"Just found this new app that tells you which of your family members are racist. It’s called Facebook."
— @toyns
Via Tweet Picks on Happy Place
"If I had a time machine and could travel to any time imaginable, I know in my heart I’d probably just set that thing to lunchtime."
— @MeSamThorpe
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"The (500) Days of Summer attitude of “He wants you so bad” seems attractive to some women and men, especially younger ones, but I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is. He develops a mildly delusional obsession over a girl onto whom he projects all these fantasies. He thinks she’ll give his life meaning because he doesn’t care about much else going on in his life. A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person."
— Jordan Gordon-Levitt (via flawslacedwithgoodintentions)
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The Good Samaritan
A Jewish man is beaten and left for dead on the road. He is ignored by a priest and a Levite. Only a Samaritan, a social outcast among the Jews, stops to help.
Rather than being a feel-good moment in a soap opera or children’s program, the parable ”very subtly exposes our assumptions about the world … and then radically subverts and overturns them”.
In terms of the Good Samaritan, the one who proves himself a good neighbour is ”precisely the one whom we would never have described as good. For Jesus’ listeners, a ‘good Samaritan’ was a sheer contradiction in terms.”
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Bystanding, and God’s heart in Isaiah 58.
“All of us are bystanders much of the time. We are witness to the needs of other people… to hunger, and homelessness, and injustice… We witness our government standing by, passively, when other governments kill or torture their own citizens. At least we are potentially witness to all this: We can see and know, if we look, listen, and are willing to know. We are bystanders in that we are not direct perpetrators, and we are not direct victims. Unquestionably, however, we are involved…”
- Ervin Staub, “The Evolution of Bystanders, German Psychoanalysts, and Lessons for Today”, Political Psychology, Vol. 10, Nr, 1, 1989, 50
I reflect, in light of Isaiah 58.
Now that I have seen, I am responsible —
