tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post2969575266761776466..comments2024-03-15T01:34:45.154-07:00Comments on Chiron: SelfishRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-14182792570436589592008-07-17T15:37:00.000-07:002008-07-17T15:37:00.000-07:00Maybe that contrast in the land makes what you are...Maybe that contrast in the land makes what you are seeing all the more gorgeous? I know that living where we do I forget to look at the natural beauty and become surprised by it once again when I have seen or experienced something ugly. <BR/><BR/>Is it a life's lesson to only be surprised by the contrasts...or not to be?<BR/><BR/>Maybe what you are experiencing with the mission is intense enough that you are waking up again to the beauty that can surround you, or maybe you have always been an intense enough person that you see the beauty that most of us miss in our daily humdrum.<BR/><BR/>Blessings to you Rory for reminding me to look,<BR/>SondraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-66541731759828809022008-07-16T12:00:00.000-07:002008-07-16T12:00:00.000-07:00You can read the story here if you haven't already...You can read the story <A HREF="http://harelbarzilai.org/words/omelas.txt" REL="nofollow">here</A> if you haven't already.Kai Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13319136737099550784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-47580650102042524392008-07-16T11:59:00.000-07:002008-07-16T11:59:00.000-07:00Did you ever read Le Guin's "The ones who walk awa...Did you ever read Le Guin's "The ones who walk away from Omelas"? That's what I think of when you describe the palace: a society of happy, beautiful, wealthy people whose lifestyle is preserved because (in the magic of that story) in a dungeon at the bottom of the ugliest part of the city is a small child whose entire life is abuse. You cannot remove the child from the dungeon without destroying those bright, joyful lives above. <BR/><BR/>Megalomaniacs can create beauty, but it is a beauty founded on abuse of someone else.Kai Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13319136737099550784noreply@blogger.com