YASPIJ
body count:3; usual method
Lest there be any confusion, please note that this one involved 2 men and a woman whereas the previously reported incident involved two women and a man.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Australian Democrats leader Sandra Kanck is planning a parliamentary speech which may possibly be in violation of the Suicide Related Material Offences Act in that country which makes discussion of suicide methods or anything which can be construed as incitement to commit suicide a criminal act. We'll see what happens.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Idle musing
Reading one of Aleister Crowley's books[1], i've recently discovered that the Hebrew word for "blood" is "dam". So that got me thinking about what it means to "damn" someone and whether in the original sense to damn someone was to punitively draw hir blood. That in turn prompted me to try to find some sort of etymological discussion of the word. According to one Christian the word derived from the Latin word "damnare", which means loss or harm. That could conceivably cover the instance of shedding someone's blood. The Hebrew word for "shedding" is quite different from "dam", but given the way languages mutate over time and the way languages borrow from each other it wouldn't surprise me if originally the Latin word was a way of saying someone bloodied someone else. But what i found most interesting about all this was that apparently we have the Xtian religion to thank for turning the word "damn" into a profanity. It seems that with the help of some sloppy translation of the original Greek into English, a perfectly servicable word was converted into mild blasphemy (if blasphemy can ever be considered mild), and this seems to be, yet again, an example of how people in power wield power arbitrarily.
[1]"Magick Without Tears"
Reading one of Aleister Crowley's books[1], i've recently discovered that the Hebrew word for "blood" is "dam". So that got me thinking about what it means to "damn" someone and whether in the original sense to damn someone was to punitively draw hir blood. That in turn prompted me to try to find some sort of etymological discussion of the word. According to one Christian the word derived from the Latin word "damnare", which means loss or harm. That could conceivably cover the instance of shedding someone's blood. The Hebrew word for "shedding" is quite different from "dam", but given the way languages mutate over time and the way languages borrow from each other it wouldn't surprise me if originally the Latin word was a way of saying someone bloodied someone else. But what i found most interesting about all this was that apparently we have the Xtian religion to thank for turning the word "damn" into a profanity. It seems that with the help of some sloppy translation of the original Greek into English, a perfectly servicable word was converted into mild blasphemy (if blasphemy can ever be considered mild), and this seems to be, yet again, an example of how people in power wield power arbitrarily.
[1]"Magick Without Tears"
Friday, March 10, 2006
YASPIJ
body count: 6+3=9; CO method was used with both groups.
The group of 3 had apparently met at a hospital. I'm waiting for people who clamor to have suicide fora shutdown to start clamoring for the shutdown of hospitals. Feh.
body count: 6+3=9; CO method was used with both groups.
The group of 3 had apparently met at a hospital. I'm waiting for people who clamor to have suicide fora shutdown to start clamoring for the shutdown of hospitals. Feh.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Roger Graham has been deported from Cambodia for having a website that encourages people to travel to that country for the purposes of committing suicide.
