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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can’t stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.
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They reciprocated the great and saving lie – that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things – willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.
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But I knew the truth and that’s why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.
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Is this why you think you are chosen by God, because only you can understand the funnies that you make about yourself?
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Let’s go to bed. Those four words differentiate a marriage from every other kind of relationship. We aren’t going to find a way to agree, but let’s go to bed. Not because we want to, but because we have to. We hate each other right now, but let’s go to bed. It’s the only one we have. Let’s go to our sides, but the sides of the same bed. Let’s retreat into ourselves, but together. How many conversations had ended with those four words? How many fights?
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Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?
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My insides don’t match up with my outsides. -Do anyone’s inside and outsides match up? -I don’t know. I’m only me. -Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.
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Stephen Hawking won’t come to Israel? I’m not one to punch a quadriplegic with glasses, but I’m sure he won’t mind if we ask for his voice back – you know, the one that was created by Israeli engineers.
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