tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259695754623350932.post8152169062809112176..comments2023-05-20T01:34:12.944-07:00Comments on Things that I think about when I'm doing something else...: Israel and Palestine - I should keep my mouth shutBrighterbuchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03772448991296337808noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259695754623350932.post-85887320000716277072014-07-31T11:53:50.682-07:002014-07-31T11:53:50.682-07:00Again, I am reminded why I have so admired you sin...Again, I am reminded why I have so admired you since highschool. I don't know the answers, but I'm pretty sure that I know how to sustain or even make worse the current situation - and we're following the plan exactly. There are too many people gaining financially and politically from all of this and we need to stop listening to them... we need to stop "demonizing" the other and stop acting like demons ourselves. Somehow we need to begin to trust and hope... a little bit at a time. If I thought that vilifying one side over the other might bring about peace, I could be tempted (justice aside) - but I see no reason to believe that would work. And so, I am left to live in hope... because the alternative is simply not sustainable. Brighterbuchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03772448991296337808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259695754623350932.post-74518501922781900682014-07-31T10:27:48.751-07:002014-07-31T10:27:48.751-07:00Brother Norm,
I too want to send thanks for your ...Brother Norm,<br /><br />I too want to send thanks for your words this morning. I've read and re-read your thoughts. They give voice to many of the feelings I've had over these past sad days and, for that matter, all the many years that I've witnessed this tragic struggle from the safe and relatively peaceful place we call home.<br /><br />Like you, I am only one voice standing on the sidelines. A voice that truly does not know what it must feel like to know the immediacy of living in fear from bullets, bombs or missles. If I'm honest, I do not really know how I would feel under those circumstances. Yet, I have a voice. I have beliefs and I want to think that I would be true to them no matter the accident of birth and geography that I places me on this peaceful sideline. For me, my belief is simple: no matter from which direction the instruments of war are fired the result is the diminishment of what is sacred, life itself. I believe that there must be a better way; a way that appeals to the higher nature of what it means to be human.<br /><br />As I read your thoughts and those of others I feel good that there are other voices in conversation that choose not to play the game of war, terror or keep score in bodies. The road less travelled towards peace is to sadly witness this suffering with empathy and compassion yet have the courage to say "no" there must be a another way; a humanistic way. One that supports individuals, groups and communitites who seek a peaceful world where everyone can live freely and securely. In keeping with your thoughtful choice of a sport's metaphor I choose a different team, perhaps an underdog, I choose to wear the colors of peace, humanism and compassion. <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05681021129381919921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3259695754623350932.post-75775755989692551542014-07-31T06:01:43.847-07:002014-07-31T06:01:43.847-07:00Thanks for thinking this out loud Norm and for cha...Thanks for thinking this out loud Norm and for challenging me to think for myself and live with compassion.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674468634463053202noreply@blogger.com