tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post8106093291882665660..comments2024-03-28T07:55:14.406+01:00Comments on Interim arrangements: Sabinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-25379899514094220342018-07-02T09:49:06.937+02:002018-07-02T09:49:06.937+02:00Thank you so much for sharing about your family an...Thank you so much for sharing about your family and the Irish Times article. I was a child during WWII but as I became an adult I was always puzzled about how all the good people in those European, other countries allowed the takeovers and events. I’ve made some effort in subsequent years, but especially in recent years, to try to understand the existing social, cultural, political, etc. factors. then and now. The similarities were frightingly clear in the U.S. as our govt. was changing. Equally alarming was what I saw happening in Europe. This is all so incredible, unbelievable — I was once convinced not in my country. <br /><br />We may believe we know what we would do in given situations, but until we actually live them we’ll never know — and I hope we don’t have to find out. Joaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03155775053108104385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-35401858190921149832018-06-28T16:52:20.839+02:002018-06-28T16:52:20.839+02:00I think you are right, we're still fighting th...I think you are right, we're still fighting the civil war as well as the culture war of the 60s. I don't know if we will ever get past either. I used to think when my generation finally died off that would be the end of it but now I'm not so sure. It might be best to break this country up.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-22653606901837992322018-06-27T20:11:47.551+02:002018-06-27T20:11:47.551+02:00Thank you again, Sabine, for your voice and for sh...Thank you again, Sabine, for your voice and for sharing a voice from Ireland.<br /><br />"But (. . .) there is a crucial next step, usually the trickiest of all. You have to undermine moral boundaries, inure people to the acceptance of acts of extreme cruelty."<br /><br />Chilling to see how long this undermining of moral boundaries has been going on in the United States, beginning with the acceptance of the displacement, murder, and attempt to eliminate the cultures of the indigenous people and the enslavement of African people, and the continuing pattern of discrimination towards anyone who is not white or does not conform, culminating in the election of a president who has no moral boundaries. <br /><br />By the time we got to the presidential election of 2016, there were still not enough people to take our country forward instead of backward. In some ways, the Civil War has never ended. <br /><br />Throughout the world, we are challenged to resist and also take care of ourselves so that we can continue to take daily action, no matter how small, in order to resist "the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world." <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cujr1HZQWcg<br /><br />No one is ever as safe as they might think in times like these and in times past. We are all connected. amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-83896796818876701762018-06-27T19:07:07.151+02:002018-06-27T19:07:07.151+02:00Thanks for that Irish Times link. It's an exce...Thanks for that Irish Times link. It's an excellent article and I've posted it to my Facebook feed. Of course, the people who really need to read it probably won't. It's so frightening to find ourselves in this position.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-9751885906317319202018-06-27T18:17:00.932+02:002018-06-27T18:17:00.932+02:00I could hardly breathe, reading this. First your p...I could hardly breathe, reading this. First your post about how life continued for your family in Franconia, with the atrocities in the distance; I was reflecting on this very thing last night, a moment of joy as my niece got engaged, and I felt a kind of schizophrenia, wondering how I could be so happy right then, when there was so much cruelty happening right on our doorstep, and yet it was outside our bubble in that moment. I understand your grandmother taking care to shelter her children. I think in her shoes I might have done the same. But now here we are: In that fascist marketing machine described in the article you posted. It so fully describes this moment that my breath literally stopped. I, too, would like to repost it. Perhaps if enough people SEE what is happening, and the bloodless intentionality behind it, they will resist. We will resist. Thank you for posting this, Sabine. It is devastating. And so necessary.37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-4691999455033588482018-06-27T16:51:54.950+02:002018-06-27T16:51:54.950+02:00I echo Ms Moon. Never thought I would see this com...I echo Ms Moon. Never thought I would see this come to pass here, not in my lifetime.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-75462676769292732842018-06-27T16:51:47.261+02:002018-06-27T16:51:47.261+02:00Of course. Go ahead.Of course. Go ahead.Sabinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015827501648296977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-62373017696998460942018-06-27T16:03:48.582+02:002018-06-27T16:03:48.582+02:00May I repost this article? I will give you credit....May I repost this article? I will give you credit.Linda dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01167854309289774316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-35112481502294377802018-06-27T16:02:21.704+02:002018-06-27T16:02:21.704+02:00I feel sick. I feel sick. Linda dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01167854309289774316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-74575753792606104912018-06-27T15:59:40.634+02:002018-06-27T15:59:40.634+02:00It is time to get ready. We are so blown away, it ...It is time to get ready. We are so blown away, it leaves us speechless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-43549653448425228242018-06-27T14:56:59.519+02:002018-06-27T14:56:59.519+02:00I can't believe this is happening in my lifeti...I can't believe this is happening in my lifetime. <br />I can't believe it. <br />Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7192718134910479930.post-78326742225800437482018-06-27T10:48:56.728+02:002018-06-27T10:48:56.728+02:00Indeed it is - and I know you are poorly, so I’ll ...Indeed it is - and I know you are poorly, so I’ll man the barricades for both of us. JOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127111575563904349noreply@blogger.com