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John Turcot's avatar

If the 12,000 nuclear warheads ready to be dropped on our loving ways don’t “wake us up”, nothing ever will.

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Abull Story's avatar

Maybe survival isn't the real test.

Maybe the real test is whether we can wake up — even if survival isn't guaranteed.

If the world ends in flames, better to be awake enough to witness it for what it is, than to sleep through the final lie.

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John Turcot's avatar

Survival is the only way out, because when you are dead nothing matters, unless of course we have mounted a white horse on the way to heaven… furthermore, if you are under a

Mushroom cloud, your survival time will be less than the time it takes for you to blink… so much for observing the event…

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Abull Story's avatar

Even if the blink is all we get, it matters whether we blink awake or asleep.

Survival is a moment. Awareness is a choice.

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John Turcot's avatar

And what are you aware of that will prevent a nuclear war from happening? God for instance is Aware that His creations have badly faultered, and what good did that awareness bring to our table?

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Abull Story's avatar

Awareness isn't a guarantee. It’s a burden.

It won't stop the fire. It won't undo the damage.

It just refuses to lie about what the fire is.

Sometimes the only dignity left is seeing clearly — even when it changes nothing.

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John Turcot's avatar

In the great outdoors, a butterfly is neither good or bad, just dead if eaten by another being. Awareness is not as much a choice as that of being alive to make that choice. I was told God was all loving … Mmmmm???

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John Turcot's avatar

Awww! Now we have something to agree on… I.e., Awareness that we are bad is the same as thinking that. We are good… so why be aware if what we do is bad? Or good? Is there a difference…?

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Abull Story's avatar

Awareness isn't a guarantee. It’s a burden.

It won't stop the fire. It won't undo the damage.

It just refuses to lie about what the fire is.

Sometimes the only dignity left is seeing clearly — even when it changes nothing.

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Abull Story's avatar

Even if the blink is all we get, it matters whether we blink awake or asleep.

Survival is a moment. Awareness is a choice.

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Abull Story's avatar

Even if the blink is all we get, it matters whether we blink awake or asleep.

Survival is a moment. Awareness is a choice.

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