Comments on: The Samaritan of Iraq: A Short Story About Doppelgangers http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:42:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Father_Time http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-226015 Father_Time Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:14:32 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-226015 No you missed the point. I did not write a poem. I simply stated fact. Love is irrelevant and certainly not permanent. It is only an emotion that attaches humans for procreation or protection. <br><br>We humans are pitted against the reality of the universe. We wish the universe loved because that would give us comfort, but love is only between humans. In reality emotions and even life itself is insignificant to the universe. The universe does not comfort. The universe creates and destroys and we need to learn how to get out of it’s way in order to survive. The odds are pitifully morbid that we even have the slightest chance. No you missed the point. I did not write a poem. I simply stated fact. Love is irrelevant and certainly not permanent. It is only an emotion that attaches humans for procreation or protection.

We humans are pitted against the reality of the universe. We wish the universe loved because that would give us comfort, but love is only between humans. In reality emotions and even life itself is insignificant to the universe. The universe does not comfort. The universe creates and destroys and we need to learn how to get out of it’s way in order to survive. The odds are pitifully morbid that we even have the slightest chance.

]]> By: ordinarysparrow http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225861 ordinarysparrow Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:31:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225861 Father Time i like what you have written and really appreciate the spirit of how are expressing. . read it a couple of times but went back and substituted the word love instead of knowledge. . .and that too is very readable and meaningful. . .thank you sparrow Father Time i like what you have written and really appreciate the spirit of how are expressing. . read it a couple of times but went back and substituted the word love instead of knowledge. . .and that too is very readable and meaningful. . .thank you sparrow

]]> By: ordinarysparrow http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225825 ordinarysparrow Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:52:00 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225825 Thank you Dr. E.. . . always your heart is there in the rain and in the sunshine for the "little people". . .<br><br> these images leave us the legacy of memory burned into hearts and minds that can hopefully seize voices that can speak; no more. . . Thank you Dr. E.. . . always your heart is there in the rain and in the sunshine for the “little people”. . .

these images leave us the legacy of memory burned into hearts and minds that can hopefully seize voices that can speak; no more. . .

]]> By: Silhouette http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225817 Silhouette Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:23:11 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225817 I have a very similar picture saved from when Cheney ran the place officially of a little dead Palestinian girl before that picture was quickly removed from the website I got it from. I have it in my picture files where I don't see it every day, but when I go to browse there for other pictures I see it and am reminded. In her case of how the Israelis attacked their neighbors on the jewish sabbath. A thing that is forbidden them to do from their own ancient Supreme Law.<br><br>It reminds me of all the funny business going on that we aren't allowed to know about who really runs Israel and other things around the globe. I have a very similar picture saved from when Cheney ran the place officially of a little dead Palestinian girl before that picture was quickly removed from the website I got it from. I have it in my picture files where I don't see it every day, but when I go to browse there for other pictures I see it and am reminded. In her case of how the Israelis attacked their neighbors on the jewish sabbath. A thing that is forbidden them to do from their own ancient Supreme Law.

It reminds me of all the funny business going on that we aren't allowed to know about who really runs Israel and other things around the globe.

]]> By: tidbits http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225810 tidbits Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:45:22 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225810 We are the voyeurs, watching, sometimes in horror, often for amusement, waiting for others to step forward and show us, from a safe distance, what humanity looks like.<br><br>Thanks for the reminder, Archangel. We are the voyeurs, watching, sometimes in horror, often for amusement, waiting for others to step forward and show us, from a safe distance, what humanity looks like.

Thanks for the reminder, Archangel.

]]> By: spirasol http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225797 spirasol Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:50:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225797 I like to think of events providing us with an opportunity to become larger than our self perceptions. The doppelgangers you depict get more opportunities perhaps than the rest of us and likely show us the way. I can't always say I am up to it, and I can't really think of a time when I was big enough/heartfelt enough to carry the rotting and disassembling corpse of another, a child perhaps, to place of sanctuary. I can't promise for me or anyone else, but I like to think there enough of my humanity left for me or someone else to reach down deep in the vipers pit to try to find the little hand of the other; to bring them or what is left of their form home....... I like to think of events providing us with an opportunity to become larger than our self perceptions. The doppelgangers you depict get more opportunities perhaps than the rest of us and likely show us the way. I can't always say I am up to it, and I can't really think of a time when I was big enough/heartfelt enough to carry the rotting and disassembling corpse of another, a child perhaps, to place of sanctuary. I can't promise for me or anyone else, but I like to think there enough of my humanity left for me or someone else to reach down deep in the vipers pit to try to find the little hand of the other; to bring them or what is left of their form home…….

]]> By: motherwheel http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225795 motherwheel Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:33:56 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225795 God this is so powerful and moving - thank you Dr. E - your work keeps the reptile's at bay and nourishes my heart - I run to the computer every morning with a wish- that you will have a new post up on your blog<br>something to crack my heart open for the day <br>The Mother night sessions you are doing with Sounds True are deep deep soul food - you always provide the "how" - with all of the wisdom you impart<br>"do what ever works" - how profound and yet so simple - all of the counter magic you provide to bypass the ego - and your daughter's magic seed ( bless her heart) " you never get over it - you learn how to live with it" i know her pain all too well - thank you for teaching us how to live with it .<br><br><br>Marion<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfzpRe-eBRA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfzpRe-eBRA</a><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9EGd2IcbfY&feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9EGd2IcbfY&feat...</a> God this is so powerful and moving – thank you Dr. E – your work keeps the reptile's at bay and nourishes my heart – I run to the computer every morning with a wish- that you will have a new post up on your blog
something to crack my heart open for the day
The Mother night sessions you are doing with Sounds True are deep deep soul food – you always provide the “how” – with all of the wisdom you impart
“do what ever works” – how profound and yet so simple – all of the counter magic you provide to bypass the ego – and your daughter's magic seed ( bless her heart) ” you never get over it – you learn how to live with it” i know her pain all too well – thank you for teaching us how to live with it .

Marion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfzpRe-eBRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9EGd2IcbfY&feat…

]]> By: Father_Time http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225794 Father_Time Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:10:15 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225794 Seeing the innocent suffer and die is a terrible experience that I have endured many times. It is an indescribable emotion. A mixture of anger, fear, and, love. My, (our), emotion is life’s empathy for life. We are on the same team.<br><br>The universe does not care. The universe is. The universe is almighty.<br><br>Life begins and then it ends. Nothing is carried forward except knowledge,<br><br>either biological knowledge or external knowledge having to be relearned….<br><br>It is our life boat…we have no hope without it….<br><br>Knowledge lessons the might of the universe, ever so little, with each new generation.<br><br>Either the universe will crush all life in the end, or life will gather enough knowledge to adapt<br><br>and survive the universe in time or just in time…….time is the unknown quantity. Seeing the innocent suffer and die is a terrible experience that I have endured many times. It is an indescribable emotion. A mixture of anger, fear, and, love. My, (our), emotion is life’s empathy for life. We are on the same team.

The universe does not care. The universe is. The universe is almighty.

Life begins and then it ends. Nothing is carried forward except knowledge,

either biological knowledge or external knowledge having to be relearned….

It is our life boat…we have no hope without it….

Knowledge lessons the might of the universe, ever so little, with each new generation.

Either the universe will crush all life in the end, or life will gather enough knowledge to adapt

and survive the universe in time or just in time…….time is the unknown quantity.

]]> By: The Samaritan of Iraq http://themoderatevoice.com/50937/the-samaritan-of-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-225773 The Samaritan of Iraq Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:21:42 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=50937#comment-225773 [...] strange here:  The Samaritan of Iraq This entry was posted in Posts about Health & Beauty and tagged chris-fields, empathy, Health, [...] [...] strange here:  The Samaritan of Iraq This entry was posted in Posts about Health & Beauty and tagged chris-fields, empathy, Health, [...]

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