Explosion in Boston?

[JAWS]

My prayers are with my Boston Brothers and Sisters.

 

[Eli26]

So many people are just focusing on the evil. Wow, got a pretty close-minded comment towards my Facebook comment, that not all human beings are awful/evil. That I can't ignore the evil. How I can tell it to the families of the dead and those who are injured.

Uh huh...

My response...

I choose to look at the evil that happened, and also choose to look at the good that people are doing right now. You know the picture of the guy missing his legs... well look at the picture, what's also in that photo? 3 people rushing to save his life, while risking their own. They aren't 100 percent confident their lives are safe. However, some people can be unselfish in times of crisis. They rise above their own survival instincts and focus on saving the lives of others. If that isn't something of beauty, I don't know what is.

Some of us only choose to see the evil in that graphic image, but ignore the good in it. I hope that particular individual survives. I just wish people weren't tied down to lumping everyone together when they make brash comments that human beings are awful.

Another perspective ...

Patton Oswalt · 155,623 like this.
51 minutes ago ·
Boston. ****ing horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

 

[CelticPredator]

This doesn't make any ****ing sense. Not a single word to really sum it up, except something that probably isn't board appropriate.

I don't get it. I'll never get it.

 

[Eli26]

This doesn't make any ****ing sense. Not a single word to really sum it up, except something that probably isn't board appropriate.

I don't get it. I'll never get it.

What's to get? There is nothing logical to this at all.

 

[CelticPredator]

I'll stick with both. See, there might be more good in the world, but the evil outshine the good almost every day everywhere we go.

That's a product of the media, for sure. But you know what? That's what they're doing. We rarely hear of anything good people are doing. It's always negative, and ****ing evil.
Mass shootings, bombings, attacks, murders....it's all shoved in our faces almost every other day. How do you expect us to react?

 

[CelticPredator]

What's to get? There is nothing logical to this at all.

And that's why it's the worst. Because it makes no ****ing sense. And it's scarier for that.

 

[wyattroa]

This doesn't make any ****ing sense. Not a single word to really sum it up, except something that probably isn't board appropriate.

I don't get it. I'll never get it.

It never does.

I have heard also about a saudi national in custody.

 

[pixletwin]

I appreciate what Eli is saying but I'm not sure that his negativity focusing on people who are focusing on the negativity rather than the positivity is producing any positivity. Hoy vey.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

News on who planted the bombs?

 

[CelticPredator]

It never does.

I have heard also about a saudi national in custody.

I'm not saying it would "make it better" if it made sense. But it's just way to scary when it's just these "random" attacks.

 

[Solidus]

Heard this on the news an hour ago. What an awful incident. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in the Boston area. No one, anywhere, should have to deal with a terrorist attack. Stay safe, those of you from Boston!

 

[Webb]

I had to skip 2 stations,downtown crossing and park street were closed because of this,not a big deal compared to 2 deaths and the dude on wheelchair with no legs.

 

[wyattroa]

anyone watching cbs? They keep replaying video of a black lady laying on the ground after the lift all the debris off them and I am almost positive from my experience she has a piece of wood sticking out of her head and she has no idea.

 

[Kuzeh]

What sucks about situations like this, besides the victims of course, is all the misinformation that the media likes to just get out there to sell panic... makes me sick..

 

[bumblebee]

My thoughts and prayers are with all the victims.

 

[Frank]

Tragic. Not looking forward to all the horror stories sure to come. May the perpetrators be tracked down and justice administered swiftly.

 

[VASith]

What sucks about situations like this, besides the victims of course, is all the misinformation that the media likes to just get out there to sell panic... makes me sick..

I don't think they are trying to sell panic. They are getting thousands of leads and unconfirmed information. it's impossible to give 100% accurate information 2 hours after a terrorist attack.

 

[The Ween]

It never does.

I have heard also about a saudi national in custody.

There is no one in custody, but they are questioning suspects. No one has been arrested.

 

[Blackthornone]

So many people are just focusing on the evil. Wow, got a pretty close-minded comment towards my Facebook comment, that not all human beings are awful/evil. That I can't ignore the evil. How I can tell it to the families of the dead and those who are injured.

Uh huh...

My response...

I choose to look at the evil that happened, and also choose to look at the good that people are doing right now. You know the picture of the guy missing his legs... well look at the picture, what's also in that photo? 3 people rushing to save his life, while risking their own. They aren't 100 percent confident their lives are safe. However, some people can be unselfish in times of crisis. They rise above their own survival instincts and focus on saving the lives of others. If that isn't something of beauty, I don't know what is.

Some of us only choose to see the evil in that graphic image, but ignore the good in it. I hope that particular individual survives. I just wish people weren't tied down to lumping everyone together when they make brash comments that human beings are awful.

Another perspective ...

Patton Oswalt · 155,623 like this.
51 minutes ago ·
Boston. ****ing horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

That dovetails pretty well with the Adrian Veidt approach to peace

 

[a-dev]

You know the picture of the guy missing his legs... well look at the picture, what's also in that photo? 3 people rushing to save his life, while risking their own. They aren't 100 percent confident their lives are safe. However, some people can be unselfish in times of crisis. They rise above their own survival instincts and focus on saving the lives of others. If that isn't something of beauty, I don't know what is.

While that is nice and all I'd rather we be looking at a far less extreme scenario in which to bring it out in people. Whether we should or shouldn't focus on the evil aspect, it is undeniably there - kinda hard not to think about it.