July 22nd 2011. The day my country lost her virginity...
I realy have no words strong enough to express how I feel tonight. At this hour we count 92 dead. Mostly teens. Killed by an insane masmurderer at a political summercamp at Utøya. Just about an hour before he had blown up the government buildings in Oslo.
Oh, I'll admitt it. I thought it was an Islamic activist at first. I realy did. But he was not. He turned out to be a fullblooded Norwegian christian, conservative, rightwinged, racist..
So know this: Terrorism comes in all shapes, and from all kinds of sick people. It does't matter if you are a muslim or a christian..a sick mind has nothing to do with religion. It just hides behind it!
We in this little peaceful corner of the world have been shaken firmly in our belives in freedom. We must not let this get to us!! We must not let it put an end to true and free democrasy. He can harm us, and even kill us, but he can't kill whats inside the people of Norway! We are united in this belive! We are strong, and we will grow even stronger from this!!
But please....take some time to remember...even a masmurderer are somebodys child...
Pray for his folks as well as for the victims and their familys.
Love Ravn.
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Ravn - We all grieve for Norway and her people. I always thought that with age comes wisdom, but I've been on this planet for 51 years and I am only more confused and stupefied each time something like this occurs.
If it made ANY kind of sense . . . but it doesn't. No cause, no god, no grievance or wrong justifies bombs, shooting, or flying airplanes into buildings. No god would demand that of a follower - no god that I would pay attention to anyway.
Yes - we need to pray for all -these people are born from us, our consciousness and our culture. Perhaps the next step is to figure out what WE can do to arrest that process.
Much love to you,
Firethorne
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