Nine/Twelve

 

 

Best Experienced With:     Elvis Costello;    What’s So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding?

(Please right click on the link below to open the suggested background music to this evening’s gathering in a new browser window)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ZXdvN3orA

 

 (Radical fundamentalist Islamic violence in NYC)

 

 

 (Gandhi’s funeral pyre after being assassinated in 1948 by a radical fellow Hindu)

 

 

 (Killing fields of Cambodia:  radical Cambodian on Cambodian violence)

 

And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.  (Matthew 5:40)

 

  (Radical Serbian against Jews violence:  Serbia, 1944)

 

 (Radical Serbian on Serbian violence:  1999)

 (Radical American on American violence:  1950’s) 

 

 

 (Radical Sudanese on Sudanese violence:  Darfur)

 

Do not say, “I’ll do to him as he has done to me; I’ll pay that man back for what he did.”   (Proverbs 24:29)

 

  (Radical Irish on Irish violence:  Sunday Bloody Sunday)

 

   (Radical American on American violence:  Sunday Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama)

 

  (Radical Rwandan on Rwandan violence:  1994)

 

  (Radical Chinese on Chinese violence:  1989)

 

But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.   (Matthew 5:39)

 

 

Never forget, yet still act in a fashion every minute of every day that models the way and leads everyone away from the scenes above (Mully: 3.1415926535897932)