Just another normal day...

[Scrumpy]

A car crashes into a crowd of people celebrating Filipino culture..
Lapu Lapu Festival.. in Vancouver Canada..

It seems to be happening again and again.. For what reason !! 
Usually the driver is depressed and suffering some mental problem..
I guess some people just get in on the act.. There are others who do it through hatred of those (gathering/celebrating)... The nutter who targets the vulnerable .. and ,of course, those who just want to control others and unless people are gathering to celebrate them and their beliefs they will destroy it... 
Have you noticed that there are some gatherings that are left alone !!!.. nobody would dare to disrupt them..
Car boots and street parties will become a thing of the past.. 

[klondike]

I'm sure it could all be stopped. All it would take is for the governments around the world to grow some balls. The only ones taking any strong action on anything (well apart from Israel who I applaud) are the bloody dictators and religious zealots and their actions are just self serving and a long long way from deserving any praise.

[Scrumpy]

Thirty year old arrested.. He was known to the police.. Probably not terrorist..

Same old.. same old... crap

[Raven]

Since that life changing fall I had back in January 23 there are days when I feel really down and alone, with everything working against me. But ploughing my car into a crowd of people never enters my head.
After a couple of days of it I usually take my latte flask and drive to Strathy Bay where the huge crashing waves are, clamber up on my favourite rock and just sit watching and listening to the noise of the ocean, usually with tears pouring down my face. It takes a while but I start to feel better and start thinking straight again, takes longer since I lost Dageus but I get there.
I know I'm lucky to have the ocean close, but not everyone is drawn to it like I am, they just have to find their go to place......And go to it.

[Mups]

Thirty year old arrested.. He was known to the police.. Probably not terrorist..

Same old.. same old... crap

Like Scrumpy said,  this is happening againa and again nowadays.

I suppose for people that way inclined,  perhaps full of hatred for whatever reason,  driving a car into a crowd is an easy way of killing lots of people in one go,  and without even having to get off their backside.

I can't see any end to it,  because the law doesn't know who is likely to do it next, do they, so I imagine the Cops get no warning until it is too late.

[GrannyMac]

Nine dead. Appalling. 

[JBR]

I'm sure it could all be stopped. All it would take is for the governments around the world to grow some balls. The only ones taking any strong action on anything (well apart from Israel who I applaud) are the bloody dictators and religious zealots and their actions are just self serving and a long long way from deserving any praise.

I agree with Israel.  A small country surrounded by its much larger religious enemies, yet has shown them the futility of them trying to attack it.  If only we had such a strong leader supported by the majority of our people.

[dextrous63]

If only there was a god who decided to take an active role by informing everyone simultaneously in their heads, in their language, in a way that they could totally understand, which (if any) religion is correct and thus remove all doubt.

[Ashy]

It's a good question, which religion is right, as they obviously cannot all be. In the mean time, most of the world except for the moslem part, calls its days of the week by some variety of

The sabbath
the sun
the moon
the god of war
the god of all
the god of storms
the god of love

largely due to the influence of the Roman empire.

[klondike]

Don't the months get some of that too with an emperor or two as well. Some of those were considered divine I think. On reflection though many are just numbers which got out of step following inserts,

On which is right - there is no need for any of them to be and I'd suggest that the answer to that one is none.

[dextrous63]

Well, it'd be lovely if god confirmed that all the religions have been manmade and that he doesn't expect anything from us other than to bugger off and leave him alone😬

[JBR]

If only there was a god who decided to take an active role by informing everyone simultaneously in their heads, in their language, in a way that they could totally understand, which (if any) religion is correct and thus remove all doubt.

I can only agree, but my opinion is that 'God' is man-made, and consequently just about every culture has invented their own god which suits their own ideals.
Predictably, they are all different, and many of them completely disagree with each other!

Slightly off-topic, I can see more sense in a belief in the supernatural.  This makes a lot of sense, but of course it does not rely on a god, but exists probably only upon human beings and their own minds.  What I mean by that is if they think they have experienced something, it is likely to have occurred through their own minds.

Not poking fun at either the religious or the supernatural believers, of course.

[klondike]

Both amount to the same thing - the inability to come up with a reason something happened often combined with a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of something that happened. Not forgetting the making up of stuff being claimed to have happened.

None of that actually rules out the existence of a god but logic does suggest that there can't be a creator or you just end up with an infinite regression of what created that creator.

[dextrous63]

Ah, but logic doesn't really explain why the Big Bang actually happened, nor how "time" before that moment is a meaningless concept.

I have no issues about there bringing a god as an incomprehensible concept.  I do have significant doubts about religions and in particular their simplistic view of what a god is, coupled with completely insulting (IMHO) its capabilities.

[JBR]

Ah, but logic doesn't really explain why the Big Bang actually happened, nor how "time" before that moment is a meaningless concept.

I have no issues about there bringing a god as an incomprehensible concept.  I do have significant doubts about religions and in particular their simplistic view of what a god is, coupled with completely insulting (IMHO) its capabilities.

I'm not sure that there is any actual proof that 'the big bang' actually happened.  No-one knows how long there have been innumerous stars and even more planets in the universe or where they came from.  In fact, the concept of such things having existed for ever is impossible to believe, presumably because such a thing is beyond our understanding.
Similarly, I can imagine that although changes (collisions, explosions, etc) must occur, the universe will continue indefinitely.

(Incidentally, I see a red squiggly line under 'innumerous', but I think it is a real word.)  (Well, it was there when I was typing it!)