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The Moriori and the Dangers of Pacifism
2008-11-27 11:10:00 Updated November 28:The saga of Moriori is instructive.The Maori have long been known as ferocious headhunters and cannibals who had one of the cruelest and evillest cultures on Earth. The Moiriori seem to be a Maori split dating back to about 1500 or so. They left New Zealand and colonized the Chatham Islands. The Chatham Islands are small, very cold and isolated, and there is not a lot of food other than from the sea.Moiriori legend has it that initially, widespread tribal warfare, headhunting and cannibalism was practiced as the normative cruel Maori culture. On such a small island, this savagery was disastrous, and soon the population plummeted to near extinction. A leader arose among the Moiriori, Nunuku-whenua, who preached a new doctrine of extreme pacifism, Nunuku's Law. Nunuku's Law was strictly adhered to 300 years.Fighting was allowed between males, but it had to be conducted with each armed with a stick the width of a finger. At the first sign of blood, the duel was ca...
By: Robert Lindsay
Japan to allow military use of space
2008-05-22 06:03:00 Japan’s estrangement from its postwar pacifism continued today with the enactment of a law ending its 40-year ban on the military use of space. The law signals Tokyo’s determination to expand its military capability amid concern over China’s ballooning defence budget and North Korea’s development of ballistic and nuclear missiles. The move will be welcomed by the ...
By: 1913 Intel
Practical Christian Pacifism
2008-02-13 22:29:00 by David A. Hoekema Few moral and theological positions are as deeply cherished by their adherents, yet so quickly dismissed by their opponents, as pacifism. The moral legitimacy of using violence is among the most urgent issues of our time, and yet its discussion slips quickly into an exchange of stereotypes. Pacifists are to be commended, ...
The folly of pacifism
2007-11-16 05:43:00 Micah Tillman has an interesting discussion going on over at his blog. He notes that pacifism taken to its logical end must result in anarchism. Personally, I prefer black and white. If pacifism could stand up to scrutiny, I’d be all for it. I don’t like having to wade through shades of gray. Unfortunately, life ...
Anorexia Proves Pacifism Wrong.
2007-11-13 02:33:00 Pacifism is one of the greatest and one of the worst ideas in all of history. It’s one of the greatest ideas because world peace is something we all would love to have. Every superficial, blonde beauty queen ever to walk the earth would tell you that. (It doesn’t take a brain surgeon.) No violence about race, religion, politics, domestic disputes, etc. would just be plain nice. Our newscast would be about as long a commercial. We could cut down our 5 o’clock news down to about 4 min. We could just watch the news during the break of our favorite sitcom. I’d rather just watch the sports, weather and a story on the world’s biggest cookie anyway, than see war and shootings every day. Pacifism is also one of the worst ideas in all of history. Let me set something straight first, when I talk about pacifism, I am talking of the strictest kind. Strict pacifism opposes the use of any kind of force under any circumstances. I am not talking about a person who de...
Brian McLaren on the Iraq Problem
2007-08-16 12:36:00 Over on Sojourner’s Blog, Brian McLaren has made a good suggestion: In his July 20 commentary, James W. Skillen of the Center for Public Justice struck a non-partisan note of honesty and balance that I wish I heard more often. He summarized the basic narrative of the Iraq War that both our president and his party and ...
By: Sharp Iron
Challenging my pacifism
2007-07-08 00:29:00 My closest and dearest friends are those that challenge me and challenge my beliefs… I find that by having to justify with people who are in the know and who can play devil’s advocate, is actually the best way to find out what you truly believe in. I don’t even know how we got on the ...
Challenging my pacifism
2007-07-08 00:29:00 My closest and dearest friends are those that challenge me and challenge my beliefs… I find that by having to justify with people who are in the know and who can play devil’s advocate, is actually the best way to find out what you truly believe in. I don’t even know how we got on the ...
Ward Churchill's Pacifism as Pathology
2007-04-26 00:20:00 Reviewed by Patrice Greanville4/25/07Originally published at Cyrano?s Journal Online This is a small but indispensable volume for anyone seriously interested in social change, and who sooner or later may have to consider the place of violence in the general scheme of things.As the title implies, and wasting little time in preparing the audience for what will surely be a disturbing argument to many, the author lays out his case against white progressives?or, to be precise, the liberal/social democratic complacent legions of mostly well-educated middle and upper middle class activists?who are deemed "delusional" not only in the ineffectual tactics and strategies they pursue (which the ruling elites are only too happy to accommodate as per a well-scripted minuet), but in the belief that they are actually performing revolutionary acts...The crux of Churchill's argument?pretty hard to refute?is that mainstream liberals, and a sizeable contingent of self-defined "Leftists" (read here mos...
More on Peace, Pacifism, Peace Processes, etc.
2006-12-02 15:30:11 The only peace produced by the Arab-Israeli Peace Process is Peace of Mind for Judeophobes.Eliyahu m'TsiyonQui se fait brebis le loup le mange[Whoever acts like a sheep gets eaten by the wolf]French sayingPeace is a problematic concept. Yes, it's great. But it's subjective. One guy's peace is another guy's oppression, even "colonial oppression." What does it mean? How is it achieved or obtained? The Roman Temple of Peace [Templum Paci] was a monument to the Roman victory over the Jews in the year 70 CE, when the Second Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman legions and their various auxiliary forces, including Arabs. The so-called Temple of Peace became the depository for most of the more visually interesting loot. On the Brandenburg Gate overlooking main streets in Berlin was a statue of the Goddess of Peace, and few would accuse the Germans as a people of being excessively peaceful. Indeed, the statue was probably put there by Kaiser Wilhelm's government, that contin...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
Gems of Peace and Pacifism -- Allusions to the Real World
2006-12-02 15:30:11 The alliance of the most fervent pacifists with the very soldiers of a warrior society Jean-Paul SartreThis was one of Sartre's comments on the pacifists who sympathized with Hitler and his Nazis, and thereby helped to bring about the Second World War [September 1939] and the Fall of France to the Nazis [1940], some even going on to serve in the Vichy government for the sake of peace. For more on peace movements [and the source of the above quote], see here. Today, self-styled pacifists collaborate with mass murderers and even with jihad warriors who have an explicitly bellicose and war-mongering ideology/religion. What else is Israel's "Peace Now Movement"?- - - - - -Just as Rome, the capital of a great empire, had a Temple of Peace, so Berlin, capital of warlike Prussia and --after German unification-- of the German empire, the Second Reich, had a statue of the Goddess of Peace. This was a greenish statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate.A curious quote turned up in an article on ...
By: Emet m\'Tsiyon
The question of pacifism: a response to Kim Fabricius
2006-11-20 10:54:02 Over at Nothing New Under the Sun, Andrew Errington has started a new series in response to Kim?s various posts here on Shalomism (i.e. pacifism). Andrew agrees with Kim that the question of pacifism should be settled christologically ? but his counter-question is: ?Does the pacifist position inevitably end up with a Jesus who dies but is not then exalted?? It will certainly be interesting to see how this series unfolds! |
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