Charlie Simpson, goddamned hero

[roadriverrail]

I want to introduce you to someone. I heard about him on NPR today. His name is Charlie Simpson, and, like me, he is a charity cyclist. His current charity is the UNICEF fund for Haiti

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Re: A long history

[roadriverrail]

That's very interesting, as I have not read much about the lives of saints and it often seems that what little I do know suggests they were either quite grand heroes with great accomplishments or that miraculous powers are attributed to them.

Of course, these are values which I share, and it is why I often tell my existentialist brethren, in times of sorrow, to "keep the faith," despite a superficial idea that we might not have any faith to keep.

"We are faced with evil. And, as for me, I feel rather as Augustine did before becoming a Christian when he said: "I tried to find the source of evil and I got nowhere." But it is also true that I, and a few others, know what must be done, if not to reduce evil, at least not to add to it. Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you do not help us, who else in the world can help us do this?"
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"In any case such a future is not within my province to decide, despite all the hope and anguish it awakens in me. I can speak only of what I know. And what I know--which sometimes creates a deep longing in me--is that if Christians made up their minds to it, millions of voices--millions, I say--throughout the world would be added to the appeal of a handful of isolated individuals who, without any sort of affiliation, today intercede almost everywhere and ceaselessly for children and for men."
--Albert Camus, "The Unbeliever and Christians"