Posted on 08/15/2018 4:27:40 PM PDT by GraceG
"Evil is a make-believe concept we've invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans."
A progressive young American couple was killed in an Islamic State-claimed terrorist attack last month while on a bike trip around the world.
Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, who were both in their late 20s, quit their jobs in 2017 to embark on a trip around the world. Austin, a vegan, and Geoghegan, a vegetarian, decided that they're were wasting their lives working.
"I’ve grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige,” Austin wrote on his blog before he quit. “I’ve missed too many sunsets while my back was turned. Too many thunderstorms went unwatched, too many gentle breezes unnoticed.”
The couple documented their year-long journey on social media until it came to a tragic and gruesome end in Tajikistan, a country with a known terrorist presence.
(Excerpt) Read more at pluralist.com ...
.....win stupid prizes.
To many gentle breezes gone...
That’s My Dream.
The nightmare is being
As Stupid as these Two!
“People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil." “I don’t buy it," he continued. "Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own... By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind.”
If only he had learned to say that in Arabic! Or whatever they speak in Tajikistan.
We are just expressing the same sentiment as your tag line.
I see they were quite the diverse couple.
Awesome ! Where can I get the 12-round Rem 870?
“Yes,I’m that Stupid!”
I wanted to reply the same,
Thanks.
Now you’ve made me want one...
btt
This story really does beg the question: “What kind of teachers (and parents) did these young people have?”
Liberals believe that people are basically good. It is a stupid and fatal misconception.
Well, according to Google Translate, in Arabic it is مجموع غمزات غبية
Cause of death: human complexity.
Actually, Evil human complexity is a make-believe concept we've adults who demand to remain children have invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans evil.
We have a friend that won’t eat anything or use a body product from something that has a “face”!!
Also, vegans look like they have slept in their clothes for 3 days, without showering, even if they just dressed.
How does one afford to travel the world if they quit their jobs? Even visiting shitholes, travel costs money.
Let me guess? trust fund babies, or just rich parents?
look at their stupid faces. they just scream SNOWFLAKE.
“Liberals believe that people are basically good.”
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Wrong.
Most people are kind. It only takes one who isn’t to ruin your day.
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