tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631728254721286065.post1452249878995914928..comments2023-09-28T08:29:43.785-07:00Comments on Wild Serenity: Violence, Gunshots, and CandlelightRiyana-Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10096308734502209485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631728254721286065.post-31376284557021163502011-12-01T05:20:44.808-08:002011-12-01T05:20:44.808-08:00Keep up with pacifism Riyana! I feel that is a cru...Keep up with pacifism Riyana! I feel that is a crucial perspective in this world where (according to mass media), it seems to be somehow OK to take lives because of money, oil, drugs, greed. Keeping ourselves aligned with love has a healing effect on those around us. Some day in the future nobody on this planet will be willing to break someone else's body because of silly petty reasons...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631728254721286065.post-9756990253113974722011-11-11T11:19:50.189-08:002011-11-11T11:19:50.189-08:00Thank you for your words... what you're saying...Thank you for your words... what you're saying is very meaningful. I'm glad to read them and hope that we all can continue to find and work for this heightened solidarity and sweetness without the trappings of political thought. I do think that "The Big Lie" that Serenity talks about, our alienation, is often at the heart of our political and tactical debates, unspoken and Riyana-Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10096308734502209485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631728254721286065.post-61596744878589365382011-11-11T07:57:40.495-08:002011-11-11T07:57:40.495-08:00i got there right after it happened. i was stunned...i got there right after it happened. i was stunned, wandering around, listening to and joining many conversations. like you, i also felt the un-jamming of a river of thought and feeling inside of me. unlike you i was coming from the other side of the "diversity of tactics" debate. a few minutes after the shooting, as a circle of pretty anguished people was growing in the middle of the &Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com