JeanKimberley Forum Posts (7,499)

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

I have missed my CS friends in all their variety of flora and fauna since I have been working long hours..... so upon returning home at this late hour and open this thread, to read the last post first then backwards......


I stop, read, laugh, re-read, laugh harding.

I must bow down, and thank you for the tear-drop humor.

.... (now let me just forward this post to the confession authorities....)


Hold, that thought, back in a minute.

RE: Is George Clooney right????

there we go.... goes to show.....Clooney can't be right.

RE: This is my Peace page

RE: This is my Peace page

you can't have a peace page without a love song for dogs.....

RE: I'm back checking in to see if any of my old friends and make some new ones are on here wooooo

so how is it different from 2007 and now? or how is it the same?


WELCOME BACK!

RE: Is George Clooney right????

Nope - first

RE: It's Hard Being British

choosing a language on a website and having the english option represented by a US flag.....


made me laugh, and laugh, and laugh. Thanks 2girls

RE: Divorce 50/50, bye bye

Except most of the rich and famous can say "prenuptial agreement"

RE: Is George Clooney right????

Now lets listen to George Clooney's views on marriage. Heh!

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

and on that same note Maddog, a guy like him looks for .... those that make that mistake.

Most often these guys (predominantly male) see kindness as a weakness and strike.

RE: Divorce 50/50, bye bye

.... and the children??????? are we going to go all king solomon on them?

RE: Everyone is in Debt !!

and yet it is just a gamble too - because there is no assurances that your business, the factory will survive or prosper for that matter.


That is what happened in Detroit and other large car manufacturing places.

RE: Whats The Meaning Of Life ?

but I'm hungry and want that carrot - so what else have I got to do.....

RE: Whats The Meaning Of Life ?

Just when I thought I grabbed for the answer to the meaning of life.... well it is demonstrated below....

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RE: Whats The Meaning Of Life ?

and here I thought I was just a fan of monty python!

RE: ex convicts V mental illness

Ah, those questions that try to quantify or qualify a character.

Does our society actually respect either one?

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

whew, we both can get a good night's sleep then soon

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I left my bell in my other wallet......

RE: Everyone is in Debt !!

yes, and it is terrible for those..... people out there to lend you money at high interest rates knowing you can't pay them back.....

at one time 20% was loan sharking...... now, it's the going rate! It aughta' be a CRIME!

sorry, got carried away.

RE: Blonde Jokes

hey Joey - yes next month or so... a cruise, a cruise a cruise!

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

It's my mixed metaphors.....

I meant to say we are trying to find some clue, something that stands out, that we can point at, to say, ah so that what makes them different then us. Because otherwise, if we think about these monsters as us...... well that would warp our understanding of ourselves wouldn't it?

So the story goes that the mice got together to decide that the best thing to save them from the cat in the house, was to put a bell on it so they could hear him coming and scamper away from the cat. The question became who was going to bell the cat?

So in this case, it is a room full of cats, trying to figure out which cat is going to eat them, so that they could hear them coming and get out of the way......

I know, I know, don't quite my day job and become a storyteller.......

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

opps I meant there are no mice among us.... we are all cats, trying to bell the cat.

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

and another thing about Orwell, is that he was just a good storyteller........

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

so sorry to hear - did they catch the culprit?

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

in the same kind of film subject check out an oldie but goodie ' Arsenic and Old Lace"

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

as joey has said in another thread ------- tru that!

I guess I was talking more about the stronger ugly side of human nature when dealing with overcrowding.

I haven't seen any studies about the effects of overcrowding since the work in the early 70s with rats in a cage, the more you put in, the more bad behavior you get, hoarding food, biting neighbors and brothers, killing young, very, very aggressive behavior - all this from rats in a too little cage, just imagine the sophistication of this transferred onto humans, in a too too small area, like a city.

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

True, true it is unfair to compare the first world with the third.

I would not get into a pissing contest, tho, with regards to America as anti-social and a-social ---- this coming from your country, a country that populated America......

America is a land of individuals - warm, loving families, vast lands, highly diverse... and other more competitive than cooperative. when you are talking about
a population of 318,892,103 and counting a birth every 8 seconds and a death every 13 seconds......

staggering numbers so whadda' expect?

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

sorry it was a good article and I forgot to take out parts that make you now want to see the list, right?....

ah, ah..... you might have to find it yourself.

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

excerpt from the same article..........

Katherine Watson’s 2004 book on the subject, Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and Their Victims, looked at 540 poison murder cases in England, from 1750 to 1914, a study that includes the killers I’ve cited above. (excepting Grinder). Her analysis found that the killers in these cases consistently split fairly evenly between men and women. It is a balance not so different from the justice department finding I cited earlier. Over the centuries, both men and women have chosen it to kill in at least equal measure. But because women seem to preferentially chose poison, when they do turn to murder, its reputation has come be that of an almost purely feminine weapon.

We can find plenty of explanations for the way that women use poison as a weapon. That they seek to avoid the risks of physical confrontation. Or that they seek to avoid the ugly, bloody havoc left behind by bullets or knives. But our woman’s weapon mythology, I think, obscures the more real portrait of all successful poisoners, all those killers counted up in the U.S. crime statistics, male and female alike. They are planners and plotters, killers who do their homework. They are cold, they are devious, and they believe that this is a method that will allow them to get away with their murder. It’s not, you see, that poison is a woman’s weapon.

It’s that it is an evil one.

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

excerpt from Wired magazine article

Of course, most murderers, period, are male. The justice department’s homicide trend report I cited, finds, that killers are statistically 89.5 percent males and 10.5 percent females. And there’s another point, I think, to be gleaned from this criminal justice overview. In other violent crimes, male dominance is much more pronounced than in poison killings. Over all for felony murders? That’s 93.2 percent male offenders, 6.8 percent female. And if we consider our country’s weapon of choice, the firearm? Gun homicides stand at 92.1 percent male, 7.9 percent female. And this more extreme ratio holds across the other DOJ categories, from arson to workplace argument.

RE: Why do people develop into "Serial Killers?"

Because if you actually bother to scroll back through famous poisoners of history or to check the crime statistics you will realize first that 1) poison is a gender-neutral weapon and, 2) a greater proportion of poisoners are men. Let’s put this in the context of some relatively recent context. The U. S. Department of Justice’s report on Homicide Trends in the United States (1980 to 2008) offers up this statistical insight: of all poison killers in that time period 60.5 percent male and 39.5 percent female.