links for 2006-02-01
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A shortened version of the essay from the book “What Would You do?” by John Howard Yoder. The essay in the book and here is by Joan Baez.
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A condensed version of John Howard Yoder’s famous book. Well worth a look.
Archive for January, 2006
What would you do if…
It’s the typical question that get’s asked of anyone who declares themselves a “pacifist.”
What would you do if someone was attacking your family (loved ones)?
It’s the magic card up someones sleeve to stump that said pacifist into agreeing that sometimes violence, and war, is okay and necessary. I’ll be honest this was a difficult question to handle when I first started thinking about pacifism. What made it difficult was the passage we talked about previously, “Love your enemies…” What suddenly happened was that now both the attacker and the victim are my loved ones. It’s like having to change the question to:
What would you do if your wife was attacking your father?
(or pick the two people closest to you)
Now I’m not so sure killing the attacker would be my pat answer. If I love that person I certainly wouldn’t want their death. I love the victim though as well and I don’t want them to die, so the situation is now far more complex then the original question presented.
For me, this question simply confirms to me that thinking as a pacifist, or rather, thinking about what to do with ‘killing’ not being one of the options.
So, What would you do if…
IE users
Do you use internet explorer to read my blog? And do you get bunches of script errors? I wish I knew why.
Podcasting progress
I’m making some progress on fixing up our most recent podcast for public viewing. I’ve got a few on the shelf, but I need to add intro and outro music as well as some editing in between. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast if you haven’t.
links for 2006-01-30
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Open Source shopping cart WordPress Plugin for making a store front on your blog.
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Good organized article about the Digg copies and all that.
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Gas has been really expensive lately, and this website [link] states that if you ad 2-3 ounces of acetone to 10 gallons of gas, it will help the gas to vaporize more easily, and will increase your miles per gallon anywhere from 20-30%
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Just a really cool soundclip
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