tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post4567693805146871894..comments2024-03-11T19:40:23.089+00:00Comments on Views from the bike shed: Missing LivesThe bike shedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195882998271591934noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-86638203729161006622010-09-19T18:44:13.679+01:002010-09-19T18:44:13.679+01:00Mark,
I've re-read your post and funnily enou...Mark,<br /><br />I've re-read your post and funnily enough a lot of what you say has echoed what I have been thinking about the recent discovery of the child's skeleton at Vindolanda.<br /><br />I don't think I expressed myself as eloquently as you and consequently lost a few readers. I feel a little bruised by this but I still feel that we have to attempt to look into the darkness.<br /><br />It is there right beside us. We try to sanitise our lives and our worlds but, as you say, we can tip over into it so easily.<br /><br />I think I may have another go at explaining myself. Not sure it will work but it is worth a try. I'm turning things over in my head and the new post may appear over the next week or so.<br /><br />Thank you so much for discussing this. For some reason that darkness lives alongside me. I have an inkling why this might be.Hadrianahttp://www.hadrianastreasures.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-49609554303525040882010-08-04T13:43:10.367+01:002010-08-04T13:43:10.367+01:00My parents honeymooned in Yugoslavia in the 60'...My parents honeymooned in Yugoslavia in the 60's. They always rave about the place. In some ways I think we may all be 'on the edge' of darkness in more ways than we care to realise.<br /><br />Good post Mark - as ever!Hadriana's Treasureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03740533954842010870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-41987221108290435532010-08-03T23:04:19.938+01:002010-08-03T23:04:19.938+01:00Thank you for sharing this with us Mark and I agre...Thank you for sharing this with us Mark and I agree with all you say and have highlighted. I was living in north-east Italy at the time and felt particularly confused about it all partly because I was trying to understand it all through a foreign language and media. I remember coming back to meet a friend of mine in London who'd studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at university and throwing all sorts of questions at him to help me try and understand what on earth was going on and why. He gave some very full answers, as I knew he would, but, in the end, it made it no less intelligible to me. It was always a senseless war - and as has been pointed out, all the more worrying for having occured in a supposedly 'civilised' post-war era.<br /><br />I fear religion and belief systems will continue to trouble world peace for as long as we still have a world.<br /><br />I shall look out for the book. It sounds fascinating, albeit very disturbing and upsetting.Carah Bodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11429666157453439321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-54200899399408081662010-08-03T20:52:53.737+01:002010-08-03T20:52:53.737+01:00Thank you for a very well written and poignant pos...Thank you for a very well written and poignant post.<br /><br />I often ponder the fact that 'ordinary' people are capable of both great atrocities and amazing acts of altruism and what paves the way to each. And then I ponder various answers....sure that's a post in the making....I started to speculate but realised I wanted to think about it more.<br /><br />I know that lost sleep caused by harrowing thoughts of unbelievably painful experiences people have suffered. I hope you're sleeping better!Molly Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16322262170382594290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-44426110425734857092010-08-01T08:43:10.171+01:002010-08-01T08:43:10.171+01:00It's frightening to think - or perhaps to reme...It's frightening to think - or perhaps to remember - what a very thin veil our "civilized society" is, how we rely on people's collusion with a few laws to hold their hatred and their barbarism in check. There but for the grace of God?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-876862148358784705.post-66734593518334931952010-08-01T03:06:02.638+01:002010-08-01T03:06:02.638+01:00Just what does protect us from barbarism?
Not,I am...Just what does protect us from barbarism?<br />Not,I am sure, the existence of the European Union.<br />All that the EU does is to mesh us into the global economic web...where disruption is unthinkable and where the masses are kept in check by reality TV.<br />Barbarism exists under the surface and does not need much to let it loose.<br />The death of Tito unleashed the nationalism his rule had covered up...which Serb could forget the Field of the Blackbirds...Kosovo.. <br />Tito would never have permitted the dissemination of muslim propaganda by the Saudi based Wahaabi sect, bent on revitalising Islam in the countries that had once been subject to its' rule... turning neighbour against neighbour on religious grounds.<br />Europe didn't intervene because the doctrine of the balance of power still lives...a ghost clanking its' chains through the reality of the modern world.<br />Having moved to France and having heard the unvarnished truth...of my witnesses, it must be said...about the occupation and the resistance, I can see that facile judgement is not worthy of the problem...and in the far worse circumstances that prevailed in the old Jugoslavia our PC world has very little to offer.<br />A brief acquaintance with the recent history of Nicaragua shows how easy it is for outside forces to infiltrate a domestic society. To its' detriment.the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.com