When evil inspiration inspires,
James Eagan Holmes, you have no concept of community.
You still have no idea how much hurt you have caused. I don't know whether to be furious at you or to pity you; of whether you are a criminal or a victim.
But I sure am grieved for what you caused!
You have murdered your fellow Americans, betrayed the cause of your citizenships together. You stole the lives of your victims from their loved ones, dishonored their dignity, and humiliated their promise in front of God and your Republic.
(This is all not to mention what hardships you have now undertaken to place on the shoulders of your own family and friends as well as your own loss to the community that sheltered you.)
You sir, have made Colorado a lesser place by your presence in her and now, by your own deficiency, you have delivered yourself in her hands and in the hands of the Justice of thy own Country.
May God be with you and may He show You what you did not show your own brother and sister Americans in that theater.
I love the movies.
I have gone to the movies myself (on many Friday night occasions) with friends and family and am deeply disturbed by your crime.
You should be put in a room by yourself with Old Glory and the flag of Colorado to dwell for years as to what you have failed to do.
For it is what you have chosen to omit in your soul that is your true crime.
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Let us continue to pray
remember your remembrance,
holding true to all things dear,
go the other way.
When the unbelonging beckons,
remember your remembrance,
drawing close to all things near,
go the other way.
James Eagan Holmes, you have no concept of community.
You still have no idea how much hurt you have caused. I don't know whether to be furious at you or to pity you; of whether you are a criminal or a victim.
But I sure am grieved for what you caused!
You have murdered your fellow Americans, betrayed the cause of your citizenships together. You stole the lives of your victims from their loved ones, dishonored their dignity, and humiliated their promise in front of God and your Republic.
(This is all not to mention what hardships you have now undertaken to place on the shoulders of your own family and friends as well as your own loss to the community that sheltered you.)
You sir, have made Colorado a lesser place by your presence in her and now, by your own deficiency, you have delivered yourself in her hands and in the hands of the Justice of thy own Country.
May God be with you and may He show You what you did not show your own brother and sister Americans in that theater.
I love the movies.
I have gone to the movies myself (on many Friday night occasions) with friends and family and am deeply disturbed by your crime.
You should be put in a room by yourself with Old Glory and the flag of Colorado to dwell for years as to what you have failed to do.
For it is what you have chosen to omit in your soul that is your true crime.
---<--@
Let us continue to pray
for the victims and their families.
The hardest part of our remembrance
is always in the finer details, in the littler things,
where the truth is nearest felt.
If the pain is to be understood,
this wounding must be felt (again and again) -
the names have to be known,
their lives have to be glimpsed,
their tragedy re-lived,
their hopes seen and heard,
and their pain embraced.
Only then can the lessons be learned.
Only then can the horror be unlearned.
Only then can the healing be efficacious.
---<--@
A Personal Retrospective -
(20120728)
Cinema is an experience.
What we buy
when we see a "movie"
is this experience.
The product we desire
is an intangible reality that we get to keep (for always)
as (good or even better, better) memories.
The craft of cinema-making
encompasses a wide array of disciplines
that include humanities, arts, literature,
culture, and the sciences.
Film is only
the material for this experience;
theater is only
the medium for this experience;
the cast, the crew, the set, the props,
the time involved and the money invested -
all of these contribute toward this one event
so that when a ticket is purchased
or a licensed record is bought,
everything comes together.
We enjoy the experience of the "movies".
And since
this is an (intimately human) experience,
it tends to transcend physical (temporal) limitations.
- selah -
Now then,
when I was watching
the latest Batman movie,
from 10,000 miles away
here in the Philippines,
I kept on looking
at the fire exit
to the right of the screen.
Being conscious
of what had recently happened in Colorado,
I can not help but be this way.
(I wasn't afraid or anything, I was just conscious).
However,
since I love this experience
and I understand it - a whole lot more.
I simply will not let that nutcase blow it.
(Excuse me but that's what I told myself).
So I got my money's worth.
And Anne Hathaway frikkin' rocked.
Simply awesome.
---<--@
The hardest part of our remembrance
is always in the finer details, in the littler things,
where the truth is nearest felt.
If the pain is to be understood,
this wounding must be felt (again and again) -
the names have to be known,
their lives have to be glimpsed,
their tragedy re-lived,
their hopes seen and heard,
and their pain embraced.
Only then can the lessons be learned.
Only then can the horror be unlearned.
Only then can the healing be efficacious.
---<--@
A Personal Retrospective -
(20120728)
Cinema is an experience.
What we buy
when we see a "movie"
is this experience.
The product we desire
is an intangible reality that we get to keep (for always)
as (good or even better, better) memories.
The craft of cinema-making
encompasses a wide array of disciplines
that include humanities, arts, literature,
culture, and the sciences.
Film is only
the material for this experience;
theater is only
the medium for this experience;
the cast, the crew, the set, the props,
the time involved and the money invested -
all of these contribute toward this one event
so that when a ticket is purchased
or a licensed record is bought,
everything comes together.
We enjoy the experience of the "movies".
And since
this is an (intimately human) experience,
it tends to transcend physical (temporal) limitations.
- selah -
Now then,
when I was watching
the latest Batman movie,
from 10,000 miles away
here in the Philippines,
I kept on looking
at the fire exit
to the right of the screen.
Being conscious
of what had recently happened in Colorado,
I can not help but be this way.
(I wasn't afraid or anything, I was just conscious).
However,
since I love this experience
and I understand it - a whole lot more.
I simply will not let that nutcase blow it.
(Excuse me but that's what I told myself).
So I got my money's worth.
And Anne Hathaway frikkin' rocked.
Simply awesome.
---<--@