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Thread: Je Suis Pulse
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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Early this morning at a night club in Orlando, Florida, 50 people were killed and 53 hospitalized by a lone gunman spraying bullets into the crowd. Pulse, the nightclub, caters to gay men, so this appears to be a hate crime and is being called "Domestic Terrorism" perhaps in part because the shooter, although American-born, has ties to Islamic extremists.
I started this thread to commemorate the dead and lift up the wounded and their families, not to argue about Islam or homosexuality or gun control.
May their memories be eternal. May their loved ones find solace.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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It's been a weepy day. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Prayers for all who were killed or injured, and for those who mourn.
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~Tortuf
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Martin60
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# 368
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How long, oh Lord, are you going to leave us in the mouth of our helpless madness?
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Nicolemr
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# 28
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No words to say.
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Posts: 11803 | From: New York City "The City Carries On" | Registered: May 2001
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713
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America's Gay community, especially in Orlando, their families and friends.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Mili
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# 3254
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So horrifying. I kept hoping the number of those killed would be under twenty, but it turned out to be so much worse ![[Frown]](frown.gif) Praying for all the family, friends and survivors and that this doesn't give other violent people ideas for copycat crimes.
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Golden Key
Shipmate
# 1468
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and that anyone thinking about doing this kind of thing will get help and get well, rather than harming anyone.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001
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Piglet
Islander
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for the people of Orlando, for healing for the injured and comfort for those who mourn, and for the souls of those who were killed.
Rest eternal grant unto them, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon them.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
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My nephew in Orlando ( who is straight but not narrow, and sometimes parties with his gay friends) used a Facebook app to let everyone on his friends list his status was "safe" . ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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for all on the margins
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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ElaineC
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
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Evangeline
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# 7002
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So sad, such senseless slaughter families, friends and all in Orlando.
Posts: 2871 | From: "A capsule of modernity afloat in a wild sea" | Registered: May 2004
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jacobsen
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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ThunderBunk
Stone cold idiot
# 15579
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Feels so inadequate, especially when one shares the relevant characteristic.
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Currently mostly furious, and occasionally foolish. Normal service may resume eventually. Or it may not. And remember children, "feiern ist wichtig".
Foolish, potentially deranged witterings
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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It was good to see politicians of all the main political parties at the Soho vigil in London.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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Barnabas62
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Who is it that you seek? How then shall we live? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
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duchess
Ship's Blue Blooded Lady
# 2764
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I'm freaked out and unable to process their death and what appears to be an unrelated freakish death of the young singer gunned down in Orlando too the day before. Thank God the LA Pride terrorist guy was stopped.
I am unable to process this.
I keep think of Depeche modes song...
I can't understand what makes a man hate another man, help me understand.
[ 14. June 2016, 03:59: Message edited by: duchess ]
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Posts: 11197 | From: Do you know the way? | Registered: May 2002
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saysay
Ship's Praying Mantis
# 6645
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"It's been a long day without you, my friend
I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
"'Oh sweet baby purple Jesus' - that's a direct quote from a 9 year old - shoutout to purple Jesus."
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BabyWombat
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# 18552
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May the angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs receive you at your arrival and lead you to the holy city Jerusalem. May choirs of angels receive you and with Lazarus, once poor, may you have eternal rest.
A week of mourning in our house for brothers and sisters never met but now gone……. Knowing that had such occurred years ago it may have been us….. made worse by an interfaith vigil that was more about Islamophobia than Homophobia. As one of two out gay clergy there was torn between more tears or anger. I opted for tears…… the other for anger…..
Sad all ‘round.
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Let us, with a gladsome mind…..
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