Ever notice how headlines posed in the form of a question almost never actually answer the question in the following article? (Or, if they do, answer them in a way which entirely negates the original question.)
Especially when the question is casting doubt on a political figure or movement?
Really? It's just another form of lying. Because people remember the headline and assume the question would never be asked if there wasn't an affirmative answer.
If 'we are all the protagonists in our own stories', what does that make us in other people's stories?
I believe in good and evil, but in a very reductionist and humanist way: 'Good' actions are *intended* to help others or to help yourself while harming no-one. 'Evil' actions are *intended* to hurt others or to help yourself at other's expense.
[contd]
My touchstone for how to treat others?
WWMRD…
(What Would Mister Rogers Do?)
A quotation from Judith Martin
Only when the temporarily able-bodied come to accept disabilities as a common human condition will we have a truly civilized society.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Miss Manners’ Guide to Rearing Perfect Children, ch. 1 “Theory and Skills,” “For Auditors” (1984)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/76353/
♬〜 Carpenters - 青春の輝き 
A Kind Of Hush
#Pop #HumanCondition #70s #Folk #Solo #NowPlaying
We are here just for a spell and then pass on … So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Inscription, Oklahoma Route 66 Museum, Clinton, Oklahoma
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/5918/
Swift falsifies his picture of the world by refusing to see anything in human life except dirt, folly and wickedness, but the part which he abstracts from the whole does exist, and it is something which we all know about while shrinking from mentioning it. Part of our minds — in any normal person it is the dominant part — believes that man is a noble animal and life is worth living: but there is also a sort of inner self which at least intermittently stands aghast at the horror of existence.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” Polemic, No. 5
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/76060/
#ukrain could become an issue for the governments because, thanks to the commercial significance of black sea
For #bangladesh disruption it was textile
When it was about oil #arab countries were simply attacked
So #humancondition #history #religion re just about tapping the human sentiments to convince the people of country for war , while people may care for system the real issues re different and they re rarely rarely about people
"The affairs of the world have nothing to do with me", said the billions of people who make up the world.
A quotation from Stevenson, Robert Louis:
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Life is not designed to minister to a man’s vanity. He goes upon his long business most of the time with a hanging head, and all the time like a blind child. Full of rewards and pleasures as it is — so that to see the day break or the moon rise, or to meet a friend, or to hear the dinner-call when…
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https://wist.info/stevenson-robert-louis/6523/
A quotation from Fuller, Thomas (1654):
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One Month in the School of Affliction will teach thee more than the great Precepts of Aristotle in seven years; for thou canst never judge rightly of human Affairs, unless thou hast first felt the Blows, and found out the Deceits of Fortune.
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https://wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/20614/
*You're setting up your cardboard war-game, "Here's my ten thousand infantry chip," any one of those mortal human souls could be a World War One soldier-poet *They might be Max Ernst, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves #humancondition #tragic
A quotation from Herbert, George:
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Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead.
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https://wist.info/herbert-george/73083/
A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:
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The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig’d to sit upon his own arse.
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https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/73071/
A quotation from Bolt, Robert:
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MORE: If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we’d live like animals or angels in the happy land that needs no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyon…
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https://wist.info/bolt-robert/1014/
A quotation from Nin, Anais:
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Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/nin-anais/72614/
Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, dejection, and despair are suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering.
A quotation from Watterson, Bill:
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CALVIN: It’s not fair!
CALVIN’S DAD: The world isn’t fair, Calvin.
CALVIN: I know, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4070/
