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End all Suffering now? you have the power.
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RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power.
Philip Pullman Wrote:Occasionally they would hear a harsh croak or a splash as some amphibian was disturbed, but the only creature they saw was a toad as big as Will's foot, which could only flop in a pain-filled sideways heave as if it were horrible injured. It lay across the path, trying to move out of the way and looking at them as if it knew they meant to hurt it.
"It would be merciful to kill it," said Tialys.
"How do you know?" said Lyra. "It might still like being alive, in spite of everything."
"If we killed it, we'd be taking it with us," said Will. "It wants to stay here. I've killed enough living things. Even a filthy stagnant pool might be better than dead."
"But if it's in pain?" said Tialys.
"if it could tell us, we'd know. But since it can't, I'm not going to kill it. That would be considering our feelings rather than the toad's."
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Mark 13:13 - January 10, 2013 at 3:50 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by LastPoet - January 10, 2013 at 3:58 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Esquilax - January 10, 2013 at 4:03 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Esquilax - January 10, 2013 at 4:20 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Tiberius - January 10, 2013 at 4:08 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Tiberius - January 10, 2013 at 4:27 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 11, 2013 at 8:55 am
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 10, 2013 at 4:11 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 10, 2013 at 4:29 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 10, 2013 at 4:57 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Esquilax - January 10, 2013 at 4:31 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 10, 2013 at 4:34 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Esquilax - January 11, 2013 at 10:25 am
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 11, 2013 at 10:42 am
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 10, 2013 at 4:18 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 10, 2013 at 5:20 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by jonb - January 10, 2013 at 5:48 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 10, 2013 at 6:03 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by genkaus - January 11, 2013 at 8:09 am
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Kayenneh - January 11, 2013 at 8:44 am
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 11, 2013 at 12:17 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Brian37 - January 11, 2013 at 12:49 pm
RE: End all Suffering now? you have the power. - by Annik - January 11, 2013 at 1:39 pm

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