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Inlägg #1: Postat: 2003-01-02 14:20:00
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Frederik |
Despairing over everything thats bad in the world is in fact a subtle form of selfishness and arrogance: if I cant get things my way I can always relish in the feeling that everything is lost, and despise others for their naivety in not seeing this. The point is that not everything is lost. And heres where 112 comes in: Take life as a whole like a question, and your life as your own, unique, never-seen-before-and-never-to-be-repeated-afterwards answer.
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Inlägg #2: Postat: 2003-01-02 14:20:00
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Frederik |
Evil is a reality, true, but its up to you to give an answer to it, and your answer will decide whether evil will increase or decrease in the world …and be aware that I dont care! is an answer too. A loving, constructive answer that tips the balance towards good always involves taking up responsibility for oneself and for others, and doing that is always more difficult than despairing. But its the only thing that makes life really worthwhile.
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Inlägg #3: Postat: 2003-01-04 15:41:00
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solveig |
A wise answer to all the worries that pops up for many. One can not help all but everyone can always help someone.
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Inlägg #4: Postat: 2003-01-06 14:20:00
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Michel |
To indulge in despair and to see despair are two different things.
To highlight despair in order to get a debate about it - What can we do to counter despair? - I see as a worthwhile thing to do.
What really is selfish is to brush it off your shoulder and say to yourself Why bother?
If you dont bother, and then evil strickes you, who´s going to bother?
Let us take Liselottes letter to hart and let it spark a debate among us.
Thanks for your letter Liselotte.
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Inlägg #5: Postat: 2003-01-06 14:26:00
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Michel |
What I really mean is that we should have a debate about what we as a community can do to counter whats causing so much despair among us.
Take the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the palestinians for example.
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Inlägg #6: Postat: 2003-01-07 01:05:00
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Frederik |
...sure, but before you start accusing the Israelis, look at yourself first and in my case I should look at myself. Evil is not only about horrible things happening out there. Its also about the small things we do ourselves, day after day: choosing for our own interest on the cost of another; blaming others even though we ourselves are not innocent in the affair; not helping someone else even though we could, because its too complicated...
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Inlägg #7: Postat: 2003-01-07 01:06:00
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Frederik |
Liselotte thinks that there is no answer to human evil. But I think there is. And I think all we have to do is to look inside ourselves to find it.
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Inlägg #8: Postat: 2003-01-08 00:30:00
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Frederik |
...heres a short addenda in the form of a little Zen story for anyone who might still be reading this: someone once went to a master and asked him what was needed to become enlightened. He answered Do good and avoid doing evil What? Thats all!? Even a child of 3 knows that! Yes, but even a man of 100 cant do it well... Still, we can practice and improve all the time...
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Inlägg #9: Postat: 2003-02-28 20:39:00
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Wurrilainen |
Vad är det för språk ni använder? Jag förstår ingenting.
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