Toddler dies after being left in hot car .....HORRIBLE!!!!

[janette]

Yes but is it more terse, sage, or witty or

e·go·cen·tric Pronunciation Key (g-sntrk, g-)
adj.
Holding the view that the ego is the center, object, and norm of all experience.

Confined in attitude or interest to one's own needs or affairs.
Caring only about oneself; selfish.
Philosophy.
Viewed or perceived from one's own mind as a center.
Taking one's own self as the starting point in a philosophical system

I think Egocentric is a closer description.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Originally posted by EROS
I Love the smell of the DIS in the morning.............it reminds me of.............NAPALM ........

Okay...since we are defining terms. Heres the dictionary definition of napalm.

Napalm

Main Entry 'na palm

Function-noun
Etymology: naphthene+palmitate
Date 1942

1: a thickener consisting of a mixture of aluminum soaps used in jelling gasoline(as for incendiary bombs)
2:fuel jellied with napalm

I'm just trying to figure out what this quote means??

 

[captin fink]

Thank you Janette. I do believe that you are right. Egocentric
is a much better adj. The club will be renamed to reflect this

Jaded Egocentric Rabble-rousing Know-it-alls

I'm still looking for a second for EROS's nomination

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Okay..I'll nominate him, if you add the terms "frenzied" and "orgiastic" to the mix, lol!

Something about these repetetive sessions that makes me think of these words too....

 

[Robinrs]

EROS, in my gang banging days I personally hurt no one and believe me, you don't want to know what we would've done to someone who hurt a kid...

Again, this is no comparison.

Again, we've let a post concerning a vent and a legitimate concern become a podium for the devil's advocate.

I will never let this affect me again.

 

[EROS]

Minnie, to fully grasp the meaning of NAPALM in the morning , you'll have to rent the following movie:

 

[janette]

I would second that nomination captin fink.

 

[DopeyRN]

Wow...EROS is having fun today.

This one is a no brainer. There was a father here who did not usually have his child during the day. He stopped at the family business, ran in for a second and one thing became another and he forgot the child, who did die. He was absolutely and totally devestated. And my heart went out to him and the family. That was an accident .

This woman made a deliberate and conscious decision to leave her child in the car. In my opinion she should get first degree murder. There has been enough on the news about children/pets in cars. She knew what she was doing.

There is no compassion for her from me. She deserves whatever she gets.

 

[EROS]

Here's a thoughtful PM which I received earlier from a member here. I'm posting it with her permission. She can feeeeeeeeeeeeeel allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll of the love and compassion around here as well

"I HATE conflict . . . .
. . . but I wanted to respond to this thread. (So I wimped out & decided to send a PM!) Please feel free to ignore this - I just needed to put a couple thoughts in writing without getting yelled at!

My first thought when reading this was "I hope I'm never so desperate to be forced into this situation!" I don't understand what seems to be the underlying anger & hatred of those responding to the horror of this woman's choices. Maybe it's that we've all come closer than we'd like to admit to making choices that were incredibly bad. I don't know.

To think that this woman somehow wanted to get "rid of" her daughter is too awful for me to contemplate. The thought never entered my mind! Instead, I thought that her daughter's health problems probably made it difficult to find child care. Around here, it's almost impossible to find care for children with special needs & if you can the cost is outrageous!

I guess it was a slow day for compassion on the DIS . . . . I've seen an awful lot of days like that recently. I find myself reading fewer & fewer posts because of it."

 

[DopeyRN]

OK EROS one person agrees with you.

 

[minniecarousel]

I gotta say - having read all that has been posted - I have sympathy for that woman. I also ache for that child - what a horrible death! I just can't believe that she did this, hoping that her child would die! What a tragic situation - for both of them.

 

[minniepumpernickel]

Originally posted by EROS
Here's a thoughtful PM which I received earlier from a member here. I'm posting it with her permission. She can feeeeeeeeeeeeeel allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll of the love and compassion around here as well

"I HATE conflict . . . .
. . . but I wanted to respond to this thread. (So I wimped out & decided to send a PM!) Please feel free to ignore this - I just needed to put a couple thoughts in writing without getting yelled at!

My first thought when reading this was "I hope I'm never so desperate to be forced into this situation!" I don't understand what seems to be the underlying anger & hatred of those responding to the horror of this woman's choices. Maybe it's that we've all come closer than we'd like to admit to making choices that were incredibly bad. I don't know.

To think that this woman somehow wanted to get "rid of" her daughter is too awful for me to contemplate. The thought never entered my mind! Instead, I thought that her daughter's health problems probably made it difficult to find child care. Around here, it's almost impossible to find care for children with special needs & if you can the cost is outrageous!

I guess it was a slow day for compassion on the DIS . . . . I've seen an awful lot of days like that recently. I find myself reading fewer & fewer posts because of it."

I really wouldn't want to pick apart this anonymous persons post. I hope that he/she gets up the strength to post her opinion on here. Sometimes conflict can be good, it can help you judge wrong from right. I have said it on here before, but I think that a strong person, is a compassionate person. Sometimes you have to be tough on people to show them that something is wrong. I'm very thankful that we have laws in our society. Okay enough from me...

 

[Kelsie]

**note to self**

NEVER share information about my past with EROS, he will use it against me

That was a low blow IMHO!

 

[EROS]

Excuse me, KELSIE, but xxxxx has shared nothing privately with me about her past. I was only speaking to statements which she posted PUBLICALLY.

If I posted here that I had previously been a feather-dancer in a transvestite bar, I'm sure that all of my dear "friends" on the DIS would "comment" .........

 

[DopeyRN]

That is probably true EROS. Because the fact of the Dis is we attack you, but you attack nobody. I am sorry but to USE something that someone said about themself in the past against them later in time is an attack...but I just somehow know it will not be viewed that way.

 

[Kelsie]

Actually, that wouldn't surprise me at all EROS

 

[EROS]

OK, DOPEY & KELSIE, out of respect for your concerns, I've edited my earlier post

There may be ex gang-bangers on the DIS who might have made decisions or judgments in the past which jeopardized others. Was that OK because they didn't harm any young children????

I yell at our neighbors when they let their kids use bikes or scooters WITHOUT helmets . Are these parents the "scum of the earth"????? NOT............

If you're human, you MAKE MISTAKES. Hopefully,they don't cause the deaths of friends/loved ones, but sometimes THEY DO.

But of course, the "perfect" DISers should "cast the first stone" ........

 

[JohnTBap]

Originally posted by EROS

If I posted here that I had previously been a feather-dancer in a transvestite bar, I'm sure that all of my dear "friends" on the DIS would "comment" .........

Is it OK to talk aboot this publicly now Sweetie?

 

[Saffron]

EROS -- this is for you and the person that sent you that PM.

I hate conflict too.

I have seen just as much compassion on the CB lately as I always have. I have seen compassion on this thread. I for one feel compassion for the woman and stated so. No one yelled at me.

The conflict begins when other's opinions are constantly devalued by the name calling and labeling that USUALLY begins by you, EROS. People state their opinions and are entitled to them, whether we agree with them or not. It's only natural that people who are offended by being labled, grouped together and called names, defend themselves. By devaluing someone's opinion, it only makes them want to be heard more. Then the conflict begins.

Issues like the one in this post are often controversial. There are many points of views that can be seen and heard. It just seems lately, that no one can say anything without being sarcastically attacked by you, EROS, under the guise of compassion and strong disagreement. People are finally fed up with it. Thus the controversy and the personal attacks.

You may think I'm attacking you EROS, but I am simply stating what I see happening.

 

[EROS]

Originally posted by JohnTBap
Is it OK to talk aboot this publicly now Sweetie?

Not to worry. Unlike some other members around here, anything which I publically post about myself is in open season for comment. Hey, I LOVED feathers............, and I wanted to be a STAR . On the other hand, I don't feel that you should post anything about those wild orgies which I described in my PMs to you .

SAFFRON, knock yourself out . If people are fed up with me because I think that the "consensus" opinion around here is devoid of compassion, then there's always the old IGNORE list ..........