tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post111050523191268235..comments2023-09-23T07:46:55.137-04:00Comments on the ashram: more yodergeoff and sherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1111080837466986472005-03-17T12:33:00.000-05:002005-03-17T12:33:00.000-05:00Pacifism got its current label as being passive be...Pacifism got its current label as being passive because of the straw man arguments offered in the wake of WWII and during the Red Scare. Pacifism has no ligusitic root to passive, its root is pax facer which means peacemaker. We really have to strive after peace. The perception in the world today is that everything should roll along really smooth, but when it doesn't it has to be fixed. A Thunder Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01594849276853605077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7256050.post-1110540365900558402005-03-11T06:26:00.000-05:002005-03-11T06:26:00.000-05:00why is it that 'pacifism' has come to be known as ...why is it that 'pacifism' has come to be known as passive? perhaps it is somehow connected with 'love' being understood in romantic (and passive?) terms almost exclusively. so, if we say we are to love instead of do violence, it sounds like we are just sitting back and sending nice feelings in the general direction of the problem. i really like the affirmation that "suffering" is not, in and geoff and sherryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02055588922702826766noreply@blogger.com