This photo from the Russian School brings me to tears

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/international/europe/03CND-RUSS.html?hp

"After the school siege ended,
a mother grieved
over her dead child."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. I do hope...

That the perps and their associates have some appreciation of what they have unleashed against themselves. This may be their swan song.

Putin ain't gonna worry about rebuilding lives and homes and economies.

[Skittles]

2. *sniff*

I will never understand this world

[underseasurveyor]

7. Me either :-(

:-(

[madaboutharry]

3. Oh, that is so sad.

It hurts just to look.

[The Doctor.]

4. ...

“Our rage has no place on this Earth, for it is on this Earth that we are given it. It s our rage in heaven that will be heard and those who brought it on Earth shall receive it in Heaven.”

[The Doctor.]

5. The most remarkable thing just happened...

After posting I looked back at the image... and such a thing welled up in me that I cannot describe it's gravitas.

I explored the very rage I proclaimed did not belong on Earth.

Such a beautiful and wild Hate... crystalline and pure.

Sensing something, my wife's little dacshund came running up to my chair and bounded onto my lap. He began licking my face furiously until I laughed uncontrollably...

Yes my little friend, such things on this Earth do not belong.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. very nice, Doc

uplifting

[EDT]

6. We humans are a violent animal- that pic could be from our past or future

When I read about the Crusades, I think how horrible people were so long ago, but it still continues today.

That scene will be repeated until we exterminate ourselves for some perfectly logical reason in the future, or the planet decides it's time to hit the reset button on us.

[The Doctor.]

12. There is hope...

The day will come when we have the opportunity to take hold of our own evolution.

Should that eventuality occur before our annihilation, we will perhaps be saved.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. God help us all. This world is no better than it was

2000 years ago.

[YankeeFan]

9. Where were the human shields?

They are very good at protecting everything that is not a target.

[Swede]

10. This is horror at it's worst.

[underseasurveyor]

15. no words

:cry:

[anarchy1999]

13. I've yet to put my mind around this. Why in any God's name would

children be used in this manner. My heart is breaking, beyond my understanding of what is human. It is incomprehensible to me. Kids! Babies, 1st day of School. Something is really wrong here, I'm not quite sure yet what it is, but I know there is something more to this story.

Please, I don't care what your faith is, or if you have no faith at all, something here is horrifically wrong. Just another "shock & awe" moment, I guess.

[indigobusiness]

14. Wage Peace...Stop the Madness

A war on war...now.

Weaponry does not make us safe...it only breeds this...



God damn the warmongers!