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WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR "FRIENDS" THE LAST 3 YEARS?

Read THIS!

While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition. Christopher R. Browning’s account illustrates the every-day banality of evil and how all of us are fully cabable of both doing it AND justifying it in our minds and making it socially acceptable and even mandatory. This book explains step by step how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs.

Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today.

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-audiobook/dp/B0813XCX9B/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AZ2JH6IPWTYV&keywords=ordinary+men&qid=1689622053&sprefix=ordinary+men%2Caps%2C595&sr=8-1

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One of my favorite authors, John Muir, made a stunning announcement about living forever. He created a metaphor using a bear. He said, “Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink the same waters. A bear’s days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are over-domed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with the heart-pulsings like ours, and was poured from the same First Fountain. And weather he at last goes to our stingy heaven or not, he has terrestrial immorality. His life not long, not short, knows no beginning, no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal Eternity.”

Isn’t that really profound? Did it grab you? I realized by reading John Muir, that bears don’t know when they face death. They lack any understanding of morality. Thus, they live their lives eternally happy with each day, with each season, and with each moment of their lives.

If you appreciate that concept, it means you, too, may choose living at your highest and best for the eternity of your life on this planet.

More Deep Thoughts from Rusty:

https://rense.com/general97/ascending-the-spiraling-staircase-of-your-life.php

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