“Child of Themis who gives sound advice,
your thoughts aim high. Against your will and mine,
I’ll pin you with bronze chains you can’t undo
on this crag far away from humankind,
where you will neither see the forms of mortals,
nor hear their voices. Burnt by sun’s bright fire
your skin will lose its bloom; you will be glad
when night in spangled clothing hides the daylight,
and again when sun at dawn dispels the frost.
Always the burden of each moment’s pain
will wear you down. Your rescuer’s not yet born.
This is what your human-loving ways have won.
You are a god, and still you did not cower
before the anger of the gods, but granted
mortals honors to which they have no right.
For that, you’ll keep watch on this joyless rock,
upright, unsleeping, never bending a knee.
You’ll cry out often, in sorrow, pain, regret;
it will do no good. Zeus is not to be won over.
He is harsh, as all those new to power are harsh.”
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Build Proper
As an example of how empathy and reason work together, consider parental behaviors that psychologist Martin Hoffman calls inductions. These occur when a child has harmed or is about to harm someone, and the parent urges the child to take the victim’s perspective, saying things like “If you throw snow on their walk they will have to clean it up all over again” or “He feels bad because he was proud of his tower and you knocked it down.” Hoffman estimates that children between the ages of two and ten receive about four thousand inductions a year. We can see these as empathetic prods, attempts to get children into the habit of taking the perspective of others. But they also serve as a repeated argument, making the point over and over again to the child: You are not morally privileged.
If our grave was watered by the rain, would roses bloom ......... again?
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Molly's Game
''a survey was taken a few years ago that asked 300 professionals one question: ''what's the worst thing that can happen in sports?'' some people answered losing a game 7. and other people said
getting swept in four. some people said it was missing the world cup. and some brazilians said
it was losing to
People of God/s (!)
This importance of community, and the irrelevance of belief, extends as well to the nastier effects of religion. The psychologist Jeremy Ginges and his colleagues found a strong relationship between religiosity and support for suicide bombing among Palestinian Muslims, and, again, the key factor was religious community, not religious belief: mosque attendance predicted support for suicide attacks; frequency of prayer did not. Among Indonesian Muslims, Mexican Catholics, British Protestants, Russian Orthodox in Russia, Israeli Jews, and Indian Hindus, frequency of religious attendance (but again, not frequency of prayer) predicts responses to questions such as “I blame people of other religions for much of the trouble in this world.” It might seem perverse to conclude that religious beliefs are toothless when it comes to morality. Take suicide bombing. Even if one’s attitude is best predicted by religious attendance and not religious belief, it does seem reasonable to conclude, as Richard Dawkins does, that someone who believes that God wants them to kill infidels is going to be a lot more enthusiastic about killing infidels than someone who doesn’t believe in God in the first place. More generally, religions make explicit moral claims, about abortion, homosexuality, duties to the poor, masturbation, and just about everything else. Surely this would have an effect on the psychologies of their followers?
Tree of Song
for Ana María Dalí
Reed of gesture, voice, and face,
time and time again
quakes and quavers, void of hope,
in the air of yesterday.
Long the girl had sighed,
long she ached to grasp it — yet
always reached the place
one minute too late.
*Ay*, Sun! *Ay*, moon, moon!,
one minute too late.
Sixty flowers, wan and grey,
tangled round her feet.
Look at how she swings and sways
time and time again,
maiden made of bough and bloom,
in the air of yesterday.
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