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Sep 11Liked by Barry Brownstein

https://intellectualtakeout.org/2023/09/two-unvccinated-canadians-denied-organ-transplants-have-died/

Two Unvaccinated Canadians, Denied Organ Transplants, Have Died - Intellectual Takeout

This is very sad. And the doctors and hospital asked the deceased relatives if they would donate the unvaccinated deceased person organs so others may live. Canada healthcare is a tremendous joke!

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Sep 12·edited Sep 12Liked by Barry Brownstein

I'm currently reading the little memoir of Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan, 'Five Loaves and Two Fish', about his time as a prisoner of the communist regime in 1970's Vietnam. In it, he recounts his despair at being held in solitary confinement in the prison of Phu Khanh. Two guards always accompanied him, but refused to speak to him and accept his kindness. He writes: "What could I do? One night, a thought came to me: 'Francis, you are still very rich. You have the love of Christ in your heart. Love them as Jesus has loved you'. The next day I began to love them, to love Jesus in them". From this moment on, a change came over his guards, and slowly over the whole prison. Everyone needs to be loved, and especially those tormented by bitterness. Many of us a racked by thoughts of failure, loneliness and desperation, which lead us astray, and fill our lives and those of others with misery. But, as you say, "we can make ourselves available for a change of heart". Perhaps if we recognise the way we demonise others and replace these impulses with thoughts of love and understanding, we might just be able to change the world.

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Sep 11Liked by Barry Brownstein

Thank you, Barry, for the reminder that no person is an "it", but rather, a being. A being who, in spite of all appearances, is Divine. A being who may be here to learn how to love him or herself... or perhaps to help us remember love and forgiveness as the ultimate solution.

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Sep 11Liked by Barry Brownstein

Very true: if we live in anger, cherishing it, nourishing it, we live in hell, one of our own making.

I'm not sure I agree that every human being is redeemable; some, I fear, are beyond redemption. But in dealing with people, we should assume that they MIGHT be redeemable: any judgement to the contrary should result only from their own actions, not ours. The door should always be held open, even to someone who has behaved abominably up till now.

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re: "No one is deplorable." Um. Let me introduce you to Donald J. Trump.

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