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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 15, 2014, 09:10:21 AM
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Sherman A1 (13,883 posts)
The Modern Violence of Over-work
Thomas Merton — Trappist monk, gifted writer, social critic, and spiritual virtuoso — has inspired many people. I'm one of them.
Merton wrote these incisive words more than fifty years ago, but they are no less true today than when he wrote them.
"There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist...most easily succumbs: activism and over-work. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.
http://www.onbeing.org/blog/the-modern-violence-of-over-work/6943
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025668024
No. You lazy ****tards.
Violence is violence.
Yet, none of you pussies seem to shed a moment's concern for those who have to work harder to support your worthless asses and you're prepared to use the violence of government power to get your way.
Die cold and hungry in a ditch you sub-human pieces of shit.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025668024
No. You lazy ****tards.
Violence is violence.
Yet, none of you pussies seem to shed a moment's concern for those who have to work harder to support your worthless asses and you're prepared to use the violence of government power to get your way.
Die cold and hungry in a ditch you sub-human pieces of shit.
:clap: :clap: :clap:
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Hard work is not violent. However, some activists, particularly leftists, are.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025668024
No. You lazy ****tards.
Violence is violence.
Yet, none of you pussies seem to shed a moment's concern for those who have to work harder to support your worthless asses and you're prepared to use the violence of government power to get your way.
Die cold and hungry in a ditch you sub-human pieces of shit.
Come on Sarge... tell us how you really feel. Don't hold anything back now. :-)
H5!
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They seem to be lifting a lot of fingers for their wishaddoers.
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"There is a pervasive form of modern violence to which the idealist...most easily succumbs: activism and over-work. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.
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