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kropotkindersurprise · 2 months

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Black Panther Party member Kathleen Cleaver on non-violence. [source]

Non-violence is a very non-functional approach in a society that's based entirely on organized force and violence. A country that was created in violence, land was taken in violence, a society that's perpetuating itself through violence in the ghettos, in Vietnam, in Africa. Wherever you look, there is organized force and violence at work to maintain this society. There is a world of difference between 20 million unarmed people, and 20 milion people organized and armed to the gills. That's Power.

#kathleen cleaver #bpp #black panther party #black pathers #non-violence #video #communism #violence #usa #socialism #organizing

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describe-things · 5 months

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[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

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wetwareproblem · 2 years

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"You're trapped in a room with a gun, a Nazi, food, and a Jew. Do you shoot the Nazi or feed the Jew?"

Oy. I cannot believe I've seen this as a gotcha in favor of non-violence with my own eyes.

The correct answer, always, is "Shoot the Nazi, then divide the food." No matter what, someone is getting shot in that scenario.

Do you want to let the Nazi decide?

#wwp: ashlyn #Violence #Non-violence #Praxis

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zenwannabe · 2 years

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Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of Peace, as children of one Mother. Amen.

—The Book of Common Prayer

#prayer #non-violence #peace #episcopalian

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dandanjean · 9 months

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L’écoute

L’écoute est essentielle pour la qualité de nos relations. Mais savons-nous réellement écouter ? Savons-nous écouter ? Thomas d’Ansembourg

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#écoute #non-violence #Thomas D&039;Ansembourg #Youtube

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totesmccoats · 1 year

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More superhero stories should be like Kamen Rider Black Sun

I have not stopped thinking about Kamen Rider Black Sun since watching it, and had to get all this rambly energy out somewhere, so...

~Spoilers for Kamen Rider Black Sun~ Every few years, legendary comic book writer Alan Moore becomes a trending topic for repeating an idea he’s argued since at least 1982 – that superheroes easily slide into fascism. And for the most part, it’s hard to argue against his point, especially considering the impact that Moore’s Miracleman, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen have had on the genre. With…

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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preaching non-violence to people but not to the state

#tiktok #violence #non-violence #boycott #hunger strike

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justapcpblog · 1 year

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A rant on destruction/violence

Awhile back, someone wrote an article on how to work with villains, and I personally disagreed with it. Doesn't mean it shouldn't exist, doesn't mean I or you should cancel them out of existence. We all have our ways of religion, and we all have our UPGs. We all have our ways of interpreting characters, and who we should work with, as well. I don't like someone telling me I can't work with x character because they're too problematic. But just because someone tells me to NOT do something doesn't mean that I should listen to them. I have myself and the spiritual beings that I choose to listen to.

I also noticed that someone else seems to have gotten annoyed over people dissing ritual cleansing and pointed out that the Left's obsession of fighting their opponents could itself be self-harmful. It doesn't seem like this went over very well for them, since they've been somewhat quiet, only peeping out when they can't hold back any longer. aggressive at times. It's not the only person in the Pop Culture Pagan community who went quiet after getting into a fight. Another pointed out that they had someone message them something personal and weird, and in disgust and fright they abandoned their social practice, their blog.

A lot of Pop Culture Pagan articles have actually been deleted, and many thoughts have thus been erased through the sands of time. Whether through creator embarressment, a character or god asking them to pull it down, or through the sheer intensity of cancel culture, many important documents and practices have perished. It's incredibly important to keep writing if you want a community to survive. Deleting posts is not that much different than burning a book. Even if you're feeling author's shame or don't believe in the thing anymore, these thoughts are still building blocks for the community. If you want more Pop Culture Pagans to exist, then you're going to have to have stuff for people to convert with. You don't have to convert them yourself Jehovah's Witness style, knocking on people's doors to inform them about Lord Voldemort. You just need to let them have the chance to stumble upon your writings and let them decide for themselves or let the egragores call them on their own. Without Pop Culture Pagan writings, the idea of worshipping a character is only a scary, delusional person. I can't remember any media that had someone worship a character at an altar, but I'm sure I've seen it. Maybe it was that Tangled bobble-head bad date one, where she had a million of them in her closet, including a headless one. Can't remember if she had an altar though.

Disgust and fear over fans turning their obsessions into religion is not only found in TV. In real life, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser both worshipped a villain and attempted to sacrifice a real human for it. I don't know if either of them were Pop Culture *Pagans* per se, but they were certainly doing a Pop Culture based religion that had roots in Satanism. Just because many of us utilize Chaos Magick, rooted in Wicca, doesn't mean that other Pop Culture based religions are invalid. However, people have a real reason to be scared of it, if they do find it. To what ends would someone go to honor a character? Murder, apparently. This is the problem with honoring dark spirits. They're *evil*. They are bad.

When Pagans who don't honor Pop Culture characters honor their deities, they usually don't include a traditional sacrifice. Nowadays Pagans sacrifice regular food, including pre-killed meat, and plenty of fruits and vegetables. In fact, we usually don't even call it a sacrifice, it's an offering. And it's not much of a sacrifice unless you have to throw the food away after or the god ruins the taste of it for you. However some modern Pagans do sacrifice. Their are farmers who kill goats and chickens in the name of their gods. Some Mesamerican followers bloodlet. A vast majority of Pagans do not wish to participate in killing an animal and most of the time the gods don't ask, disallow it, or allow the human to not give them the thing.

But historically polytheistic and monotheistic religions alike have demanded their humans to kill for them, including on their behalf. Whether that's the Aztecs requiring one human be killed per day, or whether it's the Jewish God telling Moses to kill all the Midianite males and non-virgin females above the age of 14, spiritual entities have been demanding death for literally thousands of years. European gods sent their people to war and burned white slaves and wives to die when their husbands did. There have been religions thousands of years ago that rejected sacrifice of animals and humans and required compassion, such as Buddhism and Jainism. However historically most human societies have a religion that demands death in some form or another.

Humans are incredibly brutal, and many people have developed misanthropy over the sheer need others have for violence. We can see it every day on TV and video games. How many of these suggest that the enemies deserve to be spared, requiring minimal damage? Not a lot! Even if Batman doesn't kill, he still beats the shit out of them. Some people have suggested that violence on TV and video games makes people more violent, and in my personal experience there's some truth in that. But I also think that violence on TV really helps to keep people in check, forcing them to stay at home and watch the bad guys die and root for the good guys, and noticeably murders and mobs went down, for awhile anyways. More people started advocating for death sentences to no longer be legal. Or maybe that's just a coincidence.

It would do well to remember that most of our thoughts on keeping violence in check are from the past hundred years or so, and in our times compassion fades away. In the 2000s I was afraid of terrorists from an uncivilized, barbaric nation where they deemed women as sub-human livestock and kept variatns of a stupid religion that fed these terrorists. Terroritsts whose god literally demanded them to kill others, rape, and even sacrifice themselves with the promise of 72 “goodies” waiting for them in heaven. Nowadays I'm afraid of them AND more relevantly, domestic terrorism. The two extreme political fashions of the era. One demands death to people who believe in the right of believing that two solid sexes exist and that people of European descent cannot truly repent for their sins but probably should try the best they can, but really they should just all die off and never be seen on the face of the earth again. The other I understand less, but it seems that their misanthropy and hatred for modern culture tips them into shooting up people in schools, Jewish temples, and other public places. Our intense desire to change society in whatever way we imagined has put so much pressuure on each other that it drives us all insane. That's my opinions on the matter, and I'm not asking you to tell me yours. It's just that I'm afraid, and you reading this right now, you probably are too.

I worry that soon, we'll all tip back into time and start believing in death in ways I think not all of us do. I worry that we'll think lynchings are perfectly moral, that killing one another for our own beliefs is valid. And in my opinion, it's not. Violence isn't okay. We have to kill to eat, that's how some omnivores feel, but we don't have to kill each other. We could like, just get over it and not worry about it so much. We could stop joking about it so much, we could choose to stop threatening other people, seriously or non-seriously. We could stop telling people to kill themselves. Many of the things I was taught were horrible as a teenager are so open now. Do you know how many Tiktoks I've watched that advocate and laugh at child abuse? These videos would have been taken down and those users banned back in my day. And now it's just funny, or even cultural celebration. Why is it that parents beating up children is seen as funny?

Destruction is a feature of villainy. It tears apart the world. It breaks culture apart and people have to pick up the pieces and try again, start anew. Fighting is an important part of villainy. Some villains don't like to get their hands dirty and let everybody else do the murdering or arguments for them. Some villains just get angry and kill people who piss them off. Some villains just need to get them out of their way. Some are psychopathic and enjoy feeling the life drain from their victim as their hands wrap around their throat. It's like a cat playing with a mouse, a predator's instinct.

When people cry out, “no! My villain wouldn't do this! He's too good!” that's what we'd call Draco In Leather Pantsing back in the day. If you think a villain is too good for rape, and there's nothing in canon that supports that claim, then you're probably wrong. Villains are evil. Headcanons are valid, and if you stick with your opinion that's fine, but maybe also wonder “is the character I like willing to torture peope?” I'm reminded of how Shadow The Hedgehog said in a video game that he'd steal candy from a baby, and recently a cartoon came out showing him stealing popcorn from a chao and ignoring it as it burst into tears. If that wasn't canon, especially way back in the day when I was playing that actual game, I would have said that was OOC and they were over emo-ing him. But look, now its literally canon. Hilarious.

When working with any spiritual entity, they may demand something of you that isn't necessarily safe, for you or for others. As these beings work on your mind, they may even try to trick or twist you into believing that these things are okay. Sometimes you do need to bend, but sometimes you need to take a stand. Villains can be villainous sometimes, and they may start getting aggressive. An egragore acting in a canonical fashion might be as seriouss as Slender Man demanding literal murder. But you don't have to do everything for them. You can have boundaries. You need to set boundaries when working with characters that disrupt them in volatile ways. You can disagree with their points of views. You can have a choice (usually). Sometimes that may mean that those characters or some of their aspects won't work with you. Well, fuck 'em. You can appreciate them as a character and choose to not work with them. It's okay to keep the relationship as a fan rather than an worshipper. But sometimes you do have to cut ties with them, because deciding that they're a real entity does mean that everything changes. You get to communicate with one another, usually crudely, and sometimes circumstances demand that you make a choice to try to cut them out in the best way possible. Or it may not be the best outcome.

It's your choice over what to do, what to believe, and who to honor. I advocate that you seek out non-violent forms of Paganism. I suggest that you work on yourself to make yourself more calm, peaceful, happy, and self-fulfilled (god fulfilled?). But our religions don't always dictate that we be happy, and our gods don't always dictate that we be compassionate and peaceful, and our own belief-sets (ourselves) don't always tell us to be genuinely good people who respects others' personal beliefs and lives. But I hope that you find yourself in a place where your egragores support you rather than abuse you, and I hope that you support others who have those same beings abuse them, and I hope that you don't allow harm to come onto others. Have a good day, and happy Valentines' day.

Note: I tried to save a lobster at a seafood restaurant today and I was told that I wasn't allowed to because they had a food license and could not sell me the lobster alive. I ate lobster anyways, not that one though, to my knowledge. I was just impressed with his determination to get out of the tank and had flashbacks to kidnapped fiction and thought I'd give it a go. I still feel guilty. Can you imagine an alien refusing to save your life because they'd go to jail for it? And then eating refrigerated human meat instead? What a bad person I am.

#rant #pop culture paganism #villain worship #angsty post #shadow the hedgehog #batman #draco in leather pants #nahua #judaism #christianity #violence #non-violence #regular paganism

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plitnick · 1 year

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The question of violence

After years of the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority making it clear to the Palestinian people that diplomacy will not secure the realization of Palestinian rights–especially given the massive power imbalance–the use of armed resistance to Israeli apartheid is growing among Palestinians. People have asked, “where is the Palestinian Mandela?” Well, when South African Apartheid…

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hkunlimited · 1 year

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Buddhism 499: Pacifism is not passivism...

Buddhism 499: Pacifism is not passivism…

This is one of the hardest lessons of Buddhism, balancing the dual extremes of not only luxury and lack, the Middle Path of Theravada Buddhism, but action and inaction, and ultimately existence and non-existence, the Middle Path of Mahayana. Given the truth that the source of much of our discontent is not to be found in the ‘outside’ world, but right in our own minds, the obvious temptation is to…

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#ahimsa #America #Buddhism #CHRISTIANITY #global warming #Mahayana #meditation #non-violence #religion #Thailand #Theravada

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first-digi-add · 2 years

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Happy Gandhi Jayanti 2022

Celebrating the day which teaches us the importance of non-violence by remembering the great leader of our Nation Mahatma Gandhi. Happy Gandhi Jayanti

#Happy Gandhi Jayani #gandhi jayanti 2022 #Mahatma Gandhi #non-violence #Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi

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adamyamey · 2 years

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INDEPENDENCE DAY!

HAPPY INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY! ON AUGUST THE 15TH 1947, India became an independent country. Many leaders of the Indian independence struggle studied in England. Some, like Gandhi and Nehru, are still well known, but others (based in London’s Highgate), whose methods differed from those of Gandhi, have become a little neglected. My book, illustrated in this post, looks at a group of Indians in…

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#blog #blogger #blogging #gandhi #highgate #indian independence #London #non-violence #savarkar #shyamaji krishnavarma #vd savarkar #violence

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spaceintruderdetector · 2 years

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Some conflicts do not yield to compromise and can be resolved only through struggle. Conflicts which, in one way or another, involve the fundamental principles of a society, of independence, of self-respect, or of people’s capacity to determine their own future are such conflicts. For their resolution, regular institutional procedures are rarely available; it is even doubtful that they could be completely adequate. Instead, in the belief that the choice in these types of conflicts is between abject passive surrender and violence, and also that victory requires violence, people turn to the threat and use of violence. The specific means used will vary: they may include conventional military action, guerrilla warfare, regicide, rioting, police action, private armed offense and defense, civil war, terrorism, conventional aerial bombings and nuclear attacks, as well as other forms.. Whether threatened, used with restraint, or applied without controls, these means of violence are designed to injure, kill, demolish and terrorize with maximum efficiency. Century by century, then decade by decade, and now year by year, this efficiency has grown as people and governments have applied talents and resources to that end. The fact is, however, that it is not true that violence is the only ef¬ fective means of action in crucial conflict situations. Throughout history, under a variety of political systems, people in every part of the world have waged conflict and wielded undeniable power by using a very different technique of struggle—one which does not kill and destroy. That technique is nonviolent action. Although it has been known by a variety of names, it's basis has always been the same: the belief that the exercise of power depends on the consent of the ruled who, by withdrawing that consent, can control and even destroy the power of their opponent. In other words, nonviolent action is a technique used to control, combat and destroy the opponent's power by nonviolent means of wielding power. Although much effort has gone into increasing the efficiency of violent conflict, no compar¬ able efforts have yet gone into making nonviolent action more effective and hence more likely to be substituted for violence. And yet nonviolent action has already had a long history, .which has remained largely unknown because historians have been so overwhelmingly concerned with other matters. In fact, there was until recently so little awareness of the tradition and history of nonviolent struggle that nonviolent actionists have, by and large, improvised their responses independently of past practice. This situation is only now beginning to change.

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https://archive.org/details/genesharpthepoliticsofnonviolentaction/mode/2up

#non-violence #politics

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kp777 · 2 years

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Meet the 10-Year-Old Prodigy Already Attending College | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN

Mar 4, 2020

Greg Smith has been on the fast track to college from a very early age. He was just a baby in diapers when he started correcting other people's grammar. By 18 months, he could add and subtract. He knew the alphabet by the time he could walk. He graduated from high school at age 9, after completing grades 9 through 11 in just months. In 1999, Oprah sat down with the 10-year-old child prodigy, who had just started college. Take a look back. Plus, watch Oprah's follow-up with the boy genius, all grown up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6lVH...

#non-violence #peace #education #child prodigy

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