Thought for 28th Sept 2005

Good Morning Friends
        The TfT is  Indifference  for me it is the biggest sin one can commit. As was quoted by the charachter Patch Adams in the movie by the same name, "U say u don't want to get close to patient's to avoid transference, u want to fight it........transference gentlemen is inevitable, if u want to fight fight against on of the most terrible diseases on earth: INDIFFERENCE"

        Ask yourself honestly is it so hard NOT to b indifferent ......... or Do u Not sleep better knowing that u have been considerate, compassionate and caring..................then Why Why do we still CHOOSE to be Indifferent. here are a few quotes to shake up ur concience

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
                                                                --Edmund Burke (attributed)
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
                                                -- Elie Wiesel (Oct. 1986)
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

                                                                                                                        -- Paulo Freire

"Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society. Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death."

                        Eugene V. Debs: 1908 speech