Love & the law … (02/17/12)
I’ve been translating German legal documents into English for the past few days, and the going’s been pretty rough at times … Here’s a sample:
“4. By claims of defective service (? Mängelrügen), payments from the client may be withheld in an amount proportionate to the perceived deficiency. If the contract relates to trading activities, the client can withhold payment only when …there is no dispute as to the existence and the significance of the deficiency.”
… sigh …
You know, law came about for one simple reason, and it was NOT because we as a species are incapable of being Kind to one another. No, law came about because a group of folks “in power” decided that THEY didn’t have faith in the rest of us to be able to Care for one another.
Well, I’ve got some good news: as long as you are being Kind to others, YOU ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE LAW!
And I’ve got some even better news: WE CAN BE KIND to one another — even when some of us behave otherwise, human beings are innately Good and yearn to share that Goodness (I have lived this Truth radically for over seven years — don’t believe the news and those CSI shows on TV!) …
And the best news of all: courageous KINDNESS REALLY WORKS, and it doesn’t take a lot of us acting accordingly to eventually to wake the rest of us up to that fact.
We have tried law and condemnation and punishment for over 10,000 years now, and it’s pretty obvious that it doesn’t work … It time to give Love & Kindness & Forgiveness a chance …
Who’s with me?
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