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Digest - 6 Feb 2019 to 27 Feb 2019 (#2019-4)
Wed, 27 Feb 2019
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Topics of the day:
1. I'm alive.. for real! Plus some thoughts on FK: RE: Humanity (3)
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 01:07:48 +0000
From: Megan MacLean <xena_goddess_of_war_99@y.......>
Subject: I'm alive.. for real! Plus some thoughts on FK: RE: Humanity
Hi!! It's been a while because, well,
I HAD A BABY!
I've recently gotten back into watching FK and just begun comparing when
I first started watching to now. When I first started watching I was a
naive 17 year old, no life experience at all, saw everything completely
differently. Now I'm a 34 year old and like Nick, I've seen the bad side
of humanity. How? I'm a Corrections Officer. I know the struggle for
one's humanity. And that's the though that came to me: Forever Knight is
a show about humanity. What is humanity? Is it being able to die? Is it
emotion? Is it right and wrong? It's all those and so much more. This
show asks that question "what is humanity?" and we see Nick searching in
vain. And yet, in my opinion, if you care, if you feel, if you
contribute, you haven't actually lost your humanity. In my line of
work, as in Nick's, it is easy, too easy, to lose oneself, and the sense
of humanity, and goodness. Hard not to when you see criminals every day
either doing things to other people (Like Nick's job as a homicide
detective) or at your employment because they did something and got
caught (prison). I have been told so many times that my career will
"kill your humanity" and for so many it does. It's hard not to let it,
when you see it shift after shift. A staff assault that sent the officer
to the hospital with facial wounds from sharpened fingernails. It's very
difficult to look a woman in the face that murdered her cousin- a child
- and treat them like a person. But I have to. Not for her, but for me.
So I don't lose my humanity.
Anyway, these are my fever induced ramblings as I'm also sick right now
and bored and have had too much time on my hands.
Meg/Inwe
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:29:39 +0000
From: Nancy Davis <knghtwtch@a.......>
Subject: Re: I'm alive.. for real! Plus some thoughts on FK: RE: Humanity
Hi and congrats on having the baby. Boy or girl. And giving birth can
also teach you about humanity. Love, caring and patience comes into
play and it shows how we treat others.
Your job is trying. Yes. But like Nick we learn so much from what we
do. Your kindness and understanding towards your charges not only helps
you but think about the effect it has on these people. You may not ever
know it but somewhere in you lifetime, you will change the life of one
of these people by your example. Bless you and your family. We're with
you 100%.
Long Live the Knight,
KnightWitch ;-]=
In a message dated 2/26/2019 8:08:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
00000392fdab648b-dmarc-request@l....... writes:
Hi!! It's been a while because, well,
I HAD A BABY!
I've recently gotten back into watching FK and just begun comparing when
I first started watching to now. When I first started watching I was a
naive 17 year old, no life experience at all, saw everything completely
differently. Now I'm a 34 year old and like Nick, I've seen the bad
side of humanity. How? I'm a Corrections Officer. I know the struggle
for one's humanity. And that's the though that came to me: Forever
Knight is a show about humanity. What is humanity? Is it being able to
die? Is it emotion? Is it right and wrong? It's all those and so much
more. This show asks that question "what is humanity?" and we see Nick
searching in vain. And yet, in my opinion, if you care, if you feel, if
you contribute, you haven't actually lost your humanity. In my
line of work, as in Nick's, it is easy, too easy, to lose oneself, and
the sense of humanity, and goodness. Hard not to when you see criminals
every day either doing things to other people (Like Nick's job as a
homicide detective) or at your employment because they did something and
got caught (prison).I have been told so many times that my career will
"kill your humanity" and for so many it does. It's hard not to let it,
when you see it shift after shift. A staff assault that sent the
officer to the hospital with facial wounds from sharpened fingernails.
It's very difficult to look a woman in the face that murdered her
cousin- a child - and treat them like a person. But I have to. Not for
her, but for me. So I don't lose my humanity.
Anyway, these are my fever induced ramblings as I'm also sick right now
and bored and have had too much time on my hands.
Meg/Inwe
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:46:36 +0000
From: Megan MacLean <xena_goddess_of_war_99@y.......>
Subject: Re: I'm alive.. for real! Plus some thoughts on FK: RE: Humanity
Thank you.. I had a boy. He's a year now.. and a real explorer!
You learn humanity in raising a child, yes, and mortality. I am so
keenly aware of my human mortality, that sometimes it's a bit scary. I
had a former inmate bump into me "on the outs" as they say. She thanked
me for believing in her, for treating her like a human being, and asked
to shake my hand. I had another, as she left to be released tell me to
never change, to keep being who I am, that I gave them hope. I have
talked an inmate out of self harm, I have called a medical alert and
saved a life - literally - the inmate came back and actually sought me
out to say so. She had a 12 pound tumor removed the night she was taken
to the hospital, because of me.
I've been at my unit following a suicide several hours before, and
talked to the inmates after. What really struck me is the one that said
to me "you have no idea what it's like to see your best friend carried
off in a body bag." No, I don't. Like Nick I see life and death, good
and evil, struggle, coexist and fail. I see the follies of humanity, the
depths of deprivation. We have three women on death row at my unit, and
many on life sentences for crimes I will not speak of here. I see the
good, too, like inmates saving an injured pigeon and asking me to take
it home because they know I love animals and it will be safe. (I did. It
went to a rescue and was rehabbed) I've seen babies born, seen an inmate
pronounced dead, dealt with burnout and isolation. I feel I understand
Nick much more keenly now, and I look at the show in a wholly different
light. Nick chose to be a homicide detective. To do a hard, emotionally
draining job. I chose to be a corrections officer, which is also a hard,
emotionally draining and dangerous job. He was never not human, in my
view. it's something to ponder, isn't it?
Meg/Inwe
On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 2:33:42 AM MST, Nancy Davis
<00000b80da9f9179-dmarc-request@l.......> wrote:
Hi and congrats on having the baby. Boy or girl. And giving birth can
also teach you about humanity. Love, caring and patience comes into
play and it shows how we treat others.
Your job is trying.Yes. But like Nick we learn so much from what we do.
Your kindness and understanding towards your charges not only helps you
but think about the effect it has on these people. You may not ever
know it but somewhere in you lifetime, you will change the life of one
of these people by your example. Bless you and your family. We're with
you 100%.
Long Live the Knight,
KnightWitch ;-]=
In a message dated 2/26/2019 8:08:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, 00000392fdab
648b-dmarc-request@l....... writes:
Hi!! It's been a while because, well,
I HAD A BABY!
I've recently gotten back into watching FK and just begun comparing when
I first started watching to now. When I first started watching I was a
naive 17 year old, no life experience at all, saw everything completely
differently. Now I'm a 34 year old and like Nick, I've seen the bad side
of humanity. How? I'm a Corrections Officer. I know the struggle for
one's humanity. And that's the though that came to me: Forever Knight is
a show about humanity. What is humanity? Is it being able to die? Is it
emotion? Is it right and wrong? It's all those and so much more. This
show asks that question "what is humanity?" and we see Nick searching in
vain. And yet, in my opinion, if you care, if you feel, if you
contribute, you haven't actually lost your humanity. In my line of
work, as in Nick's, it is easy, too easy, to lose oneself, and the sense
of humanity, and goodness. Hard not to when you see criminals every day
either doing things to other people (Like Nick's job as a homicide
detective) or at your employment because they did something and got
caught (prison). I have been told so many times that my career will
"kill your humanity" and for so many it does. It's hard not to let it,
when you see it shift after shift. A staff assault that sent the officer
to the hospital with facial wounds from sharpened fingernails. It's very
difficult to look a woman in the face that murdered her cousin- a child
- and treat them like a person. But I have to. Not for her, but for me.
So I don't lose my humanity.
Anyway, these are my fever induced ramblings as I'm also sick right now
and bored and have had too much time on my hands.
Meg/Inwe
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