If you watch the videos from Walter Wink, you will hear him speak of the "third way of Jesus". There are three ways to react to violence:
1) with violence
2) with accepting violence and not standing up to it.
30 the third way, the way Jesus did. To stand up to violence not react to it with more violence, not let the violent one make you a mirror of him or herself.
How do you think this translates into everyday life?
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
Non Violence for the Violent
A great commentary on this and a reminder of who we are as Christian people.
(Click the title to view the movie)
(Click the title to view the movie)
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Support Of Violence
hello George here I wanted to write an article on the support of violence in our society.
The reason why I am doing this is because I recently attended a concert for In Flames which is a heavy metal band out of the states I do believe they are Swedish, but that's beside the point. In this concert were three bands, 36 crazy fist, Gyro, and In Flames. In the first bands (36 crazy fists) performance the lead singer pointed to the sign informing the audience that there is to be no mosh pitting or crowd surfing, he then told the people that the signs meant nothing and that it was okay to mosh pit, for those how do not know what moshing is, it is simply a violent act in which people who are attending the concert are to beat each up by throwing them, punching and using the elbow as a weapon don't ask how it is fun for I myself have the same question. The lead singer told allt eh people in the concert to make a large gap in the middle of the field and then said "Don't disappoint me turn this place into a bloody battlefield." and thus began the moshing I tried my hardest to get away from the people that were taking part in the act but to no avial I was pushing into the middle of the moshing and hit repeatly in the chest and kidney area and once to the head. I fought only to get away from the people, and finally fought my way out of the mosh pit. I am okay for those who are wondering, only a little pain in the chest I'm a Timmis after all we can take some hits :).
The second band Gyro told the security to "lightin up" on the crowd they are just enjoying the music in thier own way. The people that were with me had in no way a part in the moshing. All of this is going on while the people in the crowd are drinking and the bands themselves are drinking also.
The last band In Flames watched a man crowd surf to the front where he was grabbed but not before being knocked out by the bar that he hit with his head, the lead singer asked the seruity if they were really going to take him away from the concert for it, and began shouting "bring him back" the seruity refused and the concert continued and so did the moshing.
Now I was under the impression that the place clearly stated the fact that if you were found moshing you would be ejected, but it was made clear all they would do is sit there and watch even even as the crowd seperated the security did nothing to stop the "bloody battlefield" from forming. This concert is a great example how someone needed to grab ahold of those lead singers and turnt eh speakers off as soon as they even said the word mosh pit and eject the band its self for supporting such a deadly act. In the USA alone nearly 100 people die in mosh pits and 1000s more are injuried but they wear the scars like medals.
The support of violence in further found in video games movies and shows. However is it fair to blame the people who write the songs or the play the part in a movie or show? or is it the parents at fault? which ever maybe the case we need to find a way to keep such violence out of our childrens minds until they can understand the difference from liking a band and doing what the songs or movies and shows support in doing.
Micheal Moore did a documentary on Violence in our schools mainly shootings at them but he also travelled to our northern niebhors and found nothing different other than that their news doesn't feed them fear 24/7.
I dont know what I'm asking but I guess its for your opinion on the issue of fact like 60,000 murders in USA and only 16 in canada. what is it that makes the USA so dangerous to live in? I guess is my question.
The reason why I am doing this is because I recently attended a concert for In Flames which is a heavy metal band out of the states I do believe they are Swedish, but that's beside the point. In this concert were three bands, 36 crazy fist, Gyro, and In Flames. In the first bands (36 crazy fists) performance the lead singer pointed to the sign informing the audience that there is to be no mosh pitting or crowd surfing, he then told the people that the signs meant nothing and that it was okay to mosh pit, for those how do not know what moshing is, it is simply a violent act in which people who are attending the concert are to beat each up by throwing them, punching and using the elbow as a weapon don't ask how it is fun for I myself have the same question. The lead singer told allt eh people in the concert to make a large gap in the middle of the field and then said "Don't disappoint me turn this place into a bloody battlefield." and thus began the moshing I tried my hardest to get away from the people that were taking part in the act but to no avial I was pushing into the middle of the moshing and hit repeatly in the chest and kidney area and once to the head. I fought only to get away from the people, and finally fought my way out of the mosh pit. I am okay for those who are wondering, only a little pain in the chest I'm a Timmis after all we can take some hits :).
The second band Gyro told the security to "lightin up" on the crowd they are just enjoying the music in thier own way. The people that were with me had in no way a part in the moshing. All of this is going on while the people in the crowd are drinking and the bands themselves are drinking also.
The last band In Flames watched a man crowd surf to the front where he was grabbed but not before being knocked out by the bar that he hit with his head, the lead singer asked the seruity if they were really going to take him away from the concert for it, and began shouting "bring him back" the seruity refused and the concert continued and so did the moshing.
Now I was under the impression that the place clearly stated the fact that if you were found moshing you would be ejected, but it was made clear all they would do is sit there and watch even even as the crowd seperated the security did nothing to stop the "bloody battlefield" from forming. This concert is a great example how someone needed to grab ahold of those lead singers and turnt eh speakers off as soon as they even said the word mosh pit and eject the band its self for supporting such a deadly act. In the USA alone nearly 100 people die in mosh pits and 1000s more are injuried but they wear the scars like medals.
The support of violence in further found in video games movies and shows. However is it fair to blame the people who write the songs or the play the part in a movie or show? or is it the parents at fault? which ever maybe the case we need to find a way to keep such violence out of our childrens minds until they can understand the difference from liking a band and doing what the songs or movies and shows support in doing.
Micheal Moore did a documentary on Violence in our schools mainly shootings at them but he also travelled to our northern niebhors and found nothing different other than that their news doesn't feed them fear 24/7.
I dont know what I'm asking but I guess its for your opinion on the issue of fact like 60,000 murders in USA and only 16 in canada. what is it that makes the USA so dangerous to live in? I guess is my question.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Free Education
As a student in college and a person in a large amount of debt; I still do not understand why our school systems are not free like other places (France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Russia, etc...) this is uncomforting because we spend so much to get an education that when we leave school we are in a unprecedented amount of debt. I feel that we should go to free education because my philosophy is that there are two things that create a good society they are a education(of the college level), and Free Health Care if you have these two then you can stop violence that is related to these key services for one free education may end ignorance not completely but it will definitely help also if these things are free people will be happier and have less to worry about and they can work on making a better life for themselves as well as for the rest of us because production will increase very well because people will be more educated. this will never happen as long as people are still greedy and hold their money as if it is life itself.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Stop Bush's Dangerous Changes to the Endangered Species Act
I received this from my friend S Linda
For over three decades the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has
helped protect and defend over a thousand at-risk threatened and
endangered species and their habitats.
But now, the Bush Administration is pushing through 11th-hour
changes to the ESA that will dramatically weaken this important
law by curtailing scientific consultation and systematically
excluding the impacts of global warming from environmental
analyses.
Tell them not to do it.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?
These dangerous changes will have far-reaching consequences for
habitats, species and our communities. The bald eagle, grizzly
bear and gray wolf can be seen in our wildlands today because
Congress passed this seminal piece of legislation.
But as global warming increases, the threat to wild habitat
increases as well. In fact, the International Panel on Climate
Change has estimated that across the planet as many as 30
percent of species alive today will become extinct if global
warming continues unabated. Ignoring the impacts of global
warming will not make them go away.
These dangerous changes could be approved at any moment. Your
immediate response is needed today!
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?
Please join with us in telling the Bush Administration to drop
its ill-advised last-minute attempt to eliminate scientific
consultation and consideration of the impacts of global warming
on threatened and endangered species.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?
Best wishes,
Kathy Kilmer
The Wilderness Society
For over three decades the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has
helped protect and defend over a thousand at-risk threatened and
endangered species and their habitats.
But now, the Bush Administration is pushing through 11th-hour
changes to the ESA that will dramatically weaken this important
law by curtailing scientific consultation and systematically
excluding the impacts of global warming from environmental
analyses.
Tell them not to do it.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?
These dangerous changes will have far-reaching consequences for
habitats, species and our communities. The bald eagle, grizzly
bear and gray wolf can be seen in our wildlands today because
Congress passed this seminal piece of legislation.
But as global warming increases, the threat to wild habitat
increases as well. In fact, the International Panel on Climate
Change has estimated that across the planet as many as 30
percent of species alive today will become extinct if global
warming continues unabated. Ignoring the impacts of global
warming will not make them go away.
These dangerous changes could be approved at any moment. Your
immediate response is needed today!
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?
Please join with us in telling the Bush Administration to drop
its ill-advised last-minute attempt to eliminate scientific
consultation and consideration of the impacts of global warming
on threatened and endangered species.
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/esa/inui6w41enbdek?
Best wishes,
Kathy Kilmer
The Wilderness Society
The Earth Charter
Fifth Principle of the Earth Charter
Earth Charter Principle 5. Protect and
restore the integrity of Earth's ecological systems, with special
concern for biological diversity and the natural processes that sustain
life.
As our
awareness of Earth and the impact our species has had on our
environment slowly creeps into our social awareness, principle #5 has
become pivotal to groups with interests ranging from Science to New
Age. Principle #5 is one of the longest principles of the Earth
Charter’s sixteen principles and addresses the heart of the matter.
Unless we protect and take action to restore Earth’s ecological systems
we may destroy the very home that gives all Earth’s species shelter,
food and rest.
This principle speaks to us about principles we value
on other levels as well, namely diversity and complementarity. I find
it interesting that the definitions of these terms span the spectrum
from Physics to social action. For example, complementarity is defined
as:
o noun1. a relation between two opposite states or principles
that together exhaust the possibilities 2. the interrelation of
reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other; "the
complementarity of the sexes" 1
o The concept that the underlying
properties of entities (especially subatomic particles) may manifest
themselves in contradictory forms at different times, depending on the
conditions of observation; thus, any physical model of an entity
exclusively in terms of one form or the other will be necessarily
incomplete. For example, although a unified quantum mechanical
understanding of such phenomena as light has been developed, light
sometimes exhibits properties of waves and sometimes properties of
particles (an example of wave-particle duality) 2
Diversity is defined as:
o The fact or quality of being diverse; difference.
1
complementarity. (n.d.). WordNet® 3.0. Retrieved November 01, 2008,
from Dictionary.com website:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/complementarity
2
complementarity. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Science Dictionary.
Retrieved November 01, 2008, from Dictionary.com website:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/complementarity
o A point or respect in which things differ.
o
Variety or multiformity: "Charles Darwin saw in the diversity of
species the principles of evolution that operated to generate the
species: variation, competition and selection" (Scientific American).3
Diversity’s
definition too illustrates the various ways we can think about
diversity from diversity of thought to biological diversity. This type
of thinking across sciences and integrated into the whole of life is a
challenge for us as we move into a more complex and complicated world
view and consciousness. Yet we are being called to such thinking from
various voices that make up our lives. From our Acts of Chapter, as Sisters of St. Joseph, which
urge us to, “urgent concern for Earth and the survival of its life
systems” and to “recognizing the urgency of working to protect and
restore Earth’s healthy living systems in these next years” to our
country’s and our world’s concern about affordable non Earth
threatening sources of energy as we journey into the future, “Climate
change is real. And it’s happening much faster than was predicted just
a few years ago. The good news is that we can solve this crisis. We can
switch 100% of America's electricity to clean energy sources – within
10 years. To make the switch, repowering America must be a priority for
our leaders. If leaders know you care, they will take action. Join us
today and be a voice for solutions.”( from www.wecansolveit.org)
We
may feel a small part of the solution or that we not able to have much
of an effect at all. However small steps can be taken on our part from
awareness of our local ecology to research on the web where our fingers
can help us take action to be part of the solution. I close with this
thought that I read a few days ago from Thomas Moore’s Book “The
Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, “ Enchanted ecology is the work of
religion more than science, love more than understanding, and ritual
more than heroic action. It is rooted in both a love for home and a
willingness to let the place where we live set limits on our lives,
define our personalities, and shape our values. This kind of ecology is
concerned not simply with the natural world but with our place in the
human environment as well, and it has as much to do with meaning and
emotion as with the protection of literal nature.”
3 diversity.
(n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition. Retrieved November 01, 2008, from Dictionary.com
website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/diversity
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Hello, My Name Is George T.
Hello I figured that everyone would like to know a little about me and where I come from.
My name is George R. Timmis
I'm a college student attending college for Nursing because
Unlike most countries we have to pay for college and I can't afford
medical school. I am a photographer, I am a percussionist and I
am looking forward to post and discuss social justice.
please feel free to introduce yourself on here and tell us a little about you.
Thank you and God Bless you and yours
-George R. Timmis.
P.S
I will try not to talk in internet lingo such as (lol lmao,wut,ect.)
My name is George R. Timmis
I'm a college student attending college for Nursing because
Unlike most countries we have to pay for college and I can't afford
medical school. I am a photographer, I am a percussionist and I
am looking forward to post and discuss social justice.
please feel free to introduce yourself on here and tell us a little about you.
Thank you and God Bless you and yours
-George R. Timmis.
P.S
I will try not to talk in internet lingo such as (lol lmao,wut,ect.)
Homelessness is the one of the biggest social injustice of our world. Many homeless die every year and it is a sad fact that there is such a thing as homelessness in this world. Many die from illnesses left untreated because they can't afford health care to pay for the treatments, others die from starvation and malnutrition. They are not enough shelters and yet we tare down abandon buildings that could easily be remade into homeless shelters, but we rather have a wal mart or a food lion in our neighborhood because those things aren't as much of an "eye sore". I leave this open for discussion. How can we create a better and a more productive way of helping the homeless?
introduction
We as a people of peace, God, good morals and ethics found that this world has many injustices in it and that is what we come here to discuss the multitude of topics that range from stories of great justice and injustice crying for solutions the “stuff” that forms this world we live in. As people and global citizens it is our duty to face the injustices in our world and to take steps for the common good.. A great man John Dickinson said "United we stand, divided we fall" . With this in mind, we unite in our communities to reach out for a better tomorrow.
Our intention is that this blog be a place people can gather in hope.
A place where we will not just write about justice but do justice and act on our words
A place to share ideas
A place of support to continue our efforts
A place to have conversations with others
This blog is as you will find a blog that spans all age groups. You will read peoples stories and ideas. We represent and are the from many age groups, from the youth to the elder, and it is with these people that we plan to bring this world back to a place where justice is for all.
Topics for this blog are (but not limited to):
1. Social justice
2. Daily News
3. world economics
4. foreign politics
Thank you for reading this introduction to this blog, we hope to hear from you and hope that you will in turn:
TAP 10 FRIENDS FOR JUSTICE! GET THEM TOGETHER IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES! TELL THEM about http://tap10forjustice.blogspot.com We can do it!
-George Timmis
-Sister Debbie Timmis
-Harold Timmis
Our intention is that this blog be a place people can gather in hope.
A place where we will not just write about justice but do justice and act on our words
A place to share ideas
A place of support to continue our efforts
A place to have conversations with others
This blog is as you will find a blog that spans all age groups. You will read peoples stories and ideas. We represent and are the from many age groups, from the youth to the elder, and it is with these people that we plan to bring this world back to a place where justice is for all.
Topics for this blog are (but not limited to):
1. Social justice
2. Daily News
3. world economics
4. foreign politics
Thank you for reading this introduction to this blog, we hope to hear from you and hope that you will in turn:
TAP 10 FRIENDS FOR JUSTICE! GET THEM TOGETHER IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES! TELL THEM about http://tap10forjustice.blogspot.com We can do it!
-George Timmis
-Sister Debbie Timmis
-Harold Timmis
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