In Your Mercy, Lord, Hear Our Prayer.

In your mercy, Lord, hear our prayer.

I can almost smell the flowers....so beautiful!

A very wise man indeed.

“A small knowledge of history depresses one with the sense of the everlasting mass and weight of human iniquity: old, old, dreary, endless repetitive unchanging incurable wickedness. All towns, all villages, all habitations of men — sinks! And at the same time one knows that there is always good: much more hidden, much less clearly discerned, seldom breaking out into recognizable, visible, beauties of word or deed or face – not even when in fact sanctity, far greater than the visible advertised wickedness, is really there.”

— JRR Tolkien (via magpie-trove)

The Same people who do the Same thing and who get the Same result and then blame everyone else.

9-11 is the same as 10-07.

Radicalized Muslims randomly terrorizing and killing.

The US War on Terror.

Israel's War on Terror. They are no different.

Think about that. Stop cheering and marching on behalf of terrorism. You didn't march on behalf of the Taliban, did you?

I dare you to watch this, all of it, and tell me these people were innocent or just defending themselves, or whatever nonsense you can come up with. This was a planned, first degree, slaughter of innocent people by murderers with no conscience. And they had the audacity to film this for posterity. How would your country respond if this happened to your people?

Edouard Léon Cortès (detail)