#pascifism

[thedarkcornerwithdjevildave]

War by Goldishack Guerrillas as with many hip hop artists reveals the group's influences early into the album, mainly N*E*R*D with a little Cypress Hill thrown in to taste. However, once past the initial few songs and deeper into the album, the the Guerrillas' own sound and style comes together, particularly in Lazy Fat Stupid American featuring Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio and TV pundit used in clips from an interview with the band. The album's message is clear. It is an anti war album and one that holds the United States accountable for its industrialization of global conflict. America the Beautiful is particularly scathing in how it looks at how hawkish politicians view war as inevitable. It's not all one hammer banging on the same nail. We're the Ones finds the guerrillas self-aggrandizing as is the custom in much of hip hop, though in their own politically slanted way. Meanwhile, Bulldozer like its namesake plows through the album with brutal and deliberate force.

[thehumanarkle]

Should we strive for pacifism?

Strive for, yes. Will we ever achieve it? Probably not. But to paraphrase a famous TV android, the effort will yield it's own rewards.

[jesseturri]

War: Not Realistic but Simplistic

“Warmongers often claim that they are only being realistic, that peace is a great idea and all but that’s just not how the world works. This claim of realism is often just a narrowing of events and an ignoring of the context of the situation. It’s not being realistic, but simplistic. They claim to be offering sober judgement but often this involves not addressing the larger historical reasons behind a crisis and the policy alternatives that were not attempted. Furthermore, as every incursion into the Middle East has shown us, these “realists” have no fucking idea what comes after the violence. Their realism is as idealistic as pacifism; we’ve just been told one idea is for serious adults while the other is a neat idea for songs by hippies.”

The above quote comes from an article in Vice written by Jordan Foisy. Being an aggressive peacemaker myself, I appreciate his thoughts here.

In my opinion, folks who have not taken the easy solution of killing people to solve problems off the table prove G.K. Chesterton right every time when he says that “the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”

It’s hard for me to  blame people though. After all, It’s sooooo much easier to bully people, intimidate them, beat them, coerce them, and kill them to solve problems then it is to do the difficult work of examining oneself, giving up power, relating to other people, and imagining new and creative solutions to life’s problems. I’m also reminded here of the wisdome that urges us to not resist conflict since it is inevitable in life. War, however, is the result of failing to accept this and then failing to deal effectively with conflict.

War: Not Realistic but Simplistic was originally published on TURRI

[cozyredrosie-blog]

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It was the middle of the night, and a girl with a history of feeling unsettled writes the following in an email on her cell phone to her halos, ya know the people in you’re life who… you’ll get it:

But it just happens sometimes… My mom always brandies about my intuitiveness and insightfulness and brought me to the crystal shop where they said I was a… An indigo child

^excerpt from personal writing.

Note-: you may think I’m crazy but my phone is a touch screen and it can sense when my breathing is irregular or I have sweaty palms; I will never stop feeling responsible for mothers suffering so when I say I am am/can’t be/have to be the New York woman I – my throat chakra changes bc I either have did and have alters or am an empath or something in the middle and “I am sorry” because I move heaven and earth…

I am feelig brave and Kan ho (Chinese medicine… Man) once injected me with this sort of paternal thing (after reading my fortune which he made me promise to keep secret and I fear that my mothers hyper intense desire to control me is the reason why we don’t share the little nuances of ourselves…

Im sorry im not over it and being around you triggers something I think I wasn’t supposed to remember for a while but the millennium hit and along with it psycho analysis and genius children. ______________ __________________ ____________the 90s; don’t want to believe it’s today too

I really did take none steps and forget

Um. Feeling super awkward and guilty and… Brave and knowing that this could help and desperation to feel better

It’s just that when my brain works it’s my only chance to send my Sos

Otherwise it’s that other mind

I send Soss

Soon it will make more sense

I have not felt this clear in… Idk when; perhaps I have felt even clearer more recently- it’s just my whole persona is a product of cApitalism and that’s why I’m empty… But don’t worry… Buddhism can always help with that but here’s the thing- im not a dharma bum but I am- what choice do I have at this point?… I am sorry that you could never understand but I continue to see the virtue in letting go of self explanation

I remember when a girl told me that she couldn’t say a fleeting thought about herself outloud without her mother… Taking it so seriously

Mom it makes sense that you are the way you are; in time these neuroses of yours will shed.

If I am a witch it can only be for me and I am sorry but it doesn’t work that a self serves a self outside of itself-:- being heady means being well, wise, and having some rock and roll in you still.

I do not know what ego death is Or do I?

I am on the disociAtive spectrum.

despite this, I would prefer to say a profanity- “having a vagina” should be added to the dsm. I make sense because I am a feminist and a girl.

I don’t need help anymore. I only benefit from it.

Thank you.

I so badly want to all at once cure myself and the way that I am which is not a thing thT you can change so mom you can lessen the amount of energy you give to things that don’t really….

I cAnnot save you and I keep trying to. It is an ocd.

Im sorry that I am a highly sensitive person, unpredicTable and

I am proud that I keep trying.

  Dear God, It was the middle of the night, and a girl with a history of feeling unsettled writes the following in an email on her cell phone to her halos, ya know the people in you're life who...

[ofallmediums]

today in my history class this guy, who's in the army, brought up his displeasure in reviewing a book for the class

he said, "this author/historian talked a lot about the rapes and violence and the killings that the soldiers committed, but she never pays any attention to the heroism"

so the professor asked, "what's heroism?"

and this guy got stumped and didn't even know how to answer it, but the question went around class and people said, "it depends who you ask", "like the kamikaze pilots", "risking your own life for the greater good"

I ended the discussion by saying, "Is altruism even still altruism when there are victims involved? It's true that it would depend who you ask, because if a suicide bomber takes down a battleship filled with hundreds of people, the corrupt system and its followers would call that person a hero.

But, I would argue that the real heroes are those who were executed for NOT participating in the war. They didn't take their own lives, but they did, in a sense, voluntarily GIVE their lives for the sake of not taking the lives of others. And it's infuriating that people who look for heroism in history tend to gloss over that"

stupid fucking war-glorifying monglers.

I was pleased with the amount of heads I saw nodding with me tho.

[thomasbonar]

What if nobody bombed anybody?

[thischickiswack]

Girl: I'm a pacifist now.

Boy: Oh yea? *Pokes girl in the stomach.*

*Girl punches him.*

Boy: Hey! I thought you said you were a pacifist.

Girl: I am just a really bad one.