You Wrap Your Mind Around the Consequence

September 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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A secular view for Yom Kippur of why one should be good rather than evil:

You wrap your mind around the consequence

Of sin not having any consequence.

Murderers, torturers, pimps, thieves in the end

Know they’ll share with saviors the same end.

If this is true, what reason to do good?

Perhaps there is an inner music good

People hear that evil people miss,

Universal love no soul should miss,

Radiance no one-time soul should miss.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

9/17: Cynicism Comes from Self-Disgust

9/18: You Wrap Your Mind Around the Consequence