That tortured soul held in bondage in such a dark place could be any one of us but for the grace of God. A human being driven to carnage and the ultimate evil by a set of circumstances and variables accentuated by a crumbling society. I pity his soul, no doubt agonizing on some other plane of existence because of one kind word here or there.

Imagine the dismay and utter shock of the innocent onces as they were being subjected to something quite outside their sphere of experience. A very evil force is at work in such things and in our delicate little world too.

So, tomorrow we must all go out and smile at someone who is not smiling back, give $10 to some person who obviously has nothing (and yes each of us knows who does and does not), say a prayer so that someone besides ourselves suffers a little less and do that every day. That is the answer, love each other and do your best every day.

As an aside, one of the authors on our blog wrote this post about the VT tragedy, I had left it until my very last duty of the day and was not really sure if it was right to say anything. This writer chose to write one paragraph about how terrible it all was and 3 or 4 more about how Web 2.0 was so amazing for all of its tender and loving support for the VT people.

It was wrong, so very wrong to even mention a business or newspaper or Web whatever in the same sentence so close to the events having taken place. There is something that being older and having eyes provides a person. That is the blessing of having seen true excellence here and there, and also the sorrow of watching millions of people make the same stupid mistakes we did 30 years ago.

How can we all share so much and not recognize and hold up what we all know it true? I never cease to be amazed at our continual medieval nature. For those here I apologize for any offense anyone has taken at my words, for they were not meant in that way. Just smile and say, I understand, even if you don’t.
Always, Phil

Honoring the dead, I understand,

Inaction to prevent this from happening again disgust me.

You really wonder why this happened and why it will happen again?
What will you be doing in between?
What will all the silent ones be doing in between?

How about, after your day of silence, honoring all of the dead, so many of them by taking actions? Did you ever wrote a letter to your congressman stressing that something should be done? That mentally ill children’s should not have such an easy access to firearms?

I was in fury when I read that the people surrending the shooter were absolutely not surprise that it was he who killed so many, yet teachers, student and so many more chose to be blind at the sight of despair, chose to not act and they waited and waited until it finally exploded and it was too late.

In a society where people refuse to engage in conversation about mental illness and suicide this, sadly, will happen again and again.

Turn off your TV and think for a second, you really believe that a broken heart kills so many innocent? If you are still wondering let me give you the answer, NO it doesn’t. The shooter was mentally ill and no one did a thing about it because, we the people, refuse to see it and that is what I am against!

People will mourn for one day and them go on with their life still wondering why such a thing can happen and patiently wait until the next massacre.

Not changing subject, but moving on..

The evil empire of the NRA “seriously” proposed that student should be armed in school so, when the next shooter comes to them they will be able to defend themselves. More guns?!

Who is to stop them? The silent mourning majority?

It is so much easier to find excuse not to do something them to actually act and that is what I am against!

I really hope that your day of silence will not go unheard but I have doubts..

Wishing you the best! You are a good person most of you are but the good people need to speak up from time to time!

Sexy Mom, it is very generous of you to post the content of your entry here. It is, indeed a valuable opinion that will certainly benefit ma readers. Thank you very much! I’ll do my best to repay the favor once.

For the benefit of your readers, I am repeating what I wrote in my site:
I will not delve on the details of how the shooting happened, and the mourning not only of relatives and friends of the victims, but of the whole world as well. That is too much to bear for me. Moreover, many have written about it already.

I would only like to think of the “What if”. What if he were a blogger? Would he have done the same? I am inclined to say, maybe not. If he were a blogger, he would have diverted his energies and negative thoughts into writing. He would have vent his anger in the blogosphere. Blogging would have been an outlet. Bloggers may be alone, they may be lonely, but they can reach out to others. They also have other people reaching out to them at the click of a mouse. Blogfriends are just a click or even a chat away.

If he had surfed he net, he would have found that there were other people who were in a more miserable state. Maybe, he could even have sympthized with other people who are in the same helpless frame of mind.

Love!!!

Thanks for this beautiful post.

I also wanted to let you know that I have awarded you the “thinking blogger award” in my blog…you deserve it…

Maria