Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?
J.K. RowlingTag: jealousy bitterness
One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the Shoah or Endlösung or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors that the immolation had been a punishment for 'exile,' or for insufficient attention to the Covenant. This explanation was something of a flop with those whose parents or children had been the raw material for the 'proof,' so for a time the professional interpreters of god's will went decently quiet. This interval of ambivalence lasted until the war of 1967, when it was announced that the divine purpose could be discerned after all. How wrong, how foolish, to have announced its discovery prematurely! The exile and the Shoah could now both be understood, as part of a heavenly if somewhat roundabout scheme to recover the Western Wall in Jerusalem and other pieces of biblically mandated real estate.
I regard it as a matter of self-respect to spit in public on rationalizations of this kind. (They are almost as repellent, in their combination of arrogance, masochism, and affected false modesty, as Edith Stein's 'offer' of her life to expiate the regrettable unbelief in Jesus of her former fellow Jews.) The sage Jews are those who have put religion behind them and become in so many societies the leaven of the secular and the atheist.
Tag: children christianity war religion atheism jealousy suffering punishment self-respect bible jesus arrogance grandmothers holocaust wine rabbis martyrdom survivors secularism exile judaism theodicy 1967 false-modesty masochism jerusalem six-day-war passover-seder hellenism passover hiwi-al-balkhi biblical-covenant divine-retribution edith-stein gentiles rationalisation western-wall will-of-god
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.
Maureen DowdTag: intelligence jealousy military soldiers 2010 stanley-mcchrystal
she shall scant show well that now shows best.
William ShakespeareFor a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?
Kamila ShamsieJealousy is love in competition.
Toba BetaTag: love jealousy competition
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
Lionel ShriverTag: yearning jealousy materialism want
I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No, about six months before that. Right after New Year's. We were in the Hob, eating some slop of Greasy Sae's. And Darius was teasing you about trading a rabbit for one of his kisses. And I realized...I minded.
Tag: jealousy sweet-talk
The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...
Christina WestoverTag: art music murder jealousy gay family-relationships psychological-suspense san-francisco lesbian kurt-cobain sibling-rivalry love-story christina-westover precipice courtney-love
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
Sean CoveyTag: jealousy gossip pettiness
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