That's it --- a "perverse power position," as you say. I'm desperate to find explanatory concepts because we are certainly in an epidemic of these actions and until we have a name, concepts, we cannot think about this problem in any way that makes sense. We are in danger of politicizing something that isn't about politics, perhaps. God knows we've got troubles enough with Muslims rising around the world, but this feels different even when sometimes Muslims DO it.
Have you gotten into video game playing? I have, many hours a week, what can I say. I don't play the male first person shooters like Halo, but I'm playing Assassin's Creed II right now, 55 hours in, and there's a LOT of non-gun violence. It's very, very seductive. Tremendously addictive. I particularly like throwing knives at the roof guards or assassinating using the poison dagger (women's weapon is poison, they say.......). It's training, it's desensitization, I can feel it.
Sure, "perverse power position" is a good term for what I feel and what maybe these mad bombers and shooters feel in real life. Now, I'm not, pray God, ever going to take this feeling of power into real life, unless I'm attacked in my home, but I do think it has a psychological effect, just as Army training does.
I agree, it must have a psychological effect. No, I don't do games virtually at all. Never got the attraction of them. I'll do a word game or a card game but never been interested in that kind. I rarely go to movies at all because I can't sit and ingest violence, even when it's acted. I'm still haunted by a scene I happened across that somebody else was watching on TV when I walked into the hotel room I was sharing, twenty years ago. So that guy was already desensitized enough to sit and watch it. He probably doesn't even remember the scene- it was maybe 30 seconds. But it's still with me.
We get the death culture thrown at us from every angle every day; war, assaults, TV shows, movies, even our dominant religion, which impales a man on a cross. It's inevitable that we get desensitized when we've disconnected ourselves from our own spirit and live on the emotional angst fantasies that inevitably make money for somebody somewhere.
Not about making money but more so about how it's being spent (explain better at the end). Its really more so about this world, and the way that it has been in condition of, and is still in the same condition of right now as we speak, otherwise ever since the Garden of Eden we have seen these things now.. Remember the story of Adam and Eve, and how they were innocent as you wish that you were in life in this post, not knowing the bad things, but only the good things? Well when the serpent beguiled Eve and had her eat from the tree of "knowledge", to then know all things Good & evil, and then she went and had Adam do the same, well here we are till this very day, and it is the very reason we have the good Lord's sacrifice that was made in love for us by his own will in doing so, where as it was the only way to redeem us from our sinful knowledge in which we all have gained upon that day, and it was done in order to get us back to a place where we are bound no more by these things. I am like you, that I would rather not ingest these things into the brain, but the devil will see to it that we have the choice to do so in front of us, then it does become a choice, and it appears in these latter days that it is a choice in which many these days are failing to make the right one on. I am glad you are appalled at violence and the things of this nature, where as you are exercising a free choice as is made by you, but when the walls come closer and closer in, and your choices are becoming harder and harder to make because you can't seem to separate yourself or your children from this stuff freely, then Houston we have a serious problem. Hey the devil doesn't want to be left out either, so always remember that when trying to separate yourself from him and his bad ways. It is his goal to limit and restrict choices, especially choices that separate you and your children from him and his corrupting influence, so he is always on the other side of the coin we have, and it is up to us what choice we make when using that coin when spending it. Go forth and spend wisely my friend, as to spend foolishly is to empower the wrong side of the coin.
I'm afraid you lost me as soon as the "God" and "Devil" dichotomy showed up, so I'm not even sure what you're saying here. Is there an English version? Preferably one with a paragraph break?