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raul

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Hope dies last
« on: December 16, 2019, 02:53:59 pm »
Holden,

I admit I like these anecdotes about the misery and cruelty of our human condition. I read that in Beijing in 2011 the personnel of a government ministry were ordered to view the execution of one of their comrades who supposedly worked as a spy for the CIA and his pregnant wife. The two were shot and their execution was shown on closed-circuit television. The Chinese leaders showed no mercy even for an unborn child of a supposed traitor. Empires are forged with blood and suffering.

When I was in secondary school our teachers did  not teach that our history is only a record of  brutality and butchery. There was no questioning, no debate, no nothing really. Since I understand that our entire world is a set-up, what is the value of our written history taught in our schools and universities?

We are told lies and in turn we tell lies to each other. Did they ever tell me that money was invented to enslave humans? Did they ever say anything about the origin of evil? Why do we have to eat and drink to survive every day if we are going to die anyway?

As you know the world is nothing like what we see through our eyes.

Every single day we, humans, commit crimes and these thugs in power committed and commit them with our aid. We are all involved directly or indirectly.

Maybe if you have the money you could go to New Jersey but Paraguay is too far. I suggest London because of your excellent command of English and Rome, well, because you may be able to see Saint Peter´s Square and see the Pope. Who knows? You may even invite Hentrich for a walk around the square and the churches.

About women and marriage my only question is: are women not really polyandric creatures? 

Below is a link that you and the readers of this blog may find interesting:

It is a short film about Josef Paczynski, a Polish prisoner in Auschwitz who was forced to cut the hair of the German Kommandant Rudolf Hoss for almost every week for over four years. He never exchanged words with Hoss. Paczynski survived and passed away in 2015. Hoss was hanged for his crimes in 1947.   

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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2019, 09:29:52 am »
Senor Raul,

Sometimes I think of the man who killed Gandhi.This world is the world of push and pull.And I am sick of it. Gurdjieff can be interesting.When I read the memoirs of his students,something shines through to me. I am being kicked by forces seen and unseen. I would like to die very much.I am out of breath if I walk for more than a mile due to my infected lungs.

It very cold here now.Very chilly.

I am like a fish which keeps writhing after the wave has ebbed away.It is certain to die but it still has a few breathes left and it can do nothing more than wriggle..

A bird travelling on a ship which is in the middle of an ocean..it can fly as much as it likes,but must return to the ship inevitably.

Take care.

La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.

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Re: Hope dies last
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2019, 09:48:32 am »
For all intents and purposes I am an orphan.The world is not kind to the orphans.When I was really sick with TB, I could barely move. I would have lost consciousness in the middle of the marketplace if I would have tried to run away but now I can at least take my body to a secluded place where it might die in relative peace.
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.

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Re: Hope dies last
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2019, 11:07:53 am »
That's my feeling as well.  Whereas we are brought up as "men" or "members of this abstract ideal 'humanity'," we die as individual animal creatures.  The discrepancy between some imagined "literary authorial identity" and this frightened animal-being each of us "is" may reveal why society and its mores are such a farce.  We suffer as animals. 

Was it Epictetus who suggested we become knowers rather than sufferers?  Schopenhauer, in WWv2, by page 225, he explains that our true nature cannot be grounded in a "knower" (and willing a mere result of knowledge). 

It must be a cruel twist of Fate that I am subjected to my aging mother's agenda,  seeing as she was raised on TV (Hollywood, Consumerist Advertisements) and Catholicism.   I never imagined I would have to live as a saint or martyr, especially not in such petty degrees.   There are some common denominator dues I have to pay, and they are not of the heroic variety, but the daily and mundane kind.    Maybe these daily crucifixions, where I am torn from "my agenda" to pay deference to the "commands of an aging parent," are shaping my character, that of the silent autodidactic slave who who grumbles under his breath constantly.

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