is it like the candles represent something like the soul of the dead ? I also do not understand why you enjoy making yourselves cry all the time and bring sad interviews on t.v.! Are you doing this to make the world feel that you are the only ones suffering in this world when a calamaty hits home?
2007-04-18 03:20:27 · 8 answers · asked by Steven C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We feel sorry for your VA Tech shootings and 9/11 and stuff. But please get over your whining for god sakes. Enough is enough!
2007-04-18 03:23:17 · update #1
America the land of cry babies..I swear you people are such whiners...lol
2007-04-18 03:29:22 · update #2
Pos : The world would just like you to be normal human beings and stop whining all the time. O.k. it was a sad ordeal but do we have to listen to this 24/7? People go through this on a daily basis in Iraq, darfur and other places but you act as if its something new.
2007-04-18 03:32:37 · update #3
I don't think(candles)are a US thing.I see it all over the world.You're right about our whining and carrying on though.It's not for the rest of the world though. Many of us just love being outraged and victimized.Most of us are pretty normal,it's just the whiners are so loud and persistent.Don't judge an entire country by it's most obnoxious.
2007-04-18 03:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. NG 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The VA Tech event was terrible, no doubt about it. Mass murders take place everyday in Iraq. Maybe people can empathize with the sorrow and loss of those people now that one something similar has happened at home. 157 were killed today in Iraq, here is the article:
2007-04-18 10:40:29 · answer #2 · answered by SB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also believe that in this world of sin and evil, the light of candles remind us of Jesus Christ, the light of the world, and our need to be disciples and thereby to let our light shine in the world. Light overcomes darkness. I think it also helps us to know that God suffers with us in our suffering [Isa 63.9]. Evil in both the Old Testament Hebrew and the New Testament Greek comes from words meaning "spoiled". What is it that this word then conveys except that our relationship with God becomes spoiled like rotten fruit when we attempt to live without Him. And God's word teaches us that the only way this relationship can be restored and we can have what the Bible calls peace is to come in faith believing in Jesus Christ, God's solution to evil and the sickness of the human condition.
2007-04-18 10:35:45 · answer #3 · answered by 1ofSelby's 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Uh, it isn't just us with that custom. It came from the Catholics, by the way.
If you don't want to see the interviews,turn off your TV. When we suffer, the entire world does because we happen to be on top right now. And if you don't like that, that's your problem. we have every right to mourn whomever we choose, and you need to shut up at a time like this.
Better yet, like the other guy said, get off your sorry derriere and care for your own people instead of trashing others.
2007-04-18 10:25:15 · answer #4 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Would you rather we came across as blood thirsty barbarians rampaging in the streets every time something we didn't like happened?
2007-04-18 10:25:06 · answer #5 · answered by poseidenneptune 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lighting a candle brings the "Light of Christ" into the situation
2007-04-18 10:23:12 · answer #6 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
How about you care as much about your own people?
2007-04-18 10:24:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Where are you from?
I hope everyone is not as cold as you.
2007-04-18 10:28:52 · answer #8 · answered by Spoken4 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋