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John R.

blackcentury.net

About Me



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“[T]aking fear away from people and replacing it with courage is the essence of nonviolence.” -- Mubarak Awad
"Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak … Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win." -- Cesar Chavez
"Nonviolence" does not merely mean to refrain from violence. Violence erupts when one person blames another for a problem or conflict. Conversely, nonviolence is a way of life in which one resolves, “Let me be the one to change first.” If this spirit were to be embraced, how much more at peace would our families and society itself be." --Daisaku Ikeda
"The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process." -- Thich Nhat Hanh
"Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative." -- Albert Einstein
“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

My Interests

Memory Forgetting Space Time History municipal decrepitude

I'd like to meet:

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Television:

Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner is a Monkey, Daily Show, ANTM. Default channel is TCM.

My Blog

New Blog Site

Hey guys- My new blog is at djgnosis.com blackcentury.net. Check it out if you are bored!
Posted by John R. on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:08:00 PST

Something I wrote that Entertainment Weekly will probably not publish

While there has been virtually no noise about new Abu Ghraib photos that Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has revealed to accompany a presentation at the TED conference this week and published on Wired.co...
Posted by John R. on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:10:00 PST

Pictures of Katrina

A friend of mine (Lori) from upstate New York went down on her own and volunteered to help spread food and supplies to victims of Katrina a year ago. She is also an amazing photographer and what start...
Posted by John R. on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:56:00 PST

Halliburton to reconstruct damaged Oil Rigs in Louisiana

From a comment on Flickr concerning the above news item: It's like a really really bad joke. At the end of it all, Bush is going to stand up and say, "I call it The Aristocrats!"...
Posted by John R. on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:56:00 PST

"Blame Game"

The immaturity and laziness of this phrase seems to be completely invisible to the media right now. It's as though no one has stopped to recognize, "Hey, just because these two words rhyme, and sounds...
Posted by John R. on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:47:00 PST

a modest proposal.....

12/21/03 Dear Editor- I can not express enough my relief that bars in Atlanta will now be forced to close at 3 am. It's about time that the city recognized that it's during the hours of 4-5 am t...
Posted by John R. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST