Comments on: Do You Know Where Democracy Is? http://frankahilario.com/?p=211 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:08:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Do You Know Where Democracy Is? « My Franciscan Essays http://frankahilario.com/?p=211&cpage=1#comment-130 Do You Know Where Democracy Is? « My Franciscan Essays Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:52:34 +0000 http://frankahilario.com/?p=211#comment-130 [...] Manila – Do you wish peace for Burma? I don’t. Peace is an impossible dream. ¶ What I wish for the Burmese people is non-violence. I wish for us Filipinos the same. Now, today, September 30, I realize that non-violence has two beautiful & deadly senses. The historical one, that it is a means to an end. The original one, the one I just invented, that it is the end in itself. Non-violence is a device to demand or effect change; it is now also the change itself. ¶ Not peace. AJ Muste said, ‘There is no way to peace; peace is the way.’ Quite personally, I used to believe in that. Today, reading quite a few of the hundreds of Internet materials on Burma The full essay [...] [...] Manila – Do you wish peace for Burma? I don’t. Peace is an impossible dream. ¶ What I wish for the Burmese people is non-violence. I wish for us Filipinos the same. Now, today, September 30, I realize that non-violence has two beautiful & deadly senses. The historical one, that it is a means to an end. The original one, the one I just invented, that it is the end in itself. Non-violence is a device to demand or effect change; it is now also the change itself. ¶ Not peace. AJ Muste said, ‘There is no way to peace; peace is the way.’ Quite personally, I used to believe in that. Today, reading quite a few of the hundreds of Internet materials on Burma The full essay [...]

]]> By: Do You Know Where Democracy Is? « faith, hope & acccommodation … f@h http://frankahilario.com/?p=211&cpage=1#comment-122 Do You Know Where Democracy Is? « faith, hope & acccommodation … f@h Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:35:40 +0000 http://frankahilario.com/?p=211#comment-122 [...] What I wish for the Burmese people is non-violence. I wish for us Filipinos the same. Now, today, September 30, I realize that non-violence has two beautiful & deadly senses. The historical one, that it is a means to an end. The original one, the one I just invented, that it is the end in itself. Non-violence is a device to demand or effect change; it is now also the change itself. The left essay [...] [...] What I wish for the Burmese people is non-violence. I wish for us Filipinos the same. Now, today, September 30, I realize that non-violence has two beautiful & deadly senses. The historical one, that it is a means to an end. The original one, the one I just invented, that it is the end in itself. Non-violence is a device to demand or effect change; it is now also the change itself. The left essay [...]

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