Posted on 08/18/2018 5:09:45 PM PDT by daniel1212
Asked why they had quit their office jobs and set off on a biking journey around the world, the young American couple offered a simple explanation: They had grown tired of the meetings and teleconferences, of the time sheets and password changes.
“There’s magic out there, in this great big beautiful world,” wrote Jay Austin who, along with his partner, Lauren Geoghegan, gave his two weeks’ notice last year before shipping his bicycle to Africa...
Then came Day 369, when the couple was biking in formation with a group of other tourists on a panoramic stretch of road in southwestern Tajikistan. It was there, on July 29, that a carload of men who are believed to have recorded a video pledging allegiance to the Islamic State spotted them....
In all, four people were killed: Mr. Austin, Ms. Geoghegan and cyclists from Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Two days later, the Islamic State released a video showing five men it identified as the attackers, sitting before the ISIS flag. They face the camera and make a vow: to kill “disbelievers.”
It was a worldview as diametrically opposed as imaginable to the one Mr. Austin and Ms. Geoghegan were trying to live by. ...
After earning a master’s degree from Georgetown University, he began working at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development...
In 2012, he met Lauren Anne Geoghegan, a native of Southern California, who like him had graduated from Georgetown and was now working in the college’s admissions office...
they had embraced the notion that the world was overwhelmingly good, the dozens of annotated photographs and the thousands of words they left behind show.
“You read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place,” Mr. Austin wrote. “People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil.
“I don’t buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own … By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind.”
They were run over out of nowhere by their killers.
Their last thoughts were probably that it was an accident.
Then there is the grizzley bear guy and the woman who had a chimp eat her face and ...
Not quite.
Since the moon's gravity is about 1/6th of Earth's; it would be like jumping from a 83 foot cliff.
I guess the lion did NOT suffer the minor injuries!
But still vote liberal, I suspect.
There are already 45 comments, I have read but one, the one I am replying to. So my comment might already have been mentioned, nevertheless, my biblical response would be, “trust not in the arm of flesh”.
There are already 45 comments, I have read but one, the one I am replying to. So my comment might already have been mentioned, nevertheless, my biblical response would be, “trust not in the arm of flesh”.
I have no idea how the double happened other than how they all happen, so apologies to all.
“...humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind.”
Say WHAT? What a ridiculous statement.
People SUCK! Your (supposed) best friend would kill YOU so THEY could survive.
Granted, there are some people who are generous and wonderful and kind, but they are a small minority.
The evil (yes I said “evil”) ones BY FAR make up for the few “nice” ones.
These people were delusional. I’m sorry they are dead. I’m sure they were “nice”, but you pays your money and you takes your chances. They lost.
Just wondering.... did they try putting flowers into the rifle barrels of the jihadis?
I went to arctic to find out what a Polar Bear (a hypercarnivorous bear) eats. I found out... anything he wants to, including humans.
“Americans Killed By ISIS”
Americans Killed By MUSLIMS.
There, fixed it.
I heard they were stabbed to death after being rammed by the terrorists.
As he was know among bears afterwards.
Living among the Grizzlies was fun, until he and his girlfriend got eaten. Then not so much.
A master of understatement.
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did. But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man. (John 2:23-25)
[”Evil is a make-believe concept” Americans Killed By ISIS]
Fool you and it seems you were!
I know that evil is real. I have sat and had a conversation with evil. On several occasions. I wish I had written a book!
I presume you are referring the liberals as saying "Evil is a make-believe concept,' and not me.
He is now one with the bear.
Minus a bit of fecal material; that is.
The last thing he remembers is how soft the Charmin® was...
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