Monday, September 06, 2004
The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance
The weather this weekend has been simply remarkable - clear blue skies, blood red sunsets, and air you can actually inhale without anaesthetising half the cilia in your respiratory tract. Hmm, must've been less Londoners in over the weekend too. heh.
Naturally I spent my day baking in the park (am now at distinct danger of developing a skin malignancy) and studying for the Big Day tuesday, which from the looks of it is going to be a huge flop. Anyhow, I was riding my on own little cloud of sunsickness and euphoria till I went to church, and found out about this. One of the major disadvantages of not owning a telly or radio is not being plugged into the loop. I'd been wondering what the headlines meant all weekend : "school under siege".
Sigh.
It's a sad, cynical, selfish world we live in when hundreds of innocent people are injured and hundreds die, so that people can make a point.
It's not about what you say anymore, but about how loudly you say it.
Somewhere in the sermon the priest said "Christians are the shock-absorbers of society. We are called not to strike back."
And so we are - turn the other cheek. It's just... so hard to, when one cheek has been blown into tiny pieces of charred flesh.
God rest them all.
Naturally I spent my day baking in the park (am now at distinct danger of developing a skin malignancy) and studying for the Big Day tuesday, which from the looks of it is going to be a huge flop. Anyhow, I was riding my on own little cloud of sunsickness and euphoria till I went to church, and found out about this. One of the major disadvantages of not owning a telly or radio is not being plugged into the loop. I'd been wondering what the headlines meant all weekend : "school under siege".
Sigh.
It's a sad, cynical, selfish world we live in when hundreds of innocent people are injured and hundreds die, so that people can make a point.
It's not about what you say anymore, but about how loudly you say it.
Somewhere in the sermon the priest said "Christians are the shock-absorbers of society. We are called not to strike back."
And so we are - turn the other cheek. It's just... so hard to, when one cheek has been blown into tiny pieces of charred flesh.
God rest them all.
