Condolences? For me? My entire family was in America at the time. If I lost any distant cousins, nobody in my family knows.
The only meaning I find in human suffering is that it is part of the human experience and human story. There is no rhyme or reason to it, no fairness, no justice. We can tell the stories and find instruction, or comfort, or inspiration to end the suffering of others, but does that make the suffering a good thing, or somehow worthwhile in the grand scheme? I don't think so.
The one about the Ovitz family is fascinating in the way it examines memory and witness testimony and how we shape our own stories afterwards. Also, Mengele was a sick bastard.
Forever pure? In Israel? 70 years later? How dare they? It's enough to make me physically sick.
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Date: 2013-04-09 01:11 pm (UTC)The only meaning I find in human suffering is that it is part of the human experience and human story. There is no rhyme or reason to it, no fairness, no justice. We can tell the stories and find instruction, or comfort, or inspiration to end the suffering of others, but does that make the suffering a good thing, or somehow worthwhile in the grand scheme? I don't think so.
The one about the Ovitz family is fascinating in the way it examines memory and witness testimony and how we shape our own stories afterwards. Also, Mengele was a sick bastard.
Forever pure? In Israel? 70 years later? How dare they? It's enough to make me physically sick.