i wrote: |Rhialto <[email protected]> wrote: | ... ||I agree that bad history should be remembered in context and not ||forgotten. However, that is not what these quotes do. They give no ||context, and they make A.H. seem like a relatively normal person. Now if ||he was quoted at his worst, it might be obvious what sort of monster he ||was, but that is not the effect of these quotes. His crimes against ||humanity are trivialised by putting things he said next to people like ||Mahatma Gandhi. | |Difficult given that in the FreeBSD core team there is someone who |thinks clean rooms are something desirable. I do not know what |such people think. | |In my context. If you look in the eyes of a young girl who has to |face the "contempt for mankind", and i quote that, expressed by |said subjects, and if all you do is to spend ten minutes of your |life with the photos on the single page[1], which took me two |minutes to find and i know many many many many more of such photos |and many of them more painful than those, then the |non-understanding you will see in these eyes is so beautifully |expressed by the wonderful Hannah Ahrendt and her "Eichmann in |Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil". | |And also, in Buddhism it is clear that the monkey is the start of |it all and it is your personal responsibility to walk the spiral |staircase to a "higher ground" and "increase your karma". It is |in us and not talking about it or purport it does not exist does |not help at all. It requires active working, it requires |reflection, concentration, and transformation. Chimpanzees are |one of the cruelest kind. A buddhistic teacher of former times |said "be kind with them and silent when they cut you in pieces" |(if i recall correctly, this is not truly exact). For those who |stick to the committer: that are not only words, you may try that |if you can, search "Lingchi" on the web -- but be aware! | |You will never be able to reflect something that you do not even |know about. You will never be able to look back over twenty years |of time and get ashamed of having gotten something so wrong if |you never got even in contact with it at first. Hitler got his |Villa and the entire mountain it stands on as well, a private doctor, |a Mercedes-Benz. Making such deals seems to attract not few |people. You could go on a cheap dreamboat holiday. The regime |was bankrupt very soon, but others had to pay for it already by |then, with their resources, money first, humans and other natural |ones later. |Somehow that reminds me of something.
I have forgotten the URL: https://shoaportalvienna.wordpress.com/category/buchenwald/ Ciao, and a nice Sunday. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
