Hey there,

actually compassion seems to come quite naturaly to the human kind. But you’ll see what I mean. !0 years ago aproximately some researchers discovered what they called the “mirror neuron”. They observed that the same area that would be active if you would perform an action, or suffer one, this same area was also active when seeing someone else performing -or suffering- these actions. It only has to be something you can do yourself, not if it involves something you can’t do. Hence if you see someone cutting his finger with a knife, you really feel it with the etymologic sense of com-passion, meaning that you relate to it with the same part of your brain that would be active if you’d cut your own finger. That’s compassion !

ok well I just saw some light so here are my 3 cents. I also read a book by Albert Cohen recently where he advocates a lot for compassion, a little book where he tells his experience as a little jew of 10 and the antesimitic experience he had then in France, and how it changed his life for always. “O you, human brothers” may probably be a very poor translation of the title in english. And as I’m here I ask an inopinate last moment question : if we relate as humans as brothers, so important in friendship too, as a concept, and in politics, where is the place of the feminine in this humanity we relate on ?
Because history, hence religions, litterature, etc, has been written by men, we, both men and women are living on principles that are at the root infiltrated by a false universal, and that is to say : “we, as one man, we, brothers”. It will eventually be the woman role to be a kind of maternal figure we like to mythificate ( actually problem is with the femininists that they say other things but they are still also believing in this mythification !)

ahhh – as always I went too far, going into uncharted improvised territories, probably saying some stupid things going by, and all that with the english of a madman drinking tea on a baseball field. Sorry, Allison – ahh but what would I not do just to feel a little of your compassion going through me ! lol

take care, everyone

Hey there again,

I thought I said something stupid but this on the relation of feminine and masculine in the concept of humanity made me realise that maybe what happened is when we said in the past “let’s be brothers”, or “Men are equals” etc etc, we really didn’t encapsuled women in it. It’s like a Freudian thing. It’s so big it goes unseen, as the stolen letter case ( a wellknown analysis) where the letter is where everyone can see it. ( So by the way, if you want to “write a letter to a stranger”, and actually be red, do not let it where the person can obviously see it. Hide it. Or maybe you prefer to stay hidden in the bright light… No ?)Here it would be so obvious to say that ” hey you’re not speaking about our sisters here !”, that it was of course the better way to hide it ! Think about it : history has been made by men for the most part, and probably this way to define history is by itself male oriented. It is quite impressive to think that we’re living right now this “feminine liberation”, but at the same time, the liberation will take far longuer, as we can see most concepts have been conceived by the male oriented attitude. And what’s incredible is : we don’t even know what would be a feminine politic -not masquerading men. And more we can’t envision what would be a humanity really equal with men and women.
Of course one could could say “I don’t buy it, here’s the feminine and the masculine and it’s unrelated to male and female, meaning that we both have these two parts in us. Yeah, but it would not change that for thousand of years, it was the female sex that was dominated, and of course feminine is related to female, there’s no way to denie it ! So the feminine part would obviously had to be eclipsed. But we don’t have so much on who is dominating at home… Of course that would be a different history, the kind that men didn’t do… let’s say Nietzsche was one of the first to say life of a philosopher is as important as what he wrote, in order to understand it correctly. That something in life – like for him the death of his father at age 5 – would cause great philosophical perturbations – the concept of Eternal Return. of course that does not by itself obliterate the concepts. Nothing is pure of any crazyness, and that’s how we are. Where was I ?
Yes so in the end all the history since now was not about women. It is not right now neither. It’s still for the future. Ta ta ta tsin tsin ( here inserts the mains title of “Terminator”)

Or not. But hey tonight it wanted to go there. Have a little compassion. In the bible compassion is regarded somewhere as the most important of all, maybe the Corinthiens. What is fun is the first thing Christians did historicaly is hating the Jews… looking for someone to blame for the death of Christ, etc. But Christianism is not Christ, it’s even the exact opposite (even if he may not have existed, but what importance ? we still understand what he said…

ciao