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re: Visited the Angola Rodeo and Craft fair and was amazed what I saw. Can good come from bad?
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:08 am to fr33manator
Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:08 am to fr33manator
That's really awesome that you went, enjoyed yourself, and walked away with a new mindset. You're exactly why they started the Angola Rodeo.
I would never in a million years excuse what most of the inmates have done, but the fact that they are still human beings who can add value to society shouldn't be lost, especially in the most incarcerated state in the country.
I would never in a million years excuse what most of the inmates have done, but the fact that they are still human beings who can add value to society shouldn't be lost, especially in the most incarcerated state in the country.
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Posted on 4/28/19 at 12:20 am to AbitaFan08
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That's really awesome that you went, enjoyed yourself, and walked away with a new mindset. You're exactly why they started the Angola Rodeo.
I never thought i’d Enjoy it as much as I did and certainly didn’t think i’d Walk away thinking these thinks.
I don’t want anyone to think i’m Excusing their crimes, whatever they might be. But i’m Thinking that maybe there’s a problem with the system and there might be a better way to use broken men.
I mean hell, convicts build Australia. It just seemed like a terrible waste of actual talent. How to best make use of positive energy from the damned and forgotten?
Posted on 4/28/19 at 1:04 am to AbitaFan08
I think maybe some of my thought process is influenced by my constant consumption of history and literature.
History has shown me that the world was made by flawed men. Some evil, sure. Others caught up in the wave of circumstance. I think all men are capable of great evil and of greater good. I know that throughout history, there have been “good” men who committed dastardly acts, and “evil” men who showed humanity and compassion.
And in literature...the redemption arc is often the most human. I think of the Hound from Game of Thrones.
A ruthless killer, a murderer, a thief...and yet through experience and life and tragedy he’s come out the other side of the fire a changed man. A force of...well, maybe not good, but of justice.
Or maybe i’m Wrong and the world is black and white and bad is forever bad.
History has shown me that the world was made by flawed men. Some evil, sure. Others caught up in the wave of circumstance. I think all men are capable of great evil and of greater good. I know that throughout history, there have been “good” men who committed dastardly acts, and “evil” men who showed humanity and compassion.
And in literature...the redemption arc is often the most human. I think of the Hound from Game of Thrones.
A ruthless killer, a murderer, a thief...and yet through experience and life and tragedy he’s come out the other side of the fire a changed man. A force of...well, maybe not good, but of justice.
Or maybe i’m Wrong and the world is black and white and bad is forever bad.
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