SO last night Fuller had a bomb scare. Apparently, there was a box in the HR building all day and some person thought it was ticking. Freaked everybody out. The campus and a 2 block radius was shut down to all traffic - foot, car, etc.
Fortunately, or unfortunately - depending on how you look at it - it was nothing. Just a box of papers and clothes. Or so I hear.
Here is what gets me. It is along the same sad lines of the VT thing.
NO ONE IN PASADENA KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT FULLER!!!!
Except of course, those of us who pay money to be here or are married to someone who pays money to be here.
BUT if that really was a bomb and it blew up. Whattya know? Fuller would be the apple of Pasadena's eye... the heart of Pasadena... the life blood of the community.
Oh Please.
I am honestly struggling with these questions:
How does the church properly respond to "community disasters" in distant places?
What is the appropriate response for people who are not in the affected community?
When is national mourning appropriate and when is it a load of crap?
Ideas, anyone? Seriously... this is bugging me pretty deeply.
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it was nothing. Just a box of papers and clothes. Or so I hear.
That "or so I hear" captures what I thought was the most sad about this whole situation. People were talking about all the things it could have been, and it became quickly apparently that no one had any actual facts.
I'm glad that people take caution seriously, but that situation really got way out of hand.
By the way, according to the official e-mail from Fred Messick, "the box contained normal desk clocks."
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