The Eternal Incompetence of the Terrorist – Boston Marathon Tragedy #3

by | Apr 18, 2013 | Boston Marathon Tragedy - 2013, Isaac Asimov | 0 comments

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Competent

Here is how the Boston Marathon terrorist or terrorists were competent:

  • They succeeded in making bombs that blew up, killed and wounded people.
Incompetent

Here is how the Boston Marathon terrorists were and are incompetent:

  • They failed to figure out how to have an effective and peaceful voice that actually could get something positive done in society.  
  • They failed to learn how to rally for a cause they believed in while still maintaining a loving and caring attitude towards those around them.  
  • They failed to critically think and analyze what it was they were being taught.
  • They failed to understand history and the repeated failure of terrorist after terrorist to accomplish their goal.
  • They  failed to think with any creativity about how they could achieve their goals without violence.
  • They failed to have faith in how things can change and move forward without violence.
  • They failed to understand that their means are not justified, no matter what their ends are.
The list can go on and on.  What would you add?
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman
 
Quote by Isaac Asimov,  1920-1992, Russian-born American writer
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Impotent Hate, Potent Love – Boston Marathon Tragedy #1

by | Apr 16, 2013 | Anais Nin, Boston Marathon Tragedy - 2013 | 0 comments

In remembrance of  violence, no.  In remembrance of love, yes.

Impotent Hate

Can you barely see the quote?  That’s because it’s hardly possible to see clearly in the ‘fog of war’.  It seems scarcely possible to see anything else when blood is all around. It seems beyond possible to hear love when hate is so loud.  

Potent Love

But barely does not mean can’t.  We can see love. Always triumphant, always victorious in the end.  That’s because violence is a symptom of impotence. Though it seems so powerful at that moment, so strong, so hard to overcome, it can’t sustain itself.  It falls because it is a lack of power, a lack of ability that led to it, not the opposite.  

Love on the other hand is the essence of power itself. It is power. It is potency.  It is capability. It is triumph.  Always.

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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, a runner.

Quote by Anais Nin, 1903-1977,  French writer

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