It's funny

[weemel]

It's funny how 21st century human beings are meant to be civilised, priding ourselves on being "nice" and "decent", yet 700 can be killed in a stampede. Like in The Island where "the only thing you can be sure of is that people will do anything they can to survive." Or in The War of the Worlds where people hold others at gun point in order to steal

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[lost_in_chaos]

I find it strange that things such as Hurricanes are noted under 'Acts of God' in insurance terms, whether the insuree believes in God or not. Surely if they don't believe in God they are perfectly within their rights to claim compensation for 'natural disasters' as such?

Although I'm not a firm believer, if I ask God for something, and occasionally I do, without really thinking about it, I also tend to say 'thank you'. It's only for silly things like if I'm late for work and can't find my keys and say 'Please let me find them' and then I do, then I cast my eyes upward and say 'thank you!'

The thing about human beings is that we watch the violence and we simply accept it. We put it down to 'well, it's not in my neighbourhood people died, I guess that's just the way things go' - then when something happens, like that little boy Rory being kidnapped and killed, everyone is in an uproar because 'oh my goodness, how could that happen right on our doorstep?'

We are lulled into this false sense of security, with movies and television, that they are simply either for entertainment or for information.

I don't remember where I was going with that last bit, but my point of it still stands so I'll leave it in.

I'm going off to bed now, goodnight! xx

[weemel]

"We are lulled into this false sense of security, with movies and television, that they are simply either for entertainment or for information." Yeah i think so =(

Randomly came across this quote yesterday: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thanks for the comment =)