My thoughts …
My thoughts are with the victims and their relatives.
A sentence often used, perheaps overused already, but exactly expressing my emotions. I am looking in possibilities how I can help with my limited means at the moment.
I can see no sense in this, just a bitter hate against fathers, mothers and children, against mankind. These terrorists are not fighting a system, they are killing mothers and children. They are to cowardly to fight fighters, so they have to kill woman and children. This is considered a sure way for going to hell in any religion and I really hope thats where they end up. It does not matter if I am religious, these terrorists are and I hope they get every punishment their prophet reserves for killing innocent children.
This are my emotions, at this moment. This is no political statement or anything, just me being very disappointed about mankind. Mankind in general. I do not like the times I live in.
‘I wish it need not happened in my time’, said Frodo.
‘So do I’, said Gandalf, ‘ and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. …’
Tolkien had seen a lot in his life when he wrote LOTR. He saw his dearest friends die in WWI. He survived WWII. He knew what life is like and that sentence stuck in my mind every since I read it the first time, many years before Tolkien was “in” again.
7 July 2005 at 23:06
Commenting: Mindfarm » Blog Archive » My thoughts …
First I thought I wouldn’t write anything about London today and I won’t. I just want to say that I couldn’t have expressed it better than Rainer in his blog entry. I just cannot stand any terrorism…
7 July 2005 at 23:20
“I can see no sense in this, just a bitter hate against fathers, mothers and children, against mankind.”
Hmm, I’ll give you this link. You will probably find it rather inappropriate, but it is true:
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.html
People far away, or even nearby but just outside our sphere see us as a very abstracted persona. “Oh, he’s someone from the suburbs of London? I know how those people are.”
The world we live in as a person has grown to big for our little minds
Anyways, showing them that we ‘here’ are just as human as them ‘there’ is probably the only way to bring the terror acts to a halt. Annoying them with all kinds of obstructions (frozen bankaccounts, infiltration, etc.) will only.. well.. annoy them.
8 July 2005 at 1:09
I do not get the bank account and infiltration stuff, but the article you linked is a nice read.
It is against its own last principle: “And finally, DON’T LET ANYBODY simplify it for you.” but it is interesting nevertheless.
I do not agree with everything, but I do not think the author wants me to
I would write a nice little opinionated pice about it, but it is 1am here, not the time to do any real thinking.
8 July 2005 at 9:30
Ah sorry, that last part is info I got from elsewhere. IMHO all this “War on terrorism” will only bring more hatred. Even those ‘tiny’ things like freezing a bankaccount will just convince them that we are irritating pricks that need to be eleminated.
Caesars saying “Choose your enemies carefully, since you will become like them.” also works the other way around. Throw bombs at them, thereby killing fathers, mothers and children you don’t know, then they will throw bombs at us, thereby killing fathers, mothers and children they don’t know.