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Aylee -> RE: Does it bother anyone else the Boston terrorist is 19? (4/20/2013 7:17:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
A 19 year old man child held a major american city hostage yesterday
How do we deal with that ?
Mike, you are aware of my lack of religious leanings, however, there was a prayer (now a hymn as well) widely distributed after World War 2. It is attributed to Saint Francis. This is a situation where I think a prayer actually gives good advice to your question:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
Anyway, in other words, go forth and be a little kinder to someone, be a little more patient with someone, help someone if you can, be a force for good.
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Hell how do we ,as Americans ,understand that ?
Most of us cannot and will not understand. This act was evil. Pure evil.
Despite what the television tells us, monsters are not friendly, the Vikings were not just in need of teenage boy explaining the cuddliness of dragons to them, vampires do not sparkle and take high school algebra, and the perpetrators of atrocious acts of evil are not misunderstood victims.
To understand someone, you have to be able to put yourself in their place. I do not think that you or most Americans can. I know that I cannot. I will never and I never want to understand such evil.
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