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mary_j_59

Another Sunday Poem-

Jun 21, 2015 15:01

This came to me while thinking of the tragic arson attack on the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes. I cannot say anything at all about Charleston except that I am praying for the victims and their families.

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vermouth1991 June 29 2015, 14:56:12 UTC

Sometimes I really wonder if there really is a big cosmic balance going on. Was the lenience towards the defeated South worth the people still not coming to terms that slavery wasn't ever a grand thing to hold onto, for all this time, and the racial hatred and the people that are killed even to this day? There were no summary executions 150 years ago, but then people just kept being lynched for other reasons...

mary_j_59 June 30 2015, 04:18:21 UTC

Um - wow! As you may know, I'm a big admirer of Madeleine L'Engle's; I'd call her one of my influences, definitely. Her roots were in the deep south (Northern Florida), via England and France. When I was an adolescent, I read a couple of books by her that explained the Southern viewpoint. It was a real eye-opener to me ( ... )

vermouth1991 July 1 2015, 09:59:55 UTC

0) I think I may have made a pretty grave mistake in my previous reading of your entry (though you might not be able tell that from my comment), but this was not about that Black Christian church that got shot up by that "Roof" dude, right ( ... )

Part 2 vermouth1991 July 1 2015, 10:23:57 UTC

So back in November 1918, Germany had lost a whole heap of men and resources, there was a Communist revolution brewing, and the government signed the capitulation treaty even though that meant stripping Germany of even more resources in compensation to Britain/France/USA - and this was even before the Versailles Treaty that would proceed to strip Germany of all of her colonies and 1/8 of her European grounds. A prevailing sensation in Germany, right until Hitler won the vote and beyond, was basically "We were doing quite fine in the Great War, but the Jewish/Communist/weak-government traitors ended up surrendering!" A lot of them were so eager to try it second time around and do it right, and, to quote a personal favorite expression, the "more total and much more spectacular" defeat in May 1945 really shook the German people, to their foolishness in supporting Hitler and the NSDAP, and to the roots of starting a second war in general ( ... )

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