Archive for June 9th, 2008
Akiba stabbings!
And posting this video as a response is embarrassing insensitive to such an event. Yeah, sorry about that.
Anyway, getting back on topic…
This is pretty much a response to the inward-looking individuals who suggested that anyone with issues with the world kill themselves.
Whoever gave you the right to decide who lives and who dies? Do you think you’re any better than the guy who decides to flip out and kill people?
News-fucking-flash, people, we all are like him. If we condemn him, we are no better, but worse than him.
Not just worse but a whole lot worse. You fucking hypocrites.
And to those wondering why these things can happen, don’t worry your heads too much over it. We’ve already hit the oil peak and there’s no turning back. Things are going to get steadily worse. It doesn’t matter how supposedly safe any place is. As long as you still walk on this planet you are always exposed to danger.
As for the crime itself, the guy says he was tired of life. Then again, WHO ISN’T. One characteristic of the postmodern society is that everyone is sick of everything. And by everyone I mean EVERYONE. The Christians in the churches, the people on the street, the homeless, disaffected students, people on the Internet, everyone is sick and tired of walking on God’s Green Earth. Even me. I’m quite sick and tired of living too. Living in the shadows of the postmodern era. With it’s doom and gloom and general rejection of the truth as absolute.
As for what to do now I can’t really do anything because anything I do now can and would most likely be interpreted as hypocritical, self-serving and useless. What good is a moment of silence and prayers to the survivors? What good are soothing words to the families of the slain? What good then, is our concern for the slain and injured so far away? Can it help the affected? Can it soothe hurting hearts? Can it bring back the dead? Trust me, the Japanese don’t care and would most probably throw our useless gestures back at us.
The only thing I can do is utter the last words of Francis of Assisi.
Praised be You, my Lord,
through our Sister Bodily Death,
from whom no living man can escape.
Woe to those who die in mortal sin.
Blessed are those whom death will
find in Your most holy willl,
for the second death shall do them no harm.
Yes, the incident is most disgusting and painful, but the attitudes of some of those commenting on it are more hurtful and disgusting than even the horrors of World War 2 and the Holocaust combined. Human bigotry and hypocrisy at it’s finest. I salute thee, den of vipers, for doing what you do best.
And as a gentle (or not) Reminder to Tyrenol: I respectfully implore that you refrain from commenting this time. I know what you will say and I deem it completely unnecessary this time round.
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