Prayers

[AllisonofHouston]

What a sad day for Boston..lets all say a prayer for the families effected by the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon..what an awful thing to happen ..breaks my heart

[Beau Derierre]

Very sad.

[AllisonofHouston]

thanks babe for not turning this into something ugly...

[yardbird74]

Very sad - I'm getting most of the information just now as I've been working away all day. Just utterly horrifying.

Not to be cynical, but I've already started the countdown till the R's and D's of Washington turn this into a political pointing of fingers. I've got my sick bag next to me in preparation for that happening.

[Brooke Wilde]

The world we live in is getting crazier by the day. I wonder how things will be in 20 years.

[Trey]

It was a north Korean missile

Let's take a vote on who done it.

1. White dudes
2. Muslims
3. Some New group

I'm thinking white dude. I can't think of anyone else who would plant a bomb like that one. What do yall think?

[yardbird74]

This is from Patton Oswalt and it's probably one of the most well said reactions to today's events:

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

[Russ38]

This shit....on top of gold prices plummeting today is really fucked up....Last thing the stock market needed right now.

[BatteriesNotIncluded]

Very sad, indeed. My heart and prayers go out to those affected.

My uneducated guess us domestic "terrorism" but we will learn more in the days to come.

[zme]

My uneducated guess is that in the first place it is relatively sophisticated for domestic terrorism (multiple synchronized bombings with IED's). And it is an unlikely target for a domestic terrorist as targeting the marathon does not suit any particular agenda on the right or the left. It would appear to me that the goal was just to spread fear and insecurity by targeting highly visible easy targets. That seems to match the pattern of specific foreign terrorist groups.

[dearhunter]

Originally Posted by trey

It was a north Korean missile

Let's take a vote on who done it.

1. White dudes
2. Muslims
3. Some New group

I'm thinking white dude. I can't think of anyone else who would plant a bomb like that one. What do yall think?

A new group of white muslims........ALLAH AKBAR

[YoHou]

Originally Posted by trey

It was a north Korean missile

Let's take a vote on who done it.

1. White dudes
2. Muslims
3. Some New group

I'm thinking white dude. I can't think of anyone else who would plant a bomb like that one. What do yall think?

4chan beat you to it:

[Sarunga]

Originally Posted by yardbird74

We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil.

True.

[Super Head 713]

Such a tragic

[zme]

Originally Posted by yardbird74

...
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

This is very true, but here is the unfortunate paradox - while most people are inherently good, the good in them is often brought out by acts of evil like the Boston bombing.
Do you remember how the nation came together after 9/11? It was not too long after that that we went to sniping and politics in congress, the nation being driven into paralysis and fault-finding between right and left, etc.
You can be certain that for a while we will come together for a while and eventually revert into a familiar pattern of ineffectiveness. Not that political/ethic/racial etc. divisions should not exist. They can exist but they should not get in the way of us ultimately acting together as a nation - because what unites us is far greater than that which separates us. As many differences of opinion as I might have with my neighbor down the street they pale in comparison to our common differences with terrorist groups that hate our guts and want to see us destroyed.
Reminds me of the Elie Wiesel quote (I think): The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.
Evil really does not need most people to be helping it. It just needs most people to be hanging around passively or fighting each other, the evil people will take care of the rest.