But sometimes you just have to give up on a person... like me with Gabe. We both just keep trying, starting over again and again with our friendship, but it's never going to work out between us. But giving up doesn't have to be a bad thing. Sometimes you just have to let something go, for your own sake. So you can start something new and beautiful with someone or something else. People have hopes, just sometimes they lay deep beneath the surface, hiding from even the person who has them.
Well first of all, Anne wrote this from a naive little girl perspective; she hadn't gone through the concentration camps or even knew much about them.
The reason people are cynical is because rather than seeming like a message of hope, Anne's words are bitterly wrong, seeing as how in like, a month, she was subsequently killed.
You read her story as a story with a philosophy, while many people read it as a story of history and sadness. Not that one is wrong or right, but yeah, some people read Anne Frank with a predetermined mentality of OH THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL.
i agree with gabe. humans are still animals. Humans, as animals still have instincts that drive us. As the lion visciously ravishes the zebra, we do all we can to survive. The big change with humans is we have already, a great chance of survival and a very big brain, thus there is a rift between our instincts and our mind. Just look at animals my friend!
i also believe that anne frank had no real knowledge of the horrors of Concentration camps. The nazis used uephemisms, not to mention everyone is naive to things they haven't seen.
true, but I do think that she would have a knowledge of the nature and extensiveness of those camps at least in respect to executions and forced labor, which is a pretty astounding brutality to overcome in itself.
hope, hope implies that we don't already have perfection, that we don't already have bliss right here, surrounding us, permeating everything, becoming us, shining through us. i've let go of my hope, i think, simply realizing that there is nothing to hope FOR, since everything is already perfect and exactly the way it needs to be. keep glowing, chris and keep those firefly fingers a-writin' and showing the bliss within.
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But sometimes you just have to give up on a person... like me with Gabe. We both just keep trying, starting over again and again with our friendship, but it's never going to work out between us. But giving up doesn't have to be a bad thing. Sometimes you just have to let something go, for your own sake. So you can start something new and beautiful with someone or something else. People have hopes, just sometimes they lay deep beneath the surface, hiding from even the person who has them.
Thats my take, anyway. :)
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The reason people are cynical is because rather than seeming like a message of hope, Anne's words are bitterly wrong, seeing as how in like, a month, she was subsequently killed.
You read her story as a story with a philosophy, while many people read it as a story of history and sadness. Not that one is wrong or right, but yeah, some people read Anne Frank with a predetermined mentality of OH THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL.
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humans are still animals. Humans, as animals still have instincts that drive us. As the lion visciously ravishes the zebra, we do all we can to survive. The big change with humans is we have already, a great chance of survival and a very big brain, thus there is a rift between our instincts and our mind. Just look at animals my friend!
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Gabe is Oscar the Grouch, what did you expect him to say?
You're like Elmo, everyone loves you.
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Josh add me.
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