OJ making his case for parole

[_Jersey Girl]

I'm not supposed to think like this...

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dragged off into a corner and stabbed a million times and then what's left pummeled to death with a blunt force object, and what's left of that then strained through a sieve and flushed down the nearest toilet drain pipe that runs into the local sewage system.

And yet, I apparently do.

p.s. I forgot the part where what's left of the fluid material flushed into the local sewage system gets eaten by bacteria so there's no trace that he ever existed.

[_Lemmie]

Okay, good. Then you know why I said I have to believe he deserves a chance at redemption.

No, from your posts I don't think I could definitively say why you said you have to believe that, but that was not the point of my post. My point was that I disagreed that he "deserves a chance at redemption."

What needs clarification?

Stream of consciousness thoughts? Inconsistent thoughts? Inner conflict? Foundation principles of Christianity?

I'm not sure what doesn't make sense to you.

Thank you, but I don't need any clarification, because, as I already pointed out, why YOU believe that he deserves a chance at redemption was not the point of my post.

[_Gunnar]

OJ Simpson is asking for freedom and while I believe that he slaughtered the crap out of two human beings, I have to believe that he deserves a chance at redemption.

Unusual choice of phrasing. He was on trial for slaughtering the life out of two human beings. That's what "slaughtered" means. He was not on trial for giving them forced, involuntary enemas, though it is not unlikely that during the terror of being stabbed to death they lost all voluntary control of their bowel movements.

[_Jersey Girl]

OJ Simpson is asking for freedom and while I believe that he slaughtered the crap out of two human beings, I have to believe that he deserves a chance at redemption.

Unusual choice of phrasing. He was on trial for slaughtering the life out of two human beings. That's what "slaughtered" means. He was not on trial for giving them forced, involuntary enemas, though it is not unlikely that during the terror of being stabbed to death they lost all voluntary control of their bowel movements.

Oh for pete sakes, Gunnar.

[_Jersey Girl]

Here is the deal, Gunnar. I wrote two consecutive posts as "stream of consciousness" in answer to a question, demonstrating both inner conflict and sensitivity to each situation that was mentioned and the only treatment you have to offer is to correct my grammar usage?

Really, what the hell. That's what you chose to engage?

[_Gunnar]

I know you old white guys always think the black guy is guilty, especially when they are rich and with a white woman....but why do you think he needs to?

You truly are a stupid Troll. I'm an old white male by accident of birth. What's your excuse for being an idiot.

A jury of his peers found him guilty of Armed Robbery. What pray tell is racist about him serving his full and complete sentence? I say the same thing for any person of any skin color found guilty of a serious crime.

"If you can't afford to do the time don't commit the crime."

What are you implying here CCC? That no criminals should ever be offered parole or a shortened sentence, regardless of how exemplary their behavior or their attempts to educate and improve themselves while in prison? Surely you are more compassionate and fair minded than that! Aren't you?

[_Gunnar]

Here is the deal, Gunnar. I wrote two consecutive posts as "stream of consciousness" in answer to a question, demonstrating both inner conflict and sensitivity to each situation that was mentioned and the only treatment you have to offer is to correct my grammar usage?

Really, what the hell. That's what you chose to engage?

Your choice of wording just struck me as amusing, and I couldn't resist making the comment. I am not in essential disagreement with you on this issue. I question the correctness and justice of the verdict of O.J.'s murder trial, as do you.

[_Jersey Girl]

For those who are following this crap show of exchanges, I invite you to examine the two brief personal statements embedded in my two consecutive, stream of consciousness, basically putting my inner monologue, concerns, inner conflicts, compassion and general angst cards on the table posts and notice that these are grief statements.

A young acquaintance of mine here is currently in a medically induced coma with TBI. I think of his family, "good Christians" and think of him, their hardship, the strain they're all under. And I wonder...why him? Why does it have to be him? (Keep reading)

And I ask myself "Then who would you wish it on?"

Pay me no mind. It's been a long week already of tears and prayer.

I hope to God that I never detect the inner struggle in someone else's posts, put aside my humanity, and ignore the totality and context of that type of conflict that we all experience from time to time where the potential to connect and identify is present, in favor of nit picking apart their posts for clarity and/or grammar usage.

[_Dr. Shades]

A young acquaintance of mine here is currently in a medically induced coma with TBI. I think of his family, "good Christians" and think of him, their hardship, the strain they're all under. And I wonder...why him? Why does it have to be him?

It doesn't have to be him. Random things happen to random people at random times, randomly. There really isn't any need for any existential angst.

Little Charlie Gard over in the UK. The court system having assumed custody of the child, while the parents try to fight the battle of their life for his life, knowing that the outcome likely won't provide a miracle but still, they want a chance. All these folks criticizing them for their efforts. When they aren't in love with Charlie Gard.

"In love??" I think you mean, "when they don't love Charlie Gard."

Some small part of me (I lied, it's a big part of me) has a tendency to look at all of the above and wonder... why them? Why him? Why? Why couldn't it be OJ who has the brain tumor or TBI? Why isn't OJ desperate about his child? Why isn't OJ worried sick about his ability to access health care?

Because those things didn't randomly happen to that random person (i.e., O.J. Simpson) at this random time, randomly.

There are time when the world doesn't make sense to me in terms of justice . . .

Good, because the world doesn't make sense in terms of justice. There are only random events that happen to random people at random times, randomly. The sooner you accept that fact, the quicker your existential angst will end.

and I think the only conclusion that I can reach is that the only thing we have any control over is doing justice to each other.

That is correct.

[_Lemmie]

I hope to God that I never detect the inner struggle in someone else's posts, put aside my humanity, and ignore the totality and context of that type of conflict that we all experience from time to time where the potential to connect and identify is present, in favor of nit picking apart their posts for clarity

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What needs clarification?

Stream of consciousness thoughts? Inconsistent thoughts? Inner conflict? Foundation principles of Christianity?

I'm not sure what doesn't make sense to you.

I'm sorry Jersey Girl, Gunnar is a bad influence on me and I could NOT resist. I don't really think you were ignoring my totality.