A brave martyr who gave his life for peaceful resolution in Palestine, Bassim Ibrahim Abu Rahmeh. His sister, too, died in peace a year later on the same walk in Bil'in. Non violence is extremely dangerous in many situations and takes a very strong heart, great commitment to a positive goal.
Non Viol.ence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence. As such, nonviolence is an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression and armed struggle against it.
Practitioners of nonviolence may use diverse methods in their campaigns for social change, including critical forms of education and persuasion, civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action, and targeted communication via mass media.
Wise men down the ages have preached the doctrine of love and non violence. Zoroaster, Buddha, Mahavira, Christ, Nanak primarily emphasized a moral code that gave due status to non-violence. Non-violence is a philosophy of life, a modus operandi which has been accepted as an article of faith in the East as well as the West.
"Non-Violence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute" ~ so spoke Mahatma Gandhi, celebrating the need and nature of the principle of non violence for mankind.
To what extent can and should non-violence be exercised in daily life?
Is it not true that the world today is in dire need of non-violence?
Normally, the term 'non-violence' means 'no-injury' to others. It is a conception based on the fundamental goodness of man. In the fight for what is right and good ~ freedom, morality, justice and equality ~ violence must be evaded.
One must avoid imposing pain on others to win one's own goal however true and justifiable it may be. Evil must be opposed in a calm manner and not through violence in thought or action. For almost always violence begets violence ~ and there will be no end to it.
The path of non-violence calls for a great amount of courage on the part of the person practicing it to achieve the best of goals. It calls for guts and a lot of self-sacrifice.
Thus non-violence, as Mahatma Gandhi said, is not the weapon of the coward but of the strong.
Non-Violence is a philosophy that offers hope and peace for the world.
Here is a lovely persuasive article I found earlier today by the insightful Olive Farmer that I post for you, dear Readers, to be inspired by. His work is followed with more observations on the principles of non-violence.
rEvolution
July 2, 2011
There is a moment fast approaching that will determine the future of humanity.
In the maelstrom of world events currently unfolding lie great currents, sweeping tides that defy understanding because they are so intricately orchestrated, so various, so occult.These currents are sweeping humanity to a new, awful future.
Unless.
Unless we learn a different way forward for our species.
Unless we learn how to START AGAIN.
Observe the revolutions fomenting in Europe, see the hands of the luciferian world elite guiding and shaping the chaos, see the thinkers and philosophers amongst us being drawn into sects and cadres, see the unthinking being shaken from their complacency, finally now raising their heads from the pasture and looking around them, fearful and selfish as ever, seeing who or what will emerge to lead them and hoping to ally themselves with the winning side as it emerges, for there lies safety, even in abject submission and slavery.The current political elite is to be sacrificed though they know it not.
From Saddam via Mubarak to Gaddafi and the rest of the slime that runs the Arab world, from Cameron and Merkel and Sarkozy to Papandreou and the rest , the instigated chaos of the new world order will oust them as scapegoats, very probably lynch some of them in the streets as the madness of revolution spreads and falls under the control of the hands of absolute evil that are engaged upon their final solution.
These evil creatures that run the world
care not for their faithful servants,
will shoot them like dogs if the whim takes them,
or if the high ranking slave steps out of line.
Just ask Kennedy.
The great anger sweeping the world is a designed anger, an anger which arises from the careful manipulation of the power of money, the power that stems from political patronage, the power that has been given to the police who sadly, in every country, draw their batons against their own countrymen and women in defence of the indefensible.
The great herd that is humanity is being manipulated into this faux revolution.
The great herd that is humanity is being manipulated into this faux revolution.
Imaginary money creating imaginary debtcreating the spectacle of the theft of nation's wealth,
the security of a nation's people,
the very structure and underlying mainstays of the economies,
the power generation,
the water supply,
the food chain,
the communication systems,
all stolen,
all stolen in order to create, finally,
an outburst of the anger that leads to violence.
The world over, humanity is as a dry tinder-wood, awaiting just the touch of a spark for the fire of hatred and blood-letting to begin.
The spark will be provided.
It is planned,
as we have seen already in so many places.
Only the blind, and there are many, can fail to see the inevitability of the approaching chaos. Those who don't see it are those who live where the fire is not already raging. They stupidly believe that it's somebody else's problem.
It's not.
It's their problem.
Like a forest fire,
it is sweeping inexorably and swiftly their way.
History shows that every revolution brings in its wake totalitarianism, witch-hunting, the lowering of standards of living, starvation, the loss of security, great fear. History also shows us that ALL the revolutions of the last few hundred years have been orchestrated and controlled by the very global elite that they purport to be against. So the Rothschilds behind the French revolution, so the Schiffs behind the Russian, so the Bushes behind the National Socialists of Germany and so on.
And behind the money
that builds revolution
lies the evil that rules the world.
These manipulators have at their control the masked mobs of the violent,
the bomb setters and Molotov cocktail throwers, the shooters.
So it was in Egypt.
So it was in Tunisia and in Libya.
So it is in Yemen and Bahrain
and so it is and will be in Greece and Spain, Albania
and Italy and Portugal and eventually Ireland
and the rest of Europe and the rest of the world.
And what will emerge?
And what will emerge?
Those that study the long held and well documented plans of the new world order, that have read Blavatsky and Alice Bailey and Manly Hall and Albert Pike and the rest, understand the great structure and organization that has slowly enveloped the world, know the underlying philosophy behind the United Nations, see the connections and join the dots between the US military industrial complex, the CIA Nazis born of the Thule society and the endless list of their collective subordinate organizations, see the connections between the old Royal bloodlines and their banking associates, see this vast web of lies and the weird luciferian fundamentalism that lies behind it and understand........To the uninitiated, to the great unwashed, lucifer is a stranger as god is a stranger. To the believers and bible bashers and Muslim fundamentalists and the rest (NOTE: Especially the radical Jews) Lucifer is as real as god, and yet their god is the product and construction of the very manipulators that control the rest of the false reality.
Their god is a creation of the twisted minds that have created the rest of the false reality and comes to them in the form of the Bible or the Koran via organized religion, instruments all of division and hatred and strife and warfare and the slaughter and perversion of innocents, as demonstrated by their histories and their continuing present.
To lash at the beliefs of everyone, to strike at the core of the false reality creates no friends.
It becomes a lonely place.
Each of us believes in one part, one piece or another of the false reality.
Believers in the false democracies, believers in the false religions, believers in the false glamour world that holds so many of the ignorant and sleeping in its grip, believers in the strange and unnatural system of money and profit and wealth, all these things and many more together create the false reality and each have firm defenders and those willing to kill in defense of them.
Each of these belief systems is currently under attack from and by the very hands that created them, using the anger of revolution to sweep away the old in preparation for the new world order.
And with the new world order will come Lucifer, brandishing what seems to be the sword of peace, bringing what seems to be reconciliation, bringing all that the world would expect from a Christ, but then destroying all that oppose, leaving only those that will comply.
I do not believe a word of the Bible.
But those that created it follow its prophecies and in Lucifer’s name are ushering in the new world order....
Unless we prevent them.
Humanity cannot fight this evil with violence.
The temporary and faux victories of violent uprisings will inevitably lead to the horrors we have seen so many times before.
The guillotine, the Gulag, the concentration camp..
It is time to stop the knee-jerk reaction to police intimidation. It is time to recognise the strategy of the global elite for what it is.
It is time to IGNORE them!
If they are agents of the powers that be, to unmask them.
Your enemy, if you seek the change that will save humanity, is violence and ALL those who commit it, even though they seem to be on your side.
They are not on your side. Violence can be no part of our collective future, and we must prevent it from being the shaping force of our present.
Violence is the enemy of humanity.
Violence is the enemy of humanity.
An end to violence must be our absolute aim regardless of the crude tactics that push us towards anger and hurt.
Humanity cannot fight evil with evil,
for then evil will have won even before we begin.
Keep peaceful at all times regardless of the provocation that is planned to come your way.
Hug the riot-gear clad cop.
Tell the soldier how much you love him as he levels his gun at you.
If your son or daughter, grandson or nephew or brother or sister allies themselves with the global elite, wears the uniform that gives them unjust power over other human beings, speak with them, tell them of the shame they bring, cast them aside if they will not listen, but leave them the opportunity to redeem themselves, to come back once more into the fold, and welcome them back with love.
Hug the riot-gear clad cop.
Tell the soldier how much you love him as he levels his gun at you.
If your son or daughter, grandson or nephew or brother or sister allies themselves with the global elite, wears the uniform that gives them unjust power over other human beings, speak with them, tell them of the shame they bring, cast them aside if they will not listen, but leave them the opportunity to redeem themselves, to come back once more into the fold, and welcome them back with love.
In every nation, as the chaos comes, those amongst us that are in uniform will be used against the rest of us.
Such was the great travesty in communist Russia, such was the great evil in Communist China, such was the disgusting spectacle in Nazi Germany, such is the situation now in the democracies of Europe!
Brother beating brother, son beating father.
Brother beating brother, son beating father.
Don't fight them.Pity them.
Hug them.
Clasp their hands and ask them to join you.
Fight aggression with love.
Fight anger with calm.
Face the batons and the tear-gas and the bullets with peace and love.
These uniformed men and women the world over do not understand how history will despise them as it despises the S.S. that so brutalized their fellow Germans.
They everywhere will be shunned.
They everywhere will be shunned.
Families will disown them and hang their heads in shame.
It is our job, our duty to save them from this fate.
And in actions such as these lies the remedy, the solution, the answer to the great organisation of evil that spans the globe.
In love and with love will come victory.
We must decide not to play their game.
We must decide to go our own way towards the new reality.
The river, flowing towards the ocean, finds another path when it meets an obstruction.
Seek and find that other path, the path of least resistance, the path that is non-compliance, the path that just ignores the violent strategies of the global scum.
It is a truth that humanity seeks leadership.
It is a truth that humanity seeks leadership.
The models for the choice of these leaders have been in the hands of the global luciferians for all of time.
It is time to change the model.
To create a new way forward.
To create a new world
by simply ignoring the systems and procedures
and laws of the old.
We should, amongst us, seek those that are most wise, those that do not lust for power or the trappings of wealth,
those that have no association with the old “parties”,
those that see love as the way forward,
those that have no membership of the churches of the world but do not despise those that do.
We should seek out the kind, the fair, the quiet, the humble, the meek, the non-violent, the caring souls......
And here's the strategy, perhaps.
In each place where the fervour of revolution begins, replace it with the fervour of rEvolution.
We should ignore the powers that be,
ignore the law and the systems they have created
to control the way we govern ourselves,
and Start Again.
At the local level, in small groups, find these people and put them forward.
Do not feel that you are too small a group that your efforts are in vain. Use this internet to reach out and find others. From this will come critical mass.
At the regional and national and transnational level let them step forward, with us behind them................
AND JUST IGNORE THE CURRENT SYSTEMS.
Build our own, new systems in love and harmony, make our own new law, debate and find the beautiful new future we desire, and simply IGNORE the old ways, pay no heed to their laws, their government, their police, pay no heed to their instructions, pay no heed to their press and TV and propaganda.
Their systems are not our systems, not the systems Humanity desires and yearns for. They are systems of evil, systems of war and brutality and slaughter and bullying and greed and torture and lies and fear.
We have had enough of their systems.They have no legitimacy.
WE MUST BUILD OUR OWN NEW SYSTEMS.
AND IGNORE THE OLD SYSTEMS UNTIL THEY PASS AWAY.
All this rEvolution needs is a critical mass of us to achieve this transformation.
Do not feel small and helpless.
Do not feel that you can achieve nothing.
Humanity is approaching 7 billion in number; each of us is just one..... yet together we are many, together we are enough to end this misery.
This is our duty to the future.
It truly is time to Start Again, for if humanity fails in this we have lost our future, have condemned our children to worse slavery than that we endure now, almost certainly acted too late to prevent the destruction of many of us.
Our world can be beautiful.
Our world can be bountiful.
Our world can accommodate billions more of us in its vastness, all living in peace and harmony, in security and safety, basking in the beneficial light of our own incredible ingenuity.
It is,
my friends,
my friends,
time to Start Again.
Put this on your poster:
With love, I hope this message reaches many.
Love to all,
Olive Farmer
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" rEvolution "
With love, I hope this message reaches many.
Love to all,
Olive Farmer
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Please repost and translate and link to this message if you consider it worthy. Thankyou.
NOW, more on the peaceful approach to rEvolution:
Non Violence is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence. As such, nonviolence is an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression and armed struggle against it.
Practitioners of nonviolence may use diverse methods in their campaigns for social change, including critical forms of education and persuasion, civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action, and targeted communication via mass media.
Just like other compassionate principles, non-violence fails to make sense once you take it to an extreme. It is not achievable for man to exist at all if he is to guarantee that he does not harm or injure a single animal, plant or micro-organism throughout his life. We breathe ~ and in the mere act of breathing we kill a number of germs and bacteria that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
We walk ~ and the mere act of walking crushes innumerable tiny, microscopic organisms that proliferate on the soil. Moreover, injury by itself need not be solely physical in nature; it can be emotional and mental as well. There are no standard and practicable measures by which we can gauge the extent to which an act may cause mental and emotional harm.
Mahatma Gandhi is measured the apostle of non-violence. Truly, he lengthened the perception so that non-violence as a principle acquired a totally new meaning and breadth. For him the path of non-violence was the only way to attain freedom and truth which was the supreme authenticity for him.
He clarified how non-violence was an energetic force and not simply a term passive in its meaning. The struggle through non-violent actions is a rightful struggle that demanded a lot of merit and virtue on the part of its followers.
Non-violence must not be confused with weakness. Non-violence needs to be revived properly so that its practice on an individual level might finally increase its implication for the nation as a whole. Only individuals compose a nation. The efficiency of the message of non-violence advocated by such as Gandhi can be measured from reactions all over the globe..
We have self - perceived students of Mahatma Gandhi in a leader like Aung San Su Kvi. Many include Nelson Mandela in this category but I do not agree in this at all. Neither he nor his legacy of peace have withstood the passage of time.
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In modern times, nonviolence has been a powerful tool for social protest. There are many examples of its being used in nonviolent resistance and nonviolent revolution. Well known examples include Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947.
We have, as a Western example, Martin Luther King's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans.
César Chávez used campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California.
The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia saw the overthrow of the Communist government and is considered one of the most important of the largely nonviolent Revolutions of 1989.
More recently the nonviolent campaigns of Leymah Gbowee and the women of Liberia were able to achieve peace after a 14-year civil war. This story is captured in a 2008 documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell.
Although it was corrupted by the powers that be, America and Israel, no one can forget the recent non violent revolution that shook Egypt to the core. Things may not come about as planned, but non violence certainly showed the world its power as young men, with nothing to lose, offered up their lives to peace. No non violence is not for the weak.
Internationally known also are the weekly protests every Friday in Bil’in of Palestine. Every week, the world sees the army of Israel gassing and killing both Palestinians and their supporters. The Palestinians have become Masters of the art of pacifism as we see constantly.
And now, the flotilla to Gaza is being called upon to be non violent, a necessity considering that last year they even dared to defend themselves against murderous Mediterranean pirates of the violent state of Israel. The world watches as Israel and America, threatened by peace, rattle swords, commit criminal sabotage, sputter and shake knowing full well that this is a publicity battle they cannot win through honestly. Peaceful protest trumps every time so great propaganda must be rolled out to “defeat” the pacifists. Each time this happens, the use of violence makes the aggressor come across as weaker and weaker and more desperate.The term "nonviolence" is often linked with or even used as a synonym for pacifism; however, the two concepts are fundamentally different.
Pacifism denotes the rejection of the use of violence as a personal decision on moral or spiritual grounds, but does not inherently imply any inclination toward change on a sociopolitical level.
Nonviolence on the other hand, presupposes the intent of (but does not limit it to) social or political change as a reason for the rejection of violence.
Also, a person may advocate nonviolence in a specific context while advocating violence in other contexts.
In the Present times, it is violence that has surfaced as one of the most general causes of human suffering. The search of material benefits has resulted in growing controversies between individuals, groups and nations.
New forms of violence have thus appeared.
Highly sophisticated and deadly chemical and nuclear weapons have opened up ways to impose an utmost of devastation and damage.
In truth, one ought to blame the modern ways of living for the violent predispositions that have taken strong roots in mankind. There is less of tolerance, perseverance, true courage, commitment and absolutely no sense of values at all.
Man today is lost;
and wandering souls can be easily deceived in the name of anything.
Violence has grown to such an extent today that it has almost acquired some kind of authenticity. One fears that the growing violent mind-set will eventually wipe out mankind as a whole.
The world is to a great extent in need of non-violence as a way of life, to proliferate the gospel of love, brotherhood and peace.
Humanity must awaken and understand that the world of violence in which he is living can blow up in his face at any time.
Before time runs out, man must recognize the stupidity of indulging in violence and give it up.
Only the path of non-violence can truly offer mankind release from all ills and bring about harmony in the world.
Only non violence can restore sanity around us.
