Personal - #501 - #08 – Hillary and Obama - Martyrs, Saints and Survivors

First we’ll start to attack the Martyr vs. Saint “thing”….

“Saints” seem to require a church like or religious significance. “Martyrs” seem to be less “religious”. Both seem to be willing “to stand for something” despite popular opinion. Both , by this observation, seem willing to “chance” something despite a formidable reaction. The judgement of what they do or a willing to “stand for” is made by the persons they “stand up to”! If you’re a Palestinian, you have an opposite view to the “stand up for” than the Israeli. One is “for”, one is “against”. But the person who makes the stand is an agreeable “martyr” or a “horrible terrorist” depending on which side you’re on.

But the “survivor” doesn’t take any “stand” at all. He is willing to “just survive”! To attempt to mutually communicate with the two groups at the same time seems impossible. Neither side, it seems, is willing to share. Both sides seem only to want to vent their opinions. There is nothing to be learned from this “venting” because there is no meaningful, logical sharing of ideas.

I was considering this subject in the light of the possible futility of trying to get people to “understand” who are not motivated to do anything but “slide along” … “survive”. Why engage in this type of activity? Why write a “Dinosaur” book? Why address students in hopes of awakening in them a desire to “think”, a desire to “mutually communicate more definitively”?

It is a question that interests me greatly. Perhaps my thinking is wrong! Perhaps all this is a waste of time? I know it’s not a waste of “my” time, but perhaps it’s a waste of other people’s time? It continues to arrest my attention. It is in this light that “Martyrs”, “Saints” and “Survivors” are possible interests to be “explored”.

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I know I’m “losing” but I don’t know what to do about it!!

“It’s too complicated!” … “I’m too busy!” …. Don’t bother me! “I’m just trying to make a living!”

Well, if you’re these things, you may wake up one day and find a lot more to be “bothered” about!!

When do you start “caring”? …. When do you really become aware of somebody else?

I hope you’ll consider these Essays. I can’t “make” you. All I can do is “try”!