Boy decapitated by roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/06/28/six_flags_death.html ^

[kcvl]

A 17-year-old South Carolina boy on an church outing was killed Saturday when he was struck by the popular "Batman the Ride" at Six Flags Over Georgia. It was the second Batman ride-related death at the Cobb County park.

[wardaddy]

Just at the end.

some cowboy you must be..

[BigCinBigD]

I salute you sir. I'm still trying to work my way up to “heartless prig.”

And my condolances for your loss.

[cowboyway]

I refuse to wear my emotions on my sleeve and feel false sympathy

Well said, Tex.

FR is standing by to be over run by EMO kids...............

[paul51]

Young people have been doing stupid things, sometimes with tragic consequences, since the beginning of time. Your inability or refusal to feel any kind of sympathy for them or their families says more about you than anything anyone else says. When one receives feedback from a number of different sources, it’s often better to reconsider your own actions rather then strike out at those providing the feedback. Truly sorry about your son.

[Clara Lou]

We have something in common: My 1st born came to us with Tetralogy of Fallot. We went through hell. Your personal experience and mine have nothing to do with this thread.

[cowboyway]

some cowboy you must be..

Are you gonna cry now?

[Souled_Out]

"I find your arguments,attitude and use of the language offensive and a bit painful to read."

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I guess if I were getting my a$$ handed to me in a public forum I would feel the same way.

If you can't take the truth, you may want to refrain from spewing your half baked opinions in a public forum.

You might also try using a spell checker, that 'weak mind' of yours is starting to show.

[BnBlFlag]

It’s not surprizing that the Visitor’s Center at Vicksburg is now PC. It’s that way at all the NPS Battlefields now, I understand. And it pisses me off to no end.
I worked with a guy from Vicksburg in Houston for several years. Great guy. One of my best friends is from Meridian.
Also, a large part of my family stayed in Mississippi for a generation or two in Atalla County as they were wandering across the South from Va. and N.C. before they eventually landed in East Texas. (Some of ‘em may still be there).
My Mothers family, a mixture of New Orleans Urbanites and S. La. Rice Farmers, had a summer home in Bay St Louis.
So I have a lot of connections to Mississippi and love the place.
I want to go back over to Biloxi and check out the restoraion of Beauvoir this summer. (I have a large print of the house on my Den wall) I dread seeing all of those beautiful homes and trees gone though.

[wardaddy]

I’m 50.

I’ve found in my life that tough talk is usually just that.

[ConservaTexan]

Your personal experience and mine have nothing to do with this thread.

I agree. I hesitated to include my experience, but decided to to address the 'you would feel differently if you had lost a child' claims. I was trying to illustrate which things I feel are deserving of sympathy and which I struggle to be sympathetic towards. If I could do it over, I would tell the story from the 3rd person perspective.

[ConservaTexan]

Sorry if you inferred bitterness, but you could not be more mistaken. If I had not gone through the pain of HLHS, there is so much that I would have missed. I gladly accept and welcome your prayers, and do not doubt your sincerety.

[wardaddy]

let me tell ya...we went to New Orleans with all 5 kids two months ago and toured the Mississippi Coast.

It was devastation over 80% on US 90 from Ocean Springs to Biloxi to Gulfport to Long Beach/Pass Christian to across bay St Louis to Waveland where it continued on to the LA line.

a strip of from 200-700 yards completely devoid of buildings...many of the nice mossy oaks still stand and the old Catholic schools and a few other buildings but the old homes are gone. Beauvoir still stands....damaged but there.

I went through Camille as a 12 year old and while the intensity was worse with Camille, it was tight and fast moving ...Katrina was slow and larger...it will not recover in my lifetime..

[ConservaTexan]

I'm still trying to work my way up to “heartless prig.”

Let logic, not emotion, be your guide and you will no doubt achieve it.

[ConservaTexan]

Exactly!

[ConservaTexan]

Your inability or refusal to feel any kind of sympathy for them or their families says more about you than anything anyone else says

I never said I didn't feel sympathy for the family. Don't put your words into my posts.

When one receives feedback from a number of different sources, it’s often better to reconsider your own actions rather then strike out at those providing the feedback.

That type of emotional driven thinking is exactly what the global warming alarmists are counting on. No thank you. My values/belief system is not driven the numbers of who agrees or disagrees with me.

[ConservaTexan]

Now I know to whom Samuel Johnson was referring. Thanks for clearing it up for me.

[Souled_Out]

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Samuel Johnson English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

[TigersEye]

Well said. There is no compassion in sympathy for ignorance. It is rooted in a fear of being caught in one’s own ignorance and a vain hope of being excused for it by excusing someone else’s. The result is a validation of the ignorance that led to the problem. Where is the compassion in encouraging more of the same by relating to it like it was normal and acceptable?

[TigersEye]

My definition of compassion:

1. A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering.

2. The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it.

Can you provide your definition?

My definition is "actions that provide actual help to end the condition of suffering" not just generating a mushy feeling of desire to help that accomplishes nothing or worse encourages more of the ignorance that created the suffering in the first place.

Here is a good definition of your version of compassion.

[TigersEye]

I’ve found in my life that tough talk is usually just that.

That is even more true of most public expressions of sympathy. What did that man say about trumpeting your prayers? "It is its own reward" or something to that effect? He apparently didn't think they accomplished anything else.