because i am lazy and have the attention span of a 3 year old, ive had many many inspirings to write but none of them have come to fruition. i am here now at work, with a 100+ page contract to read and find loopholes in.it is this situational circumstance that now motivates me to write surprise surprise.(any way to get away from work hurrah)
so...Osama's dead.shot.killed. and the world rejoices. i think this wrong. the world may be better without the Osamas of the world but there are still(and always will be, albeit sadly) monsters out there.just that their names are not Osama or muhammed or salim and they dont blatantly and audaciously bomb twin towers and mono towers. death is final and complete and real. the death of ANY person. people who die have families. even 'monsters'. an episode of Greys Anatomy once centered around a shooting at a high school. the mother of the young man who'd shot and killed a number of his school-mates cried alone in a corner of the waiting room unable to believe and come to terms with the fact that her son was a murderer. meanwhile, the shooter-kid was on the operating table bleeding and dying from a gunshot wound fired by the Police and some of the doctors refused to operate on him because he was a murderer. while the mother waited for her son. now this is TV. but you know what they say, art imitates life (which i truly believe to be true by the way). to the mother of the killer, the killer is not the killer but the person she gave birth to. i am aware that this might be a poor argument in considering men like Osama Bin Laden. but so often, much too often, we consider ourselves first and too quickly. i am flawed. as are we all. some more so than other. i am screwed up. as are we all. some more so than others. i grieve the absence of grief for the person whose death brought joy to the world. 'the fools we are as men'
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its hard to be objective on this issue. One part of me imagines how Id feel if say, my nephews were victims of Osama. then I'd want him to die the most painful death possible. on the other hand, the guy does have some valid reasons for disliking American policies, though his methods were undeniably abominable.
Maybe its because he wasnt an immediate threat to us, but I hate child rapists more than I hate him.
I think the greatest example to this is the true story of Gladys Staines. While Christians and many other people everywhere were enraged with the brutal murder of Graham Staines and his sons, Gladys Staines forgave the killers of her husband and two sons and prayed that they would repent for their sins and be reformed.
@ ku2: youre right.it would be hard to be objective if say i were directly affected by Osama's 'transgressions'. also, i blogged about the flogging(to death) of the child rapist a while ago here in the land of us christians. im not taking a stand because of any high moral or religious/spiritual ground even.i dont know, its just always seemed wrong to me, taking another persons life.and the ones that do it are the 'monsters'.which begs the question:who are we then really? but i know i kind of stand alone in this 'belief'
@illusionaire: thats very true.so then as maya angelou ...therein lies my(our,americans and all who jubilate when someone dies albeit monster or not) christian lack-if im struck then ill strike back'
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