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| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself�good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. http://www.bahiker.com/ Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. http://www.terragalleria.com This is an excellent website which has beautiful pictures of different places in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Good website to news events in different parts of the world. |
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| Quotes: How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity [=happiness] was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering. -- Catharine Esther Beecher Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists. -- Viktor Frankl The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: How do you try to make sense of the horrible things you hear about that goes on in the world? a) I don't try to, because it doesn't make sense. b) As long as it doesn't affect me directly, I don't concern myself with it. c) I can't but I just try to be the best person I can in this world and hopefully make some difference in lessening the pain and suffering of others. d) I don't try to, because I have myself - and those close to me - to worry about, which is hard enough in itself. e) I believe that there is a Divine being or force controlling everything that happens, e.g., in a cause and effect type of way ("you are punished or rewarded for what you do"). f) I believe things just naturally occur in a random fashion, where the only determining factor is survival of the fittest. g) other |
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| It is hard to imagine in this world: -that a baby can cry in hunger without being fed, among a sea of poverty- and famine-inflicted people, slowly starving away while little attention or aid comes their way. -that in a blink of an eye an explosion in the middle of downtown can tear the appendage - if not life - off someone. -that in village after village, men are gunned down or burned alive while their young women are brutally gang-raped as part of a larger conflict between differing political, ethnic, religious, cultural groups. -that poor parents are selling their 9-year old daughters to the drug-ridden and AIDs-infested environment of prostitution, for the U.S. equivalent of $10. -that thousands and thousands and thousands of people on the face of this earth would rather die than live in the pain and suffering of their current situation. -that these people who undergo unspeakable suffering are not necessarily any different than us in their desire for a healthy, stable life; in their desire to have a good time; in their threshold of enduring physical and emotional pain. |
| LSC's BASEMENT: Here is another personal quote that I came up with this month, which I call a "likseeism": Sometimes the worst thing about rejection is the fear of it. ANTI-PET PEEVES: For a growing list of things I really like, click here. ARCHIVES: for website topics from previous months, click here. General Note: just to let you know, I update this website with a new topic around the beginning of each month. |
| Hello, thanks for checking my website this month. This month's topic is continuing last month's topic of coping with pain and suffering, in light of the horrific suffering that goes on in the world. Lik-See, 10-21-04 As I was thinking about last month's topic of pain and suffering, I wanted to continue sharing more thoughts along the same lines in light of the pain and suffering that goes on in the world. Sometimes, when you're going through a difficulty, it's easy to forget - in a practical sense - that someone beside you is going through a similar and often far worse hardship than you and I can imagine. Magnify that truth by at least a million and spread it across every corner of the globe, and you have pain and suffering everywhere at a very intense and often fatal level. It seems to press the issue more in asking why so much pain and suffering happens, knowing it's not just about me and my personal problems, but it's about death and torture and starvation and rape and diseases and child abuse and natural disasters - things not easy to endure or explain. It seems to be a prevalent desire and yearning to understand what meaning and purpose is behind the suffering we experience and see others experience, in hopes of better coping with the situation and trying to gain some semblance of comfort in the midst of it. When we don't have a framework of understanding reality that tries to make sense of suffering, it seems the alternative is to try to run away from it and its effect as best as we can; it's tough enough to deal with it but to have no answers beyond the fact that "it just happens" makes it more difficult to endure. Maybe it's because somewhere people want to believe at that there's a light at the end of the tunnel and not just a meaningless dead-end street to suffer, that somehow there has to be something good to look forward to, even with all the unimaginable horrors that can and do happen to people, no matter who we are. |
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