure we have good and bad AS people. People tend to be people underneath our labels and run the spectrum from good to bad. I'd rather promote, from the Dino perspective, these are the tools we found to survive, keep our sanity and be successful by our own standards. To me that is much more valuable and I really think our generation especially has this outlook. The younger folks seem so full of anger and despair that it makes me sad for their futures. I wish they could see that it doesn't have to be that way, you can find your own path. I try to tell them that as often as possible, mainly because I think dwelling on the negative can ruin their chances to find that path.

Not that I don't think we need to acknowledge the negative, just not dwell on it.

today is my birthday...happy, no...ecstatic, yes! i actually made it to year 55 trying to fit in a world weirder than my own!

...all apologies for barging in, just found this forum post for the dinos

Happy birthday, Mariiha! I hope you have a really enjoyable day! Congrats on making it to 55 in a world that doesn't really get us. What an accomplishment!

I'm with you regarding the rabid "kill NT's" statements and sigs. Could we please stop this nonsense once and for all? What with the news being saturated with the details of this massacre, we need to stop 'playing' with violent statements. As far as being bullied, I can tell you stories of being bullied when I was a lad. But what's the point? People mis-understood me, and that was their problem. Move on, grow up, and find your niche. I think it degrades this forum for people to see sigs that say things like this.

Hey everyone! Sorry for my unexplained departure last night - my computer crashed and burned. (CFR virus?) Anyhoo, I was stuck with my butt flaming (as it were) until I could get back online. I decided to just start over with Windows Vista, which I've just installed. I may be gone for a while while I get my system back together (other software, peripherals, etc.) I hope you all have fun while I'm away! (If I'm gone for a while its because I'm a computer doofus and have done something wrong). I decided to be a cookie (avatar) until I'm fully functional.

I need to do a brain switch with Lau today. Not sure he'd want mine though!

He's talking about the avatar he's using for now.