I am one of the strangers that you (in a super-outgoing manner, I should add) handed a postcard to a few days ago – was buying tickets for Spiral Dive when a tiny, pretty woman in sunglasses came up and asked us to come see her show. You did use the line ‘I’m the saddest girl in the world’.

Well Wednesday night rolled around and there was free time at 8:10! Muah!

Anyway -I thought you were wonderful. Sat in the theater at the top of Victoria school tonight, blessed with a front row center seat, and thought to myself ‘Damn can she ever act!’

Fine job. Seriously. Loved it. Thank you for coming.

Jeff

Thanks
Kazi

Not that I am trying to justify the fact that Germany was bombed into total submission , but that even our actions as a society have consequences.

We are obligated to act, if we don’t then we share some of the guilt.

But then is Guilt shared? Yes.
1 Cor. 15:22) – “For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.”
We think about salvation as a one dimensional thing as if it only means that we are saved from hell. It means we are saved from the dominion of sin and the price of sin.
Which is death, spiritual death not physical death, separation from God and the effects of the full weight of that guilt we share.
During the second world war the US rounded up Japanese and put them in concentration camps. Ralph Lazo saw his neighbours being interned and knew this was wrong, so what did Ralph do? When the day came for his neighbours to go to the camp Ralph boarded the train with them.
When Americans think about the internments they experience a degree of guilt (or they should) As an expression of guilt the US passed the the Civil Rights Act of 1988 (HR442) which awarded redress to all surviving internees or their relatives. President George Bush sent a formal apology letter along with a $20,000 check.

The only one that really purchased freedom from guilt here was Ralph Lazo. Who felt the effect of guilt greater; the soldier that helped load the trains to Mazanar and Tule lake or Ralph who slept in the barracks prepared for the Innocent Japanese?

The incident went as follows. Sitting across from me is a teen male yakking with his his buddy. This guy has his oversized gym bag on the seat and an old street person who obviously is having trouble standing comes up and asks the teen to move his bag. The teen grunts and looks at the old guy as if he is dirt, leaving the bag still on the seat. we are just pulling up to a stop and as the doors open the old guy grabs the kids bag an fires it right out the door. The teen shouting obsenities jumps out to retreave his bag and the bus driver quickly closes the doors and drives away. there is a general applause but as the old guy leaves the bus, some stops later, the driver calmly say “if this happens again I will ask you to leave as well.”

The driver stopped any possiblity of more violence and did not praise what could have been considered justified violence. It is too bad that society actually believes in justified violence, no matter how tempting it may be.

Brad