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Originally Posted by Botnst
To you last paragraph... That cosmic irony is a not infrequent consequence of disaster, whether human caused or natural. It’s like a karmic balance repaid. But in reality, it makes no sense. In my world, there is no karma and I think God is an open question. For some survivors the event destroys belief in God. Others find redemption in the same event.
In my lifetime I’ve been involved in search and rescue or recovery from several natural disasters. In those instances victims were random and survival was largely circumstantial. Great assistance was generally forthcoming and longer term.
In those ways natural disasters differ from the disaster of the Final Solution. More is the horror for its industrial intentionality.
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My parents fell in to the former category. They explained it to me that they consider themselves jewish persons not religious jews. They know that judism is not a race or ethnicity but none the less something that holds a commonality unlike most other religions. Very few others can lay claim to the persecution in recent history that jews have in terms of attempted elimination. They went to temple for the social aspect. I was forced to g to hebrew school so I could formulate my own decision and learn of the history of the jews. I followed in my parents foot steps. I wear a star of david because of what my parents endured because of their religion. I have not been to temple in over 30 yrs. I do not miss it in my life. I have done okay with my life in spite of religion, not because of it.
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