I think its more than "most". I am a bit unclear on peace_girl's position here, but I haven't heard anyone else state they would let a strange man visit their teenage daughter in their home. I think we are universally in agreement that this would not happen in our homes.
I can't imagine Dr. Kelly really felt differently, although maybe that is possible. It seems more likely that Emma lied to her and that she didn't have adequate knowledge of what was going on with Emma's MySpace etc. Kids these days know how to circumvent parental monitoring software. In order to monitor them 100% you either need to control physical access to the computer or use network sniffing software to monitor their communications. The conventional monitoring and blocking software is easily circumvented by the use of proxies for example.
Blue and white the color of the KKK (As DM point out about Longwood University's colors) in a neighborhood school in the south. A public school that is next door to where the school segregation issues occured. Have you been reading? Brown vs the Board of Education.
Ok so you don't care about the song, I can respect that. I just thought I would do everyone a favor and try to talk to him about putting it out there for those that come here to listen to cause it's the only song i've heard so far of his that actually don't involve killing someone (which I think some of you can appreciate lol).
And yes, I do have to ask permission. As with all my friends, I don't go around telling the world their personal business.
Now would be the time for ScaryMary to give us a scoop on the content of some of Sams letters.
And what happened to PiXy ???
Pretty much all of you are in the South from my perspective. Even some Canadians, if we have them. :crazy:
Why did four people die? Here is what happened: Dr. Kelly and her husband had problems. It reflected onto their child, who then had problems. She was friends with other crazy people, one of which was a nutcase sent to use by the Californias (thats Sam). The California kid killed all four people: two of which were good people, and should have your respect, not your crazy assumptions about the town they are from. One of those people who died was an innocent child. She didnt even have a chance to mature. The other was just a friend coming to visit.
TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS
Wished I had a paint brush so I could let you see my view point and not read it.
1. My daughters would not listen to horrorcore. It is not their style.
Their occasional teenage babysitter’s killed their parents with a gun. They hate violence.
They do not watch horror movies either!
2. They did not have time to sit and chat on line. At 15 they were consumed in getting a public school education, dance classes, & art classes.
3. Both of my daughters had a public job at 15. Both first jobs were at a European style coffee house.
4. A male stranger that I knew nothing about would not come to stay with us.
( Maybe my style of parenting is a little different than yours, after all I am a single mom.)
This is what I am trying to say:
1. I do not believe Dr. Kelly and Em were having any more difficulties than any typical teenager and parents have. Remember she was getting a divorce.
2. Dr. Kelly did not like the horror core music but did she believe the music scene would kill her? (my mom did not like my Ozzy either.)
3. Dr. Debra Kelly was in therapy with her daughter. I know from personal experience, divorce can make you depressed and highly affect your children. She was working through it with her daughter and husband.
4. I believe the drive to the festival was discussed with her therapist.
5. I Remember reading Sam stayed in one room at the hotel, her dad in another and the girls in another room when they attended the festival. I am sure they thought they were watching after them.
6. I do not know if Em lied to her mom about Sam, his age, what was going on in his life etc. But I believe Debra would try to help anyone. She was a good woman.
7. I live in a small town with lots of college kids (we have two colleges here) it is not unusual for the faculty to have kids in their homes.
8. Yes, it is a trusting town, because everyone knows everyone.
9 People are actually friendly and help each other. As DM said we should not. (When I visited California a few years back it bothered me how unfriendly the employees of stores were. Then I remembered hell, I am on the west coast.)
10. And guess what it is not just the “white people” that we trust. Contrary to what you think most people in our community do not see color. Sure there are racist here but there are racist in California too.
What I would like to know is more about the man accused of the crime. Where is the information about his family, his life, and what items were taken from his home? He is who we should examine.
Ahh, ok. I see what you mean paximus. Yes, symbols like those often do not change meaning. I just feel that you guys over over estimating what is behind CHI, they really have no influence at the university. Thanks for clarifying those things. I find things like the bilderberg group very interesting, its just that CHI is a poor example of a non-secret society, much less a secret one.
This paragraph captures the magic of this thread, I think. Even though many of the connections being made and directions being taken may not bear fruit, or not bear fruit that is recognized or understood (yet or completely), the process itself and those different connections are worth experiencing intellectually and spiritually. I swear I can feel my mind growing or opening up as I consider some of the ideas that have been tossed around here.
Emma and Mel deserve respect too and all her friends arent "crazy". Just bc u dont understand the subculture doesnt mean we are insane bc of it.
One more quick thing: a friend of mine who is CHI is black. Im not sure he would like it if you called him a "southern white kid parading around with a bag over his head." You are obviously an intelegent person, PLEASE try not to act like this.
Forgive me if there are grammical mistakes, im in a hurry!
Well, I understood him to be saying something a bit more than this here.
It is interesting to speculate about symbols however....
If the human race vanished today, would all of our symbols lose their meaning? Consider as a comparable example the decoding of the Rosetta stone long after its authors were dead.
Semiotics places all creation of meaning in humans, but machines can also create and manipulate symbols. Are these meaningless until someone observes them? This idea is somewhat attractive given the similar concept of the collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics in response to measurement.
Occultist Osman Spare talks about "sentient symbols", symbols that he believed were aware, intelligent, and also independent of human thought. Weird stuff and worth checking out.
i meant i wanted to hear it...
Please do NOT take this the wrong way because it is only an off the cuff comment and from my experience only but I know you mentioned that your daughters were 'PREPPY TYPES' as opposed to the more head banging alternative types like Emma and that because of this you never had any problems with them etc and I AM SURE THAT IS TRUE but I just HAVE to say that growing up I was pretty much a rebel myself and not really what you would call preppy but I do know when we wanted girls that would 'put out' or to get drugs or whatever, the preppy girls, and guys for that matter, was where it was at, those preppy kids who attend private schools and academies and wear all those fancy looking clothes are some of the hardest partying drug using and sexually promiscuis crowds I have ever known, perhaps its different in your area but in NY and Arizona and Seattle and Oregon and Boston which is where I have spent most of my time, the preppys dressed and acted nice but when they werent around mummy and daddy they were AS WILD AS THEY COME. No ****!
I hung out in college my first go round with dead heads, punks, and just plain weirdos(uhm, that would be me actually). A wide range of drugs were pretty abundant and that actually had a lot to do with me dropping out of school.
When I left, I moved to where I live now and I got a job working with a very conservative looking bunch. We were required to wear khakis and polo shirts and I just sucked it up because I needed a job. Not long after, I discovered that about half of my co-workers were gay or lesbian, including several people I would never have guessed (I'm not so blind anymore), and they were the hardest parting bunch I've ever encountered in my life.
It was not unusual for us to start hitting the local bars around 5 p.m. and because they knew and introduced me to all of the local bartenders, we paid very minimal bar tabs and we would stay after closing and often wouldn't leave until 4 a.m. or later. Our working day started painfully again around 8 a.m. and we would start the cycle all over again.
I couldn't do it anymore, but I had an absolute blast at some of the best parties I've ever been to and I had my eyes opened to a lot of society's secrets that way. That and working for a year as the only white kid in an otherwise all black crew have been two of the most paradigm shifting experiences in my life. By no means are all preppy kids like that any more than generalizations are true of any groups of people. Looks can be very deceiving though.