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Empathy

Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:03:14 GMT

i realize that i don't post much. mostly because i'm not really the sharing, happy feely type. or sharing angsty, emo type. but i have something to say, and by god i'll put it out here for everyone who cares enough to read.

there are those out there who feel threatened by the refugees, who think that they are in danger. maybe you are, maybe not. i understand being scared, but to be so heartless as to take a vigilante stance against victims of a natural disaster? to be paranoid and frightened that something just might happen to you?

of course, most of the people who might read this are liberal, and are all about empathy and compassion and civil rights. so this can't possibly be a race thing. unless you're johann, in which case we all know it is.

but what we've all got to realize is that the refugees at the astrodome are just that - refugees. victims. they are the people who couldn't escape and get better accomadations, find shelter somewhere, anywhere else. these are the people who couldn't get out until it was too late. they have lost everything they had in this world, and now they don't know how long they'll be stranded far from everything they've known or when they'll be allowed to begin to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.

so forgive me if i'm a little disgusted by people's statements of fear for themselves, of not feeling safe in their own homes. i don't actually understand how anyone can say they sympathize with the refugees, the victims, the people who have been fucked with by god, nature, and the government that should have been protecting them, and then talk about how they feel threatened by their presence in houston. expression of sympathy, of empathy, are just that - expressions - until they are backed up. so instead of vigilante action, instead of being scared, try having an honest to god intent to do right by these people.

they've been screwed over enough by this world.

Sat, 14 May 2005 22:55:21 GMT

because i'm bored and on an upswing and only 3 people ever read this anyway,

01. Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie remind me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, it would be...
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal.

Yom Hashoah

Thu, 05 May 2005 00:50:48 GMT

"The Butterfly"

The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
against a white stone. . . .

Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly 'way up high.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto.
But I have found what I love here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut branches in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.

That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live in here,
in the ghetto.

Pavel Friedman 4.6.1942

"The Jews in the ghetto, people being condemned to die, future daisy-pushers - these are the ones who are to create a chorus in the ghetto? Why? To amuse the embittered public? For whom? For the Germans?"
-Ilya Gerber, an 18 year old diarist from Lituania.

"Son of man, keep not silent, forget not deeds of tyranny. Cry out at the disaster of a people, recount it unto your children and they unto theirs. From generation to generation the hordes swept in, ran wild and savage and there was no deliverance, valiance, and revolt. How the mighty are fallen, the great in spirit and stout of heart, walking to their death with a halo of eternity."
-Yehuda Bialer

these quotes are self-explanatory, i should hope. today is the day when across the world, 6 million human beings are remembered because of the reason they were murdered, their faith and heritage. 6 million people who were given numbers and denied names as they were shot and buried and unmarked holes, shoved into gas chambers, burned to ash so they could never be found or identified again. 6 million Jews exterminated by a government devoted to hatred and evil and a world that stood by and watched. we remember today, the 27th day of the month of Nissan, every year, and we shall never forget.