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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (86337)	8/24/2000 12:00:17 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You know, there are some people who have nothing to be grateful for. What about THEM. All over the world, at any time, there are children being tortured, sometimes to death, sometimes not. Somewhere, right now, there is someone, somewhere in the world, on their knees pleading to someone else for their life- and their plea will not be answered. I suppose you could say "But they can be grateful for death!!! Light energy- the evil they experience may move the world forward..." Maybe so, maybe no. Your gloss over horror seems facile to me. I do not like it. I find it repellent. I'm sure you don't mean it the way I read it, but it does seem to be just a variant of "Always look on the bright side of life"- which is fine as an approach to life when you are somewhere above the bottom, but I wouldn't go preaching it to people in real despair.

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (86337)	8/24/2000 6:08:49 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Fred, 'twas you, methinks, who was "assigning blame" for not stopping Hitler. I quote: All it would have taken is the energy and power of ONE individual to stop Hitler. But the world winked/blinked and said "let's not go there" until too much time had lapsed and we were forced to accept the responsibility to stand up for the rights of individuals to live in freedom. Reads to me like this: the gutless world "winked and blinked" (blame!) until it was too late to do anything except go to war. Now if ONE individual had only stood up before. it might have been a different story. Meaning, there was NO such individual (blanket blame). By pointing out that quite a few individuals HAD stood up and tried to stop Hitler before the war broke out, without success, I was not blaming them for failing, but implicitly praising them for trying.