Mumbai there is Hope.

So. There's been some blog radio silence on my end recently. Few reasons for this, some like to play mindsweeper and use blogs rather than simply enjoy them. *Yawn* Oh well.

So we've all had our share of bombardment by now of the Mumbai terror incident. I'll sum up my reaction by quoting Fred Gallagher here: "A failure of Conscience". These types of events affect us all, indeed. But how does one cope with it?

Well, here's one for people who did feel somewhat angry about this. This goes to anyone whose families were affected by it, it's a simple message.

As a Pakistani born Canadian, this type of nonsense is obviously somewhat upsetting. Some Muslim branded puppeteers feel these scenarios are acceptable human behaviour. A shame. Their errors will lead them to demise, fate basically works that way.

Since the event, I've overheard maybe 4 separate conversations where a Mulsim dude was trying to convince people "Y'know... The world is crazy right now, we're not really like that"... No one will listen unless the puppetmasters change. (Or just go on vacation, err like forever!)

The deeper part:

- Let us share our condolences with the victims

- Let this remind us that these acts are those of Mad people. In the real sense of the term.

Example: killing yourself+team+150 hotel guests = 40 virgins someday (if that) for you.

(nice spiritual selflessness there, eh?)

- There is a different Jihad. (uh oh... noooot good....)

It's just the internal struggle of quelling the anger, deleting the frustration and accessing that urge to fight back and keeping it cool. If we don't?

- It´s actually possible to refuse evil. I know in the past I´ve discussed that there's no such thing and we should instead think in terms of harmful/harmless, but these folks are nuts and they need it written in black n white +__+

Hope for the rest of 2009? Well... Obama! Heh... Ok, let´s try another one: Gaza.

*sigh* well here´s the thing, people who love peace and justice, harmony and progress, who care for humanity and our future have really got to avoid some mental pitfalls. Here´s one example:

hipster123 says:

¨Dude, Obama already solved all our problems, or almost, so we can really go back to focusing on our Apps and myPhones. In fact, no need for serious voter turn out 4 years from now at all. Reason? Voting is for chumps and people with too much free time, speaking of which, I´m gonna go smoke a blunt followed by a crackachino.¨

That mentality really won´t get us where we want (some day) to be. Let´s not forget all those billion-dollar-budget toting uberconservatives, lobby groups, military contractors, special interest groups, intel communities and the rest of the old schoolders who are used to doing things their way. Peace is a long friggin road, yes it´s not always fun reading the news, but we need to so we can make the right voting decisions next time.

Hang in there people, and have a great spring break!

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