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Another terror attack was just reported: “At least 15 individuals have been killed and dozens injured following a shooting incident at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia on Sunday evening. Authorities have classified the event as a terror attack, with reports indicating that the two gunmen specifically targeted attendees celebrating the Jewish holiday. Witnesses described a chaotic scene as the gunmen ushered non-celebrants aside before opening fire. Emergency services reported at least 29 injuries, and one of the attackers was shot while the other was apprehended. Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon confirmed the discovery of several improvised explosive devices in a nearby vehicle, prompting the involvement of bomb disposal units. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the attack, emphasizing its targeting of Jewish Australians and asserting that it represents an attack on all Australians. He convened a meeting with national security officials to address the incident. U.S. reactions included a statement from President Donald Trump, who reassured Hanukkah celebrants of their safety, and a condemnation from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who highlighted the need to combat antisemitism. Videos from the scene captured the panic among beachgoers and the heroic actions of a bystander who intervened to disarm one of the gunmen. This act of bravery was praised by New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, who described the individual as a hero. The shooting occurred against a backdrop of rising antisemitic incidents in Australia, particularly following the onset of the Israel-Gaza conflict in October 2023. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry reported a significant increase in antisemitic attacks, raising alarms within both the Jewish community and broader Australian society.” It was subsequently reported that the shooters were father and son. What were the causes of this event? What is most important for us to know?
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Shootings thousands of miles apart sent shock waves around the world this past weekend, after gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, at Brown University in Providence, R.I., and near Palmyra, Syria. In Sydney: At least 15 people died and dozens were injured after alleged gunmen, a father and son, launched an attack near Bondi Beach. The father was killed and the son was injured. The victims included a Holocaust survivor and a “bright, joyful” 10-year-old girl. One bystander has been hailed as a hero. [CNN/Time] In Rhode Island: A manhunt is underway after at least two students died and nine others were injured in a campus mass shooting involving a masked man with a rifle. Police had detained a person of interest but released him after evidence pointed in “a different direction.” [USA Today/NBC News] In Syria: Two U.S. soldiers and one civilian were killed after a shooter ambushed troops near Palmyra. The gunman is believed to have been an ISIS infiltrator. President Trump promised “retaliation.” [CBS News]
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All in the Family star Rob Reiner, who directed a number of classic movies including This Is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride, Stand by Me, and Misery, was found stabbed to death in his home along with his wife, Michele. Their 32-year-old son, who reportedly has been a long-time drug addict and had an argument with his father at a party the night before, was accused of the homicides and is in custody. Can you help us understand what happened and why?
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Police in Hong Kong arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter, several local news media reported, in connection with a blaze that has killed at least 75 people and left hundreds missing in the city’s deadliest fire in years. Hundreds of residents were evacuated as the fire which started on Wednesday afternoon, spread across seven of the eight high-rise apartment buildings in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories. At least 29 others remained hospitalized. Bright flames and smoke shot out of windows as night fell. Authorities said earlier that investigators would be looking into factors including whether material on the exterior walls of high-rise buildings met fire resistance standards, as the rapid spread of the fire was unusual…Officials said the fire started on the external scaffolding of one of the buildings, a 32-storey tower, and later spread to inside the building and then to nearby buildings, likely aided by windy conditions…The housing complex consisted of eight buildings with almost 2,000 apartments housing about 4,800 residents, including many elderly people. It was built in the 1980s and had recently been undergoing a major renovation. Was this tragedy accidental, caused by human arson, or something more deeply sinister?
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A viewer asks: “The American psychologist Rollo May, argues that people need myths to make sense of their lives. He says people lost something essential when they gained rationalism, individualism, and the modern worldview that promoted the novel, and that without myth people are prey to anxiety and addiction through loss of meaning. Modern novels promote a realist, rational, secular individual but empties the world of symbolic, communal, and transcendent layers that myths provided. Was the development and popularization of the novel engineered by the Extraterrestrial Alliance to diminish and impoverish human imagination and connection to the transcendent? Are myths of benefit in healing consciousness?”
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The news reported on September 28, 2025, a Mormon church in Michigan on fire following an active shooter incident, leaving multiple victims. The incident happened at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc. Police Chief Brian Lipe said: “What we know right now is that a 40-year-old suspect from Burton, he’s a male. He drove his vehicle through the front doors of the church. He then exited his vehicle, firing several rounds at individuals within the church. Ten gunshot victims have been transported to local hospitals at this time.” Four have since died. Police engaged with and killed the shooter at the scene. He was an ex-marine veteran of the Iraq War. What was the motive for this brazen attack?
ClosedNicola asked 2 months ago • 
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Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah, has been identified as the shooter who killed conservative spokesman and devout Christian, Charlie Kirk, during his debate with attendees at a recent college campus gathering. Robinson was persuaded by his father and a pastor to turn himself in. What caused him to become an assassin? What is most important for us to know?
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A recent national survey reports that half of American schools require ‘Equitable’ Grading and most teachers are opposed. The report identifies five equitable grading practices: unlimited test retakes, no late penalties, no zeroes, no homework, and no required participation. Critics cite examples of the policy enabling students to survive by going through the motions, but in the end losing out. Many school districts report a majority of students being as much as three years behind in basic proficiency. What is Creator’s perspective about American K-12 education and the reasons for chronic underperformance?
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The suspect accused of killing four people in a Manhattan high-rise building on July 28, 2025, allegedly left a note behind that appeared to blame the NFL for a brain injury, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The alleged attacker, 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, committed suicide by shooting himself after he allegedly opened fire at the 345 Park Avenue building that houses the NFL’s headquarters, along with other businesses. During an interview on CBS News, Adams was asked about a possible motive in the shooting. The mayor said that a note was allegedly found stating the shooter felt he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain injury more commonly known as CTE that some football players have been known to develop. “He appeared to have blamed the NFL for his injury,” Adams said. A media search found no one with the name Shane Tamura ever played in the NFL, including on teams’ practice squads. What caused this state of mind, and to kill because of it?
ClosedNicola asked 4 months ago • 
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What circumstances motivated the attack by a knife-wielding assailant stabbing 11 strangers at a Michigan Wal-Mart on July 26, 2025, leaving 6 in critical condition?
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A news report states: “Nearly a dozen violent assailants equipped with tactical gear and weapons attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, shooting a local law enforcement officer in the process.” Is this just a spontaneous choice of those assailants coming together because of shared political beliefs, or is there a deeper influence involved behind the growing attacks on this branch of law enforcement?
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Zimbardo characterized the Milgram Studies as “Creating Evil Traps for Good People.” Zimbardo extracted ten methods for this: 1. Create a contractual obligation. 2. Give a positive role or title like “teacher.” 3. Present basic rules that “must” be followed – even if vague. 4. Spin the agenda as “positive” – bad-tasting mouthwash “kills germs.” 5. Insist the authority is fully responsible for everything that happens. 6. Start with small acts of evil and work up from there. 7. Keep the amplification of evil so gradual as to hardly be noticeable. 8. Gradually change the nature of the authority from “just” to “unjust” and demanding and even irrational. 9. Make the exit costs high while allowing verbal dissent. And 10. Offer a “big lie” to justify everything. This is clearly a diabolically effective “stacked deck” that Milgram demonstrated works 90% of the time. What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 7 months ago • 
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Zimbardo wrote, “This potential for authority figures to exercise power over subordinates can have disastrous consequences in many domains of life. … Such authority can lead to flight errors when the crew feels forced to accept the “authority’s definition of the situation, even when the authority is wrong.” An investigation of thirty-seven serious plane accidents where there was sufficient data from voice recorders revealed that in 81 percent of these cases, the first officer did not properly monitor or challenge the captain when he made errors. … We may conclude that excessive obedience may cause as many as 25% of all airplane accidents.” What is Creator’s perspective?
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Zimbardo wrote about “the strip search scam.” A con man calls an assistant manager at a fast-food restaurant and claims he is a police officer calling about a theft by an attractive new employee. The caller gives the option of the accused coming to the station or being “strip searched” by a fellow employee. Gradually, more and more degenerate instructions are given until overt sexual acts between employees take place. These sexual activities continue for several hours while they wait for the police to arrive which, of course, never happens. This scam has been carried out successfully in 68 similar fast-food settings in 32 states. This bizarre authority influence in absentia seduces many people. In the end, store personnel are fired, some are charged with crimes, the store is sued, and the victims are seriously distressed. The perpetrator, a former corrections officer, was finally caught and convicted. Zimbardo wrote, “So let us not underestimate the power of ‘authority’ to generate obedience to an extent and of a kind that is hard to fathom.” An assistant manager interviewed by Zimbardo said, “You look back on it, and you say, ‘I wouldn’t a done it.’ But unless you’re put in that situation, at that time, how do you know what you would do? You don’t.” What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 7 months ago • 
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Zimbardo wrote about an Iowa elementary school teacher who wanted to teach her third-grade class about “brotherhood” and “tolerance.” She began her “lesson” by informing her students that people with blue eyes were superior to those with brown eyes. The previously “friendly blue-eyed kids” refused to play with the “bad brown-eyed kids,” and the blue-eyed kids suggested that school officials should be notified that the brown-eyed kids might steal things. Soon fist-fights erupted during recess. The next day she switched and told the class she was wrong, it was really the brown-eyed kids who were superior. Old friendship patterns between children dissolved and were replaced by hostility until the experimental project was ended. The teacher was amazed at the swift and total transformation of so many of her students whom she thought she knew so well. The teacher said, “What had been marvelously cooperative, thoughtful children became nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders … it was ghastly!” What is Creator’s perspective?
ClosedNicola asked 7 months ago • 
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