Re: CHAT: pacifism

In a message dated 2003:12:19 09:04:10 AM, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:

>Tristan McLeay scripsit:
>
>> Does raising one's voice count as violence? incivil language? or only
>> physical violence?
>
>For me personally, physical violence or the credible threat thereof.  Raising
>one's hand, even if it isn't lowered, counts unless one is known to be
>the type to make such gestures and never follow up.  Likewise, raising one's
>voice does not count unless, again, one is known to be the type who raises
ones
>voice only as a prelude to physical violence.
    The problem with the Golden Rule is that one person's poison is another's
meat-&-potatoes ;)  Everything is "situational" as _Shit Happens_... one can
only "Lock-&-Load 'n' Rock-&-Roll with the Punches"... "Go with the Flow"
(don't go up shit creek when the shit hits the fan... one's spine is stronger than
one's guts & face... the best Gung Fu & Art of War is "nasty"
Hit-&-Run...strategically runnin' away to fight "dirty" another, much better advantageous da
y. Sun Tzu - Taoist author of _Art of War_ - espouses a "provisional pacifism"
--- "Don't fuck with me & I won't fuck with you.").

>Which is not to say that I have never used violence, rather that I don't
>justify or defend it.
    It's just a fact o' Life. As Carl Jung said so excellently: "I rather be
whole than good."

>     (I once shoplifted something, but I don't defend theft, either.)
    If private/non-personal property is theft, Capitalism is Organized Crime.
In such a context, "theft" becomes "appropriation","co-optation," &
"exploitation" - neither "good" or "bad" (tho' _creative_ appropriation/co-optation, is
much better [& FUN] than [false] profitable acts of greedy, conspicious
materialistic consumption... the Black Hole/Ouroboric Vacuum of Mammon, Babylon &
thee well-intentioned Road to Hell...
    The bone oracle dice have been cast, the handwriting is on the cracked,
fracturing wall - _Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin_ ...

    [Aramic, literally translated:
        "numbered, numbered, weighed, divided"...

    ... freely translated:
        You & your Imperialistic, Decadent Civilization has been Counted &
Counted Again, Weighed, is found severely Lacking-&-Wanting...
        ... It will be Divided & Torn-Apart/Asunder in an Earth-shaking,
world-shattering Final Conflict rivalling that of the Fall of the Roman Empire,...
a Gotterdammerung & Ragnarok {German & Icelandic,"judgement of the gods"}].



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