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[Patrice Riemens]

Again, Ana, Tapas:

Hear! Hear! Or shall we say: Shabash!!!

Cheers indeed!
patrizio & Diiiinooos!



> Ana,
>
> Now that you have told us what you have done and experienced ... it's
> not hard to imagine the sacrifices you have made and the dangers you
> have faced ... I am absolutely thrilled that someone like you is on
> this list. It makes the Aditya Kauls of the world totally
> inconsequential.
>
> Tapas
>
>
> On 5 December 2010 18:29, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear friends, it's really stimulating and intellectual challenging to
>> follow
>> the discussion and rise the level to discuss our ground questions: evil
>> and
>> goodness. Hanah Arendt wrote and spoke about "the banality of evil", the
>> everydays small signs of evilness dominating the life, Tanatos, should
>> Freud
>> say, our dark nature using it's weapons to rule and conquest our souls.
>> Germany was not a nation suddenly turned evil, but it was the evilness
>> of
>> some people turning the balance towards the evil.
>> You come from the very country which succeed to disrupt an empire and
>> turn
>> down a colonial ruling using no violence and Mahatma Ghandi is the
>> example
>> we all learned to use when appealing to no violence as powerful as
>> violence.
>> I have been in Palestine ten, twelve times, and everyone is asking "why
>> we
>> don't have a Ghandi in the Middle East?".
>> For myself, a firm partisan of the armed struggle when I was young
>> (that's
>> the reason of my four years imprisonment in Uruguay), the process has
>> been
>> long but clear, today I take distance from every intent to conquest the
>> power with weapons.
>> Ana
>>
>>
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