“Just one more,” he says, squatting down in front of me. “Reason number twelve, you’ve got a mini-me out there somewhere, and I kind of want the chance to meet a little Scarlet.”
“You don’t like kids,” I point out.
“True, I don’t,” he says. “But she’s your kid, which means there’s a decent chance she’s not half-bad, either.”
I stare at him.
I don’t know what to say.
His words sound so genuine. This isn’t the reaction I expected. Not to say I didn’t think he had it in him. But I’m used to being kicked while I’m down, and I haven’t quite figured out what to make of Lorenzo. Sometimes, when I look at him, I see the dangerous, cold-hearted criminal, the one that has killed at least two men since we met two months ago, but other times I see a man with a deep soul, generous and warm, the kind of man a woman could fall in love with if she wasn’t careful.
But I have to be careful.
ayayayayay BİTTİ BİTİRDİK, MELİKE BİTTİ RESMEN
Ne de kolay ağlıyorsunuz! Siz bir takım insanlar, ne de kolay ağlıyorsunuz! Gözyaşlarınız olmasaydı neyle müdafaa edecektiniz kendinizi?
How easy it is for you to cry! How easy it is for some people like you shed tears! İf you had no tears what would you defend yourself with?
Most days, Damian kept busy enough to ward off thoughts of Skye. Nights were different. At night, he had no defense. He lay in bed with a hunger so wide and so vast that he felt himself get swallowed up in it. Nothing, not even the Lucky Strike box under his pillow, could keep him from falling into the soul-sucking hole in the center of his heart.
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His defense— she deserved it because she had already had sex with so many people —made the judge, the Honorable Eleanora Avery, laugh the fuck out loud. As if out of a fairy tale, nobody asked: What was my sister wearing the night she was raped? How much had my sister had to drink the night she was raped? How many guys had my sister previously had sex with? Because—again, out of a fairy tale—they realized that none of those things mattered. Because there was nothing in a girl’s history that might negate her right to choose what happens to her body.
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think of me, too
If you want me to listen to you, respect that I can hear. If you want me to speak to you, respect that I have a voice. If you want me to look at you, respect my ability to see. Do you know how to do that? Listen to me when I talk, talk to me when you hear me, and look at me when I look at you. Share me not only your sadness, but also your happiness. If I can bear hours of your sadness, believe me, it's because I would like to see days of your happiness. Depend on me if you respect that I am worthy of your trust. Open your heart to me if you respect that I am worthy of your love.
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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 go to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where--' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
Sayfa 51 - Mungan Publishing- 1.edition, August 2017
I love it for defending freedom!
"War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all;but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
"Savaş olmalı; her şeyi yok etmeye çalışan bir yıkıcıya karşı kendi canlarımızı korumalıyız; fakat ben kılıcı keskin diye, oku seri diye, savaşçıyı şanı ve şerefi var diye sevmem. Ben sadece onların savundukları şeyi severim."
The little prince became suddenly sad. His flower had only four thorns to defend herself against all the world. And he left her on his planet all alone. That was his first moment of regret. After a while he asked one more question:
What place would you advice me to visit now? The planet earth. It has a good reputation, answered the geographer. And the little prince went away. He thought of his flower.
Sayfa 64
“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.)"
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Imagine that a person claims to have no need to eat food of any kind—rather, he can live on light.From time to time, an Indian yogi will make such a boast, much to the merriment of skeptics. Need-less to say, there is no reason to take such claim sseriously, no matter how thin the yogi. However, a compatibilist like Dennett could come to the charlatan’s defense: The man does live onlight—we all do—because when you trace the origin of any food, you arrive at something that depends on photosynthesis. By eating beef, we consume the grass the cow ate, and the grass ate sunlight. So the yogi is no liar after all. But that’s not the ability the yogi was advertising, and his actual claim remains dishonest (or delusional). This is the trouble with compatibilism. It solves the problem of “free will” by ignoring it.
Who is right? Everyone and no one.
"Mike is quick to act. Sarah finds him abrasive and Fiona sees him as rash. Who is this person? Is he quick to act, rash or abrasive? He is all three, it depends on the window and the view. They are opinions, each one created from a partial view with information discounted. Who is right? Everyone and no one."
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CULTS AND MENTAL MANIPULATION - “He Who Has Attained the Goal”
A cult may be more - or less - highly developed; it is a group gathered around a leader or an ideology, religious or non-religious. It functions according to a secret method that is closed to outsiders, but the free will and the identity of the follower is left intact. Coercive cults, which we will call “CC’s” for convenience, are more constraining and result in a loss of freedom on the part of followers. The boundary between the two is elusive, since the survival of any cult depends on strict discipline; the evolution toward coercion is ineluctable. And the key tool of coercion is mind control, on which cults have no monopoly: marketing and politics, for example, are rife with examples of mental manipulation. Furthermore, within normal religious or political movements, truly coercive organizations may exist that deserve the label of “cult.”
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