Unlike the AW death, this is a true tragedy deserving of our sympathies. I hate to see truely innocent people lost like this.
I can't help but feel for the families right now.
Norway's Sad Tragedy
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I am said for them! Around here if you buy 1 tone of fertilazer you have the government siffing down your back
and every thing over a certen # of bags is reported....
i am also worried. It has been pointed out Canada is one of the few NATO countrys that has not been attacked. to me it's not if but when
i am also worried. It has been pointed out Canada is one of the few NATO countrys that has not been attacked. to me it's not if but when
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I agree. Those poor families.. i cant imagine what they are going through right now.
I agree. Those poor families.. i cant imagine what they are going through right now.
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Chicken crazed, wish I could give you a big hug that would just squeeze all that sort of thinking out of you, never to return. If you have a concern about someone near you actually really hurting you, there are people who can help you.
If it is more like a general fear, from dreams, there are also people who can help reassure you. It is amazing how much better a person feels if they share what is bothering them with a friend.
The whole answer, though, is complicated. It is easy to get afraid when one reads about terrible things in the news. However, with so many billions of people in the world you have to remember that all sorts of things do happen out there. It doesn't mean it will happen to you.
I have thought about it a lot as some bad things have happened in my family.
But what I realized is that in life people simply learn to be strong, they learn to pick themselves back up and live again.
I have often said to myself, 'I can't handle this, I can't take it, it's too much'.
And then I just do.
The really amazing thing about people - yes all people - is that they learn to get up again. The sun comes up again, and we start over. We all learn, not just survive, but feel better again, and love again and be happy again, and go on to do wonderful, amazing things.
The real miracle is that we can get strength from so many amazing things around us, from our faith, from our family, from those who love us and those we love, from going on a hike in a forest and surrounding ourselves with the peace of nature, from something as simple as sitting and petting a dog, and having the dog gaze up at us as if that dog understood everything we have ever felt.
All these things are given to us, amazing things, incredible things, unbelievable things. Great things like a gigantic waterfall, and little things like a bird's nest, or a complete stranger holding open a door for us, for no reason, just to be kind.
When you see all the wonderful things in the world, they give you strength, and you will know that you can overcome anything.
Chicken crazed, wish I could give you a big hug that would just squeeze all that sort of thinking out of you, never to return. If you have a concern about someone near you actually really hurting you, there are people who can help you.
If it is more like a general fear, from dreams, there are also people who can help reassure you. It is amazing how much better a person feels if they share what is bothering them with a friend.
The whole answer, though, is complicated. It is easy to get afraid when one reads about terrible things in the news. However, with so many billions of people in the world you have to remember that all sorts of things do happen out there. It doesn't mean it will happen to you.
I have thought about it a lot as some bad things have happened in my family.
But what I realized is that in life people simply learn to be strong, they learn to pick themselves back up and live again.
I have often said to myself, 'I can't handle this, I can't take it, it's too much'.
And then I just do.
The really amazing thing about people - yes all people - is that they learn to get up again. The sun comes up again, and we start over. We all learn, not just survive, but feel better again, and love again and be happy again, and go on to do wonderful, amazing things.
The real miracle is that we can get strength from so many amazing things around us, from our faith, from our family, from those who love us and those we love, from going on a hike in a forest and surrounding ourselves with the peace of nature, from something as simple as sitting and petting a dog, and having the dog gaze up at us as if that dog understood everything we have ever felt.
All these things are given to us, amazing things, incredible things, unbelievable things. Great things like a gigantic waterfall, and little things like a bird's nest, or a complete stranger holding open a door for us, for no reason, just to be kind.
When you see all the wonderful things in the world, they give you strength, and you will know that you can overcome anything.
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I understood on the first broadcasts that it was a combined terriost thing. Are they saying now it was two individual things? I am still amased our country hasn't had any more things like this happen. We are over do I'm afraid.
It's a lot like that killing at the McDonalds down in San Diego years ago. That guy killed like 53 people. Amazing when people snap like that. The guy at the McDonalds was just a little off though and just needed to kill a bunch of people. This guy sounds like he had a reason. Guess we'll know soon enough.
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It's good they do that. We learned a serious lesson about what fertilizer can be used for here. Good thing Canada is on top of it.
It's good they do that. We learned a serious lesson about what fertilizer can be used for here. Good thing Canada is on top of it.
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I feel that Amy Winehouse's death is a tragedy too, but it is a tragedy of a very, very different kind.
Close to 100 different people, perhaps even more, died in the Norway tragedy. There was no reason for any of them to die. The killer appears to have worked alone. He appears to have been an extremist. He is associated with a political group, but his actions and statements are not those of a mentally healthy person. He won't be found innocent, but if he is mentally disturbed, it may mean that Norway needs mental health care reforms.
Amy Winehouse's death, many people have a hard time feeling very bad about. They say, 'she chose to destroy herself'. I am not really sure how much 'choice' is involved in alcohol and drug addictions, but I do know it is nearly impossible to force people to stick with rehabilitation.
Not so very different, really, is a terrorist.
Close to 100 different people, perhaps even more, died in the Norway tragedy. There was no reason for any of them to die. The killer appears to have worked alone. He appears to have been an extremist. He is associated with a political group, but his actions and statements are not those of a mentally healthy person. He won't be found innocent, but if he is mentally disturbed, it may mean that Norway needs mental health care reforms.
Amy Winehouse's death, many people have a hard time feeling very bad about. They say, 'she chose to destroy herself'. I am not really sure how much 'choice' is involved in alcohol and drug addictions, but I do know it is nearly impossible to force people to stick with rehabilitation.
Not so very different, really, is a terrorist.
It was one person - he set the bombs off in Oslo, and then went 20 miles west to the island camp, dressed as a police officer, and started mowing down the kids, even as they tried to swim off the island. So far it looks like 7 killed in the bombing, but 80+ in the island shooting - mostly teens.
This is a pretty good article about the man who did it:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-capital-of-oslo/story-e6frg6so-1226100619876
This is a pretty good article about the man who did it:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-capital-of-oslo/story-e6frg6so-1226100619876
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