• ludwig@reddthat.com
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    11 个月前

    There’s a saying that kinda goes like this:

    Never ascribe to malice that which can be reasonably ascribed to idiocy.

    i.e. most likely they’re not evil, just stupid .

  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    11 个月前

    Never forgive. Forgiveness was invented by religious clergy who wanted us to forgive them for their crimes. Rather convenient.

    • stanka@lemmy.ml
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      11 个月前

      As a hardened atheist, I have to give it to the christians when they get something right, and forgiveness can be a powerful force for good.

      Don’t forget, but do forgive.

  • 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 个月前

    I used to listen to JRE when it was just about wacky coast-to-coast-am type stuff, comedians, drugs, and mma. One of the lingering quotes that stick in my mind is Joe talking about how when someone is being an idiot or antagonistic, he imagines them as a little baby. How they used to be a blank slate of potential and now there’s a long story leading up to this encounter. It apparently helped him calm down and try to be level headed.

    What he was talking about is essentially sonder, “The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which they are constantly living despite one’s personal lack of awareness of it.”

    Anyway, JRE is total garbage now and has been for years and years