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Tag Archives: pacificism
Peace is a Verb
No passive meal, no rare stuff bird, true peace is not a noun, but verb; inaction, apathy and doubt that whisper are not her. She shouts from rooftops, making foul war shake in fear at her approach. Mistake not mewling … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, activism, challenges, change, evolution, pacificism, peace, war
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War and Peace
If you are angry about violence, hate the war-mongers who destroy and kill, use guilt as a weapon for innocence, you may think to win, but you never will. Because these tools that you use are the same that you … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged activism, daily poems, hypocrisy, pacificism, sonnet, violence, war
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Today’s Potent (Seed) Thought
The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and Utopian dream, who do the persecuting and make wars…The philosophy that rationalizes war and military training … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged activism, Aldous Huxley, pacificism, politics, rationalization, The Perennial Philosophy, war
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