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solice
5th July 2003, 10:57 PM
ok, those of you who know me probably think that i am the most pesemistic person in the world, you know the one that always thinks the glass is half empty and the sun never shines. but today i cried. i actually cried.

woke up around 12.30 this afternoon, got my cornflakes and sat down in front of the tv, just setting into my daily 5 hour marathon on sky news. neways it came up as a breaking news flash, 2 suicide bombers in moscow, 16 people dead if not more, dozens injured, physically and emotionally. it was at a rock concert and the people went there for a good time and now some of them are dead.
then i got sick of that doom and gloom so i went outside to read the paper (now i say read but really all it was was a quick scance through the headlines and pictures). it was the examiner, some where near the center, far away from the front page was a picture of a shite muslim mosque after a bomb went off. there were bodies everywhere, pools of blood on the floor and blood covering the walls. in the center was 2 men, they were hugging eachother in support, one had his back to the camera and the other had his face to it, the anguish, pain, suffering and shock on his face made me cry.

we read and see reports of attrocities in the newspapers and on tv every day. has anyone remembered what happened in the moscow theater last year or the kursk tragedy. does anyone in the world give two shi*s about what is happening in africa, not just aids but the most unbelievable bloody and brutal civil wars. what about mugabe, do any of us actually give a dam. what about the hostility closer to home, come the 12th of this month northern ireland will be a hot bed of secterain bigots (republican and loyalist). what about colombine, or does anyone know that last week a student in germany did the same thing but luckily only 1 person died, himself. september the 11th and its aftermath, guantamano bay. needless and bloody wars in afghanistan (poorest country in the world) and iraq (where is the wmd). there is so much pain in the world, so much violence and suffering at the hands of men.

i love humanity, i just hate people.

odyssey_scot
6th July 2003, 12:10 AM
I hear ya.

On the note of Orangemen,
11 o clock this morn I wake up to the weird sound of banging drums and some kinda chanting. Look out the window and of course theres an Orange march going past (this is glasgow after all).
Now I don't particularly mind loyalty to your crown (my gf is a loyalist after all. the glasgow kind tho, that means not yer Ulster loyalist, UVF type, but the british "i love me country" kind), but there was some nasty people out there watching the march (not taking part in it). They seemed to be doing more a display of superiority, rather than the celebration of Britishness that the marchers were doing.
(tho I am somewhat confused as to what one could celebrate about being British, but shur leave them at it. lol)

Making sure I wasnt wearing anything that was in anyway green, I made my way across the town (cos ALL the shops near me were shut in case of trouble), I saw several fights break out among the swarms of union jacks.
All these people draped in the colours of the United Kingdom, fists in the air.
Is this the kinda thing that kids should be seeing as they grow up? Is anything ever going to change?

I know all cultures have their own celebrations, but this particular type of one is tainted with some bad history, and with the hatred of some young hooligans that ruin it for everyone

as for the rest of the world, and the madness, sometimes I just wonder why it has to happen. An intelligent species intent on eliminating itself, thats how it seems...

damien
6th July 2003, 03:10 AM
Gods sake. Theres 5 billion people in the world. The earth is a few billion years old and mankind is only really around for a few thousand years. We are evolving but slowly cos thats the way evolution works. The world is getting better daily when you look at the bigger picture.

Allowing the daily grind to get you down is weak when you realise that you will be hit with a personal tradgedy in your life. Who gives a fuck about people in Russia if you find out your best mate is dying of cancer or that you may never see brothers and sisters again.

People got over tragedy and advanced the world (and still do) by not taking everything to heart and getting upset. Wallowing in your own self pity masked as sadness for the world means you are wasting your precious talents as a member of an evolving society. The world needs people to think postively and to say "yes its upsetting but now we are going to do something so this will not happen again"

odyssey_scot
6th July 2003, 03:31 AM
is that not what I said in my post?

I mean those people attending the march affect MY life, so I personally don't think I'm complaining about something that isnt about me. Half of me mates are loyalists, so we're all having to reassess our own prejudices, them about the irish, and myself about the British.
And damien, I have very recently had a personal tragedy in my life, but does that mean I have to not care about the rest of the world. Do try not to be so cynical sometimes, eh?

solice
6th July 2003, 08:29 PM
we got the indo today, the song "true colors" by cyndi lauper cheered me up

Bootyzilla
11th July 2003, 02:40 PM
I agree with Damien and Tank Girl. The only reason we think everything is getting worse is because now we have the information available to us. We're not so bad, as a species.

Solice, I feel like you do sometimes. Mostly after my Mother has been on the phone but still. All we can ever be responsible for in this life is ourselves and how we react to things. Let injustices and atrocities make you angry, let them allow you to react, if you like, but don't let them bring you down.

Now, all together
'Happy talk, keep talking, happy talk,
Talk about things you like to do....'

(Retch)