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toldailytopic: Black Friday Madness: What compels people to beat each other up over a $2 waffle maker?






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Nick M

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Covet, envy, in a nutshell. You also need to lack any moral fiber to go through with fighting over what you want.
 
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Stupidity and greed ...

Oh and maybe they don't realize that frozen waffles are much easier to prepare and clean up after. :)
 
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THERE'S $2.00 WAFFLE MAKERS!!!! :noway:

Where?? Tell me where! Tell me right now!!!
 
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Extreme consumerism, pent-up frustration and anger from a huge range of other factors, and the tendency to treat competition as confrontation and confrontation as conflict.
 
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I blame Obama. If he hadn't destroyed the economy, people would have more money and wouldn't need to kill each other over $2 waffle makers. :plain:
 
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Remember that we are dealing with human animals, here, whose veneer of compassion, morality, and piety, is thin, indeed. When greed rears its head, expediency rules. When they are smiling each other to pieces on Sunday, they will not remember the blood which was spilt today. Some "redeemed" humans are too good to be guilty.
 
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The 'me' first mentality. People have been taught in the last 50 years to put themselves first. America is now suffering from the 'I' disease. People often think of themselves first without considering the consequences it has for others.

When Christ is removed from public life, what is left--self. When self is all that is left, people start to behave like animals. This fight over a $2.00 toaster isn't the first time people have behaved in animal fashion on Black Friday. In 2008 a Walmart worker on long Island New York was trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers- behaving more like a mass of sharks during a feeding frenzy. It is only with the influence of Christian principles in public life that our culture can rise above this animalistic behavior.
 
Nick M

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Occupy Wal Mart?

The woman at the beginning reaches in somebody else's cart and takes the waffle maker. Pause at 2 seconds. She is in a black coat/shirt, with a white shirt underneath with sideways stripes.

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Nick M said:
Occupy Wal Mart?

The woman at the beginning reaches in somebody else's cart and takes the waffle maker. Pause at 2 seconds. She is in a black coat/shirt, with a white shirt underneath with sideways stripes.

Heathens
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The fat lady in the blue shirt thinks it is a Moonlight madness sale :chuckle:
 
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I don't know what compels them to do that, but I've gone almost every year I could remember and have never encountered that. I know it happens, but have never witnessed it. If anything, I think what causes it is the desire to get more for less money, or to be able tohave that one device or toy that you couldn't afford any other day, like a TV. It's all greed I suppose.

I went last night, just to buy a Kindle Fire and I didn't even have to wait until midnight for it and it was normal price. I just wanted to see the madness unfold and there were so many people out it was ridiculous.

Half the people I saw that I knew, I know don't have jobs. They always complain about not being able to find a job when I talk with them, yet I saw them with carts full of everything. Xbox 360s, laptops, and all kinds of toys. Almost everyone had the same things in their carts. I think that is just as sad as the violence.
 
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Madness.


Especially since there is literally NOTHING stopping stores from ramping up the prices to horrific levels the night before, then putting them back to normal on Black Friday with "90% OFF!" stickers all over the place.

If I couldn't afford it at regular price, I probably shouldn't be buying it at a "reduced" price.

Especially since most of the stuff I want to buy can be bought online for a much lower price than the stores offer, without having to use gas to go get them and come back.
 
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Adam said:
It's not only a departure from Christ, but also a departure from Christian culture. 50 years ago, I've heard that non-Christians acted better in public than most Christians do today.

I've been cataloguing these videos last year and now this year.

http://blackfridayblackhearts.blogspot.com
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Good job on the videos Adam. It might be just a matter of time before stores build towers to have sharpshooting security personnel picking off those that are STOMPING on pregnant women that fall to the ground during the mad rush to save a buck. (Gerald, you're in charge of that project).

Just out of curiousity, where did you hear that secularists and atheists acted better in public 50 years ago than Christians did?

If so, they were borrowing Christian ethics, as secularists and atheists don't have any doctrine of their own when it comes to manners.
 
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