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This opinion piece appeared in the Anderson (IN) Free Press on December 23, 2008
There was a time when, if you had a headache, drilling a hole in your skull to let out the bad spirits was an accepted method to get rid of the headache. That "mode of thinking" is gone, has disappeared such that when we gets a headache today it never occurs to us to skull-drill to get rid of it. We don't debate the merits of "how" to drill most effectively; we don't… Continue
Posted on December 27, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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Writing that "not preoccupying ourselves with an enemy ' is different than 'ignoring an enemy' is stretching semantics. If a gunman walks into my home shall I choose to not preoccupy myself with that person or just ignore him? Either way, the enemy is there. If you are not preocupied with an enemy, as in the saying: " We are our own worst enemy", how can one ever learn to change the enemy which is staring back at you in the mirror into a friend if one is not preoccupied with the reflection?
Unfortunately, Beyond War continues to use outdated mottos with philosophies that have long since been depleted of any significant change. I wish you and Beyond War the best nevertheless ...
John Turcot
I read your article with interest. As you have obvioulsy observed however, we have not as yet gone 'Beyong War' and although there is an undeniable urgency to do so, we cannot go 'beyong war if we don't identify what war really is and where it begins.
One of the reasons why we are still in a war mode is that we do not wish to go beyond the norm and we are thus trapped by the status quo, as can be witnessed by all the bloggers who bestow blame on everyone and everything except perhaps the real person who is the culprit in their neck of the woods, which in essence is the blamer herself. Until each of us takes responsibility for being part of the problem, and deal with what the mirror reveals, we cannot hope to end war because wars start right here at home, in our own back yards.
There are quite a few individuals who have suggested that the changes that we want to see in the world can be identified in our mirrors. What is war, and how have each one of us contributed to its presence. One of the most common positions that are taken by most people is to find the bad things in the other guy...hence missing the target entirely...
So the question begs to be examined.. What is war, and how can we deal with it? One of the constants of Beyond War has always premised that war behooves an enemy and that an enemy should be ignored, thus implying the rationale that the enemy will be no more. Perhaps it was the reason why I thought that Beyong War needed to go beyond that belief parameter because if one does not wish to see the enemy, then the enemy in each of us can never be revealed... and thus our parade to Armageddon will continue.
If you don't believe me, then simply examine where beyond War has gone in the last 25 years... Does beyong war still live by the same mottos, have they been modified , can they be altered and changed so that new ideas can emerge and become a viable solution to our problems....
Just thoughts......
John Turcot