Comments on: Remembering the silent ones http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/07/25/remembering-the-silent-ones/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:59:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/07/25/remembering-the-silent-ones/#comment-2699 Ymarsakar Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:06:05 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=522#comment-2699 I remember a time when the weak suffered what they had to and the strong did what they wanted. Even when the weak are protected by their nation... nothing seems to have changed much. The strong still do what they want, and the weak and helpless suffer what they may. In a million years, what will they write of the human race? Who will have seen the rise and fall of our civilizations, across the breadth of milleniums with our planet Earth traveling around and around our semi-eternal sun? Will they have understood the continuity and discontuity of human existence, of the physical and unbendable principles which guided our existence? Ah, but I'm wandering into philosophizing. I've always asked myself, what is the purpose of strength, what is the true nature of strength, if it cannot be used to protect the weak and helpless... I remember a time when the weak suffered what they had to and the strong did what they wanted. Even when the weak are protected by their nation… nothing seems to have changed much. The strong still do what they want, and the weak and helpless suffer what they may.

In a million years, what will they write of the human race? Who will have seen the rise and fall of our civilizations, across the breadth of milleniums with our planet Earth traveling around and around our semi-eternal sun?

Will they have understood the continuity and discontuity of human existence, of the physical and unbendable principles which guided our existence?

Ah, but I’m wandering into philosophizing. I’ve always asked myself, what is the purpose of strength, what is the true nature of strength, if it cannot be used to protect the weak and helpless…

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