A continuing question and other matters:
Dear @TheElders and @_AfricanUnion (and @FelixUdps), in view of the widespread suffering there, what are you going to do for Uganda this year? @amnesty @hrw @POTUS @VP @UNHumanRights #SaveUganda #StandwithUganda #MissingPersonsUganda @MarisePayne @SenatorWong
Save Salla 2032 https://youtu.be/sSZSrjmmSIo #savesalla #Salla2032
This week I have made the following posts on my other blogs:
- Warfare
and weapons systems
Occasionally I read books or watch films about historical events and periods to learn - or remind myself of lessons I have already been aware of. I've just done that with a film about the development of the atomic bomb.
That is a truly awful weapons system . . . There are, however, other awful weapons systems
Successfully changing the hearts and minds of a few key people may have delayed the project, but is unlikely to have stopped it.
Changing the hearts and minds of key decision makers like President Truman - which I consider an impossibility - would have made a difference, and that leads into the point I wish to make here:
Preventing evil is not best done by changing one or a few people (let alone the inherently flawed means of trying to assassinate an evildoer, which only create martyrs and taints the resultant end - although assassinations have been used with devastating effect against those in a position to do good, such as Yitzhak Rabin, which destroyed the Oslo Accords), but by a robust and properly informed discussion by society which reveals and heals flaws (such as ethical blindness, whether from small-mindedness/xenophobia or the human desire for loved ones to come home safely from a war, active anti-ethical behaviour such as bigotry or other forms of hate, or just lack of awareness/knowledge such as the implications/consequences of courses of action) and enables society to commit itself to constructive action - such as the abolition of slavery in the UK in the early 1800s or (mostly northern) USA in the 1860s, or the banning of chemical and other weapons and other problems (or potential problems) and atrocities in the various Hague (and other) Conventions (although some apparent gains, such as banning expanding [aka "dumdum"] bullets, were actually to reduce the cost of wars).
PS - THIS IS A PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT POINT FOR THOSE WHO WORK MAGIC - TOO MANY OF WHOM LOOK AT ONLY TRYING TO CONSTRAIN THE VILLAINS, AND NOT DOING ENOUGH TO STRENGTHEN THE (EVERYDAY) HEROES
Interesting reading / viewing / sites this week:
- approaching gods in non-traditional ways (UPG can be misinterpreted);
- “Young people in France are increasingly turning to tarot, astrology and other forms of esoterism” (for psychological reasons rather than divination);
- discrimination against Pagans;
- “witches–you don’t owe everyone an explanation”;
- better (devotional) work with Nature Spirits;
- Monday,
Wednesday,
Thursday,
Friday,
Saturday,
(these candles are the “lite” substitute for my former news posts, and include daily news items).
