#34 Peace: The misconception that if I do nothing, things will get better!
https://www.etymonline.com/word/peace
I speak English so lets us jump straight to the old English:
It replaced Old English frið, also sibb, which also meant "happiness." The modern spelling is from 1500s, reflecting vowel shift. From mid-13c. as "friendly relations between people." The sense of "spiritual peace of the heart, soul or conscience, freedom from disturbance by the passions" (as in peace of mind) is from c. 1200. Sense of "state of quiet or tranquility" is by 1300, as in the meaning "absence or cessation of war or hostility." Specifically as "treaty or agreement made between conflicting parties to refrain from further hostilities," c. 1400. - source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/peace
Now I'll present my arguments:
When this was originally coined I was speaking to a self-expressed pacifist. They thought that we should do nothing in the conflicts around the world and let 'them' figure it out on their own.
Who ironically threatened violence, police force, using someone else to inflict harm is still using violence (and terrorism) to get your point across, to anyone who disagreed with them. Particularly when things like Rwanda and Somalia, places of genocide for 100's of years.
I was completely fed up with dealing with this person who was willing to threaten violence to my peers but refused to accept that violence is the answer sometimes.
Lets just say that it ended the conversation, to an already ended friendship... and I am not conflicted about it.
If I may post some excerpts from something I wrote in 2011:
It used to surprise me when I met people who hadn't thought their values through enough to know how to react when confronted with actions in the contrary.
Now I realize that few people desire to think further than the "I don't believe..." and outright fear the why as if there is some truth that thinking and logical progression and inherent truth will rise finding itself in direct opposition with their emotional belief that will force them out of their comfort zone.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to do unsavory and uncouth things when your moral compass has thought beyond a general distaste of something, such as violence, war, bloodshed, and unpopular punishment and discipline. Sometimes a total pacifist must find something worth fighting for, a belief or moral guide that does not allow itself to watch the undue and unjust action of another on another to persist.
If your moral compass does not allow you to act while another is being beaten, killed, maimed or worse... then you are little more than an accomplice. . . a contributor to the very action you yourself do not believe in. What mother would not protect her child when the child is threatened?
We as a people stopped thinking, and started reacting without even knowing what or why we are reacting to and for. We have been trained to think in a 30 second, Now, immediate gratification world. If we can't get to the result in a google instant search we no longer bother to consider the long-term ramifications of our thoughts, actions, values, and inaction.
I believe that most people don't know what they like unless they are told they like it by TV and radio, they have never experienced anything to tell them otherwise..
How sad it is that we no longer know what it is to know ourselves, what would happen if we didn't have our clothes, gadgets, and cars? How would we identify ourselves and our thoughts without the assistance of our possessions to help us Identify who we are. So many of us would be completely, are completely, lost because of this.
How few people truly know how to think. Our education system isn't designed to and doesn't intend on produce free thinkers, it is rules and rules and rules and preconceived notions that restrict rather than enhance the minds of individuals. We are taught one method of thinking, told this is the only method of thinking and if we question that method of thinking we are failed, ridiculed, expelled or worse. It is a form of population control, a publicly approved method of spewing propaganda to our children creating a rift in society between one generation and another. It is also doing exactly what the Prussians designed it to do back before they became known as germans prior to WW1. (I do have sources)
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Untruth, firearms kill people. Firearms are tools of destruction, yes I agree. Yet I've never met a firearm able to fire itself, the firearm isn't involved in the progressive thought towards violent action. In fact a loaded firearm left on a counter and insulted continually for 100 years will still remain unfired when that century ends.
Firearms can be, and are, used as tools of protection. Because a firearm gives a criminal the power, and because the criminal doesn't concern himself with the laws that his victims follow the would-be victims in states where they can carry a firearm are far more likely to present equal or greater resistance to the assault placed upon them than those in states where firearms are heavily regulated.
Another untruth, Science and God can not exist together.
The principles of evolution, as taught in our schools, match side by side with that of the teachings found in the Bible. Why aren't you taught that?? We are unable to explain somethings, science makes new discoveries daily, yet it is too far to say that a God could have a perfect knowledge of the rules of science he lives by and that we are only now discovering. Why?
Our founding fathers were all believers in a creator, a God. They believed that Religion and Politics were married, the capitol building was used for Sunday Worship a practice started by T.Jefferson the least religious of the found fathers. What our founding fathers did not desire was a state religion... a singular religion that if you were not a part of you were criminal... Yet we have one now, Atheism. Why aren't we told this in school?
All of this is a tool of Lucifer, the Devil, to bring good men to inaction.
If he can tell you that your government believed no God existed when they created our constitution and you believe it at a young age that is almost impossible to correct. How many millions believed the earth was flat? This wasn't an evolution of thought, this was backsliding from the truth.
The bible talks of spheres in the heavens.
Those who didn't have the ability to read did not learn anything more than what they saw, the world must have been flat.
Christopher Columbus knew better. *Gasp*
Yes, it was common knowledge in the educated circles that the world was round and Christopher would have been educated as such. . . "But my teacher..." LISTEN TO YOURSELF! Did you bother to check out what your teacher ever told you?
This is thinking, it is the evolution of thought, it is what education is SUPPOSED to cause. Yet we are given the information that they want us to know, they do not teach all available theories, they do not give you the facts and allow you to decide... they are controlling your ability to think and make decisions by not teaching you all available and viable theories even when they are synergistic like creationism and evolution. They do not want you to be able to think, they want you to be followers of their latest drivel designed to keep them in power and you paying taxes so they don't have to work.
Not being able to think allows the devil to keep you from meditating on the things of the Lord. When the Lord said 'Peace, be still" and know that I am God, he didn't mean to be still for a Google Instant. He meant to be still and meditate, think, question, study it out in your mind... for days or weeks or years, until you know God.
Yet we live in a 5 miles over the speed limit, get there now world; and we haven't the time to meditate... we have a 40-hour workweek.
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Peace? Non Violence? Not even Gandhi was a complete pacifist. He assisted in recruiting troops for WWI and his opposition to entering WWII was that India did not have freedom herself, not that going to war was sometimes a necessary evil.
DO I believe violence solves any problem?
No, It doesn't solve the problem, but it does end the product of the problem cause by misguide and misinformed individuals.
For example: someone being raped, abused and/or killed... Nonviolence dictates no action to end the unacceptable behavior; by law this is being an accessory to rape, abuse, or murder. You are by your inaction accepting the behavior you do not like as acceptable. "but I called the police!" . . . and 45 minutes later when they showed up the victim is dead... you want to know what a lack of peace is?
Try dealing with the guilt of knowing you could have made a difference if you had put an end to the situation immediately! There is no peace in inaction.
One day your values will be confronted with direct, explosive even violent opposition... and if you haven't taken the time to learn why you believe the way you do, and what you are willing to do in those situations, you will be forced into inaction which is a form of agreement to the very action you do not like.
All that is necessary for Evil to triumph is for Good People to get distracted, to be mislead, to be uninformed, non-responsive, and unable to think.
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