Of Suffering and Vengence

johan Echoes Family Member Just me:The Watering Place of Good Peace can only be the long sleep of eternity. Posts: 4,464	Of Suffering and Vengence Jan 20, 2012 14:02:02 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by johan on Jan 20, 2012 14:02:02 GMT -5 I really enjoy each of your poems you write, an interesting concept in writing my friend. Johan
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jbstillwater Echoes Family Member Holiday Word Gifts, in bookstores around the world Posts: 2,779	Of Suffering and Vengence Jan 20, 2012 15:48:16 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jbstillwater on Jan 20, 2012 15:48:16 GMT -5 Well, this is brilliant. Would love to read the longer side of it!
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Of Suffering and Vengence Jan 22, 2012 9:53:06 GMT -5

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Jan 20, 2012 15:48:16 GMT -5 jbstillwater said:

Well, this is brilliant. Would love to read the longer side of it!

Well.
This was actually a meditation on my life. Basically, I went out to explore just how hatred can cause suffering, not just to the object of such hatred:

"The greatest sin the Germans ever taught us was to hate. When a man hates so much, he loses all ability to love again."
- attr Jewish concentration camp internee during WW2 (diary fragment)

At some point, one's hatred can become so powerful that it occupies a person's entire life, making it impossible to do anything else.

"The coming to presence of technology threatens revealing, threatens it with the possibility that all revealing will be consumed in ordering and that everything will present itself only in the unconcealedness of standing-reserve." — Martin Heidegger, Die Frage Nach Der Technik

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