#innocents — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Wendell Berry

It is useless to try to adjudicate a long-standing animosity by asking who started it or who is the most wrong. The only sufficient answer is to give up the animosity and try forgiveness, to try to love our enemies and to talk to them and (if we pray) to pray for them. If we can’t do any of that, then we must begin again by trying to imagine our enemies’ children who, like our children, are in mortal danger because of enmity that they did not cause.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 4, Citizenship Papers (2003)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17860/

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A quotation from Wendell Berry

The National Security Strategy defines terrorism as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against innocents” (p. 5). This is truly a distinct kind of violence, but to imply by the word “terrorism” that this sort of terror is the work exclusively of “terrorists” is misleading. The “legitimate” warfare of technologically advanced nations likewise is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against innocents. The distinction between the intention to perpetrate violence against innocents, as in “terrorism,” and the willingness to do so, as in “war,” is not a source of comfort.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 1, paid advertisment, New York Times

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17607/

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In solidarity with the heroes of #26/11. A terrible #terroristattack that shattered the economic capital of Bharat(India), killed hundreds of #innocents. Om Shanti 🙏

Innocents (2003)

★☆☆☆

Prétentieux et suintant le parisianisme bobo, superficiel et faussement provocateur.

✍️ https://www.senscritique.com/film/innocents/critique/219379218

#Innocents #TheDreamers #BernardoBertolucci #MichaelPitt #EvaGreen #LouisGarrel #Film #Cinema

#OTD The 28th of #December is #Childermass Day or #Holy #Innocents Day - when #Innocent #Children were #Slaughtered by #King #Herod.

In #Literature, #Winter imagery is used for Herod's #Cruelty (Cold, Frost) while the children are like #Botanicals, described as the first #Seeds or the #Flowers of the #Church. The #Poet #Prudentius wrote,

All hail! You infant #Martyr flowers,
Cut off in life's first dawning hours;
Like #Rosebuds snapped in dreadful strife,
When Herod sought our #Savior's life.

#OTD The 28th of #December is #Childermass Day or #Holy #Innocents Day - when #Innocent #Children were #Slaughtered by #King #Herod.

In #Literature, #Winter imagery is used for Herod's #Cruelty (Cold, Frost) while the children are like #Botanicals, described as the first #Seeds or the #Flowers of the #Church. The #Poet #Prudentius wrote,

All hail! You infant #Martyr flowers,
Cut off in life's first dawning hours;
Like #Rosebuds snapped in dreadful strife,
When Herod sought our #Savior's life.