Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan Murdered

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I'm really ANGRY about the Bhutto killing. These things effect us all, just like evil acts close at home. Just when there seemed some hope about good coming out of the gov't turmoil in Pakistan...

I don't even follow the daily sludge of the news anymore.
The local news and too many "sensationews" outlets like to rub it
in yur face. But I can't keep silent about big events like these in
the world's "boiling points". oOo oOo


oOo But here's my question(s), my dialogue, with myself: oOo

IF people are mostly "good / in good condition" - whole - complete
- then what's broken, corrupt, killed, evil, horrible etc. is
considered the exception and news-worthy... oOo but it doesn't help much,
its overwhelming and depressing, so "knowing about it" tends to make
us worse off.

IF people are mostly "bad / in awful situations" - hurting and
hateful, broken, destructive, maimed, etc. - then the good that
happens is *neglected* as being trivial, irrelevant. Or, is it so
routine, normal and uninteresting? oOo So we only get reports of the bad,
which reinforces our perceptions of horribleness. Thanks again, news
guys.

oOo And, I try to answer myself: oOo

I disagree on both counts: the world around us is basically good, even if WE are messed up and bad-off, and we should have reminders to see and celebrate the way things ARE - the good around us - IN SPITE of ourselves and what other messed up people do/ don't do! WE humans are the ones out of sync with reality: the way life IS!

Instead of wallowing in how bad things are - oOo [ which, as a side
note, is what most media, movies, music, art, literature, self-expression,
entertainment, gaming, etc. does. Or, artists and entertainers try to create
diversions for us, so we can ignore and avoid confronting how bad things are- ] oOo

WE should *conform ourselves* to the way the world is to be, and
stop listening to how bad things are. oOo oOo


That said, we should remain OUTRAGED when evil-- like any of these
killings, hateful, hurtful acts-- is done.

Can we pray- and not seek revenge- but seek to do "something" to
overcome these ways people behave and act, which *ruins* the world
for the rest of us?!

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oOo So from first being angry, now I feel numb, and I grieve. oOo

And I haven't even begun to talk about ours/ yours and my own complicity
with how screwed up life is; or how I, in my own messed-up state,
contributes to the brokenness of the world. oOo oOo

Lord have mercy-- Christmas and it's peace didn't last very long, did it?

Welcome, "Happy New Year"!