Love has no need to self-justify & War too....
'Love has no need to self-justify' timothy r g, 3/01/2009
Love has no need to self-justify
Love has no desire to make all the same
Love has no pleasure in another's loss,
even less when you win
Love blesses the Celts
blesses, Patrick, the Runes,
western yin-yang circles,
no need to claim originality
Love is not wrong or right when shared,
no need to affirm, deny, eliminate the other
Love knows the ballad of the three leaf clover,
matters not from Ancient, more so, Celts,
or Patrick, or Brendan
Love doesn't look the other way,
it takes the challange to be with the one we disagree
the most
Love is both the three leaves, each their own,
and it is the vein that keeps us each alive
Love is One
Love is Many
Love is not able to murder, to lame, to caste off into loneliness,
to leave hungry, to leave in justified hell
Love knows my personal strengths,
weaknesses,
shame, given and taken,
guilt, unresolved and taken into hand responsibly
Love is One
Love is Many
Love seeks nothing
Love seeks everything
Love sings, dances, holds hands, weeps and laughs,
together
Love refuses to do war,
embraces the romanticism of the Lamb and Lion asleep together
Love sees god and no god in each eye
Love sees the other
Love knows no evil, or sin,
only that some choose to turn from love and do the same
Love is
'Phil Keaggy' on Guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTsHn9a9u1c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3iSiij98VY&feature=related
In response to a honest person, I believe, and their initial unrest with my words that war truly doesn't make sense, even when it does makes some sense, I responded, to which they responded with the kindest of words. Their response taught me, reminded me that change does take place, one person at a time, starting with myself: It is not a matter as to whether there has always been wars. It is also not a matter of wearing 'rose-colored glasses.' It is a matter of doing war, the act of killing another because you have been told that they are your enemy by those not sending their own children and grandchildren to do their bidding. Yes, as Jesus say, 'wars and rumors of wars, you're have always.' But this has nothing to do with a compliment or a applause of its perpetuation. Wars exist primarily because of pride and egoism, and a perpetuation of phyletism. They start and end with people, one person at a time, willing to see the person in front of them, as in the words of the same Jesus, 'as you've done it, or not done it to the least of these, you've done it or not done it to me.' Mother Teresa did not 'approve' of the manny of which AIDS was contracted. Yet she did not perpetuate hate by saying let's eliminate those with AIDS and those passing it onto to others. She did the same thing as she did with Leprosy and Poverty, the only thing that 'one person' is able to do, effect with love the person in front of you, 'one person at a time.' Nations lead us into war primarily, in our present day, for economic reasons. Look at each WW and you'll see that each country that was not attacked entered them only when it began to attack their pocketbooks. Our country, America, to date, has not entered one war, or war effort, with all its convenient euphemisms, for any 'just' reason. If that were the case then our leaders would have done something sooner rather than later in ever case. We helped Iraq to have its last fascist, funded his weaponry, stood by knowingly as he murdered over a quarter of a million innocents of his own land, and then came in after the fact to help. Both parties perpetuate, help to, the war between Jews and Muslims, remember, the same races, only different religions, and our leaders, from both liberal and conservatives in DC, are still selling bombs to both of them, all the while speaking of 'peace, peace, peace, when there is no safety.' War may be 'normal,' in our day. Murder, rape and incest are too. So is the self-justification of the perpetuation of poverty. The British were wont to say in days gone past during their supposed glorious monarchies, 'Jesus says the poor you'll have with you always, so let them be.' It is truly radical to refuse to the bidding of nations and nation-states. It is all connected to business interests and how these interests control the rest. If 'people' choose to do the bidding of others, then the same 'people' are the ones that perpetuate egoism, pride, injustice, the lack of mercy, hatred, bigotry, all leading to the glorious stories that give us our war stories. I do not know what I'd do in circumstances that I have not found myself. This would be presumptuous. I do know, however, that the only reason that war is perpetuated is that one person, may it could be me, is offended by this or that action of more, and the tells themselves that it is a 'just' thing to kill another person because they did this or that; and then someone that loves that person merely 'feels' just as 'just.' It matters not whether war seems to always be in our face, no more than poverty, or rape, or incest, or any number of violations of being and personhood. It does matter if we do nothing in our own present moment other than to justify those that continue to fuel this hatred and its perpetuation. Democracy or any other form of government is tyranny when people are dictated to what is just.
thank you for you continuation to be awake and for taking the time to disagree as well as agree in this world,
timothy
'Love has no need to self-justify' timothy r g, 3/01/2009
Love has no need to self-justify
Love has no desire to make all the same
Love has no pleasure in another's loss,
even less when you win
Love blesses the Celts
blesses, Patrick, the Runes,
western yin-yang circles,
no need to claim originality
Love is not wrong or right when shared,
no need to affirm, deny, eliminate the other
Love knows the ballad of the three leaf clover,
matters not from Ancient, more so, Celts,
or Patrick, or Brendan
Love doesn't look the other way,
it takes the challange to be with the one we disagree
the most
Love is both the three leaves, each their own,
and it is the vein that keeps us each alive
Love is One
Love is Many
Love is not able to murder, to lame, to caste off into loneliness,
to leave hungry, to leave in justified hell
Love knows my personal strengths,
weaknesses,
shame, given and taken,
guilt, unresolved and taken into hand responsibly
Love is One
Love is Many
Love seeks nothing
Love seeks everything
Love sings, dances, holds hands, weeps and laughs,
together
Love refuses to do war,
embraces the romanticism of the Lamb and Lion asleep together
Love sees god and no god in each eye
Love sees the other
Love knows no evil, or sin,
only that some choose to turn from love and do the same
Love is
'Phil Keaggy' on Guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTsHn9a9u1c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3iSiij98VY&feature=related
In response to a honest person, I believe, and their initial unrest with my words that war truly doesn't make sense, even when it does makes some sense, I responded, to which they responded with the kindest of words. Their response taught me, reminded me that change does take place, one person at a time, starting with myself: It is not a matter as to whether there has always been wars. It is also not a matter of wearing 'rose-colored glasses.' It is a matter of doing war, the act of killing another because you have been told that they are your enemy by those not sending their own children and grandchildren to do their bidding. Yes, as Jesus say, 'wars and rumors of wars, you're have always.' But this has nothing to do with a compliment or a applause of its perpetuation. Wars exist primarily because of pride and egoism, and a perpetuation of phyletism. They start and end with people, one person at a time, willing to see the person in front of them, as in the words of the same Jesus, 'as you've done it, or not done it to the least of these, you've done it or not done it to me.' Mother Teresa did not 'approve' of the manny of which AIDS was contracted. Yet she did not perpetuate hate by saying let's eliminate those with AIDS and those passing it onto to others. She did the same thing as she did with Leprosy and Poverty, the only thing that 'one person' is able to do, effect with love the person in front of you, 'one person at a time.' Nations lead us into war primarily, in our present day, for economic reasons. Look at each WW and you'll see that each country that was not attacked entered them only when it began to attack their pocketbooks. Our country, America, to date, has not entered one war, or war effort, with all its convenient euphemisms, for any 'just' reason. If that were the case then our leaders would have done something sooner rather than later in ever case. We helped Iraq to have its last fascist, funded his weaponry, stood by knowingly as he murdered over a quarter of a million innocents of his own land, and then came in after the fact to help. Both parties perpetuate, help to, the war between Jews and Muslims, remember, the same races, only different religions, and our leaders, from both liberal and conservatives in DC, are still selling bombs to both of them, all the while speaking of 'peace, peace, peace, when there is no safety.' War may be 'normal,' in our day. Murder, rape and incest are too. So is the self-justification of the perpetuation of poverty. The British were wont to say in days gone past during their supposed glorious monarchies, 'Jesus says the poor you'll have with you always, so let them be.' It is truly radical to refuse to the bidding of nations and nation-states. It is all connected to business interests and how these interests control the rest. If 'people' choose to do the bidding of others, then the same 'people' are the ones that perpetuate egoism, pride, injustice, the lack of mercy, hatred, bigotry, all leading to the glorious stories that give us our war stories. I do not know what I'd do in circumstances that I have not found myself. This would be presumptuous. I do know, however, that the only reason that war is perpetuated is that one person, may it could be me, is offended by this or that action of more, and the tells themselves that it is a 'just' thing to kill another person because they did this or that; and then someone that loves that person merely 'feels' just as 'just.' It matters not whether war seems to always be in our face, no more than poverty, or rape, or incest, or any number of violations of being and personhood. It does matter if we do nothing in our own present moment other than to justify those that continue to fuel this hatred and its perpetuation. Democracy or any other form of government is tyranny when people are dictated to what is just.
thank you for you continuation to be awake and for taking the time to disagree as well as agree in this world,
timothy