25 Saturday Dec 2021
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It’s an odd question, but can you define happiness? Do you think happiness is the same to you as it is to others? Find out what happiness is!
— Read on positivepsychology.com/what-is-happiness/
27 Saturday Nov 2021
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07 Sunday Apr 2019
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good (wo)men fail to act
At Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Wiesel speaks about the atrocities committed by the Nazi’s in the concentration camps, and his incredulity that barbarism could occur in such a “modern” age. 1939 – 1945
“I remember he asked his father, “Can this be true? This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” And now the boy is turning to me. “Tell me,” he asks, “what have you done with my future, what have you done with your life?” And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And then I explain to him how naïve we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.”
“Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.”
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/acceptance-speech/
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/26054-elie-wiesel-acceptance-speech-1986/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel
Yet in 1994, near the end of the twentieth century and 50 years later, approximately 800,000 Tsutsi’s were murdered by the Hutu majority in 100 days.
Many were raped (a crime that has no purpose but to inflict pain).
Today, Sunday April 7th, 2019 is the 25th “anniversary” of the beginning of the end for those poor souls.
– Bless them.
– Forgive us.
Embolden us!
22 Friday Mar 2019
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10 things I learned after losing a lot of money | Dorothee Loorbach | TEDxMunster
13:58
“..and day and night I felt this blind panic. I couldn’t breathe. There is no way out. I was suffocating.
So the first thing, the only thing I could do … was breathe.
I freed my mind and I made a decision.
I was going to be successful in the direction of my purpose. »
14:35
9. Stay broke
“Epictitus said a very long time ago wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
21 Thursday Mar 2019
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One approach to the field of Ethics is to look at
1. THE DEFINITION : Is it in the interests of the common good.
2. THE TEST : Would you take the above defined ethical action even if it involved a sacrifice on your part?
3. THE CHALLENGE :
a) Defining what is in the common good.
b) Hierarchy of different “common goods”
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