Hi Joyce and Wolf,

>Joyce:
>Well, it was never my intention to glorify 'anyone' - this'Tim"

I don't know what you had in mind with your lovely "Dragon Pome for all
'Tims'"... the heroic language and symbolism seem to me to be glorifying
the image of the sacred warrior...

He has been called "a martyr to higher love," "a zen catholic," "this
monumental sacrifice," "sacred warrior," "unflinchingly courageous,"
"a
noble warrior," etc., etc.

>Wolf:
>many failed to see the irony in some of the words

If I read your poem wrong, I do apologize for that, but not for my concern
about anyone making a noble martyr of this man.

My reaction to this did not come from anger, righteous or otherwise, or
from hate. Nor does it require any justification in terms of non-dual
philosophy.

It's a simple matter. This man blew up a building and killed hundreds of
people, including children - to make a statement about the U.S. government,
as I understand him. I would hate to give anyone else the idea that all
you have to do to become a great cultural hero, a sacred warrior, become
gloriously famous and go down in the history books as a martyr to higher
love, is to go out and blow up a lot of people.

This was a sad, disillusioned, and disempowered man... to my thinking, he
had to be crazy to commit such a horrendous act as a political statement
and express no remorse at seeing what he had done. I felt as I watched him
that he felt some gratification at having expressed his power and
established his place in history because of it.

This is a big list with many people on it... let's not tell everyone that
this is one way to become famous and loved and respected.

Love,
Dharma