Virginia Tech's President Steger holds a candle at vigil for NIU. Photo by Kim Peterson Original Source: http://www.ee.unirel.vt.edu/index.php/vtnews/flip_book/C69/P6/
Attendees hold candles at Virginia Tech's vigil for NIU. Photo by Kim Peterson Original Source: http://www.ee.unirel.vt.edu/index.php/vtnews/flip_book/C69/P7/
Attendees hold candles at Virginia Tech's vigil for NIU. Photo by Kim Peterson Original Source: http://www.ee.unirel.vt.edu/index.php/vtnews/flip_book/C69/P8/
Virginia Tech's candlelight vigil for NIU. Photo by Kim Peterson Original Source: http://www.ee.unirel.vt.edu/index.php/vtnews/flip_book/C69/P9/
Virginia Tech's candlelight vigil for NIU. Photo by Kim Peterson Original Source: http://www.ee.unirel.vt.edu/index.php/vtnews/flip_book/C69/P10/
Attendees at Virginia Tech's candlelight vigil for NIU. Photo by Kim Peterson Original Source: http://www.ee.unirel.vt.edu/index.php/vtnews/flip_book/C69/P12/
"Not Forgotten" Time has narrowed, increasing so fast. With no escape, nothing will last. 32 ever so freightened, broken hearts are vast. Fear building courage, their moment shall never pass. ******************************** Virginia Tech holds a special place in the hearts of our family, having a daughter as a graduate of Virginia Tech and one son which is currently attending Virginia Tech Engineering. The events which occurred on 4/16/2007 saddened us deeply. We choose to remember the heroes that day, all who gave their lives, were injured, assisted in the recovery and of course, our law enforcement officers.
please visit the site below for a very touching tribute to what happened to all of Va. tech. The song writer who wrote this had just played the previous weekend in your area he was very touched, and was moved to write this song. www.blessthetechs.com may god be with each of you. P.S. This has been on my space and you tube since wednesday after the tragedy.
Publicado por Mariluz Barrera González viernes 20 de abril de 2007 Siempre pienso en mi padre, en cualquier instante de mi vida, siempre está presente. Sobre todo en los momentos más difíciles o cuando siento que las cosas empeoran cada vez más. A veces siento que el espíritu pierde fuerzas, se agota o debilita ante tantas circunstancias, tantos eventos que me cuestionan si ser tan objetiva y sensible a nuestra realidad vale la pena, en un mundo donde ya nadie quiere serlo, y donde al parecer serlo me convierte poco a poco en un ser fuera de lugar, principalmente en mi lugar de trabajo. Me preocupa dejar de ser sensible, he comentado que en mi trabajo y en mi profesión la realidad es algo que se muestra con mucha crudeza y dolor la mayoría de las veces; y sin embargo se me hace difícil entender que aún así a las personas les cueste trabajo aceptar ayuda y peor aún querer terminar con esa situación que les provoca sufrimiento. Entonces entiendo por que la humanidad atraviesa por tantos problemas que aún no se resuelven. La matanza de Virginia es para mí una consecuencia muy grande del grado máximo al que podemos llegar ante lo peor de la indiferencia, dejar de mirarnos como personas a nosotros mismos y por consiguiente a los demás. Dejar de hacerlo nos convierte en seres que no me atrevería a decir de que tipo. Creo que el asesino de Virginia sintió que definitivamente ya no era mirado ni tratado como tal (Aunque por los antecedentes que tenía tal vez nunca lo fué) y como consecuencia pensó que este acto ruin y terrible era una llamada de atención para ser observado aunque sea por un instante y no pasar desapercibido, en un mundo donde ya nadie se mira; donde nos tratan y nos tratamos como objetos. En terapia muchas veces les he preguntado a mis pacientes adictos que diferencia existe entre ellos y una silla y sorprendentemente no tienen una respuesta, a veces me contestan que la silla tiene 4 patas y ellos dos. Reconocer nuestra humanidad ya no es tan fácil, y reconocerla sin tocarla peor, tal vez por eso es tan dificil entender que un ser que no ha nacido existe y definitivamente representa vida, si al que existe ni siquiera lo miramos y tratamos como tal, a pesar de que su presencia ya es una exigencia y muestra de que lo es. Les comparto unas palabras de mi padre, siempre fue un ser sensible, y nos enseño a serlo, ante nuestra humanidad y la que se nos presenta a diario; le agradezco tan importante enseñanza pues la vida nos puso a todas nosotras sus hijas en circunstancias donde siempre será necesario tan noble aprendizaje. Igualmente les comparto un video, con una música de fondo que en lo personal me encanta y creo que refleja en estos momentos mi sentir, ante todo lo que me rodea y me recuerda que soy y que somos personas. En realidad Solo le Pido a Dios que me permita continuar.... UN BESO A TODOS. "Querida hija, sentí honda emoción al ver que generosamente tendiste la mano a un pobre, que llamó a nuestra puerta implorando un pedazo de pan; tu actitud revestida con la grandeza de lo ingenuo, logró hacer correr por la faz del mendigo emocionado, un raudal de lágrimas, desahogo inefable para su alma atormentada. Muchas reflexiones me sugeriste al preguntarme confundido la razón de su llanto, y no buscando en ese momento la manera de explicarte la causa de su emoción, procuraré en los siguientes renglones demostrarte que realizaste una bella obra. El concepto vulgar de caridad, nace casi siempre de una de las más grandes debilidades humanas, la vanidad: se ofrece una moneda con una actitud soberbia para demostrar la supremacía económica: se donan millones buscando muchas veces sólo la alabanza pública para exhibir su nombre; si algún día por esos azares frecuentes de la vida, te hallas en condiciones de poder distribuir el bienestar entre los demás recuerda que debes hacerlo sin humillarlos y sin envanecerte, para que puedas experimentar uno de los mas grandes goces: hacer el bien sin ostentación. Para practicar tan bella virtud, no necesitas materializar este noble sentimiento; una verdadera obra caritativa, puede realizarse en múltiples formas: enjugando una lágrima, curando una herida, ofreciendo al caído, del que todos huyen, palabras que lo hagan sentir que se le comprende en la inmensidad de su dolor, prodigando una palabra respetuosa a la hetaira por todos vilipendiada, acariciando a un niño que llora abandonado. El hombre por su misma naturaleza está hecho al sacrificio, y por consiguiente a practicar la caridad en sus moldalidades más excelsas; nuestras mismas células, minuto a minuto se sacrifican por conservar la vida de nuestra materia organizada en ser; y el individuo que no esmás que una célula de organismo social también debe inmolarse cuando llega el instante preciso. Cuando se realiza un bello acto, hija mía, el hombre se siente redimido del cavernario que acecha en el fondo de nuestro ser la ocasión para demostrarse con todos sus innobles apetitos." -- Fuente Original: Blog Expediente http://rboexpediente.blogspot.com/2007/04/solo-le-pido-dios.html Licencia de uso: Creative Commons Atribución-No Comercial-No Derivadas 2.5 México.
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[NOT]Tragedia de Virginia Tech usada por troyanos y phishers
Creado por Por Jose Luis Lopez Publicado: Jueves 19 Abril 2007, 23:03 La noticia ya es conocida. Más de 30 personas, incluyendo el supuesto agresor, murieron el lunes en un tiroteo en un campus universitario de los Estados Unidos. Y el triste suceso acaecido en la Universidad Tecnológica de Virginia (Virginia Tech), ya está siendo explotado por inescrupulosos delincuentes informáticos, algo que ya no debería asombrarnos, aunque nunca dejaremos de aborrecer. A las pocas horas de la tragedia, ya se divulgaba por Internet algún mensaje refiriéndose a un supuesto video inédito del cruento tiroteo. Un ejemplo concreto, un spam en portugués, muestra un enlace a un falso video, que al descargarse, instala en nuestro PC un troyano de la familia de los "Banload", el que a su vez descarga una variante de Win32/Spy.Banker, malware que roba información del usuario relacionada con sus cuentas bancarias. La página HTML que muestra el enlace, contiene el siguiente texto: Aguarde... O video está sendo carregado... Para visualizar o video, aguarde carregar e clique 'PLAY' ou 'EXECUTAR'. Seu computador pode exibir Avisos de Segurança! El script de dicha página, es detectado como HTML/TrojanDownloader.Agent.NAB, y el archivo que es descargado de allí, como Win32/TrojanDownloader.Banload.ZK. Pero esto solo debe tomarse como un simple ejemplo. Lo importante aquí, es no bajar la guardia, y siempre estar atentos a la aparición de casos similares, seguramente con alguna otra clase de malware, que, a no dudarlo, llegarán en las próximas horas o días a nuestras casillas y programas de mensajería. Además de esto, reportes del ISC (Internet Storm Center), advierten sobre la proliferación de registros de dominios relacionados con la Universidad de Virginia (al final, en "Más información", damos los enlaces a las listas de algunos de ellos). Seguramente muchas de esas páginas, serán utilizadas de buena fe, por personas que pretenden ayudar a los familiares y amigos de las víctimas. Pero desgraciadamente, la historia reciente no nos permite dudar ni por un instante, que una gran parte de esos sitios serán utilizados por autores de phishing para obtener ganancias económicas con el dolor de las víctimas. Casos concretos ya se han dado, cuando otras tragedias como el huracán Katrina en 2005 o el tsunami de 2004, hicieron proliferar muchos sitios falsos que supuestamente recibían donaciones para las damnificados de Nueva Orleáns o de Asia respectivamente. Por más bienintencionadas que parezcan algunas solicitudes de donativos, debemos evitar hacer clic sobre los enlaces enviados, y mucho menos dar información personal. Y aunque seguramente nos duela admitirlo, el morbo por visualizar supuestas imágenes inéditas de algún momento crucial del tiroteo, puede convertirse en nuestro principal enemigo. Reconocerlo, puede ser en algunos casos, lo único que nos impida infectarnos, o que impida que nuestra identidad sea robada por delincuentes que no solo lucrarán con la desgracia de otras personas, sino también con nuestro propio dinero. -- Fuente Original: Adslzone.net http://www.adslzone.net/posts87688-0.html&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=cdba74e6e6c27db32030c52f6c61a5ca Derechos Reservados: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5.
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'Gun culture' again target of criticism after killings
UPDATED: 11:01, April 18, 2007 Foreign politicians and media once again attacked America's "gun culture" yesterday. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said tough legislation introduced after a mass shooting in Tasmania in 1996 had prevented the US gun culture emerging in his country. After the shooting Australia imposed laws banning almost all types of semi-automatic weapons. "We showed a national resolve that the gun culture that is such a negative in the United States would never become a negative in our country," said Howard, extending sympathies to the families of the victims at Virginia Tech University. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also expressed their sympathies. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was "shocked" and "saddened," a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace said. Along with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the queen is set to pay a two-day visit to Virginia early next month to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Jamestown Settlement, her first visit to the United States in 16 years. Iran, at loggerheads with the United States over its nuclear program, spoke out against the killings. "Iran condemns the killing of Virginia university students and expresses its condolences to the families of victims and the American nation," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement. European newspapers saw a grim inevitability about the shootings, given the right to bear arms which is enshrined in US constitution. In Italy, the Leftist Il Manifesto newspaper said the shooting was "as American as apple pie". More than 30,000 people die from gunshot wounds in the United States annually and there are more guns in private hands than in any other country. But a powerful gun lobby and support for gun ownership have thwarted attempts to tighten controls. "It would be vain to hope that even so destructive a crime as this will cool the American ardour for guns," the Independent newspaper said in a commentary. Gerard Baker, a columnist for The Times newspaper, feared worse was yet to come: "The truth is that only an optimist would imagine Virginia Tech will hold the new record for very long." France's Le Monde newspaper said such episodes frequently disfigure the "American dream". "The... slaughter forces American society to once again examine itself, its violence, the obsession with guns of part of its population, the troubles of its youth, subjected to the double tyranny of abundance and competition," it wrote. Campaigners in other countries where gun ownership is common expressed fears of a similar massacre. -- Original Source:: China Daily/agencies http://english.people.com.cn/200704/18/eng20070418_367507.html
'I pretended to be dead ... people died on top of me'
Bobbie Johnson and Lee Glendinning Wednesday April 18, 2007 The Guardian Within hours of news of the Blacksburg shootings, a picture of the terror inflicted by 23-year-old Korean student Cho Seung-hui was being built online through videos, blogs and message boards. Clay Violand, 20, a student at Virginia Tech, described on iChat, an online messaging service, how he pretended to be dead as his classmates fell on top of him. "I watched my fucking classmates get mauled in front of me and I was the only one who wasn't shot. I feel crazy. People died on top of me," he told his friend Alana Fragar, who also attends Virginia Tech. "I am the only person who didn't get shot in my French class in Norris and I have no idea why and I don't know what to do. "I pretended to be dead and people got shot in the face ... I keep seeing gross images of blood and gunshots in the face and ... I have no idea why I lived. I didn't even get blood on me. I don't get it." Friends of Emily Hilscher, the first victim of the shootings, had gathered online to create an instant memorial. Using the social networking site Facebook, hugely popular among American college students, friends built a page asking each other to collect their pictures of the 18-year-old from stages of her life. "We want everybody that joins to post one or more things that made Emily cooler than you," it said. Tributes and messages had poured in from friends, family - and even strangers as far away as Norway. "It didn't matter who you were or if she knew you ... she would be your friend in a heartbeat," said one friend. "Emily was so spunky and full of life," said another. "She had such a creative personality, and was always making such fun new things." Youngsters gathered on the site to post tributes and messages for other victims, such as 18-year-old Reema Samaha. "Reema you were one of the funniest people I know ... We all love you," said one. Facebook is a mainstay of American college life, and used by around 18 million people. Within a day, more than 120,000 people had joined a discussion group named "A tribute to those who passed at the Virginia Tech Shooting", leaving messages of condolence and confusion. Many Virginia Tech students spent the day trawling through pages set up by their friends to see if they were safe, or logging on to local news websites just to keep up with events. Planet Blacksburg, a student-run website, was among those which kept updating despite being crashed by the amount of web traffic. Local newspapers such as the Roanoke Times were also overwhelmed by visitors. Videos shot by students on their mobile phones were broadcast within minutes of events unfolding, while Bryce Carter, 19, chose to document his experiences on his blog. "I heard several faint gunshots from across campus ... snipers on the library," he wrote. "We saw a Swat member hide behind stairs, seemingly expecting a shooter to walk by ... they had no clue where he was, a scary realisation." One unsavoury side of the internet began to emerge as speculators started offering gruesome website names for sale: sites such as BlacksburgTheMovie.com were registered within hours. in a day, more than 120,000 people had joined a discussion group named "A tribute to those who passed at the Virginia Tech Shooting", leaving messages of condolence and confusion. Many Virginia Tech students spent the day trawling through pages set up by their friends to see if they were safe, or logging on to local news websites just to keep up with events. Planet Blacksburg, a student-run website, was among those which kept updating despite being crashed by the amount of web traffic. Local newspapers such as the Roanoke Times were also overwhelmed by visitors. Videos shot by students on their mobile phones were broadcast within minutes of events unfolding, while Bryce Carter, 19, chose to document his experiences on his blog. "I heard several faint gunshots from across campus ... snipers on the library," he wrote. "We saw a Swat member hide behind stairs, seemingly expecting a shooter to walk by ... they had no clue where he was, a scary realisation." One unsavoury side of the internet began to emerge as speculators started offering gruesome website names for sale: sites such as BlacksburgTheMovie.com were registered within hours. On Guardian Unlimited Full coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings Gun violence in the US Gun violence in Britain Full US coverage Related articles Virginia massacre gunman named Unofficial list of shooting victims emerges Massacre on campus Q&A: US gun laws World news guide North American Media Media CNN New York Times Washington Post Government Virginia state government portal US government portal White House Senate House of Representatives Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2007. -- Original Source:http://www.guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,,2059737,00.html
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Virginia Tech's Korean Christians wrestle with the aftermath of a massacre. Deann Alford | posted 6/06/2007 08:02AM The alert that two students had been shot on campus blipped into Jong Nam Lee's e-mail inbox around 9:30 that fateful Monday morning, April 16, as the Virginia Tech research scientist was writing a paper. Months earlier, a gunman had been loose on campus, and within the past two weeks, there had been two bomb threats. Still, the warning prompted the soft-spoken engineer, who serves as an adviser to Virginia Tech's Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC), to check on his son, a student at the university. Josh Lee was safe. His morning class had been canceled. But within minutes, Lee's wife, Mi Oak, shared the unimaginable news with her husband. A suicidal gunman had killed 32 and injured 28 on campus before putting a gun to his own head. Quickly, Lee and dozens of other campus ministry leaders and their student leaders pulled out all the stops to respond. Ninety miles away in Lynchburg, David Chung, pastor of Blacksburg's Korean Baptist Church and a professor in Liberty University's Korean-language seminary, heard the news while on class break. Immediately, he canceled class, packed a bag, and made a beeline for Blacksburg. Korea Campus Crusade is based at Korean Baptist Church, a Korean-language congregation. Worship is held Sunday afternoons at the 155-year-old Blacksburg Baptist Church, across the street from the sprawling Virginia Tech campus. Nearly every congregation and on-campus ministry was hit in some way. "Cru"—as Campus Crusade for Christ is known at Virginia Tech—had four student fatalities. Baptist Collegiate Ministries lost one student. New Life Christian Fellowship, a student-oriented startup church, had two fatalities and ten student attenders injured. One graduate student affiliated with Korean Baptist took bullets in his hand and arm. One of Their Own—Lost in America The day after the slaughter, Korean American leaders realized the tragedy had gone beyond the unimaginable. The shooter was Korean. Seung-Hui Cho was a 23-year-old South Korean immigrant with permanent resident status in the United States and a Virginia Tech senior English major. Inside Cho's dorm suite, police found a long-winded rant in which the mentally unstable student railed against rich kids, women, and religion. During Cho's nine-minute shooting rampage, he was supposed to be in a "Bible as Literature" class. For the Korean American community, Cho was not a faceless perpetrator. He was one of their own who had lost himself. Working the phones, Lee and Chung talked to Korean Christians around the nation and in South Korea to ensure that Christian leaders received an accurate account of what had happened. "Everybody is in shock," Chung said, concerning his own congregation. Later, South Korea's president issued a personal apology. Lee Tae Sik, South Korea's ambassador to the United States and a Christian, called on his fellow citizens to fast for 32 days to honor each of Cho's victims. Condolences and flowers poured into campus buildings from across the nation and the world. Among them were 32 identical bouquets flanking the center aisle of Virginia Tech's War Memorial Chapel. Tags revealed that the sender was the Korean Church Association of Austin, Texas. For many Americans, the empathy of the global Korean community for all 33 who died was a struggle to comprehend. For Soo-Chan Steven Kang, a Korean American associate professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, it was perfectly understandable. Korean culture instills a sense of group identity and strong feelings and fears about shame. Also, many Koreans believe they are lumped together in public perception for good or for ill. In America, Koreans are Christian or attend church at nearly three times the rate found in their mother country. Some 25 percent of Koreans in South Korea identify themselves as Christian. But about 70 percent of Koreans in the United States are affiliated with a church, if not for spiritual guidance, then at least for cultural connection. Within the U.S. population of 300 million, there are only about 1 million Koreans, and they are concentrated in gateway cities such as Los Angeles. Only 10 percent of the 10.2 million Asians in the U.S. are Korean. As a result, immigrant Koreans often stick together. Kang said this "stick-togetherness" helps them whether they are first generation (having arrived in the United States after age 16 or so) or "1.5 generation" (having immigrated as children, sometimes old enough to remember their lives in Korea). Fear and Wonder In the days after the shooting, classes were canceled. Most Korean American students went home to their parents. One reason was fear of ethnic reprisals. In the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Koreans suffered violence and property damage after a Korean American shot an African American. Some Korean Americans across the country feared a similar reaction. But Chung said that most Korean students who remained in Blacksburg were not worried about a backlash. Instead, they were asking deep questions: • What do we need to learn from this tragedy? • What is God telling us? • What should my life's priority be? By Thursday, Korean American pastors from throughout the East Coast and Korean seminary students from Liberty planned to come pray on campus. But amid attempts to cope with the crisis, the entire campus involuntarily had become a reality TV show. Satellite trucks ringed Virginia Tech's Drillfield. One Christian leader called the media crush a "second trauma" for students. The situation became abusive and manipulative. One KCCC leader told CT, "They were just leading us to say what they want[ed] us to say, trying to ask a lot of nosy questions that seemed irrelevant and could hurt a lot of people." Church leaders were anxious. "We were worried about our pure motive for our prayer meeting being distorted," Chung said. He canceled the event. Chung had been asking himself and others: "What role should we play in light of this rampage?" "I'm still asking God's wisdom," he said. "I believe there will be a message from God. God is saying something—isn't he?—when he allows a tragedy of this size to happen in Blacksburg," Chung said. "This is happening in our front yard." Concerning Cho, Chung told CT, "We need to pray for his parents and his sister [enduring] the worst nightmare of nightmares. To find strength to live, joy of living ... will be almost impossible without Christ." Korean Baptist Church, a first-generation immigrant church established in the early 1980s, is a congregation of 250. Blacksburg's other Korean church, Cornerstone Christian Fellowship, is a 1.5- and second-generation church that favors English-language worship. Korea Campus Crusade for Christ, the Baptist church's de facto student outreach arm, arrived at Virginia Tech about 10 years ago. Perhaps a quarter of the 90 students involved with KCCC are "seekers"—young people interested in knowing more about a relationship with Christ. The dynamic within the Korean American community is not unlike that of many American communities. University students leave their families, which range in faith from unchurched and uninterested to devoutly Christian. Like other students, they are dealing with identity issues and deciding where God and the church fit into their lives. Korean American Christian leaders focus on relational dynamics. They fellowship over familiar Korean foods, share their faith, and strengthen each other's walk with Christ. Each fall, Virginia Tech's KCCC "servants" (as leaders are called) dig through freshman rosters, looking for Korean names. Going two by two, they visit dorm rooms and leave fliers with contact information and invitations to a cookout, fellowships, and Bible studies. They help newcomers by taking them shopping and helping them move into their dorms. All hear the gospel eventually. According to Gordon-Conwell's Kang, that kind of gospel-centered support is vital to overcoming a strong sense of isolation. Because Korean parents come to the United States eager to provide materially for their children in ways they believed they could not in Korea, mothers and fathers often work 60 hours a week or more. "The younger generation is left alone to grow up by themselves [and] figure out their life by themselves, whether at home or at the church," Kang said. Because many 1.5-generation and second-generation children adopt American culture and English as their preferred language, he said, parents and children find communication increasingly difficult as the years go by. Cho himself was a 1.5-generation child. At Virginia Tech, a system is in place to make such students feel welcomed into a community. "We ask, 'Do you need anything? Is there anything we can do for you?'" said Eun Sook Ji, a Virginia Tech sophomore and KCCC member. Student reaction is typically appreciative, though sometimes KCCC students hear, "Thanks, but no thanks." Like many Christians at Virginia Tech, Ji wonders how Cho never connected with the Korean Christian community. There has been no shortage of introspection on that issue. Kang said that since 70 percent of Korean Americans say they attend church regularly, he knew "from the get-go" that Cho was probably part of the church, at least growing up. But Korean American churches sometimes find it hard to reach out to troubled members. Smaller churches, such as the northern Virginia Presbyterian church that Cho's family occasionally attended, usually have only one full-time pastor. In addition, Peter Cha, an associate professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, told CT that shame often deters Asian families from seeking outside professional help. In the meantime, Korean Americans continue to grapple with the massacre. Korean Baptist's Chung quotes Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who wrote, "The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." Kang said the fundamental issue is the problem of evil. "We ask, 'Why does God allow these things to happen?'" he said, "rather than seeing this as the natural consequences of sinful society that Christ came to redeem. "Western Christians struggle to make meaning of what happens in America because we're insulated. It's a dying and degenerate world. We're [experiencing] the consequences of sin." Asked whether Cho had slipped through the cracks, Jim Pace, a pastor of Virginia Tech's New Life Christian Fellowship, answered, "Ultimately, yeah." Even so, he said, "You can't assume responsibility for someone's free will." Six days after the bloodbath, on a cool but sunny Sunday afternoon, Chung preached at Korean Baptist using Psalm 13 as his text. His congregation was half its normal size. Many regulars had gone home, and only a few new faces appeared in the congregation. "We have to pray that we are ready to be used by God," he told them. "We need to pray that we can be used as God's tool to share his loving-kindness to the community of Blacksburg." Chung told CT that David's lament in Psalm 13 perfectly fit their situation. "Satan is working," he said. "We are devastated. God doesn't seem to be around. Like David, we have to seek his loving-kindness." Deann Alford is a senior writer for Christianity Today. 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Creado por: Salinger (a.k.a. Al Valdes) Posteado por Äl a las 2:37 AM Tarde, pero no quiero que las fatales e inocentes victimas de Virginia Tech caigan en el olvido de este mi humilde blog. Por ende, quiero escribir unas palabras en su recuerdo. Ya se que no tiene remedio, pero todos esperamos que descanseis en paz. Sabemos que no lo mereciais, ni vosotros ni las familias, ni la ciudad, ni siquiera el mundo entero. No empañaré vuestra memoria mencionando al instigador de semejante atrocidad. Total, es lo que queria, visto lo visto. Y tampoco voy a entrar en nacionalidades, razas o credos. Todos somos iguales, para bien o para mal. Alla donde esteis, 'Rest in Peace'. -- Fuente Original: Acuse de Recibo Retazos Sutiles en forma soñica, España. http://parajeremoto.blogspot.com/2007/04/rest-in-peace.html Licencia de uso: Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 2.5 España
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