tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060003097513753942.post295591275874467465..comments2024-02-24T16:30:33.798-08:00Comments on GPS: EVERYONE NEEDS COMPASSION / Part 179 / For Love and For Justice / Zabeth and Paul Bayne/Ronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07353695791008715393noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060003097513753942.post-14165616427113004652010-05-03T07:39:26.371-07:002010-05-03T07:39:26.371-07:00Wikiapedia..
To be "mercy", the behavior...Wikiapedia..<br />To be "mercy", the behavior generally can not be compelled by outside forces. (A famous literary example is from The Merchant of Venice when Portia asks Shylock to show mercy. He asks, On what compulsion, must I? She responds:<br /><br /> The quality of mercy is not strained.<br /> It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<br /> Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:<br /> It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.<br /> Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes<br /> The throned monarch better than his crown.<br /> His scepter shows the force of temporal power,<br /> The attribute to awe and majesty,<br /> Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.<br /> But mercy is above this sceptered sway;<br /> It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;<br /> It is an attribute of God himself;<br /> And earthly power doth then show like God's<br /> When mercy seasons justice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060003097513753942.post-29181140000387620732010-05-03T07:34:11.459-07:002010-05-03T07:34:11.459-07:00"We routinely disqualify testimony that would..."We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means."<br />Marilynne Robinson.<br /><br />"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />Oh my soul..be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. T.S. Eliot.<br />I seriously hope that the Honorable Justice Crabtree is that man.<br /><br />With mysteries being as they are...perhaps it will be Paul and Zabeth that must show mercy, to get Justice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com