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marions ghost

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4. OK I thought you were talking
Mon Jul 1, 2013, 02:56 PM
Jul 2013

about the sitting man.

Well I don't know if he's 'asking" them to use compassion. As I understand it he is meditating with compassion for the bankers--for them to let go of their addictions to wealth and power, the addictions that make them greedy and uncaring about what happens to anyone else as long as they get richer.

Yeah he may be attributing too much humanity to them. But that's one of the challenges I guess.

I think it's interesting. Fits with my feeling that we need to be witnesses, we need to be present --to this massive injustice being perpetrated in this country with no adherence to any sort of morality or ethics. Whether we need to sit out in the street or not, I don't know. One of the things about witnessing is that you need to be seen.

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