Do You Fear Evil?

Truthfully, I think all men fear evil. I think they deal with it differently. In one sense, I think the Right in America fears it and so wants to wipe it out.

I think the Left prefers to not acknowledge it. But it is impossible to be rational and not know that it is out there. There's simply too much evidence to support that claim. Yet, the Left would rather view it all as some political stunt, as opposed to acknowledging the reality of our current confrontation with terrorism on a global scale.

Do you know anyone whose Sept. 11 fears have returned? Someone with a sick feeling and a tightening of the chest, bordering on panic? Someone distraught or perhaps just withdrawn and distracted in the past few days? 

Comments

[oldtimer]

The fear has never left. Now that fear is even more intense. I fear we are doomed by PC and the left denying that there is a problem. I am so tired of hearing about the majority of muslems are peace loving, have see no proof. [sorry about first post,my kitty hit the keyboard]

[Rick]

I keep hearing about people whose lives changed on 9-11-01, our world has changed and all that BS. Damn I envy them!! What must it have been like to walk in the sunshine of a "safe world" without evil. I got my first real look at evil over thirty years ago when I watched, helpless, from the sidelines as Khmer Rouge shelled a refuge column trying to get to Thailand.Even still I never concerned myself much with commies until the Clinton adminsitration anyway. I did get to see other evil, the absolute worst we can do to each other and remain more concerned about who moves in down the street than any taliban fighter. I also think that Columbia deserves more to be "realigned" than Iraq ever did. You're far more likely to turn the wrong corner in East L.A. and never be seen again than to meet a homicide bomber on an air plane. Yet we continue to fight the war to increase revenue from drug dealers under the pretense of iradicating the drug problem. Sad, sad world and now Islamofacists get warm fuzzies from the same leftists who've done no good in this country since disegregation. They ruined that grand idea too. One wonders though if they will pull their heads from the sand when terrorism gets bad enough that they cant even go to a Starbucks in Podunck, Illinois without worrying if every school kids back pack in there is loaded with C-4.

[chrys]

Despair travels like "Water Torture" in drips, plops and gulps. Problem is - the disagreement on what evil actually is.

[Draegn]

Despair travels like "Water Torture" in drips, plops and gulps. Problem is - the disagreement on what evil actually is.

Posted by: chrys | Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 06:40 PM

There is no such thing as evil, or good for that matter. Both are subjective to individual point of view. No matter what decision concering that which is good or evil is made, there will always be someone who disagrees with it. All one needs to do is to worry about one's self and live with the consequences of thier decisions.

[Rick]

"There is no such thing as evil"

Spoken like someone who obviously never met a child who'd been raped and tortured by a parent.

[Doc]

"There is no such thing as evil"
Draegn, you live in an alternate universe.
Just about as "real" as the movie The Matrix.
I grew up in Southwest Detroit, and walked
many of its streets from Downtown to Clark Park
at midnight and just about everything in between.
I am 44 (soon to be 45). Half the people I
grew up with are either dead or in jail. We
play a game I doubt you ever heard of.
When friends see each other from time to time
at funerals and such, we routinely ask, is
so and so "in" or "out" or dead or alive,
or simply the walking dead (crack-heads).
Not all of them were bad. Actually many were
"good people". In their life, they unfortunately
encountered Evil Incarnate (psycho boyfriends,
or happened to be at the wrong place at the
wrong time). At any rate, while working 40
to 60 hours per week for the last 16 years
I have managed to raise a family in Dearborn,
Michigan Nice neighborhood actually.
You HAVE heard of Dearborn haven't you?
More Islamic fascists here than any place
in the US. All I am trying to point out
(in a rather verbose fashion) is that evil
is just about everywhere. You just choose not
to acknowledge it. As for "worrying about
ones self" that is a very selfish point of
view. Believe it or not, we are all in this
together, and will "rise above it all,
or drown in our own shit". --George Clinton

[lookin4info]

Ok, think back to that day, Sept 11, 2001. It was a great day. Beautiful, was it not?
I was blow drying my hair that morning, I will never forget it. My husband was getting ready to go to work. He called me and said D'.look at this". I watched in horror. We didn't know until a few hrs later that my husbands brother was in the south tower. He was FF GS, he died that day, trying to help people.
I remember driving up there, from FL where we live. All the bridges and over passes had American Flags hanging over them. It was the most incredible thing I've ever seen. We cried all the way from FL to NY. I remember driving past Fish Kill, still burning.. This was our own people, our loved ones. They came to OUR COUNTRY and DID THIS!!!
If I could tell you what it was like to go to that funeral. You wouldn't believe it. There were little kids standing on the side of the road saluting as the cars wenr by.It was the most horrific day of my life to see, to be in it, living it. I never cried so much in my life. It is now the coming of the anniversay again. We are once again, not ready. We have no choice however. Since 9/11 we have gone back up to NY, this yr we're staying home. They have dedicated a bench in our park for my brother in law. We will go there, set off some balloons and say a prayer.
I cannot believe that people do not remember what happened that day. Folks, it doesn't have to be NY, it could be any place.

[Suziq]

We shouldn't forget 9-11, or Oklahoma City, or any other acts of terrorism. It would be dangerous to do so. I'm personally on edge over the fact that Iran's president has chosen August 22nd (a matrydom Islamic holy day), to make his decision regarding nuclear weapons. The missing students who couldn't find their way a few miles down the road to a University but could find their way across the country. The two seperate cell phone incidents and the bombing plot on planes over the Atlantic. My personal alert level is right back up where it was when 9-11 happened.

[David Blue]

"Truthfully, I think all men fear evil."

Truthfully, some men seem to love it.

Aren't "Did Hezbollah Do The Unthinkable?" and "A Demonstration In Palestine" enough to make that point?

This is something awful, something we must never give way to.

We have to fight on and never quit till that evil is beaten or we are gone.

[lookin4info]

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