***WARNING*** Contains graphic references...
Today I ran across the following statement from a 16 year old boy whose high school principal called one of their "invisible kids," having presented "no behavioral, attendance or grade issues to be on anyone's radar." I will put this in context later, but share it here, in segments, for the purpose of discussion, which could go in a number of directions. Does this stir anyone's thoughts like it did my own?
"When I was fourteen, I started reading the Bible a lot, I had some questions about Why Am I Here? What Is My Purpose? And the more I read the Bible, it made sense to me and a lot of things became clear.
My interest in abortion started when my little sister was born and I held her in my arms, it hit me-How can people kill these children? She was the same to me outside of the womb as she was inside, a little, innocent child, dependant on us all for her survival, and I couldn't understand how these doctors could do that.
I started studying anti-abortion on the internet and at the same time I was interested in the military. My friend and I agreed that after graduation, we were going to go into the Marines. I became interested in making guns and learning how to make pipe bombs.
I studied the abortion issue for the past two years and developed a list of doctors that I planned to kill-in order to save who knows how many children's lives. I did not look at killing abortion doctors as murder-I looked at it as stopping them from murdering little, innocent children. I saved the list and several related files on my computer.
I also wanted to stop pedophiles, and needed to find out who the BIG people were in the industry, so that I could stop them too. That's why I downloaded and looked at those child pornography sites, to find out who these people were-I am totally against harming children in any way.
The more I read the Bible, the more I realized that I was a Soldier of God and that it was my purpose to save these children, and I was prepared to go to prison for the rest of my life or die for that cause. Every day and year that I wait, more children would die and I felt that if I got caught after I stopped the first one and went to prison forever, it would be worth it, knowing that I saved the lives of other children.
I also became worried that John Kerry may be elected and because of his stand on the Right To Life issue, I also planned to kill him too, if he became elected. I studied these things, but I wasn't on my computer all day or anything, I don't think I was obsessed with it."
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PLAYING WITH IDEAS
About Me
- Don Neale Jr.
- You could say I've spent my entire 56 years trying to figure out what this riddle called life is all about. It seems the pieces to this puzzle - good and evil, purpose and meaninglessness, contentment and restlessness, opportunity and hardship, joy and suffering, self and humanity, life and death, eternal and mortal, Creator and created - simply do not (or cannot) fit together. At this point in the journey I've come to appreciate that the answers I've sought - at times desparately - were never "out there," but were instead within me all along just waiting to be discovered. The spiritually enlightened commonly tell us they offer nothing we do not already possess. How true. How very true.
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Holly Schlaack offers us a guide to the anguished world of aboutsmall kids. She tells their narratives of life both before and after they enter foster care. Her firsthand, on the ground experience is encapsulated in her list of "A Dozen Ways to Make a Difference," so that the reader will be not only affected by these stories but shown a map to help make life better for them. I recommend Invisible Kids for any professional or private citizen who worries about children. (www.InvisibleKidsTheBook.com)
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