Everyone gets to choose their own willingness to engage in violence or argument or intimidation. This behavior is the doorway to fear, but if your motivation is pure and unselfish, and if you can avoid returning harm for harm, hate for hate or fear for fear I promise you, your sleep will be more peaceful, and you will achieve great joy both in life and death.
JWe are the Anabaptist - but we are officially and have always been faith-neutral regarding other people and other faiths and cultures.
We invite you now however, not to pray or change your thinking, but instead to join us. Join us in a way that truly can make a difference, join us in resisting the temptation to blame or shame, name-call or accuse. Join us, and in your own plain and ordinary way, simply choose to do something. Do something that matters to you, something that increases peace, well-being for others, take action to strike back peacefully against economic injustice, against poverty-level wage slavery, and speak out and take action to challenge fear and racial prejudice poured into concrete and built into unjust laws and border walls.
We invite you now however, not to pray or change your thinking, but instead to join us. Join us in a way that truly can make a difference, join us in resisting the temptation to blame or shame, name-call or accuse. Join us, and in your own plain and ordinary way, simply choose to do something. Do something that matters to you, something that increases peace, well-being for others, take action to strike back peacefully against economic injustice, against poverty-level wage slavery, and speak out and take action to challenge fear and racial prejudice poured into concrete and built into unjust laws and border walls.
Just because these things are happening all around us, often with our tax dollars does not make you complicit in these crimes and sins.
Remember, it is always your choice - your choice to participate at work or home in the problem, and your choice to resist - and one way to really make a difference is to never be silent, but to fight back using truth and love and compassion. We must also refuse to participate in their armies, and if necessary be willing to become even poorer and refuse to work for poverty wages or in their mines and factories and stores.
Remember, it is always your choice - your choice to participate at work or home in the problem, and your choice to resist - and one way to really make a difference is to never be silent, but to fight back using truth and love and compassion. We must also refuse to participate in their armies, and if necessary be willing to become even poorer and refuse to work for poverty wages or in their mines and factories and stores.
At this moment, there is sufficient food for all.
Given necessity and social action, food commerce would very quickly return to the old ways of barter and trade work for work, value for value.
We are the Anabaptist - and we live that way now. We can and will teach you.
Further thoughts:
Why do the wealthy get to run everything, and sell food for less than cost at McDonald's because they make money on franchise fees and selling signs and chairs and weird wallpaper?
Why do we allow the super-wealthy and their corporations to do all the really profitable work?
Example:
No more "mega-huge coal incorporated". The mine is in your zip code, yes?
No more international hauling corporations belonging to people with homes in Malibu and Cannes and Moscow and Dubai and London.
Instead, push the opportunities down to the local level, to your zip code (postal code).
Need ore or minerals hauled to the processing plant?
Given necessity and social action, food commerce would very quickly return to the old ways of barter and trade work for work, value for value.
We are the Anabaptist - and we live that way now. We can and will teach you.
Further thoughts:
Why do the wealthy get to run everything, and sell food for less than cost at McDonald's because they make money on franchise fees and selling signs and chairs and weird wallpaper?
Why do we allow the super-wealthy and their corporations to do all the really profitable work?
Example:
No more "mega-huge coal incorporated". The mine is in your zip code, yes?
No more international hauling corporations belonging to people with homes in Malibu and Cannes and Moscow and Dubai and London.
Instead, push the opportunities down to the local level, to your zip code (postal code).
Need ore or minerals hauled to the processing plant?
Let anyone who owns no more than ten and no less than five dump trucks haul the coal, and allow miners to split the value of the material they remove.
Why, if it is under my feet, is it not my property? My family has lived here for 230 years, and this is my land and the land of my people - and whomever "sold" these materials to someone from far away was not doing something logical, nor should it be legal.
Each area has economic value, if we can prevent the plundering of the rich.
Refuse to work - give them no toil and no services. Wait until they leave, and then go to the mine or the field and work.
Reclaim your heritage of land and resources, and where you live carries the right to harvest and be a steward of that land.
Pieces of paper for land? For water? Who thought of this nonsense, and for God's sake, why?
Feed the hungry, offer warmth to people who are in the cold. Ignore but resist the forces of greed and scandal and the sad sick labeling of human beings. No person is an addict or an illegal immigrant, for each one of them is an individual human being.
If you can admit and forgive your own sins and weaknesses, and yet struggle against them, you will be humble enough to care about others.
For we are all walking the same path, and we should share well-being and comfort to everyone we encounter.
And then this won't happen any more:
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