Word: thine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...advice "know thine enemy" can apply to many areas of life--war, arms talks, even a game of Risk...
...view as sinful. "Judge not that ye be not judged," Jesus said. "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you." St. Paul decried the hunger for revenge as a blasphemy. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him." One can admire these teachings, and yet sometimes find them impossible to accept, or act upon. Must one not make an exception in the case of someone as vile as Mengele? Would mercy toward him not mock his victims...
Naturally, there are some groups who are considered consistently egregious in this respects. For example, a lot of New Yorkers are known for their holier-than-thou-because-my-city's-bigger-than-thine syndrome. We are all familiar with their use and abuse of the term "The City," which leaves their fellow New Yorkers from States Island, Queens. The Brons and Brooklyn none too pleased...
...tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures, Hoffmann revels in the sweetness and sensitivity of kind and imaginative children. His careful touch in relating the wonders of things as majestic as first love is something akin to a perfectly crafted music boy issuing soft strains of Mozart...
...beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine...