(no subject)

[vicarz]

.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20030708/ap_on_re_mi_ea/sudan_plane_crash

"KHARTOUM, Sudan - A Sudanese airliner crashed just outside a Red Sea coast airport minutes after takeoff Tuesday, killing 116 people, officials said. The only survivor was a 2-year-old boy. "

Um, does anyone else think there is a cool movie lurking in this awful event? Combine this with the dead conjoined twins...and you've got a weird version of dead zone, right?

Comments

Re: "Movie"

[tony-laetrile.livejournal.com]

If you're omnipotent, why would you need to grow? Why would totality need to care about 'other' when there is no 'other' in totality?

Weakness and imperfection make the human struggle for growth. Suffering and pain foment the human capacity for compassion. The one area where Nietzsche and Buddha seem to agree.

Still, in the Judaeo-Christian religious tradition, this seems to follow. Jehovah was a capricious, wrathful God, incapable of forgiveness; why should he, after all, it's his sandbox and he can do what he pleases with it. It's only after Christ suffers and is sacrificed that we see the whole God Is Love (TM) paradigm. Suffering breeds compassion. Or, to use more mundane terms, people get more mellow once they have kids, because they finally understand.

Which is all pointless academia to a Zen Atheist Discordian with a side of fries like me, but hey, it's a really beautiful sentiment and a poetic story, and sometimes the sound of the story is worth buying into it, even if you don't believe in the words.