“ What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with? ”
The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.
~ Dave Cullen
You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself.
Reverend Don Marxhausen disagreed with all the riffs on Satan. He saw two boys with hate in their eyes and assault weapons in their hands. He saw a society that needed to figure out how and why - fast. Blaming Satan was just letting them off easy, he felt, and copping out on our responsibility to investigate. The end of days fantasy was even more infuriating.
The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.
