Calimore, fabisandine,
Greetings, my well intentioned friends,
Calimore, you put me in mind of the words penned by Roger Bowling and Billy Ed Wheeler:
"...Promise me, son, not to do the things I've done.
Walk away from trouble if you can.
It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.
I hope you're old enough to understand: Son, you don't have to fight to be a man!"
fabisandine wrote:
I'm a Pacifist too, but that's why I fight. To bring peace.
fabisandine, you put me in mind that Roger Bowling and Billy Ed Wheeler also wrote:
"I promised you, dad, not to do the things you've done.
I walk away from trouble when I can.
Now please don't think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek,
And papa, I sure hope you understand: Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man".
I believe they were embracing both principals, as I do, and explaining there is a time for each.
Or, for the more biblically inclined among you:
" To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 KJV.
Perhaps for me, now is a time to speak. Perhaps now is the time to rend that which in the past was sewn but is now rotten.
Calimore wrote:Ah Sarnoga - well played, but alas, except for the part that I am a Pacifist and believe that Violence should be reserved for Brutes, the Desperate, and the Fool-hearty, I agree almost 100%
Well said. I do not disagree, Calimore. But I would note, that the Violence of government Brutes, have left many Desperate people in their wake. One can only hope that some good people are Fool-hearty enough to join with them. Or perhaps lead them.
Such was the case in 1776 when the Fool-hearty joined with the Desperate to throw off the yoke of the Brutes that oppressed them.
Always Yours,
with a desire for peace, a hope for justice, and an expectation of another century of darkness, upon which my eyes are likely to close without seeing the light of freedom springing forth in the heart of men,
Sarnoga
PS.
Rick:
Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean what you're fighting for.
Victor Laszlo:
You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.
Rick:
Well, what of it? It'll be out of its misery.
Victor Laszlo:
You know how you sound, Mr. Blaine? Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart.