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To: MarkBsnr
If I decide to rape, torture and murder somebody today, on the spur of the moment, does that mean that God wants me to do it?

No, it simply means you are part of a Flash Mob.

28 posted on 08/19/2011 10:10:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (SmithL stole my tagline and won't give it back.)
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To: Lazamataz
If I decide to rape, torture and murder somebody today, on the spur of the moment, does that mean that God wants me to do it?

No, it simply means you are part of a Flash Mob.

There's nothing new under the sun. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob:

"In 1973, the story "Flash Crowd" by Larry Niven described a concept similar to flash mobs.[19] With the invention of popular and very inexpensive teleportation, an argument at a shopping mall – which happens to be covered by a news crew – quickly swells into a riot. In the story, broadcast coverage attracts the attention of other people, who use the widely available technology of the teleportation booth to swarm first that event – thus intensifying the riot – and then other events as they happen. Commenting on the social impact of such mobs, one character (articulating the police view) says, "We call them flash crowds, and we watch for them." In related short stories, they are named as a prime location for illegal activities (such as pickpocketing and looting) to take place."

32 posted on 08/19/2011 1:08:49 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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