Photo: Having more empathy would be an achievement for humanity

[Donkees]

[childfreebychoice]

1. Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, would agree. Nt

[Donkees]

4. Earth

[panader0]

2. That is an excellent photo. So much in there it's hard to say it all.

An old man and his pipe, listening to music with his world in ruins around him.

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. It's a hand crank phonograph. He has probably owned since his youth.

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[twodogsbarking]

5. We are visiting SC for a week or so.

Just found $ 20 under a bush. You wrote "photograph" but meant "phonograph."
There are at least four more Dems in SC this week.

[KS Toronado]

9. "hand crank photograph" is correct

Since I have to crank the wheel on my mouse to view the entire photograph.

[Duppers]

12. ...

You "a thoughtless/impulsive jerk on the inside/outside myself"?

In what universe, my friend? Never, never, ever could you be.

[mysteryowl]

7. Maybe from Afghanistan

[Donkees]

8. Planet Earth

[Donkees]

17. 'The true person is not anyone in particular ...'

The true person is

not anyone in particular

but, like the deep blue colour

of the limitless sky,

it is everyone, everywhere in the world

Eihei Dogen

[mysteryowl]

19. that makes sense

[GB_RN]

13. LSD And Psilocybin Can Treat Depression, Too...

In fact, that’s what the original intent was for LSD when it was created.

[Bo Zarts]

11. Any photo credit available?

I’d like to share this elsewhere.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Joseph Eid, Aleppo, 2017.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/image-of-a-syrian-man-listening-to-his-records-amid-rubble-strikes-a-chord

[The Blue Flower]

15. I think the music reminds him of what being human is

At the center of such evil madness, he's creating an island of peace within himself. Or trying to. Music is life in the face of death.

[XacerbatedDem]

18. That picture really touches my heart, and it brought tears running down my cheek..

NO MORE WARS