Tag: compassion
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The devil loves his children
Klaus Barbie from all evidence loved his kids. According to his daughter-in-law (wife of his son Klaus-Georg), Klaus-Georg was kidnapped by the CIA in 1946 to make sure Barbie would work for them. From the Attorney General’s report: Barbie’s son Klaus-Georg was killed in a hanggliding accident in 1980, at age 33. Barbie’s wife diedin…
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Badass paramedics
Or my warped vision for the police. In Jesus’ and Tolstoy’s and frankly my utopia, we will have accepted the law of love over the law of violence. In this utopia, we will still need hospitals and fire departments. Shit sometimes goes bad, people get ill, fires start. However we will finally have rejected all…
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Compassion in the gutter
… compassion, which means “suffering with” Book of Joy p452 We’re suffering with each other, but we’re not suffering alone. We’re all in the gutter. It’s good if some of us are looking at the stars, but it’s better to realise we’re all in the gutter together. You, me, Putin, Trump, Dalai Lama and Desmond…
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Fumblings about compassion
“One with compassion is kind even when angry one without compassion will kill as he smiles.” Shabkar – Tibetan poet I went to Krakow, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II – Birkenau. It was surprising how un-horrifying it was. Birkenau was certainly bleak but its very hard to picture in my my mind the terror of…
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