Out of the frying pan

And into the fire...

Mind Trap

A while back, Time Magazine published an article on a new revelation in brain mapping. Their test subject was a woman who was in a "vegatative" state. it was initially thought that her concious mind was inactive, and that she was in a permanent subconcious state. They conducted an experiment with electrodes connected to monitor neural flux to map the brain...the results were terrifying. It turns out, when she was told to imagine playing tennis, parts of her brain related to motion were active, and certain other memories made the brain respond differently. This woman was Concious. But she was a vegetable. She was living in a Mind-Trap. The worst imaginable condition. Imagine being alive, but being trapped in the depths of your own mind. You can hear people, you can think. But you cannot move or respond in any way. Like a Prison for the concious mind. A science fiction story "The Jaunt" by stephen king explores the possibility of the concious mind being trapped for an eternity without the body.
http://dwalin.ru/books/King,%20Stephen/The%20Jaunt.doc
would the mind be able to live alone, without any sensonary output, while being able to have all kinds of sensonary input? An absolutely terrify though.

Rage

Blacksburg, va, April 16, 2007, 7.15 am

Cho Seung-hui,23, walks out of West Ambler Johnston Hall after killing two students Emily J Hilscher and Ryan C. "Stack" Clark. A few minutes later, 911 recieves a call about the shooting. Cho walks back to his room, and re-arms his Glock-19. He doesnt stop there. He then proceeds to Mail his manifesto to NBC

at 9.15 that morning, he proceeds to Norris Hall and kills 30 more people, slowly, methodically, with two handguns in a classroom building, 2 hours after the first 911 call

“You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today,But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off.” Says Cho “I didn’t have to do this. I could have left. I could have fled. But no, I will no longer run. It’s not for me. For my children, for my brothers and sisters that you f---, I did it for them... When the time came, I did it. I had to”

he even refers to gunmen in previous school shootings (Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the teenagers who killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., eight years ago) as "martyrs"

Cho himself believes this to be a act of greatness and compares himself to jesus saying "Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people."

Stephen King's novel titled "Rage" about a school shootout had been found in the locker room of a former shooter. In another incident, a school shooter actually quoted lines from the book in reference to the book's shooter, charlie saying "this sure beats algebra, doesn't it?"

"Rage" was taken out of print after these incidents.

Cho's life as a student at Virginia Tech is a real eye-opener. He was a Taciturn kid who was visibly disturbed. The plays he wrote as a student were disturbing to say the least:

http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/

The mind of a psychopath. Makes Kevin Spacey in "se7en" look like he was a nice guy...