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October 13 - November 7, 2023
Among humankind’s abilities, it is said imagination is the weakest and forgetfulness the strongest.
Jacob Beser would refer to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as, “the most bizarre and spectacular two events in the history of man’s inhumanity to man.”
though everything about man except man’s way of thinking had changed, if man’s way of thinking did not change, then indeed all of this was prologue to the way the world ends.
Train-wrecking the ecology will train-wreck the global economy,” one said, “and a wrecked global economy is a noose around the neck of world peace—a guarantee of future wars.”
Even though we had survived, we weren’t really allowed to live.”
“A life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives.”
Nuclear arms are not [compatible] with civilization.
scientist once told a theologian, “We are the sum of what we remember.” And the theologian responded, “No. We are how we remember.”
“I think Omoiyari is the best way to start,” Masahiro Sasaki said. “The worst way is to call ourselves victims. To say ‘victim’ requires a victimizer, and the victimizer is led to blame; and that starts the cycle of blame. For example, if we say ‘victim of Hiroshima,’ the next sentence that comes up will involve Pearl Harbor and the blaming chain gets stuck all the way in the past. Then we are completely derailed from the lesson that war itself is humanity’s Pandora, and that nuclear weapons are something that came out of Pandora’s Box.”
“What I am trying to say is that it does not matter who dropped the bomb. It’s not an issue. It should never be an issue for any country. It’s an issue for all humanity.
