When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.The writer wishes all sorts of unpleasant things to befall those he considers wicked.
~ King James version ~
When we wish ill of others, it makes us just as ill.
~ possible Taoist alternative ~
Negative energy doesn't discriminate. It infects not only the person it is directed toward, but also the person who holds it.
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That's a pretty wild curse, but what's the difference between that, and the suggestion that Jeffrey Immelt go clean up Fukashima?
ReplyDeleteI think both you & Mark are missing the salient point made by the fellow I quoted: SOMEBODY has the clean-up the mess. Why is it that low-paid blue collar types (fireman, police, the military, transient plant workers) are called on to do this dangerous and life-threatening work and NOT the people most responsible for building a nuclear plant on a fault line in a tsunami zone?
ReplyDeleteWhy aren't you defending the people doing the awful work -- many who are being compelled to do it?
I am neither not defending the workers, nor defending the CEO. It just seemed ironic to me.
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