Oh.. I haven't told anyone yet of the man in the trainstation a few days ago, have I?
Well, he had a nosebleed. He was standing about five metres away from me. His head was bent down, because like I said; he had a nosebleed. A few drops fell down. Then some more. And more. I wanted to offer him a tissue, but I saw that he had used three coton tissues already. Then he went to sit on the stairs, ten metres at most away from me. And blood came gushing out, and his mouth too. About a litre altogether was piled up at the concrete before the girl who went for help brought back two police officers who called the ambulance. That was um.. disturbing to see.
Furthermore, I went to the Japanese bookstore today to get my Fool's Mate, and asked while I was there anyway if they by any chance had Harry Potter. So now I'm going to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Japanese. The man behind the counter asked if I could read it, so I said I'm still learning, and now he said that maybe next time we'll talk in Japanese instead of Dutch. I'm so going to make a fool of myself -_-
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Let's have a talk about religion. The negative aspects of religion, to be precise. Namely: fundamentalism. It is ever so pleasant that you go down to have dinner with family and your dad tells you that only 10 kilometres from the shitty little village where I live, in another shitty and even smaller village, 15 islam fundamentalists in training (IN TRAINING! That means 10 km from here there is a fundamentalist training!!!) are taken captive.
Always nice to hear that there are fundamentalists in the first place. Especially islam fundamentalists, who seem to intent on destroying the Western civilisation that they don't even realise that 1. America does NOT represent the whole of the western civilisation, and 2. they are a part of it themselves too. If people are immigrating from Morocco and Turkey to Holland, and receive the Dutch nationality, then why for christ's sake (sorry for the bad word choice... I'm really not christian nor siding with them either) do they at the same time want to destroy it?? And I'm not talking of the usual immigrants here, but only the fundamentalists. Please keep that in mind. Because the normal islamic people I have no bad experiences with at all.
Oh, and while we're at it, those stupid hypocritical bastards (hypocritical is really the only way to define people who want to destroy the west, because it symbolises 'the greatness of wunderbarliches America (okay, sorry Dirk, I just had to use that sentence, but you still hold the copyright)' and at the same time wear American brands, because hey, the whole rap scene and stuff is cool so why not) are people that generalise. Generalisation is good up to a certain point, it categorises people so others can describe them, never accurately but at least so a distinction between different people can be made (and don't start with the 'I'm not in a group'-stuff, because exactly because you and so many like you think that, you are.. in the 'different' group... the human system of society is so nice, isn't it? Just when you thought you could escape, you're being drawn back. I'm sure those who agree will enjoy the Frankfurter Schule theories). But, when generalisation leads to anger at someone, wanting to kill someone, BEFORE YOU EVEN KNOW THAT PERSON, generalisation is horrible. The Dutch people are probably all generalised as completely agreeing with the government. You've guessed wrong if you say you agree with that statement. There are so many Dutch people that do not see islam as a threat, and so many islamic people that do not see Dutch people as a threat. But when you just become a fundamentalist and decide to kill a crowd, not even caring that part of it is your own religion and part of it just wants to be able to live together with each other, that one or two people that speak against your own religion becomes that which you generalise everything in, because that is what you WANT to hear.
And I think I should stop here. When something pisses me off, I'm inclined to complain about it a lot and well, nobody's waiting for that. Sorry for the rather upset use of language in the last piece. And just to be clear: I take the islam fundamentalism here because it's now making me feel like I'm being threatened in my own home, but every religion's fundamentalists have no right of existence. There should be a clause in every world religion that if you kill someone else because of their beliefs, you will not go to heaven/receive your 72 virgins (can somebody tell me what that's about anyway??) or something like that, but be cast in hell and receive the eternal punishment in the form in which you inflicted it upon others.
Okay, I quit now. I have a feeling I'm really kicking some people with these words. Sorry if I do.
For those who have kindly listened to my wordabusing rant about fundamentalism, to get your minds in happy shape again, here's
a picture of Shinya scanned from FM 11