Social Question
How willing are you to adjust your belief, or part of a belief, to reframe a perspective?
“The Cold Within” by James Patrick Kinney(authorship disputed)
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In dark and bitter cold
Each one possessed a stick of wood,
Or so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logs,
The first woman held hers back.
For on the faces around the fire,
She noticed one was black.
The next man looking cross the way,
Saw one not of his church,
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes,
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use,
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store.
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy, shiftless poor.
The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did naught except for gain
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
The logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn’t die from the cold without,
They died from—- the cold within.
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Quote by Obi-Wan: “Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”
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I find a lot of disagreements tend to be because we are so set in our point of views that we don’t see that there are other valid point of views, and often have a hard time seeing that conflicting point of views can both be right on their own grounds. Is the opposing perspective always wrong?
How willing are you to adjust your most dearly held values and reframe your persepective?
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