With Wesak comes Enlightenment for MENJ?
May 01, 2007 in General
I am finally, finally in a good mood today. The day started off great, and then it started to turn really bad and I came home really tired and pissed… until something happened and made me believe that everything will turn out well, eventually.
You see, I don't usually visit PPS, but today when I did, of all things, I saw this most interesting thing.
WOOO… HOO!!! All the 5 blogs owned by our resident strange-man with a penchant for doing his beloved religion disjustice had decided to do a sudden moment of silence. Well of course, MENJ claims (based on the stickers) it's due to the Virginia Tech killings, something that many bloggers have chosen to note with a moment of silence.
Others like me, we choose to talk about the killings and think about why those people actually happened to do what they did. Why people kill? Why quiet, peaceful looking, docile Asian kids can suddenly run berserk and shoot down friends and teachers? Why ordinary, educated young men can suddenly start to kill neighbours?
How come pious conservative individuals can give up their lives to drive airplanes into buildings?
Why do people like MENJ say the things they say on their blogs?
How on earth did he accumulate that kind of repertoire until it has become his second nature? I look in, focus in, and I agree, I'm mean and evil in too many occasions, I've called some innocent unassuming readers 'stupid, arrogant and under-read', but I don't ever go to the extent of calling someone 'a god-damned son of a whore you ugly mother fucker'.
Ouch. I actually flinched just typing that. It can be occasionally amusing to type 'fuck you to the world' while making pathetic reasons like 'it's my period' (which by the way, today IS my period day). Being a loaded foul-mouthed person while claiming to a bitch at the same time just isn't the same as being a loaded foul-mouthed person AND attesting to love a religion of peace.
I dunno… I was thinking about the Virginia Tech killings and then all the strange things that have driven people up the crazy wall to the extent of going extremely far…. and then seeing MENJ's site and his one day claim of silence just makes me grow hope. It's like… OMG he's human after all.
Oh oh oh! And I think it's great that he's decided to mark a day of silence when it also happens to be Wesak Day. So folks, here's to having a very peaceful and happy Wesak Day! Let's hope MENJ eventually moves into enlightenment.
And hey, don't laugh. There can be miracles when you believe, you know?