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  • Depression

     

    Depression is not
    A victimless crime.
    Self-loathing,
    Becomes loathing.
    It is inevitable.
    Therefore self-love,
    Is not personal indulgence.
    It is a moral necessity.
    Do it for the sake of others,
    When you cannot bear to for yourself.

    Great Falls

     

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  • On the day of Rosh Hashanah

     

    9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”
    “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”
    10 But the LORD said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight. 11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

    I thought of this text today. Could not get out of my head for my whole life the pathos of not knowing the left from the right, the basis of mercy being our utter ignorance and aimlessness as human beings, and THAT is why God did not destroy Nineveh (Mosul) despite Jonah

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  • Reflections in August 2014 vol.1

     

    Galilee

    In war in an age of war the act of ultimate defiance is to make another human being feel wonderful.

    Testosterone, gestures of kindness are semen seeds. Men get busy, it will make you inherently happy and bear you many children.

    Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). A doctrine that was supposed to be about deterrence, not prophecy. #Israel#Hamas#Palestine

    Mimicry, the compulsion of humans to mirror their postures, facial expressions, and enemy war cries. Most posts on FB and Twitter. 

    Better to deny the past in fear and embrace the present with courage than to embrace the past with courage and deny the present in fear.

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