"I want to ask you, what makes people do this? What makes people build bombs? Take guns and shoot innocent people? Harm innocent people? Do those people even have feelings anymore? Are they still humans?"

Oh they are still humans, and they too have feelings. There was a story I read on that I'll share with you. There was a father of this little girl, and the little girl needed a heart transplant in order to survive, but the father didn't have a job and couldn't pay for it.(He was also divorced)  So what did he do? He went to the Black Market to do dirty work, but got payed heavily. So people like him go in and have the question forced upon them, Save your little girl and let some random people die, or let the only thing you love die? (or another difficult question) The father I believe got caught and went to jail, but the girl had her transplant. 

Also, people are raised in some really bad spots of town, (or I could say just a really bad town >.>) and grow up thinking "Others don't matter, they have my stuff I just need to label yet" So it isn't really their fault, as they weren't raised to see killing as bad, or cops as friendlies.  Hope this helps.

It is hard to say in individual cases, people have there own reasons for doing the things they do, but it is a huge mistake to make the assumption that those who do these things are irrational.

The actions might be driven by hate, fear, or anger perhaps, but I believe it's seldom out of irrationality.

If you care to hear what I think, I believe this is all a result from a deprivation of hope in the world.  Lack of hope that life, love, joy, or pain matters - and that can give a person sanction to do anything at any cost.

Some people believe what they are doing is justified. How is a very diverse subject. Some extremists claim they are justified by God. And notice I'm just saying God not Muslim or Christian. Because the Westboro Baptist Church says God made those bombs go of because of Massachusetts allowing "Fag" marriage. If you truly believe these things then you feel like the feelings and opinions of people who don't think like you do are insignificant. Some people are just crazy and have no sense of attachment. These are people who have no conscience and thus do not feel threatened when the laws we all agree to abide by as citizens are being enforced. It is being assumed that this is possibly homegrown terrorism because of the construction of the bomb. I know this is going to sound like a terrible thing to say but i hope it is. If this were an Al-Qaeda/Taliban attack it would have been much worse more people would have died and those explosions would have been much larger. You see what they do in places they attack. The bombs they make can destroy entire buildings and vehicles. This one was more "look it up on the internet" type of deal. I dunno why people feel the need to hurt others. But at least we all as humans can agree that murder is wrong....

These things affect us negatively-emotionally by reminding us of our own mortality. But don't do that. Don't look into the darkness unless you've learned to handle it or want to handle it. (Ayahuasca has shown me that fear of death is baseless, but it didn't sink in as much as I'd have preferred.)

People do cruel stuff out of fear, and because they're afraid, they're looking for allies, which would be other fearful people. They also try to convince others to adopt the same fears.

It is brave to be touched by compassion and grieve over lives lost, but there's a short jump from that into hatred.

It's nothing personal, so to speak. People will act based on past experiences, and they can only be helped if they make new experiences that don't validate their fearful reality, which requires other people's compassionate actions. Some are too deeply controlled by their fears though and will see any sign of love as a threat.

Also, as a sidenote, many horrible events in the world are not perpetrated by those the corporate media wants us to believe. They're committed by people who become fanatic because they yearn for more control, and since they gained control by making people afraid, they have to manufacture new enemies.

that was a sad day but good blog entry