thread: 2005-05-16 : Violence
On 2005-05-16, Ed H wrote:
That was an awesome RLP post. I'm glad he's writing again.
I'm more interested in nonviolence than violence these days. But I see where Kubisak is going with his rejection of wimpy, suffering-idolizing pacifism.
I find it odd to see him rejecting the overly nonviolent Christianity because I find Christianity if anything overly *violent*—I would consider its moralizing condemnations of violence and coercive call to suffer *violent* in and of themselves, because they are an imposition from outside on one's will.
So maybe we're talking about very different things there.
I'm not looking to learn the nonviolent way of Mother Teresa, but of MLKJr or Gandhi. I'm not looking for fear of violence, but for nonviolent *power*. I don't want something that's not scary and powerful like violence, but something more deeply powerful *than* violence.
Oh, and one of these days I'm gonna go back and learn me some more martial arts. Karate back in college was hella fun and the best thing that ever happened to my poor pathetic gamer body.
