Dziekanski ...the philosophe.

[china]

Baltakis entreated the audience to learn from the words Dziekanski wrote on a postcard to his mother last year

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"People become good by doing good; it is rare that a person is good by nature alone. Goodness does not exist so one can make use of it. Goodness does not flow from a place of weakness but one of power."

 

[darkbeaver]

Goodness gracious. If goodness does not exist so we can make use of it why do we? Without our use of the good we wouldn't be here. Are you suggesting that goodness makes use of us?

 

[Said1]

I wonder what context he wrote that in.....I guess we'll never know, eh?

 

[darkbeaver]

Cats become good by doing good.

 

[Said1]

Totally. Not mine, though. She's evil to the core.

 

[petros]

Totally. Not mine, though. She's evil to the core.

Mine doesn't like the armed forces. It's evil to the corp.

 

[Cliffy]

Mine doesn't like the armed forces. It's evil to the corp.

Does that mean that only corpses are good?

I knew an old rubby up in Quesnel named Shorty who always said, "Shorty is a good man when he is asleep."