Thursday, January 5, 2012
We are in a struggle for our lives, and the fact of life is that it will always be a struggle, as we “rage, rage against the dying of the light” hoping to go on living, knowing that life only has meaning in opposition to the nothingness of the nonexistence of death. But that [...]
Saturday, December 31, 2011
The lion hunts the antelope, in a dance of death across the plain, where blood will flow and bodies will cease to breathe and then we’ll say, “It’s natural”. But on those days so long ago when the mind of man was not the mind of god and we were neither created nor creators, [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
It is a mistaken view of freedom that sees the world as one solely of individual choices, when in fact those choices impact on the lives of others. In complex societies, where millions of people seek to live in harmony with each other, there are beliefs that we respect, in general, that many of [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
there’s another story in the news today about a gay kid having been killed because he was gay, and there’s another story about a child being beaten to death. there are always more stories about the ways we hurt each other, about the harms we cause, about the depths we allow ourselves to sink [...]
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Suppose you are walking down the city street and happen upon some homeless person who lies there, sleeping on the sidewalk. Would you kick such a person as you passed by? Would you deliberately cause someone such harm? I hope that you would not and I suspect that you would not. Most people aren’t [...]
Saturday, October 29, 2011
When you pass by a small child crying, do you wonder whether she really feels any pain? When you hear of two lovers, heartbroken, do you wonder whether they suffer too? When the meaningless of boredom overtakes you, do you question whether others ever feel so lost? When the cold of winter’s spell chills [...]
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
I never liked avocado. Never could understand why anyone would want to ruin a perfectly good sandwich by putting that stuff on it. Yuck. To each their own, I guess. Whether you eat avocado isn’t really any of my concern. It doesn’t hurt me that you like that nasty stuff. Share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this! Share on [...]
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Troy Davis, 42, was executed this morning in Georgia. Lawrence Brewer, 44, was executed last night in Texas. Jamey Rodemeyer, 14, killed himself this weekend in New York. Troy Davis is said to have killed a cop, Lawrence Brewer dragged a man to his death behind a pickup truck. Jamey Rodemeyer was just a kid [...]
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Talk to a few vegans who didn’t “become vegan overnight” and you’ll hear a recurring story. I’ve heard it so many times from so many different vegans that I think there’s something interesting going on. Please let me explain. Share: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this! Share on Facebook Share on FriendFeed Share on Linkedin [...]
You know the feeling you get when someone tells you about themselves being hurt? Like when they say “I broke my leg so bad that I could see where the bone had snapped”? Did you just get that feeling then, just from reading those words? A little shiver, a little shudder. You feel their [...]
