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The care is about life and death

by Paul de Blot 15 September 2011 permalink

A hospital experience

I'm sick, this summer, in a not too large hospital may experience as a care in the most profound human tension between life and death. There, with the utmost effort for people by people working in an extremely complicated situation, where human error is almost impossible to avoid.


Eruptions of hate

by Paul de Blot 1 September 2011 permalink

We are all shocked by the incomprehensible outbursts of hatred in Norway and London, we wonder how it is possible that something can happen. In Norway it was the fanatical hatred of Christianity against Islam, in England the hatred of youth against the established order and the rich who do not show understanding for the aspirations of young people who are poor and have no chance at something beautiful their lives. Obviously these events call the question of whether something similar could happen in the Netherlands. Nobody can guarantee that something is not done in the Netherlands.