psychology

Day 3008, revenge.

Daily picture, Quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
On Redemption

“The spirit of revenge, my friends, has so far been the subject of man’s best reflection; and where there was suffering, one always wanted punishment too. “For ‘punishment’ is what revenge calls itself; with a hypocritical lie it creates a good conscience for itself. “Because there is suffering in those who will, in as much as they cannot will backwards, willing itself and all life were supposed to be a punishment. And now cloud upon cloud rolled over the spirit, until eventually madness preached, ‘Everything passes away; therefore everything deserves to pass away. And this too is justice, this law of time that it must devour its children.’ Thus preached madness.

Day 3007, disapointed mess.

Daily picture, My thoughts

There is this atheist, Sam Harris, I have quoted him before in some of my blogs regarding free will. He has some smart things to say about that. I knew little about him before that, mainly as an outspoken atheist, but I regard him as a smart man, and he is, at least, academically. This week, I came across an interview with him where he talked about Israel and Palestine, and he said some strange things. I did some more digging, and to me, he talks like a former colonizer in the way he disregards the Palestinians and how he thinks that everybody who is a Muslim is more or less a terrorist. 

I don’t like his views on that conflict but I also started to doubt myself. How is it possible that he is so smart about free will and well-thought-out but also, deep in his heart, a racist? I am not going to tell how I got to this conclusion, there is enough on the internet of and about him, and you can come to your own conclusions.

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Day 3002, first they came.

Day's pictures, Poetry, Quotes

These collected barriers work not only to stop fascism but also to stop anti-fascism.

Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. But when, after Hitler rose to power and insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a cleric and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II. From Wikipedia