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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
February 13, 2017 at 4:37pm February 13, 2017 at 4:37pm
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Prompt: “Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it,” Simone Weil.
Your thoughts on the quote, and in what ways, do you think, one can or should react to evil?
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One thing we ask when faced with evil is, can we destroy it? To begin with, there’s that moral and ethical justification for wanting to destroy all evil, but is this doable? In all likelihood, the option of total destruction may not be possible. Plus, what if our violent response, instead of eradicating evil, amplifies it?
Although, as a word, evil is an abstract that has no substance, its being is felt through its works because evil always creates victims. I believe, if we can take care of the suffering of its victims, we may be able to win half the battle against evil without augmenting it.
In addition, what we call evil may not be evil at all, but a different way of being. True evil, in my opinion, is beyond the limits of reason and it creates chaos and despair wherever and whenever it strikes. Evil is the biggest bully ever and, since bullies can be turned into cowards, we should respond to it appropriately.
To attack evil with strictly evil deeds or to attack violence with strictly violent deeds may only empower evil more. Still, depending on the size and power of the evil, we have to retaliate to make sure it creates no more victims. Once we are able to assess correctly what that evil is and how it works, coming up with different solutions and different angles of attack can give us more ammunition against it. In short, we must think before we act.
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