Wednesday 16 March 2011

Gray Day

Some historical events for March 16

597 BC - Capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonians
1190 - Massacre of Jews in York
1968 - My Lai massacre
1988 - Halabja poison gas attack

A day that shows humans up for what we are at our worse. Xenophobic, vicious, power-grabbing, murderous.

We will spend the morning in quiet contemplation. It seems about right.



"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgement."

2 comments :

  1. No all bad though, on this day in 1995 the Mississippi House of Representatives formally abolished slavery, hold on 1995!!, scrub that, let's go with your first thought.

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  2. Just for the record, it is my birthday today. Yet another pestilence to add to your list.

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