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Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:08:01 PM

gooddogbenji

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I have been doing a bit of thinking about world peace, and the meditation thread sparked this - What do you do, on a daily basis, that helps towards a more peaceful earth? This doesn't have to be big, but I think if we get a lot of small ideas together, some people may change a habit here, a habit there, and we might just make a difference.

This is not intended as an I'm better than you thread, so even if you're not doing it yet, feel free to post workable ideas. Also, they don't have to be only towards peace, they can be towards any possible "good" cause.

Some examples:

I don't own a car. Less oil used means more for the future.

I don't eat a lot of meat. Meat takes several times the resources to grow than anything vegetable, and often entails necessary cruelty to animals.

I avoid stores like WalMart, DiscountAnything, and other companies where I don't agree with policies. I would rather have one quality product where the money goes into my neighbour's pocket, than lots of low quality garbage from China.

I avoid Pharmaceuticals wherever possible. I feel that these companies make us dependant, and that the majority of the ailments which I have had I have gotten through with lots of fresh fruit, sleep, and a bit of mental perseverance. (I know, some people have worse things than me, but things like ADD and such should not be treated with drugs, but with proper parenting and a desire to get past it yourself)

I only donate money when I know the cause well enough to know the money is doing good. I don't give a little to each charity, but a large amount to one.

I don't waste resources. I understand the need for A/C, but not for A/C with the windows open. Same with water, lights, TVs, etc...

I'm sure I do more, and I'll add them when I think of them.

Looking forward to your ideas!

Yours,

benji

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:10:17 PM

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i sit at home, avoid the news and mind my own business.

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:15:43 PM

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I do all that you do too Benji, you liberal maple tree worshipping Canadian hockey playing submissive scum (I say that as if it were a good thing with affection in every word..smiles)

I have been involved with the local peace movement here and I have been known to travel a couple hundred miles for the right march. I love San Francisco anyways, so I do not know if I have used this as an excuse for a trip to The City and eating some wonderful food in China Town really counts as activism

I have also done much research into what builds peace. I read this book as an undergrad and I just gave a physical copy to Sinergy to read when he gets the time. It is a book that I feel is important and the text is all here for you to read online for free (and to think I spent 65 bucks for my copy!) It is a book that talks about how religions can be a force of peace or violence and the processes of negative and postive peace... a great read!

http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/apple/frame.htm

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:28:08 PM

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I'm a resource hog. Sorry. ~ contrite look ~

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:30:00 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/apple/frame.htm

I don't have the time (or the mind) to read this at the mo, julia, but bookmarked it for later study. Looks interesting.

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:35:35 PM

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Motherfucker....you think you're better than me don't you????

(Okay, now that that's out of the way...)

I actually don't do anything.

I purposefully make every attempt to prove de mininimus.

With that said, World Peace; I keep my calm, carry myself in such a fashion, and I try to listen when I'm spoken to and carry my voice when I need to (which tends to be fairly often).

But, with verve.

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:41:57 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: LTRsubNW

Motherfucker....you think you're better than me don't you????

Well, someone's a little jealous of benji, the dogoodingest dogooder that ever dood good.

Yours,

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 5:59:58 PM

juliaoceania

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quote:

ORIGINAL: gooddogbenji

quote:

ORIGINAL: LTRsubNW

Motherfucker....you think you're better than me don't you????

Well, someone's a little jealous of benji, the dogoodingest dogooder that ever dood good.

Yours,

benji

As long as you do not pee on our parade.. I mean peace march

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 6:48:09 PM

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I carry an extra magazine of ammo. (.40Cal)
Benji, I don't do ANYTHING that you do! lol

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 7:01:48 PM

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I'm a non-meat eating, recycling, yoga loving tree hugger. I volunteer often for political, and environmental causes, as well as work with children, thus my regular rants in here about how helping our tiny future leaders now could change our world... someday.

I'm not going to pat myself on the back for doing things I enjoy doing and find necessary, but my biggest contribution to world peace (in my opinion) is teaching my little one to be a caring, empathic, giving person who knows she is loved. These traits are missing in far, far too many people.

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 7:04:50 PM

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I carry an extra magazine of ammo. (.40Cal)
Benji, I don't do ANYTHING that you do! lol

Extra ammo is never a bad thing .
[troll]
Unless your knifed to death by a militant Muslim . Then you have personaly armed a psycho with more ways to deal death to your fellow Americans .

Why do you hate America ?
[/troll]

But why not something more common like a .45 ?

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 7:07:18 PM

juliaoceania

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quote:

ORIGINAL: MistressLorelei

I'm a non-meat eating, recycling, yoga loving tree hugger. I volunteer often for political, and environmental causes, as well as work with children, thus my regular rants in here about how helping our tiny future leaders now could change our world... someday.

I'm not going to pat myself on the back for doing things I enjoy doing and find necessary, but my biggest contribution to world peace (in my opinion) is teaching my little one to be a caring, empathic, giving person who knows she is loved. These traits are missing in far, far too many people.

My Daddy teaches women how to protect themselves and how to set good clear boundaries so that they can teach their children to do the same. He thinks that doing so will make for less targets of violent crime, and eventually stop violent crime.. it is why he does what he does. In a way he teaches women to fight so they will not have to fight, the way to stop a problem is through it, not around it...

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/10/2006 7:26:54 PM

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i spent a long time being a no nukes-tree hugging-peace pounding-post 60's hippie-pre-Birkenstock crunchy granola-type espousing the best way to save the planet and all that inhabit it according to me. And then one day (probably less abruptly than that) i woke up and realized that outer peace can only ever be realized thru inner peace...one soul at a time so now i pray and meditate a lot. Not in any sort of contorted position or anything. I set aside time in the morning and try to stay plugged in throughout the day.

Things like this influenced the shift for me...the day the Berlin Wall came down, Nelson Mandella elected President, Protestants and Catholics living on the same Island in realtive peace. This kind of stuff reinforces that there's something at work in this world beyond human will and offers hope for less than armageddon in the Middle East.

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/11/2006 1:10:44 AM

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I have good manners and I judge people for who they are as individuals.
I believe in personal responsibility. I do not have any sense of entitlement, and I appreciate the privileges that come with My rights as a human being as well as an American citizen.
My main contribution toward peace? I raised two daughters to be exactly the same. They are productive and law abiding adults now with the same values, i.e. honesty, integrity and a good work ethic.
And I believe peace begins in the home, so I have a loaded .38, with extra ammo. Thanks for reminding Me that it is time for some target practice.

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/11/2006 1:49:04 AM

xsdenied

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hm, I don't do any of these things.
I have 3 cars (2 clasic ones, so a lot of oil and gas usage)
I eat meat every day.
go to the nearest supermarket (we don't have wallmart in Holland, but same kind of stores) don't really care about their policy. as long as it's the closest store.

but i don't see how your things can help for a peacefull earth..

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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/11/2006 2:07:03 AM

LadyEllen

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Hi All

I'm raising two children to do things better than I did, for the future.
I'm helping out with our third political party in the UK, so that things might hopefully be better for the future.
I'm working with the local police to make the world safer for LGBT people for the future.
I'm employing people and treating them with respect, so they can have a decent life now and for the future.
I'm trying to spread Asatru as a religion, to equip our tribe for the future.

But I'm also driving a car (no other option in the UK), consuming pharmaceuticals like crazy (arthritis), shop in the supermarket (have no time for anything else), live from the diesel fumes of the trucks I despatch to and from Europe, eat meat (not much and not often though), leave my houselights on when I'm away (to discourage burglary) and likely do a hundred other things that are "bad". I cant apologize for any of these as in most cases I really have little or no choice, though I regret that I live in a world where they are necessary adjuncts to life - so the best I can do is try to make things change for the future.
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RE: Are you doing your part? - 8/11/2006 2:10:38 AM

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I adore walmart shop there all the time.

Dad jokes that walmart is us ladies home away from home cause my mother loves walmart too.

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