Beachboy
Irritated Indy Voter
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So...............lemmie get this straight BitchBoi.................you've never read Gilbran, yet you seem to think you know what he's all about because you heard some kind of talking point in your little circle of how it's a "left mantra".
The Prophet is actually a pretty decent book, I've actually read it, and a lot of the philosophy is quite peaceful, and the story is pretty decent.
As far as it being a passing fad of the left? Might wanna check again..............
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophet_(book)
And, another one misses the point. I read 'The Profit' when I was a young liberal. In fact I leafed through it the other day which is why I brought it into this thread.
We live in a world of hard-ball politics. We always have. In the real world it is called "an eye for an eye." It is now an everyday occurrence. If you want the key to civilization read world history. Save Gilbran for your casual fiction reading.
Time for me to quote Winston Churchill, AGAIN.
Might wanna check where the quote "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" comes from, as well as what the people (Jews) who wrote that quote actually meant by it.
An eye for an eye means that if you injure someone and incapacitate them from doing their work, you have to compensate them for not only the injury that you brought upon them, but, if say...............they used their eyes as part of their livelihood, you had an obligation to pay for the work that they have lost as a result of that injury.
It's not quite the bloodthirsty idea that you think it is.
And by the way.....................the title is "The PROPHET", not "The Profit". I don't think his main reason for writing that book was to make money, as much as it was a statement on what Gilbran thought of the way people treated each other. Might wanna look into him being considered a rebel by many of the Muslim world.
The answer to you post on an "eye for an eye" is so obvious, I am not going to address it.
"The ProfEt" is not worth the paper it is printed on, when it comes to solving real world problems. If you like fiction, fine. But, keep it out of the political threads.
Why am I not surprised that you are hung up on things not of this world? Did you even look to see what the subject of this thread is before you posted?
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