HECUBA: It the duty of a good man to do good everywhere and always to punish the evil men.
[ἙΚΆΒΗ: ἐσθλοῦ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς τῇ δίκῃ θ᾿ ὑπηρετεῖν
καὶ τοὺς κακοὺς δρᾶν πανταχοῦ κακῶς ἀεί.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 844ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Theodoridis (2007)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/euripides/76521/
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A quotation from Josh Billings
We are never nearer right than we am when we fear we are rong.
[We are never nearer right than we are when we fear we are wrong.]
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76476/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #concern #confidence #correct #error #rightandwrong #selfawareness #uncertainty
I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, Massachusetts
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Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25+ hours about the 5-alarm fire we in the US are experiencing and most are focusing on him breaking a record. How “American.” Come on, get it together! It can be scary, but this is our time to go big. Learn from those who have gone before us…
#CoryBooker #USPol #USPolitics #RightAndWrong
A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Attempt nothing, for which thou darest not pray to God.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 1, # 87 (1725)
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What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity, — who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority. The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls, — the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, Massachusetts
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him.
[ἐγὼ δὲ τεθεωρηκὼς τὴν φύσιν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ὅτι καλόν, καὶ τοῦ κακοῦ ὅτι αἰσχρόν, καὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἁμαρτάνοντος φύσιν ὅτι μοι συγγενής, οὐχὶ αἵματος ἢ σπέρματος τοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ νοῦ καὶ θείας ἀπομοίρας μέτοχος, οὔτε βλαβῆναι ὑπό τινος αὐτῶν δύναμαι: αἰσχρῷ γάρ με οὐδεὶς περιβαλεῖ: οὔτε ὀργίζεσθαι τῷ συγγενεῖ δύναμαι οὔτε ἀπέχθεσθαι αὐτῷ.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) [tr. Hays (2003)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7474…
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ORESTES: Otherwise how can we believe in the gods, if injustice can triumph over justice?
[ὈΡΈΣΤΗΣ: ἢ χρὴ μηκέθ᾽ ἡγεῖσθαι θεούς,
εἰ τἄδικ᾽ ἔσται τῆς δίκης ὑπέρτερα.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Electra [Ἠλέκτρα], l. 584ff (c. 420 BC) [tr. Theodoridis (2006)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/euripides/74481/
#quote #quotes #quotation #beliefsystem #divinejustice #evil #faith #God #gods #good #goodandevil #injustice #justice #meme #right #rightandwrong #theodicy #wrong
Dessous roared with laughter. “Telman! I can’t believe I’m having to tell you this, but life isn’t fair!”
“No, the world isn’t fair, the universe isn’t fair. Physics, chemistry and mathematics, they aren’t fair. Or unfair, for that matter. Fairness is an idea, and only conscious creatures have ideas. That’s us. We have ideas about right and wrong. We invent the idea of justice so that we can judge whether something is good or bad. We develop morality. We create rules to live by and call them laws, all to make life more fair.”
Iain Banks (1954-2013) Scottish author
The Business, ch. 5 (1999)
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"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." ― Leo Tolstoy #rightandwrong #truth
turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews. This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress."
https://tinyurl.com/477njr8y #Antisemetism #genocide #rightandwrong
https://youtu.be/BWmOX9CWWRw?si=hgafK--YZ8IIk175
Controversial take. I have no sympathy for Mitch McConnell. McConnell is evil. He stood by and supported a corrupt president and enabled racist party members to take this country beyond return. McConnell had a choice. Right and wrong. And he chose wrong. You reap what you sow.
#MitchMcConnel #karma #rightandwrong
Jamie
#Journal, Day 1215
Monday, 17 July 2023
(Day 77 of #WGAstrike)
(Day 04 of #SAGAFTRAstrike)
#boringlife #bosch #halted
#wgastrong #sagaftrastrong
#drewcarey #rightandwrong
We live in a Universe where everything has an equal and an opposite. Your desire to destroy or eradicate the opposite that you don't like is futile. None of us has the power to change the nature of the Universe.
Della
#duality #universe #judgment #focus #selfmastery #awareness #control #healing #spirituality #goodandbad #rightandwrong #equalandopposite
Here's a challenge.
Take any problem in your life and pretend it's the neutral point in a teeter totter or scale.
On one side is the positive effect of the problem.
On the other side is the negative effect of the problem.
Positive and negative are human perceptions. They aren't really true but all humans have these constructs. The idea is to shift our perception of the problem so that we don't get so upset by it. The problem itself is neutral.
When your perception is that the problem is bad you defend that side of the scale and it tips the balance in that direction.
You don't even see the potential positive effects because you're so busy defending the negative.
Can you see the other side of the scale?
Can you shift your perception enough to see that there may be some positive in that problem?
What will you get out of dealing with that problem?
What comes from your ability to manage your perception?
What comes from learning to allow that problem to be there because you don't have a solution to it?
What comes from learning that you don't need to control everything?
Everything, no matter how bad or how good you perceive it to be has an opposite side. It's only a question of whether you're willing to allow yourself to see it or not.
We aren't changing the problem. We're changing our perception of the problem.
Can you learn to see it differently?
Love to all.
Della
#balance #perception #scale #neutrals #goodandbad #rightandwrong #karma #focus #selfmastery #healing #spirituality
Karma doesn't offer preferential treatment.
Karma doesn't work in favor of good. It's not against bad.
It doesn't prefer love over hate or hate over love. It is an entirely neutral force that does not play favorites.
Karma will not look the way you think it should.
Karma is not punishment. Karma is energetic balance. When something good happens, the equal and opposite bad thing will also occur at some point. It has to. That is balance. It's not punishment, it's balance.
You can't stop karma from happening. You can't eradicate the bad because you can't break the scale. If the scale is broken, it can't balance. That's why you can't break one side of the scale.
Karma does not function based on our construct of time. Karma can balance over lifetimes. Chances are that most of the people that are in our world are working out some karma of their own from previous lifetimes.
Our human systems of reward and punishment try to mimic karma. What we're actually doing is creating more of our own individual karma to play out either in our current lifetimes or in future lifetimes.
Yes, doing good things creates karma. The natural balance is that something bad will happen. "Bad things happen to good people." Why? Karma. That is the law of balance. It is not a punishment.
Karma does not function based on human constructs of right and wrong. It doesn't know the difference. It's only looking for a neutral balance.
The reason why you see karma as punishment is because of your perception of right and wrong or good and bad. Those perceptions limit you from being able to see the bigger balance that gets created.
If you look around you in the larger world and you drop your perceptions of good and bad or right and wrong, you will see that it does actually balance out on a larger scale.
Because of the way of the human world tends to function, karma looks a little more like an elastic band snapping back into shape. It tends to give you whiplash because of the extremes of it and how quickly it happens.
If I'm being really honest with you right now, what you're seeing in the world is karma. Things are balancing. It doesn't look the way you think it should, but it is balancing. Remember karma is not punishment. The things that are happening are balancing the good that has taken place. There will always be a counter-balance and sometimes that looks like going backward.
It's hard to watch but this is the process of balance. Do you want to know the real truth? If we removed all human systems of reward and punishment and all laws trying to create artificial balance, and simply left karma to do its thing, the world would naturally balance after a while. It would look really wild at first, think about that elastic snapping back, but it would eventually balance on its own because that's how karma works.
Love to all.
Della
#balance #karma #lawsofbalance #naturalbalance #humanconstruct #goodandbad #rightandwrong #scales #selfmastery #focus #perception
When it comes to how we handle the world around us, "The problem arises when we begin to view the entire world as black and white; right and wrong; sin or not sin. Because not everything in the world falls into one of those two neat little categories." :medium:
#dichotomousthinking #rightandwrong #personalgrowth
https://jeremyzerby.medium.com/right-wrong-and-everything-in-between-50abfe91119a
