You say Mohammed, I say...Steve?

[rev_wayfarer]

I talked for a while with an Iraqi teenager two nights ago. What struck me about the boy was that while we talked he stopped mid sentence and asked to touch my face. Sure, says I. He places his hand on my cheek feeling stubble and bug bites and in a sort of surpised and contemplative voice says "So you are human too

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[aurora_lost]

:)

[rev_wayfarer]

=D

[diykozmonot]

i thought you were on a plane already?!?!

anyways, i'm glad to know you're human. i thought you were a robot. like me.

JUST KIDDING.

[rev_wayfarer]

9 1/2 more days!

[diykozmonot]

zweeet!

[diykozmonot]

that was me in the last comment. i just didn't log in.

[deanmoriarty77]

Humanity, I think, is what fills the little gaps between all the broken shit, all the breaking, and all the plans, schematics, graphics and orders. Its the sand slipping out of grasping fingers. Its our instinct without progress as a motivator. It's who we are when we concentrate on being more than doing.

Yeah, it's what makes the herd slow down for its weakest member.

You know, elephants do that. Well, some.

And yeah... i feel ya on "being more than doing."

Telling stories out of school

[jreedy]

In reference to your earlier comment re: Mr. Hirschman -- I agreed with your thoughts there, that he was fixating on this "loss of humanity" issue after seeing what he probably felt was a somewhat callous response to a horrific situation

Re: Telling stories out of school

[rev_wayfarer]

yup, that need to sell papers is exactly why i don't talk to the asshats. I have my audience here, my ventings here, my voice here. and I don't feel compelled to have that voice co-opted by some tool looking to make a buck with my reputation.

tanks for the pep talk and the responses here. Its good to feel like I'm bouncing thoughts off someone else rather than a solo game of ethics-pong.

REV