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A Year of Contemplation

When Good Men Do Nothing (Day 207)

7/26/2019

 
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“Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.5 

“If you choose not to decide - You still have made a choice”
Rush (Neal Peart), Freewill, Album: Permanent Waves (1980)

“Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.” 
Bill Maher

“I don't believe anything's really inevitable until it happens. We just call it inevitable to make ourselves feel better about it, to excuse ourselves for not having done anything.” 
Lauren Willig

Y’all get the idea, right? 

Guilt isn’t limited to perpetrators in a reality that comes about by complex causality. Once again: Guilt isn’t limited to perpetrators. It’s shared by those who see, who know, who hear and who still choose to do nothing… while culpability may not be shared, guilt, most certainly, is. 

It’s hard to hear, and even harder to accept… as it should. It’s not about just NOT doing bad stuff… it’s about being a force of goodness and Virtue in the world. 

We desperately need it. 

(See y’all tomorrow) 

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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