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A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10) ↗
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We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them. ↗
The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible. The civilization we live in at present is a gigantic technological structure, a skyscraper almost high enough to reach the moon. It looks like a single world-wide effort, but it's really a deadlock of rivalries; it looks very impressive, except that it has no genuine human dignity. For all its wonderful machinery, we know it's really a crazy ramshackle building, and at any time may crash around our ears. What the myth tells us is that the Tower of Babel is a work of human imagination, that its main elements are words, and that what will make it collapse is a confusion of tongues. All had originally one language, the myth says. The language is not English or Russian or Chinese or any common ancestor, if there was one. It is the language that makes Shakespeare and Pushkin authentic poets, that gives a social vision to both Lincoln and Gandhi. It never speaks unless we take the time to listen in leisure, and it speaks only in a voice too quiet for panic to hear. And then all it has to tell us, when we look over the edge of our leaning tower, is that we are not getting any nearer heaven, and that it is time to return to earth. [p.98] ↗
بُنَــــيّ لكي تكون ملكاً مهاباً بين الناس إياك أن تتكلم في الأشياء إلا بعد أن تتأكد من صحة المصدر .. وإذا جاءك أحد بنبأ فتبين قبل أن تتهور.. وإياك والشائعة.. لا تصدق كل ما يقال ولا نصف ما تبصر .. وإذا ابتلاك الله بعدو .. قاومه بالإحسان إليه .. ادفع بالتي هي أحسن .. فإن العداوة تنقلب حباً إذا أردت أن تكتشف صديقاً .. سافر معه .. ففي السفر .. ينكشف الإنسان .. حيث يذوب المظهر .. وينكشف المخبر! ولماذا سمي السفر سفراً ؟؟؟ إلا لأنه عن الأخلاق والطبائع يسفر! وإذا هاجمك الناس وأنت على حق .. أو قذفوك بالنقد..فافرح .. إنهم يقولون لك .. أنت ناجح ومؤثر .. فالكلب الميت.. لا يُركل ! ولا يُرمى إلا الشجر المثمر ! بُنَــــيّ عندما تنتقد أحداً .. فبعين النحل تعود أن تبصر .. ولا تنظر للناس بعين ذباب ... فتقع على ما هو مستقذر! نم باكراً يا بني .. فالبركة في الرزق صباحاً .. وأخاف أن يفوتك رزق الرحمن .. لأنك تسهر ! وسأحكي لك قصه المعزة والذئب حتى لا تأمن من يمكر ... وحينما يثق بك أحد فإياك ثم إياك أن تغدر! سأذهب بك لعرين الأسد .. وسأعلمك أن الأسد لم يصبح ملكاً للغابة لأنه يزأر!! ولكن لأنه .. عزيز النفس ! لا يقع على فريسة غيره ! مهما كان جائعاً .. يتضور .. لا تسرق جهد غيرك .. فتتجور ! سأذهب بك للحرباء .. حتى تشاهد بنفسك حيلتها ! فهي تلون جلدها بلون المكان .. لتعلم أن مثلها نسخ ... تتكرر ! وأن هناك منافقين .. وهناك أناس بكل لباس تتدثر ! وبدعوى الخير .. تتستر ! تعود يا بني .. أن تشكر .. اشكر الله! يكفي أنك تمشي .. وتسمع .. وتبصر! أشكر الله وأشكر الناس .. فالله يزيد الشاكرين! والناس تحب الشخص الذي عندما تبذل له .. يقدر! اكتشفت يا بني.. أن أعظم فضيلة في الحياة.. الصدق! وأن الكذب وإن نجى .. فالصدق أخلق ! بمن كان مثلك! بُنَــــيّ ... وفر لنفسك بديلاً لكل شيء .. استعد لأي أمر! حتى لا تتوسل لنذل .. يذل ويحقر ! واستفد من كل الفرص .. لأن الفرص التي تأتي الآن .. قد لا تتكرر!! لا تتشكى ولا تتذمر .. أريدك متفائلاً .. مقبلاً على الحياة .. اهرب من اليائسين والمتشائمين! وإياك أن تجلس مع رجل يتطير!! لا تتشمت ولا تفرح بمصيبة غيرك ... و إياك أن تسخر من شكل أحد ... فالمرء لم يخلق نفسه .. ففي سخريتك .. أنت في الحقيقة تسخر ! من صنع الذي أبدع وخلق وصور !! لا تفضح عيوب الناس .. فيفضحك الله في دارك .. فالله الساتر .. يحب من يستر ! ولا تظلم أحداً .. وإذا دعتك قدرتك على ظلم الناس .. فتذكر أن الله هو الأقدر! وإذا شعرت بالقسوة يوماً .. فامسح على رأس يتيم .. ولسوف تدهش .. كيف للمسح أن يمسح القسوة من القلب .. فيتفطر ! ↗
I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans. By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation. ↗
When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My life until that point had pivoted around some form of education, and all of a sudden, it was gone. Homework, classes, running around, and then – bam – nothing but a life of work stretching out before you. No one prepares you for that feeling or even mentions it. You just suddenly have a gap and have to decide how to fill it. A break up is like that gap, only much, much more painful. One day the person you talked to constantly or did stuff with is just absent. Gone. Poof. And even though I’m not one of those people who has to be in a relationship all the time, I was feeling at a loss. ↗
من كان مرباه بالعسف والقهر من المتعلمين أو المماليك أو الخدم سطا به القهر، وضيّق على النفس فى انبساطها، وذهب بنشاطها، ودعاه إلى الكسل، وحُمِلَ على الكذب والخبث وهو التظاهر بغير ما فى ضميره خوفـًا من انبساط الأيدى بالقهر عليه، وعلّمه المكر والخديعة لذلك، وصارت له هذه عادةً وخُلُقـًا، وفسدت معانى الإنسانية التى له من حيث الاجتماع والتمرن، وهى الحَمِية والمدافعة عن نفسه ومنزله، وصار عيالاً على غيره فى ذلك، بل وكسلت النفس عن اكتساب الفضائل والخُلُق الجميل، فانقبضت عن غايتها ومدى إنسانيتها، فارتكس وعاد فى أسفل السافلين. ↗
And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this—this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you. ↗
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And whether or not the educators who are trying to raise up America's students can actually set and meet higher academic standards, our cultural values make their job next to impossible. It's so much easier for pundits and politicians to point out figures and blame the people who are in the trenches every day than it is to get in there with them, or even to find out what actually goes on in those trenches. It's so much easier for parents to blame teachers when their kids get in trouble than to do the heavy lifting required at home to keep kids on track. And it's so much easier for us as a nation to cross our fingers and hope that we'll "get lucky" with the innovative "solutions" being tested on America's schools today than it is for us to roll up our sleeves and invest our own time, talent, and money in the schools that are even now-- with or without us-- shaping our nation's future. ↗
