Numerology/Astrology for 12/17/18 - Plus Personal Blog
~Suzanne Wagner~
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known are those who have known
defeat, known suffering, known
struggle, known loss, and have
found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an
appreciate, a sensitivity, and an
understanding of life that fills them
with compassion, gentleness, and
a deep loving concern. Beautiful
people do not just happen.”
~8-Images.Blogspot.com~
I am concerned with the obvious lack of empathy in our world. The loss of health insurance for those with pre-existing medical conditions should alarm you beyond belief. Everyone will eventually have some sort of pre-existing condition. What does everyone expect to have happen? For hospitals to release people and tell them to go home and die? That harkens back to when my sister (a pediatrician) was working for “Doctor’s without Borders”, in the 1990’s. She was in Romania working with the Street Children that lived in the sewers and who were sniffing glue. They all ended up with Aplastic Anemia from sniffing the glue.
She saw a young boy on the street bleeding out of control and went up to him and asked him if they could take him to the hospital? He said that he had already been there. And they told him, “To go out on the streets to die like the dog that he was!”
It was such a horrifying experience for my sister that she had nightmares about it for years afterwards. Her experiences in Romania were terrifying as to what the lack of empathy created there.
In Romania, when Nicolae Ceaușescu took over the country. He forced those on farms to move into the city and leave everything behind. He put them in block cement buildings with glass doors so that the neighbors to spy on each other and report things back to government. It was all about control.
They were also not allowed to take their dogs with them into the city. So instead of killing them they released them into the wild.
Even now, in Romania there are packs of wild dogs that roam around. The people put out food for the dogs because the dogs represent the old ways and the freedoms that have been taken from them.
But if a street child tries to take the food they are beaten.
The dogs are more important than children. That type of cruelty and horror is what made my sister give up working for Doctor’s without Borders. Because of the lack of empathy, it created a type of suffering that shows how mankind inflicts pain even on its own. Such things shatter the psyche and is a destroyer of hope.
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