"A man becomes a beast in three weeks, given heavy labor, cold, hunger, and beatings"
"30. I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat."https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/12/forty-five-things-i-learned-in-the-gulag/ …
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"I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests." Viktor frankhl in Man's search for meaning said something similar.
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Makes sense. Carl Jung wrote something like "We cannot prove God does exist, but it has been proven that to believe dramatically helps withstanding a tragedy." Something in that sense. Sorry, I am not a native speaker.
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Good quote - Thank you!
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It is from his book Man and his symbols :)
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Inconvenient truths in the West.
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''Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.'' [Robert A. Heinlein]
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"They say the greatest coward can hurt the most ferociously" Annie Lennox 1986
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Cowardice is the character flaw that unfolds in the world as inaction. Aristotle: character is plot.
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"1. The extreme fragility of human culture, civilization. A man becomes a beast in three weeks, given heavy labor, cold, hunger, and beatings." Anyone has deep understanding of this would rather fight & die. No need to linger.
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45. I understood that a writer has to be a foreigner in the questions he is dealing with, and if he knows his material well, he will write in such a way that nobody will understand him
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Another thought on life is we are one of the following at any given time. We are either sheepdogs, sheep, or wolves.
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A remarkable read.
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I’ve read Viktor Frankl, this seems similar but very different. Sounds like a heavy read but well worth it. Ty
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Most men can endure 2 of the following 5 depravations well. Hunger, cold, pain exhaustion, being wet. More than 2 and he will start to break down without Faith.
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Faith does not mean belief in god
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How do you know? Define faith then. So you believe that order comes from entropy? As a pragmatic realist, if I'm right and God exists, where will you be after death? If you're right we're both worm bait so who cares. Sometimes an unsolvable equation requires awe not frustration
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what about 2% of cowards are causing havoc to 98% of population?
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"Shalamov claimed not to have learned anything in Kolyma, except how to wheel a loaded barrow." -apparently the most insightful lessons come at the most inconvenient times-forgotten human endurance.
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