Posted by CarolAnn on May 27, 2000, at 9:05:26
In reply to Civil war, posted by boBB on May 26, 2000, at 21:19:59
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>>Somebody asks me how I am doing. I reply honestly. Tag team jumps in and starts to criticize my feelings. I say I'm okay with who I am.>>Bobb, I've not been online for a few days, this is in reply to your post to me and some of the others in this thread.
I know you don't care, but I am *deeply* hurt that you chose to shove my compassion back in my face. As I reread my post of the 26th, I see that I in no way criticized your feelings nor did I suggest that you change them. I gave an 'honest' reaction to your 'honest' reply to the question of how you were doing.
Your post seemed to be a literal 'cry of the spirit', and I merely wanted to offer comfort to that 'cry'. As far as your implication that I do not suffer for the "causes" of humanity, you couldn't be more wrong. The fact is that my suffering for humanity is so great, that I would literally drown in sorrow, if I ever let myself be immersed in that suffering. If I am to be any help at all to mankind, it must be one "cause" at a time. When I said that I could not promise to "join" your cause, it was out of ignorance of which "causes" you are championing at this time.
The fact that you chose to ignore my offer of a "nonjudgemental" ear, shows that you care more for all your "causes" then you do for any member of the human race. Yes, you are right, none of "this" is about you or me. But, if any of humanities "causes" are to be served, if injustice is to be vanquished, it will have to be done cause by cause and individual by individual. You want to save humanity, feed the hungry, house the homeless, free those unjustly accused, ect., ect....Well, how do you expect to improve the conditions of humanity, when you don't *care* about the feelings of any individual human? We all suffer, just in different ways. If you can't have compassion for one man or one woman, you will never have any effect on the "causes" of mankind. CarolAnn
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