Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Armchair Philosopher


I was watching this documentary yesterday called, White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it was so hard to watch. It made me so angry and so incredibly sad. Whatever your thoughts about the attacks on Pearly Harbor, you can't deny that nuking two cities filled with civilians just wasn't the proper reaction for attacking a military base; the rules of war just disappeared that day. The footage in this documentary was disturbing, to put it lightly, innocent men, women, and children, with charred faces and bodies, some lost their entire faces their skin just melted over the mouths, noses, and eyes. One boy's mouth was just eaten away, all you saw was a hole in his face and teeth peering out. One lady told of how her father cut her face off because it was black, so he took a knife,cut around her face and just peeled it off. Gruesome stuff I know, but these things you have to know, we need to stop fooling ourselves into thinking the world is this shiny happy beacon of light pulsing throughout the universe, quite the contrary actually!

After watching the heartbreaking documentary, I thought to myself: "Maybe the Decepticons should have won..."

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