Category: Thought for the week

Empathy can be turned into hatred. An empath feels pain at what they perceive as injustice.

Professor T (Series 4, Episode 4) (Hamas and others have used this expertly to generate antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiments.) Signs of the Times
How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!

Psalm 133 Signs of the Times
When the door is closed to charity, the door is open to the doctor.

Aldous Huxley Signs of the Times
You can’t have the thrills of life without the pain of life.

Richard Osman (We Solve Murders) Signs of the Times Monday night is the beginning of the Jewish New Year – Rosh Hashana. To symbolise a sweet year we eat apple dipped in honey.
I’m so grateful: I can see the light at the end of the tunnel – and it isn’t a train coming!

Signs of the Times
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Signs of the Times
If you experience self-criticism, guilt, anguish, self-frustration… Rejoice! These emotions are the result of a deep sense of love, compassion, empathy and other positive attributes. We experience negative emotions when we feel we have let ourselves down and not lived up to our own standards. A psycho/sociopath does not experience these emotions. As Leonard Cohen said: “There is a crack in everything – that’s how the light gets in”.

Signs of the Times
All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now.

Kahlil Gibran
I’ve discovered a new term:- Screaming fuckwittery. I understand this applies to situations such as: getting a hot coffee at McDonalds, putting it between your legs when you drive off, suing McDonalds for getting burnt, and winning; suing Blackmores because you overdosed on Vitamin B6; believing Palestinian propaganda, especially groups like ‘Gays for Gaza’. REALLY???
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.

Old Chinese proverb