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Originally posted by gekko
Well I spent all of last semester sitting through a class discussing just that. If you want the brief explanation, there have been books written on how everyone we have on death row has phychological problems. It all gets traced back to their childhood. The children who were sexually or physically abused grow up and do the same things to others. If your father beat your mother, or your father left the family, they grow up with a hatred towards men, and in many cases, proceed to murder them. Basically, they grow up truly believing in something, and it may be wrong, be they can't help it at that point.
Furthermore, many things that are happening today can be explained by science, but we just don't have the answer yet. We were watching a documentary on the true story of the exorcist. About the little boy who became possessed, and well, it eventually became a hollywood film. The priests involved told their stories about how whenever he entered the room, it would become extremely cold. He made the bed move up and down. He threw things across the room. They were even able to talk to the spirit that possessed him, and ask him questions. "Where did you come from?" And little red warts appeared on his chest and spelled out "HELL." Freaky, huh? My morality teacher actually witnessed an exorcism in Africa, and he said the room actually does get very cold the minute they enter. And I don't know how you can fake that, being in Africa of all places. They actually bring a thermometer inside the room, and the second the possessed person enters it drops instantly, and dramtically. But you know what they said when we were all done with this? This might be something science is able to explain, and we just haven't discovered it yet.
When electricity was discovered, they didn't really know what electricity was. I think human behavior is one of those things. Everything happens for a reason, but it'll be a long time before we know the reason.
And the other thing we learned in class, politicians are idiots:
Abortion is legal in this country, but if you kill a pregnant lady in a car crash it's double murder.
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Won't touch the stupid politician..Way to easy....
But as to what you were saying about people on death row having all those issues.. My teacher brought up a similar point.. but more or less to disprove it.....
How do you know that really happened to the people? I mean you go to a pyschologist and they sit there and have you tell you all your problems..... then you remember some incident from like 20 years ago when you father raped you... Whose to say that the doctor wasn't leading you to implant such a memory into your mind... I mean the human race for the most part cares to be accepted... and will pretty much agree with what they are conditioned to believe.. I mean why is it that more men find tall ,skinny, "Pepsi bottle" body women hot.. yet you don't see many that care for that fat chick in the corner?
Even though you may not know it..Society conditions you from when you are a little child to believe certain things... I mean look at all those people who believed the Earth was flat.. heck even us.. We all believe the Earth is round.. but for all we know we just never traveled the right way to reach the end....
so to a degree.. there may be ways to implant memories into this people minds in a way that they actually believe that it happened to them.. Who knows.. just a not viewpoint