{"id":1192,"date":"2022-05-19T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:46:17","slug":"are-we-really-concerned-about-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Are We Really Concerned About Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Jim Schact<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have concluded that the Peace Testimony conflicts with basically ever other testimony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Speaking truth internally or externally always disrupts peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Social justice disrupts peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Caring about climate change is agonizing and disrupts peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Education disrupts the peace of ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Giving up controlling others unsettles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Facing our fears disrupts, as does confronting violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Caring about others disrupts our emotional peace, as does parenting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">          Pick another testimony which does not involve aspiring personally or collectively, both disruptive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love will give you no peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given how much disruption of the status quo we have caused and how much our honesty with each other challenges us, I think we need to realize how much we aren&#8217;t Buddhists seeking worldly detachment, or the apathetic caring nothing for the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We don&#8217;t follow anything or anyone blindly so that we always have inner conflict and doubts.&nbsp; We seek the Kingdom on Earth, which conflicts with what is. We don&#8217;t even seek the peace of death. So how much concern do we really have for peace?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Love will give you no peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Image by Ann Winschel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peace-may-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}