The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.
J. Aleksandr WoottonTags: stories storytelling study folklore fairytales tales human-endeavor
So, then...” Petra interjected, caught up for the moment in the story, “nobody knows who was right?
“Who was right?” Growland repeated slowly. “How do you mean?”
“In the war.” As she tried to articulate her question, she became less sure of it. “You don't know which side was... right?”
“Cub,” the big bear explained patiently, “nobody has ever gone to war believing their cause to be wrong!”
“Well, sure, I get that. But afterwards... don't people usually... figure out... who was really right?” she finished lamely.
“What people?”
“I don't know!” Petra said, flinging her arms wide. “Historians, maybe?”
Jumphrey snorted and removed his pipe from between his teeth. “Historians are people, and people have opinions and sympathies. I think if you pay attention, you'll find that histories usually demonstrate that the winning side was in the right all along; or else, occasionally, they demonstrate that those who won are despots and tyrants who deserved to be fought against, and still should be. You see? Everyone has a perspective. If you convened a representative post-war council to discuss what started the conflict and who ought to have given way to whom, a new war would break out from their arguments.”
Petra felt her spirits slump a little. “But then... how–”
“As everyone has always done,” the rabbit answered. “You pray that war does not come. But if it does come, you fight in accordance with your own convictions, or to defend the home or people you love; or you take a vow of pacifism, and follow your conscience some other way, if you are allowed. Whatever the political justification for war is said to be, armies are invariably made up of ordinary people fighting for the most basic of ideas, the simplest of reasons. 'Sides' are largely determined by the happenstance of birth, nothing more.”
“That's... tragic,” Petra said, realizing a truth she'd heard before but never really processed.
Jumphrey shrugged, and said simply, “All war is.
Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?
J. Aleksandr WoottonTags: beauty roses thorns blossom philosophy-of-beauty price-of-beauty
Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it?
J. Aleksandr WoottonTags: yggdrasil origins norse-mythology the-chicken-or-the-egg well-of-wisdom
Is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it, or does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom?
J. Aleksandr WoottonTags: yggdrasil chicken-egg-stuff norse-mythology well-of-wisdom
There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.
J. Aleksandr WoottonTags: wisdom certainty silence listening human-experience
Live in the moment... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.
J. Aleksandr WoottonTags: foolishness life-advice riddle living-in-the-moment intentional
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