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Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Interesting that other people are so protective of their junk. I mean.... I like my downstairs machinery well enough, but I don't have any more qualms about a surgical procedure or a needle down there than having my tonsils out or something.
Post by
MyTie
Not an article, exactly, but about the saturation of Boston Massacre coverage. I just watched a news reporter talking about the various vehicles that the military have parked at the sight of the bombing. He pointed out a U Haul they were using as an information cache. I don't understand why we need to see that? I think that
this
saturation level just encourages evil people who want attention.
Post by
Magician22773
WOW.
Crazy
explosion
in Waco, TX.
(Turn volume DOWN on the video)
I really hope this is just coincidence that this is the 20th anniversary of the Waco Branch Davidian incident. I realize that these explosions happen from time to time in these plants, but the timing and location are enough to at least raise an eyebrow.
Post by
MyTie
Does anyone else think it is shameful that Obama is using the Newtown victim's families, and therefore the victims themselves, as political capitol to try and pass legislation that wouldn't have prevented the event in the first place? I knew he was going to invoke gun control into it, but I thought it was especially low to put victim families up on stage while he lectured about gun control. Then, he had one of the family members
give his weekly radio address
. He is milking these people for all they are worth. I find that abhorrent.
Post by
Magician22773
He did not use
all
of the parents from Newton for political capitol.
I am sure
this
man's invitation just got lost in the mail.
Post by
MyTie
I've been reading articles done by this guy I heard on the radio, who seems to have a pretty sound grasp on economic issues. I'll leave
this one
here, which pertains to the hypocrisy of Obama declaring April a financial education month, at the same time as pushing legislation to help people with bad credit get home loans.
Post by
MyTie
Some Pakistani arabs celebrate bombing of Boston.
Post by
asakawa
* Palestinian.
Post by
Patty
Some Pakistani arabs celebrate bombing of Boston.
Whilst that's obviously disgusting, the first thing that jumped at me was how
bad
the article actually was. And yeah, there's more than 3,000km between Gaza and Pakistan. :p
Post by
MyTie
Some Pakistani arabs celebrate bombing of Boston.
Whilst that's obviously disgusting, the first thing that jumped at me was how
bad
the article actually was. And yeah, there's more than 3,000km between Gaza and Pakistan. :p
Lol. Was tired when I typed it. Meant Palestine.
Some Pakistani arabs celebrate bombing of Boston.
It's a matter of perspective.
From our comfortable untroubled existance it is distasteful but if you or I were living in Gaza at the moment, then our views might be different. The only people who have the right to say that it is wrong are those who are experiencing the miserable existance called life in Gaza.
If you have been following the news regarding Margaret Thatchers death in the UK you might have seen that people were celebrating her death. As somebody who suffered greatly under her time in power, I could see where they were coming from but I decided not to take part in the celebrations. If her death had been nearer the time she was in power, then it would have been a different story and I would have celebrated but now I just treated her death with indifference.
An 8 year old kid was torn to pieces by an explosion. A matter of perspective? Margret Thatcher?
Post by
Monday
Some Pakistani arabs celebrate bombing of Boston.
It's a matter of perspective.
From our comfortable untroubled existance it is distasteful but if you or I were living in Gaza at the moment, then our views might be different. The only people who have the right to say that it is wrong are those who are experiencing the miserable existance called life in Gaza.
If you have been following the news regarding Margaret Thatchers death in the UK you might have seen that people were celebrating her death. As somebody who suffered greatly under her time in power, I could see where they were coming from but I decided not to take part in the celebrations. If her death had been nearer the time she was in power, then it would have been a different story and I would have celebrated but now I just treated her death with indifference.
... did you seriously just try to justify joy over a terroristic attack? The bombing had nothing to do with Gaza, nor with Arabs at all. It was done by Chechens.
This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in awhile.
Post by
MyTie
This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in awhile.
Agreed. I didn't even dignify it with an explanation. I just went "pffft" and moved on.
Post by
Rystrave
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_uX1RczgQA
I watched it happen live and had to go back to make sure I heard it right. I lol'd so hard. There's a lot of people upset about it, though. It happens.
Edit: NSFW.
Post by
MyTie
Abortion Doctor trial by and large ignored by media.
Post by
asakawa
This is one of the most disgusting things I've read in awhile.
If you don't believe people are born good or evil then one has to ask oneself, what kind of life does someone have to lead to take them to a point where celebrating a terrorist attack would be a normal or even a righteous thing. The only answer I can conceive is that it would take a painful and miserable life and probably one which is heavily guided by a corrupt governing body (political, religious or both at the same time) utilising all manner of propaganda.
As such I don't find it impossible to find compassion for people who would do something like celebrate the recent terrorism. I don't find it difficult to, at once, find it terrible and yet be compassionate for them. The phrase that sort of sums up what
civgw
is saying is "there but for the grace of god, go I". I don't find the need for a faith for this phrase to be powerful and pertinent.
That point aside, I also think it's exploitative news-mongering to find someone in the world with an extreme viewpoint about a terrible event and to then bring it back to the show the victims of the atrocity.
Post by
Magician22773
I also think it's exploitative news-mongering to find someone in the world with an extreme viewpoint about a terrible event
But it wasn't a
"someone"
, it was, at the very least, a significant portion of a group of people, who like to portray themselves as the victims of Zionist aggression, yet will dance in the streets and hand out cookies and candy over the deaths of innocent women and children.
I can 'understand' the viewpoint of the bombers family, no matter how ludicrous it may be, that their children were somehow "innocent" (nevermind that the older brother had a suicide vest on, while shooting at, and being shot by, the police, and subsequently run over and killed by his younger brother)...people like that, I can have some form of compassion for. No parent wants to admit their child was a murderous monster.
But when a group of people (maybe not a nation as a whole) celebrate the terrorist killings of an 8 yr old, I have no compassion for them.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
I can understand it. From their perspective we've been arming the people who have been killing their children for years. I may or may not agree with, support, or commend them, but I do understand.
Post by
Magician22773
From my perspective, muslims have been blowing things up and killing Americans for years. Would you have the same empathy if Americans cheered and passed out snacks when a suicide bomber blows up a market in Syria?
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Of course. I try to empathize with everyone. We live in a cruel, painful world, where people suffer. Sometimes people deal with it heroically, other times they cope with is quietly, and occasionally they just can't take anymore strike back with hatred and anger. It's a tragedy and it hurts me inside, but I will always try to respond with empathy and love. I don't always succeed -- I'm just as human as anyone else, after all, and these things affect me too -- but it's what I believe in, and it's what I strive for.
Post by
MyTie
From my perspective, muslims have been blowing things up and killing Americans for years. Would you have the same empathy if Americans cheered and passed out snacks when a suicide bomber blows up a market in Syria?No, Magician, because that would be neither "trendy" nor "cultural".I try to empathize with everyone.
Look, in the end, there might be some empathetic logical conclusion that I could reach if I tried to see this from their point of view. Perhaps. But, I won't bother trying to see that train of thought out. I will not allow myself to see it from their perspective. An 8 year old kid was blown up. Dead. No more birthdays. No graduation. No wedding day. No kids. No more sunsets nor sunrises. Dead. Someone out there may celebrate that, but I don't give a &*!@ how they justify it. That train of though, is absolute evil. I never rationalize it when kids are killed, or civilians are intentionally targeted, much less celebrate it.
So, yeah, maybe there is some reasoning in it. But, $%^& that, and &*!@ them. A kid is dead. I don't try to empathize with the soulless animal that rejoices in that fact. That would lower me.
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