humble and noble life

Renee 2022-03-21 09:02:36

The humble life

he was always looking for respect. In each camp, he won a comfortable life with his unique talents. Even, enjoy certain "privileges".

However, material special treatment does not change spiritual abuse. The arrogant Aryan SS, while taking advantage of his talents, still humiliated him recklessly because of his Jewish ancestry.

This is the fate of a nation. An inexorable desire plus sin. It is precisely because of desire to add sin that there is no way to wash it away. Respect, the basic respect that a "person" deserves, has become an unattainable and even foolish extravagance in such a historical context.

So, he lived humbly like that. He was obedient, didn't say a word, and tried his best to do things he didn't want, but could only rely on for a living. No choice.

Everyone, his cellmates, the doctor, the SS guarding him, and the officers who later received him. Everyone has no choice. They are all just ants under the huge state machine. It seems that the noble and the low are distinct, but they are unable to control their own destiny.

Just like everyone in "The Lives of Others", it seems that there are countless choices, but in fact, except for the party's order to survive, any other choice points to death.

Life is so humble that a simple command can bring it to an end.

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Noble life

principle and life, which is more important?

A question that can never be answered. I adore the martyrs who went to justice and their courage. However, it is questioned whether they are worth it. As long as you live there is hope, and if you live, it is possible to see the day when your ideals come true. But what if death, although it cannot change evil, can organize it? Is this death worth it? I am confused.

If this question is a little more complicated, the principle of one person, or the life of a group of people, who is more important? Yes, everyone is free to choose, and everyone can decide what value their life presents. However, who is qualified to choose for others? If one's principles are at the expense of other people's lives, is it worth it?

At the last moment, this humble person, who was doing things that he and others despised in order to save his own life, saved everyone's life.

This person, relying on a little "privilege" in exchange for his own humbleness, has been saving the lives of all people.

Such a life is not unremarkable.

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darkness and light

finally couldn't bear to let the whole movie be heavy to the end. In the end, it's still a bright ending. Their lives have waited for freedom, peace, and even a peaceful and luxurious life.

However, in the hope, I see despair. He walked out of the concentration camp with the body of his comrade in his arms.

Those poor people who have been imprisoned innocently, all their personalities and all hopes have long been trampled to pieces. If people must have a kind of spiritual support to live, then what supports them to live is only the fear of death.

When this fear disappeared in an instant, their spirits collapsed completely. There is no trace of past life, no news of past family members. How many people can see the way to the future in this ruins? How many people have not even seen this ruin?

I don't want to discuss such a grand proposition as the damage of war to human beings. I just want to say that no matter what the environment is, no matter how humble your behavior is, you must keep your spirit noble. Otherwise, just like people who have been locked in a dark room for too long, they will become blind when they see the light.

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The Counterfeiters quotes

  • Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch: Ich bin ich. Die anderen sind die anderen.

    [I'm myself. Everyone else is everyone else]

  • Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch: Only by surviving, we can defeat them.