@DiscoveryID “The worst thing you can lose is your voice. And when you lose your voice, you need others to lend theirs to you, to tell your story.”
– Elizabeth Chambers, “Toxic” on HBO, S1 E1
@JoyceCarolOates Listening to JCO read her story made me think about how we all carry childhood with us. The details of our memories are different, but the feelings—fear, wonder, vulnerability, longing—can be remarkably universal. Sometimes one small childhood moment stays with us for a lifetime.
with text messages as evidence, a civil suit will be very winnable. assume that the victim & her family know this & have spoken with an attorney.
the individual "frat boys"--the fraternity--& Cornell University are liable & can all be sued.
but that's just the civil case. Ithaca police should be gathering evidence for arrests & the criminal case.
(yes, universities downplay such crimes on their campuses but that will not save the criminals from proper legal actions. in fact, the university might be named as "aiding & abetting" the crime of rape.
@JoyceCarolOates “Butcher” is a historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published in 2024. The character of Dr. Silas Weir is a composite inspired by the historical documents and crimes of prominent 19th-century medical professionals gone rogue, IOW, unchecked and criminal. It happens.
poor George Washington! he'd taken pains to assure that the White House would be on a modest scale because it WAS NOT supposed to be the residence of a king or czar but a "president of the people"--the US was supposed to be a "democracy of the people"--which endured for 250 years until T***p decided to fashion himself into a "king" as a kid from Queens might imagine a "king" defined by a grotesquely large ballroom festooned in gold gilt.
Friends, for the wokeist philosophy that dominates today, empathy—feeling the feelings of the other and not harming those feelings—is treated as a supreme value. But while empathy is perfectly good and decent, the Bible teaches that love, not empathy, is the supreme value. And love does not mean, primarily, feeling the feelings of the other or not hurting those feelings; it means willing the good of the other—and that can be, as Dostoevsky said, “a harsh and dreadful thing.”
Remember kids, neurons that fire together wire together. neuroplasticity is a thing. Spend all your time focused on good/gratitude and you'll be happier & healthier. Do the opposite and be miserable, sickly & die. Entirely your choice.