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Topic: Religious principles and war
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mockingbird
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Registered: Dec 2011
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posted September 17, 2012 10:57 AM
 
*blinks at formatting of linked essay*It looks like the whole thing. I'd have to go find my copy to say for sure...I currently have a baby sleeping on me, though  IP: Logged |
Faith
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From: Bella's Hair Salon
Registered: Jul 2011
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posted September 17, 2012 10:59 AM
Awww!  No worries, "it looks like it" is good enough, thank you. I thought it might be a lot longer or something. IP: Logged |
mockingbird
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posted September 17, 2012 11:03 AM
Nah, it's a pretty short one - part of a larger work, Raids on the Unspeakable.IP: Logged |
RegardesPlatero
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posted September 17, 2012 04:29 PM
so far, this thread has been civil since it got back on topic; keep up the good work guys interesting points brought up IP: Logged |
Randall
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From: From a galaxy, far, far away...
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posted September 18, 2012 12:47 PM
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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Faith
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From: Bella's Hair Salon
Registered: Jul 2011
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posted September 18, 2012 01:37 PM
Thanks again mockingbird!That was really good. Here's another excerpt that gets to the heart of the matter: quote:
And so I ask myself: what is the meaning of a concept of sanity that excludes love, considers it irrelevant, and destroys our capacity to love other human beings, to respond to their needs and their sufferings, to recognize them also as persons, to apprehend their pain as one's own? Evidently this is not necessary for "sanity" at all.
http://www.wilypython.net/A%20Devout%20Memory%20of%20Adolf%20Eichmann%20.html Eckart Tolle has also talked about intelligence being put into the service of madness, and I see this everywhere with the wars, especially with the development of war and surveillance technology. Drones allow for an especially cold kill.
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Faith
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From: Bella's Hair Salon
Registered: Jul 2011
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posted September 18, 2012 01:40 PM
Someone else posted this here a while ago (T, maybe?) and I copied it for future reference. quote:
Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti IP: Logged |
juniperb
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From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 19, 2012 04:19 PM
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We dance around the ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and Knows
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