Icyus wrote: Were I at auschwitz, or something alike (not to say I aint) I would face my death with a big smile.
Actually, this is pretty insulting to those that died in agony in the Death Camps. I
GUARANTEE your life is
no where NEAR as hard as the Camps. PURE youthful ignorance on display here. You would go to the murder showers with a
smile on your face? Liar. You would scream. How can I be so sure your life doesn't even come CLOSE to being as hard as Jew in the Camps? Well, for one, you are using a computer, and not being marched naked in freezing temperatures with all your family and friends to be tortured and murdered. And, two,........no, does there need to be a Two? You are LYING, plain and simple. Liar Liar, Soul on Fire.
Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas