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Pacifist Despair
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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Pacifist Despair what syllogism will you offer to the flame? by what incanted slogan will you turn the broken beams into a building, shattered bones into a child? what phrase will still the keening grief when of all times, this time the child is yours? and later when that certain fire comes lusting after flesh again, when like a forest blaze it gathers lust by feeding, on that day when the very flesh it covets is your own, what will you say then? |
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Brad Majors
since 2001-04-03
Posts 2647Georgia |
things to think on during these coming hard times |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Ed.... no answers to your questions and while some could debate the what is the lesser of two evils... the pacifist would have neither.. powerful images and delivery... truly very well done. |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
Exactly. Nan (Pilgrim variety) |
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Chanson Senior Member
since 2000-08-19
Posts 1559Up Creek w/Out Paddle |
If only we had all the answers ... *sigh*. Thanks for this thinker. When you think you have heard it all, |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed...my every belief tells me that war is wrong because I am a pacifist, but there are so many hard questions that pull at me from the other side...and I don't know what is right anymore.  |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Nobody does know, and there are things worth dying for -- either way. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
Rat - God I love your writing - war isnt good for anyone no BUT those that selflessly give themselves to a cause - because they believe - because they trust - because it is their duty - then it is them we must think of in our hearts - always got me thinking xxoo |
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regards2you Member Elite
since 2002-10-01
Posts 3940California |
Ed, Perfect questions. Written so well. Thank you for this. Hugs, Pat  ..without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.. |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
I don't know...I'm one of those fence sitters in this case. There's no way to know until the aftermath that what we do right now is right. I agree with you that, yes, some things are worth dying for and to me freedom (even if that be freedom from fear) is one of them. I hate to see us go to war because of all the lives I know will be lost, but on the same line, how can we not and be able to live our lives without fear? ...sitting here perched on the fence Ruth |
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Eromyna Member
since 2002-11-29
Posts 306Pheonix, AZ, USA |
I like. "I don't need to scream for you to deem me aggravation." |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Ed, I never want war, but what else can be done now, after the situation has come down to what it is? Questions in my mind! Ethel |
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bbent Senior Member
since 2001-01-07
Posts 521Alaska |
Thought provocking write...leaves me wondering what a passivist is.If one who blindly accepts the will of others and refuses to think or take any action to defend themself or there beliefs is one then I'd have to stand in agreement.However if those who chose to fight and change in ways other than domination and violence are I'd have to differ.Much has been accomplished through diplomacy and cooperation when given the chance. Live like it's your last day... |
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TaureauRouge Junior Member
since 2002-06-01
Posts 26A mass of land between two oceans |
Pacifism is a difficult movement to understand. The conflict between War and Pascifism is a debate of "Why" vs. "Why not". How does one break the stalemate? With action. The direction of that action is the choice of the individual. Very nice style and imagery relating to the question. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling over the floors of silent seas"-T.S. Eliot |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them.... ...or in modern terms, the choice is whether to continue to feed the tiger and pray it eats you last, or kill it while you still can. ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
wow! intense! |
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