BREAKING NEWS

double post Yours, ~Nina

Is it really Schadenfreude, or is it more like indifference? That one glances at the screen, unseeing? Does one become numb when exposed to second-hand violence, or does one "feel" it? As far as I know, scientists (neurologists, psychologists etc.) are divided... Really good food for thought, this one. For structural consideration: please take a closer look at the transition from stanza 2 to stanza 3, I think there may be a way to do this more smoothly... Yours, ~Nina

I don't know if we exactly derive *pleasure* (even when cars slow down near the scene of an accident) but that sometimes our lives are so boring, so interminably dull, that something like this keeps us from having to live our dull, boring lives. We feel something once again, if only for a little while. Yet it is human compassion that makes us human. Even animals seem to be gaining on that. If you watch animal planet (a tv show). And then sometimes it's just a slow news day. Great take on today's *breaking news*, Boni. with appreciation, Anna

We in the industrialised nations have grown complacent with abundance, but don't worry Bon, there will be time enough to cry. B

I give you more than any star can shine here on this write Boni...Breaking news sometimes you dont need to even watch it or hear it as you know it exists day to day.. this calamity like many in the past and many more to come in the future are unpreventable as mother earth is shifting..the earth..the waters..the universe......how could you prepare yourself or your loved ones from these devastations.. I know my answer.....I keep that one close to me... There is no preparation for these things in life...they happen and they do swallow us in sometimes. Just like the breaking news does if you so happen to have it on. This however is a harder one to swallow as we know of this country and all they have endured. Death does not pick color, race, ethnic background, gender, age, status, rich, poor, little, big....Death comes like a thief in the night sometimes not knowing when the second hand on the clock will stop....there is no choosing in death like there is in life..so that is why I live to live and live and live as if it is your last second hand on the clock...time..measured...time spent.. well lived and loved...for when death comes....time stands still and time continues on....I have been praying for these folks, mankind folks, human beings, loving people with hearts and souls and my heart goes out to all of them...now if only we could take away the pain of the ones left behind. Great poem Boni. Sincerely and with much love Ms Mona xoxoxoxox

“Pathos” a forgotten sentiment of the primordial brain living with too much brings on the insane - how fine the lines

Man tries but nature wins. Ann. I wrote thinking of that short bit last week and here is a proof ! We have no gods, we have no myths or saviours that can do anything about this, natures unwitting harm is always ready to dash our beliefs and show its might. We are privileged just to have become what we are in this strange and puzzling place called earth, and do what we may, even on the grand scale that modern science affords us, we are helpless at tackling the inevitability of the nature of the universe. Sadly we sigh and weep, even pray, yet we will have no influence on this power, there are no means of changing the very nature of our planet, prone to disasters and catastrophes beyond our power to control. When it comes to science, it does in some small degree tell us of the possibilities of disaster and where they may or will strike, so the best way of avoiding them is to move elsewhere. A sad Amen. So terribly sad but an amen. Love Ann and to your tears dear Bonni.

in seeing any tragedy. You have put your heart into this write and it is strong. It is hard to take in, all those lives lost. Thanks, Love Lyz, XX

looking away is easier :-( the reality of such a staggering loss of life is too hard to bear.lets all just look away and die another die... koki