People honest to fuck keep telling me "But Hamas WANTS this war/as many Palestinians to be killed as possible!"
And like.
??????
So we are now doing EXACTLY what we convinced ourselves some Evil Enemy Force is secretly or not so secretly wanting us to do - commit absolute atrocities and human rights violations en masse - because at least we're doing it for. what. To bring Peace and Democracy? Enlightened Western Values? Freedom from the Evil Enemy Force that DEMANDS we do exactly the brutality we're getting away with?????
What kind of logic system is this supposed to be???
"Every Muslim should come out and publicly Condemn Hamas, else they're basically Terrorists - oh but don't you see, Hamas WANTED us to bomb this NICU, they DEMANDED we leave these babies on ventilators to starve, suffocate and ROT surrounded by the things their now-also-dead parents brought them, HAMAS wants us to do all of this and so we obliged! All hail the Western Democracies and their endless pursuit of human rights and liberty!!!"
You lie to me that "we" are the bastion of humanity's human rights, but your definition of "human" doesn't include even NICU babies if they are inconvenient (and don't fall under your definition of "Western").
Fuck all of this.
"Hamas wants this, so that's what we should do. Oh but anyone criticising this bombing campaign in any way is Hamas AND A TERRORIST!!! MORE BOMBS!!!"
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Dear Ursula,
"The progressive destruction of the protective forest cover was done by man to his own impoverishment and has been the main cause of desiccation spreading over the lands of the Near East."
So rather than trumpet Israelis "making the desert bloom", it's a lot less miraculous when you understand the causes for the desert taking over.
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if something hurts me, the hurts I suffered back then come back to me, and when I feel guilty, the feelings of guilt return; if I yearn for something today, or feel homesick, I feel the yearnings and homesickness from back then. The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive.
Bernhard Schlink, from The Reader, 1995
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Ich hasse Leute. Ich hasse das Leben. Ich habe es zu leben. Ich hasse es dieses Leben zu leben. Dieses Verdammte Leben. Warum kann mich denn nicht jeder in Ruhe lassen? Habe ich den irgendjemanden was getan? Habe ich Sünde begonnen damit ich das erleben darf? Oder soll man es verzeihen das man Ausgeschlossen wird und Mental auf seine Grenze gesetzt wird. Wie lange soll es noch gehen? Wie lange soll ich noch so leben? Ich will dieses Leben nicht! Ich will diese Schmerzen nicht! Kannst du mir sie abnehmen? Oder sind sie zu schwer? Ist es meine Schuld wenn mir etwas angetan wird? Liegt es daran wie ich lebe? Daran wie ich Aussehe? Daran wie ich Fühle? Daran wie ich Handel? Wie viel von den Aktionen ist wirklich meine Schuld? Habe ich überhaupt selbst schuld daran? Aber warum sagt mir das jeder das ich doch schuld daran habe? Ich kann das nicht mehr... Ich hoffe du kannst es verstehen.
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"Ayo Mr. White! I just heard this phrase; The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. You're smart 'n shit, do you have any idea what that means, bitch?"
"Jesse, we - fine. I might as well explain, we're done cooking for Gus for today. You heard a line by the famous German author Hermann Hesse; specifically, from his 1919 novel 'Demian'."
"Demian? I thought that was just the name of that gay little bitch from the gacha game Skinny Pete likes."
"Jesse, you imbecile. You went through all your big years of high school and you never once listened to a Hesse lecture?"
"Demian follows the story of Emil Sinclair, a boy in Germany who slowly finds himself falling into the 'world of evil'. It all begins when another boy of his school, Franz Kromer, tempts him into keeping money from his family. An older boy, Max Demian, takes up for young Sinclair and drives Kromer away.
Years go by, and Sinclair, who grew up Christian, finds himself filled with desires he finds sinful; he blames Demian for this, and he hates himself, too. How could he have fallen into this world of evil, after all? All he wanted to do was thrive, why was that so hard?
As it turns out, he just needed to break free and accept himself for who he was. He needed to thrive to the beat of his own heart and live for himself, not for any god nor for his father or mother.
In the end, Sinclair and Demian reunite, and Demian departs as they enter war with a kiss. He disappears, yet Sinclair sees features of his friend and guide in himself in the mirror.
The novel has themes of Jungian and Freudian psychology, Catholic guilt, and self-liberation.
There, was that satisfactory? Or were you dozing off and not applying yourself, just like in class?"
"Damn, bitch. That's a lot to take in. I guess I'm a bit of an Emil Sinclair myself, Mr. White."
"In the end, Jesse, we must listen to our own hearts. We can't truly sort most things into 'good' and 'evil'.
And... I don't want anyone else to domineer over you."
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