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Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. |
| in life quotes by John Shelby Spong |
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.- Edward Abbey
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just do not let yourself believe it will happen to you.
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
