Re: Planes that exploded inside our bodies

From: James L Piat (piat@JUNO.COM)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 08:39:55 EDT


> Terrorists seem so different, as if they belonged to some other race
> or
> species -- not our own. We desperately want to see them as unrelated
> to ourselves -- to see a holy us versus an unholy them. In reality
> there
> is only an unholy us. But do we dare to cross the borders in the
> heart
> that make it possible to see that?
>
> Jim Forest

Dear Jim, Folks,

Your comments got me to wondering what in myself might cause me to commit
such horrible crimes as we have recently witnessed. I think first of
anger, frustration and despair. And beyond these of insecurity and
hopelessness. Perhaps these acts were in part the result of such
feelings and desire for a way out, revenge and maybe even glory. Of
course these are some of the reason I strike out at others and may not be
related to the recent tragic events. Still I wonder if we relatively
prosperous Western Nations have sufficiently reached out in love and
fellowship to our Moslem brothers in the Middle East. Or have we tended
to discount and reject them? Easy enough to say they are the bad guys
and we are the good guys, but what, if as you suggest, there is good and
bad in us all? What sort of solutions then?

As always, when speaking of these terribly tragic events, I feel
compelled to apologize to the victims and salute the heroic rescuers.
Sadly. Humbly.

        ************
"In all people I see myself; none more and not one a barley-corn less,
And the good or bad I say of myself I say of them."

Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)
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Love,
Jim Piat



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