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John Carter's avatar

A truly wonderful Easter message.

It's been a long time since I've heard 'cheese eating surrender monkeys'. My favorite comeback to that was Mark Steyn's, who quipped that if the French were to be so described, then Americans must be cheese-surrendering eating monkeys.

Back to the meat. The thrust here rather reminds me of the theme of Cloud Atlas - how our lives reverberate through time in ways that we cannot foresee, each of us like a pebble dropped in a pond. The waves move through time, interfering destructively and constructively. Seeming triumph in the moment may result in annihilation in the long run ... and, crucially, vice versa. In a sense such a perspective is almost too obvious to be interesting, but in another sense - how many take this view consciously? There is vast power in realizing this perspective, and living one's life accordingly.

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Grant Smith's avatar

Our actions do echo in the minds of those we leave behind. More important to me is how we see ourselves on this one way ride. I don't see myself as someone willing to satisfy the evil forces you speak of, no matter the cost. To abandon this disposition at the end would be to admit to living a lie. No.

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