'Tis now I am ashamed...

[serai]

...to be human.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4502950/


What the fuck is WRONG with you people? Why the hell can't any of you just fucking GET ALONG? I don't give a flying fuck at a rolling donut how tough it is not having your own little fucking country, or how mean it is that you don't get to speak your language, or how chopped up your fucking ego is at not being Grand Poobah of Upper Buttcrack.

You don't DO this shit to INNOCENT PEOPLE!!

My SISTER lives over there! Now I gotta worry about some fucking nut wiring a bomb to something that might come within 50 yards of her, goddamnit!!

Fucking assholes! Not just the Al-Quaida. Fucking ETA, fucking McVeigh, fucking all you pricks who raise a hand against FUCKING PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER DONE YOU ANY FUCKING HARM!!!

Days like this I fucking HATE MY SPECIES!! Why the fuck am I here? What the fuck is the point of going on with this fucking game? What is the fucking point of caring when these shithead ape descendants always resort to this disgusting hatred? Why, Goddess, why??

Comments

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

And the Goddess just says "Why not?" Not at all helpful or comforting but it's all the answer you'll ever get if you ask. Where were you when I made the world. Not even the very wise can see all ends. Etcetera, etcetera.

Me, I just go with the most classic, most profound piece of truth and wisdom I've ever heard, which is "Life is pain." I know that, I've accepted it, and I go on as best I can. Asking 'why?' will only make a person crazy.

I feel for you, Serai, and my thoughts are with you and your sister.

baser instincts vs the better angels of our nature...

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you! I don't have answers...such hatred and evil exhibited today...I'm not sure how to fight against it. The world is so small now; qualifiers like "over there" or "over here" are meaningless. We are all vulnerable, we are all affected. I called my dad first thing this morning, from work, to find out if he'd seen the news or been in touch with anyone yet. He had no idea what had happened...he'd only just woken up. So I had him call my grandmother as soon as possible. My family is mostly in Granada, but my uncle is frequently in Madrid on business trips, and I have several friends who study there. I was frightened for them. Chance could have put any of them in harm's way today, including your sister. Just as easily, chance may put one of us in harm's way here in the States. I may not have lost a friend or relative today, but that doesn't stop the grief at such suffering. I was horrified to hear on the news a few more bombs had been discovered and diffused which had been set to go off just as rescue workers were arriving. How sick!
We don't know who is behind this yet, but at the heart of it, that doesn't matter...whatever the politico-religious excuses used to justify today's atrocity, the true root is hatred, nihilism, and despair. It's those forces we have to fight every day, on the small scale of our interpersonal relationships...maybe, just maybe, the small actions we carry out in our day to day lives will ripple out as a magnified force against the destructive drives in our human nature.

[empressaurelius.livejournal.com]

Oooh, hon, I totally know what you mean. It gets very hard sometimes to number oneself amongst homo sapiens.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Oh, fuck. *hugs you hard*

I have no idea what to say. I just mean... oh, fuck.

*hugs*

[isildae.livejournal.com]

Shit happens because it was meant to happen, and then its up to us to pick the pieces. Sad but true.

the monsters

[goldilocks-took.livejournal.com]

are not us love, they may have the similiar DNA but their fucking souls are barren

why do they have more power to destroy than we have to create, that I don't know
thousands of lives torn apart in a flash what took generations to create gone
You are hear for a reason Serai, you have a beautiful soul, I don't believe you've ever lived your life as a game, you are much to real

I love you hon, am sending prayers to you and your sister

Goldie

Off Topic: Feminist_Rant

[deoridhe.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I could not reply to you there as I have (apparently) finally been banned. I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to post my response to you that would have been there here, even though it is grievously off topic.

Post:
Oh, please do [friend me back]! Actually, if you read back a bit in my journal you'll find a few of my rants; feel free to comment. I wish I got more feedback/disagreement on some of my ideas and so would welcome anyone inspired to do so!

As for the whole troll issue... there was one joke that was in poor taste, given this was a forum I was unfamiliar with; in the future I'll mind more closely to my etiquette! People tend to throw troll around a lot - as it is a nicely inflammatory statement - and I don't mind being tarred with it. I'd rather be called a troll than called boring or opinionless!

I'm a new feminist - or post feminist by what one of the chicks back at Fandom_Wank was saying (since it's already out that we spoke about this there, I no longer feel the need to not mention my affiliation; as a rule, though, we take care to not mention FW when responding to a discussion). You might want to check out the threads there as well; some interesting discussion broke out amongst the lot of us.