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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-16-10 07:42 PM
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29. people are scared of the poor
Edited on Sat Jan-16-10 07:52 PM by undergroundpanther
The injured the sick,victims of tragedy bullies and violence.
that denial is a big chunk of what is wrong with humanity right there.The comfortable do not want to know how fragile and fleeting their comforts are in a world such as this.

The selfish bystander anxiety has deemed "security" for the not as poor to abandon the desperate and hurt. Fuck you chicken shit UN. Help it's why the UN exists.Dammit.

Alot of comfy people in this world have to stop believing this world is just or fair. Beliefs like "people get what they"deserve" is wrong. This world is NOT Just.No one "deserves" to suffer or be wealthy. The selfish have to learn to face reality as it IS and face up to the FACT reality is not going to be kind.pretty,meaningful,reasonable,just,favoring you over another or another over you, or predictable at all all the time,for most of the time to most people it isn't so good or easy. Unless you have been able to turn away from reality into a self absorbed madness that creature comfort and distance from others desperation and the horrors of the human condition (vulnerability) brings by having money to insulate yourself from it, or by having no conscience to feel it's pain.It is a LUXURY to not care.


"On The Turning Away"
By Pink Floyd

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand
"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"

It's a sin that somehow
Light is changing to shadow
And casting it's shroud
Over all we have known
Unaware how the ranks have grown
Driven on by a heart of stone


We could find that we're all alone
In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame,


Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night
No more turning away
From the weak and the weary
No more turning away
From the coldness inside
Just a world that we all must share
It's not enough just to stand and stare
Is it only a dream that there'll be
No more turning away?
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