It has brought me a lot of comfort hearing from all your replies, thank you.

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QuoteRelaxed is the same as calm. Loving is the same as caring. Well, similar enough anyway. I suppose relaxation is more leisure and absence of negativity, whereas calmness could simply be a resistance to it. I doubt one could love without caring... but I suppose one could care without loving... though it's really just a lesser kind of love...
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quote:Jenadots, I couldn't have worded it better myself! I agree with you completely.
Originally posted by Jenadots
Maybe it is just to remind us that evil does exist within the souls of some people.
And Rastus, by all accounts the terrorists who have done these beheadings are not Iraqi's, they are imports - Jordanians who just happen to see an opportunity to murder Americans. No one invaded Jordan.
I often wonder what men like them pray for 5 times a day. And notice, they select only easy targets. They are not attacking fully armed marine units that can and will fight back. Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies what they have done. No excuse is good enough.
They are evil, personified. Certainly not the only evil in the world, perhaps just the most visible right now.
As to serving a good purpose, just what might that be? The only sadness and outrage over the beheadings - and little it is -- are coming from the victims families and friends, coming from people here in the states who cannot conceive of doing such a thing to another.
Our veneer of civilization is very thin. I agree with that. In essence, we are one nuclear war away from the caves. Who knows what any of us would do to survive - to protect our loved ones, and to keep what little we might have? Fight if attacked, yes. But to drag sleeping people from their beds and them behead them is not self-defense or fighting for a cause. It is simply murder.
Maybe those who committ the beheadings do it because they think they have nothing left to lose, nothing and no one they value enough to want to conduct their lives like more civilized men.
They are not civilized and no good can come from what they do. It certainly doesn't get them much of what they claim they want.
Five minutes after they are dead, what do you suppose goes through their minds/souls, knowing the agony they inflicted on someone else?
I cannot fathom it, and hope I never do anything in this lifetime that will lead me to finding out.
Doesn't mean I don't wonder if it isn't time to start terrorizing the terrorists and their families. Which, of course, would only make things worse. That would make all of us -- well, them.
The real question is how do you stop a fanatic? I don't think anybody really knows.