In this episode of Nonviolence Radio, we offer a heartening and inspiring round-up of Nonviolence in the News for the week, followed by a “crash course” (what’s the nonviolent equivalent of that?!) in our “Frequently Asked Questions” about nonviolence, a new show segment, with Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook of the Metta Center for Nonviolence.
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By: Metta Center
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I enjoyed this podcast from London very much. I have lived the past two years in a non violent commune in the south of France. My living there was the result of traveling the world and seeing how much we need to change our ways.
Please… What was the Philippino word for non violence?
Some listener notes…
The Nazi question always ignores the reasons for them actually coming to power in the first place. Of course there were reasons after WWI. And there were reasons for that as well, and so on throughout history.
And actually the behaviour of most sovereign states is not dissimilar to children. ‘You take my toys I want it back’. Or ‘You hurt me, I’ll hurt you back’.
How could we possibly be able to share a world of peace if our highest institutions don’t reflect our highest ideals?
For this Einstein said ‘I believe with all my heart that the current system of sovereign nations can only lead to inhumanity, barbarism and war’.
But as long as we agree to it, allowing its institutions to function in violence (even if its called defense’) we are in trouble.
Gandhi said ‘Non-violence is a not a quality of the mind but of the soul’.
And AJ Muste’ There is no way to peace. Peace is the way’.
Another point, if humanity was really inherently violent, how could we have passed through millions of years of evolution without destroying ourselves? Millions…. Its a short word but a long time!
The problems have arisen in just 5-7000 years, with a sense of self-consciousness, individuality, separateness from the whole which carried us through evolution.
Thank you keep up the good work and God bless(in its universal sense)
Timothy