Posted by paula on February 10, 2002, at 23:45:28
In reply to Re: More about the failure to love your neighbor, posted by lou pilder on February 10, 2002, at 18:46:55
I don't think that Sarah was saying she, or any of us, are not failures in some respects. That's inherent in her statement that you can't help everyone that needs you. What distresses me about your scenario is that it seems that you expect there to be some radical break that happens when we "realize" how imperfect we are. As if that imperfection could, eventually, be put behind us, or even worse, constanty held up in front of us. Failure, like suffering of all kinds, is inevitable. We will all fail and be failed. We will all hurt and be hurt. Your insistence that we accept this sad paradox is, itself, actually one of those little slings and arrows since you implicitly accuse us not only of being imperfect but of imperfectly understanding our imperfection.
Anyhow, I agree with Sarah that the best course of action is to take the opportunities to do good and to be good that come along. If we all pulled our weight, the world would be a better place, no?
paula
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