For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. We all see the world from behind the grille of our own temperament and character, and even the good things of life may have a quality that seems harsh, dry, and deadly to such a person as I am. You will say, 'These mountains are unchangeable, the wind that blows over us is evanescent.' But if that is true of the wind, it is more obviously true of the things we see and touch. For they are changing all the time. Every time a spade goes into the earth a new valley begins; every time a soldier puts a peg into the ground to pitch his tent a new road appears; every time a seed is planted a new forest springs up. Every time anything is done, something happens.
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I don’t know what comes over me.
Desperation. Desire. Fear.
Love.
It hits me with a painful force, the reminder. Of just how much I love her. God, I love all of her. Her impossibilities, her exasperations. I love how gentle she is with me when we’re alone. How soft and kind she can be in our quiet moments. How she never hesitates to defend me.
I love her.
It is the logic of our times,
No subject for immortal verse,
that we who live by honest dreams
Defend the bad against the worse.
Ölümsüz şiirlerin konusu değil,
Çağımızın mantığıdır bu:
Dürüst düşler sayesinde yaşayan bizler,
Kötüleri savunuruz daha beter olanlara karşı.
~Cecil Day Lewis
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don’t much care where--" said Alice.
"Then it doesn’t matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"--so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you’re sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough.
So, the justice sensation inside a person depends on which story he\she follows and how long he\she follows it.
Evil and Consequences
D. Z. Phillips, He asks: “What then are we to say of the child dying from cancer?' His reply is: 'If this has been done to anyone, it is bad enough, but to be done for a purpose, to be planned from eternity-that is the deepest evil. If God is this kind of agent, He cannot justify His actions, and His evil nature is revealed.’ Phillips thinks that it is morally wicked to defend God's goodness by appealing to the fact that evil might be viewed as something he wills as a necessary means to certain goods. And, as Phillips himself observes, this is also the conclusion which Dostoyevsky's character Ivan Karamazov reaches in his famous speech to Alyosha in The Brothers Karamazov:
And if the sufferings of children go to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price . . . I don't want harmony. From love of humanity I don't want it . . . Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.
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