Green Room - Week 20 - Day 1

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

If you hand a 9-year old a loaded Uzi, is it a "reasonable assumption" that sooner or later, you are going to end up dead?

What about other loaded weapons in the hands of irresponsible adults?

Adults you didn't know at the time were as irresponsible as they turned out to be?

Exactly where is that line between "the person who shot should know better" and "I should have never handed them the gun"?

Is there a level of personal responsibility for putting your own life at risk and if so, where is the line? How about when you stay in your home during a hurricane evacuation?

Does the responsibility rest in the hands of the shooter? Is there a point where that shooter is too young to have "known better" and if so, what is that point?

Do gun owners deserve to not have guns used as an analogy every time you want to talk about other things?

This seems to be an evolving dialogue, with those "old benchmarks" continuing to be examined and changed. Part of that is good, people should always be taking a good hard look at themselves and their culture. Part of it is also ends up confusing, as groups of people grow more apart based upon where they fall in their answers.

Hopefully, at the end of the day, it's conversations about what matters to us, and why, that end up bringing people closer together and questioning the "why" things matter, and what to do as a culture to make things better.

***

Not sure any of that made sense - but one thing that *does* make sense is that I have a bunch of links to post for you!

We had eliminations last night: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/776190.html
We also had a new topic, with a twist! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/776330.html
and a Work Room for people to find a partner for the first Intersection of Season 9! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/776594.html

One of your fellow contestants put together something to help you out. It's unofficial, but it's there for anyone who needs it: http://karmasoup.livejournal.com/39857.html

Comments

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the shout out.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

You're FIRST!!!

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Yes! In fact, I was just updating to indicate that (and a couple other items), when you got me with a reply. But thanks for the confetti! (It doesn't happen to me all that often, I feel so special!)

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

On behalf of everyone, thanks for doing the unofficial list. Those things, as you know, come in very handy at times like these :)

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you for the appreciation, and you're welcome. I snagged a partner right away, but it would have been unnerving if I hadn't, and I wanted to save anyone else from the experience of losing too much time over working out the logistics, so I figured one universal "singup board" might eliminate a lot of the missteps, and would let everyone know who is still an option for asking, if necessary.

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

Happy 1st!

AW

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

If anyone has established a partner but has not indicated so in the work room so far, please let me know either here or in the comment thread of my unofficial resource, so that we can try to keep that list as up to date as possible to better help out those who are still looking. Nobody wants to spend several days sorting this part out, and no one wants to be the last picked.

I know there are at least a couple people who have partners, but have not indicated who those teammates are.

talonkarrde88
kathrynrose

...can you let us know who you've taken off the market, please?

Thanks, everyone!

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

Az_starshine and I are paired up this week. AW

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have updated my data to reflect this pairing.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Replied on your post

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I received that, replied there, and updated my records to reflect your additional detail.

[kajel.livejournal.com]

Yay first!

Your spreadsheet is great.

Dmousey and I are confirmed now!!

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have updated my records to reflect your matchup.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I calculated it this morning -- this is my first full day off in 9 days. No wonder why I've been almost-nearly walking dead :p

(no, not a zombie but certainly feeling like one...if they're capable of feeling anything, that is)

I'm torn between doing the stuff I'd earmarked to do today or vegetating. My body wants the latter while my head is like OMG DON'T EVEN THINK OF IT. Story of my life.

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

I can relate to this.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Vegetate until you're bored with vegetating, then go do the earmarked stuff at a casual pace. :)

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Heh, I just finished taking out and cleaning the refrigerator shelving :)

We're going to go mattress shopping as soon as SO is done with whatever he's doing. Whee?

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

The best thing about mattress shopping is getting to lie down on all the mattresses, LOL. :)

[kandigurl.livejournal.com]

I wish I had never heard this story and had no idea what you were talking about right now. My wife told me about it the other day and it depressed me for a long time.

[whipchick.livejournal.com]

See, that was easy :)

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

I hate guns...I wrote about it for my scare quotes entry.

Thanks, karmasoup, for the pair-up chart! I left my info there for ya!
AW

[anyonesghost.livejournal.com]

#notallguns ...?

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

That may be just about one of the coolest icons I've ever seen.

[anyonesghost.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of the infamous porn_this_way. :-)

Wow

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this says anything about this group, or about LJ in general. From the front page (Top LJ posts)

Anyone want a wedding photo of Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross? Celeb magazines… — ohnotheydidnt 07:34
Congratulations to Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross, son of singer Diana Ross, who married at the diva’s Connecticut home on Saturday. Sadly, any hopes Simpson had of financing an extravagant honeymoon by selling exclusive pictures to a celeb magazine had to stop, in the name of reality. No one…
84 comments Hide community Mark entry as read
2. Lee Byung Hun was blackmailed by GLAM’s Dahee — omonatheydidnt 11:11
Lee Byung Hun Received Blackmail from a Rookie Singer, Perpetrators Caught and Arrested BH Entertainment, actor Lee Byung Hun‘s agency, revealed that the actor has received blackmail threatening to release his personal information. On September 1, BH Entertainment released a statement…
90 comments
3. Work Room - Week 20 — therealljidol 22:31, yesterday
You've seen the topic post and are probably now scrambling around with that "WTF" look on your faces. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/776330.html Some of you may be cackling with glee. So, I'll make it easier by providing links to information about the topics themselves. Who to partner…
86 comments
4. … — ontdbb 03:02

Re: Wow

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Actually, 6 of the "Top comments" from their Top 60 are LJ IDOL RELATED!

Again, not sure if that just says something about the state of Livejournal (and that it was down all morning)

Re: Wow

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I saw the "LJ down" post over on FB and I was like, huh?!? Other people on my FL have been having the same issue. From what I gather it's from the new style/posting pages -- if you switch back to the old style, there apparently aren't any issues.

Of course, I don't know if that has to do with an outage, but I thought I'd put it out there :)

Again, not sure if that just says something about the state of Livejournal...(snip)

Based purely on that criteria, it says to me that LJ is now mostly centered around ONTD...and Idol is right now the most active non-ONTD community :)

Re: Wow

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I dislike the "new style", so I'm with the old style and I was getting the "outage" message.

Yep. I definitely think that we are. Maybe it's time for Idol to replace ONTD once and for all! :D

Re: Wow

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Now wouldn't that be something?! A testimonial to art over garbage. yes, yes, yes

Re: Wow

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The more comments in Idol entries, the more activity in general that we have, the greater exposure we end up having on LJ's front page. Which means that there is more of a chance that folks scrolling down that list will say "What is this?" and come on over to see what they are missing! :)

Re: Wow

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I'm still on the old one and it was down for me.

Re: Wow

[kickthehobbit.livejournal.com]

My journal has been pushed into the top 50, thanks to Idol.

...I'm blaming the state of lj, myself. ;)

Re: Wow

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd love to see Idol help jump start a return to LJ greatness!

(OK, probably not going to happen. But the more content LJ has, the greater the profile it will have. It's one of the reasons that if I do a mini-season in the future, that I want to reach out into other social media and bring people to Livejournal.)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I'm still looking for a confirmed (or Bar/Bat Mitzvahed) partner! I've put forth feelers towards both hosticle_fifer and xlovebecomesher but haven't yet heard back from either.

Just thought I'd put this here in the GR too. I'm most interested in writing on either Rapture or Shibusa, if it matters. I promise I'm fun and moderately easy to work with, and I've done Intersections several times before. Thanks!

[hosticle-fifer.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I am now back in front of a computer. Yeah, let's do it! I messaged you back.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Woot! I just read the message and sent a reply! I'm looking forward to this. :)

Feel free to email me directly at Pandria@aol.com
Thanks!

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Do gun owners deserve to not have guns used as an analogy every time you want to talk about other things?

Yes.

The parents and the "instructor" are completely culpable. The daughters of the dead man have reached out to the young girl in the hopes that they can reassure her that they don't hold her responsible and that they don't want her life to bend off this hinge. How can it not, though? I can't even imagine what the parents were thinking. I do know that this man's death was sheer negligence and not a freak accident. Poor safety practices and the gun absolutely positively needed to be strapped to the shooting table. Period.

But what about people who know someone is inebriated and allow that person to climb behind the wheel of a car?

I have a friend who died in a hunting accident. I have two friends who were killed by a drunk driver. I feel far more rage about the drunk driver.

Six hundred folks die in gun "accidents" yearly. Ten thousand people are killed in drunk driving accidents every twelve months.

The boy who killed our friend in a duck blind killed himself two years later. He simply could no longer live with the devastation he had unintentionally wrought when he tripped with a loaded shotgun in his hands. The man who killed my friends, their three cousins, paralyzed a fourth cousin, and killed a family of three in another car did light jail time and did not go on to do works of charity. He was pulled over a few years later for...yeah, not brandishing a gun, but driving under the influence.

I understand that guns are scary and that cars are as everyday as toasters. But this country needs perspective on how innocent lives are lost.

[dmousey.livejournal.com]

We lost a very close family friend to a drunk driver in Jan of 2013, she was 24. Driving and guns are both responsibilities and privileges. They should be taken seriously at all times. I do not think children under the age of sixteen should be shouting uzi's.

Those parents should be charged, on some child abuse level, and court appointed family/individual counseling should be sentence.

Just my opinion.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

If you hand a 9-year old a loaded Uzi, is it a "reasonable assumption" that sooner or later, you are going to end up dead?

I would not say, "are going to," but it's a reasonable assumption that SOMEONE _might_ end up dead, including you. Because... nine-year-old!

Who is now probably scarred for life, but given that she's being raised by the kind of parents who think that going on a shooting-range expedition is an awesome event for the whole family... that was probably inevitable. :(

Why do I have the impression that the instructor's family now wants to sue the family of the nine-year-old, for wrongful death? :(

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

IMO, if you're not in law enforcement or the military, there's really no good reason for you to need target practice with an Uzi. You don't need an Uzi to defend yourself or your home, unless you really believe in the zombie apocalypse. And you're not going to hunt with an Uzi, unless you're hunting humans.

The day it happened, I watched the video. It's ridiculous how little a 9 year old girl is, and it's insane how close to her he was standing. You can't expect a child to handle the recoil, or have the awareness of the consequences.

I grew up around guns, because my dad was a hunter. When I was 9 yo, he was still putting the fear of God into me if I even touched the gun case.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

I'm back to *squish* Gary and link to my journal entry -

http://bleodswean.livejournal.com/183874.html

Thank you, Idolars.

(this was for a short short I wrote last year not an Idol piece)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

*kicks you for being a hippie*

Oh, and congratulations! ;)

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

It's absolutely allowed! If enough people start Home Gaming, I'll give you folks your own thread! :)

[rswndrlst.livejournal.com]

EEp I totally deleted it thinking it might be super weird before I saw your comment--

But if it's totally cool with Gary I'm in :)


edit to clarify: I originally posted looking for a fellow former contestant who might be wanting to team up to home game with me.

[rswndrlst.livejournal.com]

update:
Spent the last few hours thinking on a sort of sci-fi story that would fit either the topic of Intersubjectivity or Captcha the Flag if any other former contests are lurking around and want to play a round...

Either way it's awesome to still be so inspired by this community. Can't wait to see what people come up with!

\m/

[eternal-ot.livejournal.com]

Hey..cool..nice to see ya back..:) looking fwd now.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking about that analogy last week when a new anon Sims blog popped up and the owner tried to say that she wasn't responsible for what she posted, that it was just what the community submitted.

If you create the blog for anonymous submissions, thus handing immature cruel possibly disordered people the gun, are you responsible when they shoot it and use your blog's anonymous submissions to harass people and spew hate towards them?

Personally, I think the creator of the blog is very much responsible. She made the choice to make anonymous hate public and to give it a forum. No one forced her to.