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[holzman_tweed]

You must be the change you want to create -- Gandhi

If violence is the answer, you're asking the wrong questions. -- numerous anti-war signs

I find myself disturbed by the trend among some quarters to think that an effective way to fight war is to block traffic, spring graphic images of violently dead people on the unsuspecting, or as one person put it "fuck shit up." I won't name names, they know who they are.

And yet, I generally know for a fact that these same people are all kinds of down on anti-abortion people for blocking clinics, shoving pictures of aborted fetuses in people's faces and otherwise "fucking shit up."

How is this not violence? How does one argue against violence with violence?

I'm also disturbed by the seeming inability of so many in the anti-war movement to address one another -- particularly when addressing their differences -- with as little respect as I've been seeing lately? Violence begins with disrespect. If we as anti-war people can't model something as simple as respect on a fundamental, one on one level, how are we going to convince others to model larger matters that way?

Perhaps we've been asking some of the wrong questions ourselves?

I pray for peace, but peace has to begin with me. Peace has to begin with every "me." If it doesn't, it isn't going to happen.

Thoth, in Your Wisdom even the subtlest and most complex of human interactions follow a calculus as clear as those of Newton and Leibnitz. To taste wisdom is to desire to teach. To know wisdom is to hunger to learn. Bring wisdom to Your students, that we may remember what we know: that Love for all the world is not the greatest Power, but the only Power.

Mother, our world is burning. The flames rekindle old hurts and fears and we react thoughtlessly. Love sometimes whispers but pain always shouts and we sometimes do not hear You. But Your whisper can be heard over any din, turning aside the flames and soothing all screams. Give us succor in our time of need, pour your compassion into all the world.

"Deliver us unto each other."

So Mote It Be.

Comments

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Right on.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

So mote it be.