Theos-Talk Archives (September 2004 Message tt00258)

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From: "Iain" <ibse03888@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 11:46 PM
Subject: Theos-World beslan-has mankind learned anything?


> In response to the letters on the horrific massacre at Beslan. Has mankind 
> learned anything from history?From pre stone-age times man has set upon 
> others to dominate,subdue or annialate "enemy" or those that are 
> different. In modern times man continues in that same mind-frame.Looking 
> through the history books,the bible and other contemporary documents 
> reveals that no matter what point of view that a group,family, 
> nation,continent or whatever,if they are of the opinion that they 
> are"right" or their cause is "just" then they can do as they please with 
> impunity and with religious blessing and absolution .Each 
> nation,group,clan or whatever is guilty of massacre, inhuman treatment, 
> torture &etc.
> of some kind. Why people do such acts is perhaps not as complex as it may 
> seem. Those who perpetrate such crimes as well as those who instruct those 
> to carry out these"deeds" have probably been not been accepted by their 
> own people whether family or the community that they dwell. in short they 
> lack of love. Love in its many forms.look at the perpetrators background, 
> there is rejection,and non-acceptance.For an example Thomas Hamilton , who 
> massacred those young kids at DUNBLANE, SCOTLAND, was a "loner" he was 
> totally rejected by the community, the way he took his "revenge" on the 
> society was to harm the children he abused kids on adventure camps, he 
> targeted young people.The warning signs were there but no-one seemed to 
> know how to deal with him.The Police were aware of him, reports were made 
> to higher authorities, they recommended the cancellation of his gun 
> licence and the confiscation of his weapons.This was rejected with 
> horrific consequences.The lack of love and understanding was significant 
> .He was a difficult,awkward,inward looking man,the community did not know 
> how to communicate with him.his revenge on society was through the 
> children.
> In the Bible the slaughter of the innocents by Herod also similarly 
> Pharaoh and the story of Moses is well known, but do not forget the wisdom 
> of Solomon and the disputed baby story.
> For terrorism to work it needs to feed on fear and maximum exposure of the 
> media,for this to succeed,soft targets have to be selected.The Moscow 
> Theatre hostage siege cost a lot of lives, the Russian frame of thought 
> was that no matter what the cost to the hostages in the theatre the 
> hostage-takers must be crushed.Things went wrong the loss of life should 
> have been much lower than predicted but the hostage -takers were 
> wiped-out.At Beslan we see a very soft target,Civilization maintains that 
> children should not be party to warfare. The terrorists showed scant 
> regard to this "accepted unwritten rule of war" with such devastating 
> result It is starting to become clearer from the survivors that no matter 
> what was going to happen these innocent kids were going to be 
> destroyed.For the effect at permanently damaging the parents and other 
> relatives of the area.
> What happened here is evil,it is wrong,I cannot find the words to condemn 
> those who think nothingoftaking a life in a callous cruel manner.My 
> heart,goes out to all those people who have suffered a loss,those young 
> lives never getting a chance for fulfilment to develop their potential. To 
> all those who will endure the pain for the rest of their lives,physical 
> and mentally.Let us all take time to send them our healing thoughts.
> We must try in our theosophical ways to try to change the world 
> perception. To change for the good,the attitude that it is some how great 
> or noble to die for one's religion,should we perhaps try to get people to 
> live for their beliefs and to understand and respect the other's point of 
> view.
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