Mastodawn

There is no mistaking the demand of the physical world #circumstances. There is no denying that if you want to be #free then you have an #obligation to assert that freedom. It is an act of will. This Is #war and whether it devolves into even more #violence in our streets is unclear but seems likely.

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈4d ago

Those in the highest positions of #service have highest #obligation, cuz it's not authority, cuz we are the #authority that granted opportunity to perform service & we're going to prove that shit real soon. This does not stand. MAGA does not stand. JOHN #ROBERTS IS A #CRIMINAL. PROSECUTE #SCOTUS.

WIST Quotations May 10

A quotation from The Talmud

It is not yours to finish the task, but neither are you free to set it aside.

לֹא עָלֶיךָ הַמְּלָאכָה לִגְמֹר, וְלֹא אַתָּה בֶן חוֹרִין לִבָּטֵל מִמֶּנָּה.

The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Mishnah, Pirkei Avot [Ethics of the Fathers; פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת] 2:16

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/35632/

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A quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) American social activist, abolitionist, woman's suffragist
Journal (1880-11-12)

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady - Journal (1880-11-12) | WIST Quotations

I have no sympathy with the old idea that children owe such immense gratitude to their parents that they can never fulfill their obligations to them. I think the obligation is all on the other side.

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Richard Michael Blaber Apr 28

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

Israel’s direction poses ‘existential threat’ to Judaism, UK’s leading progressive rabbis warn

Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligation

The Guardian

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

If, as I suggested before, the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to “demand” its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Introduction (1977)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/44349/

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Arendt, Hannah - Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 "Thinking," Introduction (1977) | WIST Quotations

If, as I suggested before, the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen…

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WordofTheHour Mar 9

#obligation : the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law

- French: obligation

- German: verpflichtung

- Italian: obbligo

- Portuguese: obrigação

- Spanish: obligación

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Avdi Feb 27

In Tolkien, power is almost always a test, and most people fail it sincerely.

So why not Aragorn? Because Aragorn’s certainty is not about control. It is about obligation.

Genny Harrison

Aragorn does not claim authority to impose his wil on the world. He accepts authority because he believes the world has a moral order worth serving. His confidence is not self generated. It is inherited, restrained, and constantly oriented outward.